Passageways Acquires Engineered Business Solutions’ Intranet Business  

Passageways is excited to announce the acquisition of Houston-based Engineered Business Solutions’ (EBS) product Instant Intranet Builder (IIB) and the IIB client base.

EBS’s main intranet offering, IIB, enables organizations to create, maintain and manage departments or enterprise intranets. Passageways will now provide EBS’s IIB users with technical assistance and support for the intranet system.

Passageways has acquired 66 new clients with this agreement, including key financial institutions such as Citizens and Farmers Bank, Southern Community Bank, San Diego Metropolitan Credit Union, Utah State University Charter Credit Union and Trumark Financial FCU. The organization also takes control of two EBS domain names, www.engbsolutions.com and www.instantintranets.com, as part of the acquisition. EBS continues to operate its IT services business at www.ebsit.com.

“The synergies between EBS’s Instant Internet Builder and the Passageways Corporate Portal Framework will provide our customers with enhanced automated management for business-related tasks,” said Neil Anderson, CEO of EBS. “Combining our systems gives customers a more efficient, streamlined and dynamic communications offering.”

“Similar to our purchase of Extreme Arts and Sciences’ 30-customer intranet business in 2004, this acquisition helps Passageways gain a larger market share of portal users in the financial services industry,” said Paroon Chadha, co-founder and vice president of Passageways. “As we grow, we continue in our goal to provide our customers with portal technology that allows for collaborative communication and comprehensive knowledge management.”

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The Passageways Peer Webinar Series continues in October with Kathy Houghtalen from Beacon Credit Union sharing their portal success story. The first two Peer Webinars have been extremely successful with great attendance from both current Passageways customers and prospects.

Don't miss the third Peer Webinar as Beacon Credit Union explains the many ways the Passageways Portal has been beneficial to their organization.

What: Passageways Peer Webinar
Who: Kathy Houghtalen, Beacon CU
When: October 23, 10 am PST/11 am MST/12 pm CST/1 pm EST

Passageways will be showcasing our modules/applications and facilitating an open forum style question and answer session every Wednesday at 2:00 P.M. EST. Register for any of these weekly sessions and bring your questions or just tune in to learn about the latest and greatest Passageways has to offer.

Oct. 3   Featured Module: Expense Reports       Featured Application: Board Portal Oct. 10   Featured Module: Enterprise Instant Messenger       Featured Application: Supply Cart Oct. 17   Featured Module: eForms       Featured Applications: Test Taker & Compliance Management

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