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Q.KNOW SIGNS ORBIS AS
FIRST INVESTMENT MANAGEMENT CLIENT
RESTON, Va. – June 26, 2004 – Q.Know Technologies Inc., a global provider of information management software, announced today that it has signed Orbis Investment Management Limited, its first investment management client.
Orbis is an investment management firm based in Bermuda with more than $5 billion under management. Serving investors around the world, Orbis has a broad range of equity-based mutual funds, as well as a number of alternative investment products. Orbis is the only manager of multiple funds that has all of its equity funds rated AAA by Standard & Poor’s.
Looking to further strengthen the servicing of its clients, Orbis selected Q.Know to help solve the problem of unstructured electronic information. Orbis will be using Q.Know to develop a shared work environment to organize e-mail, client correspondence and other documents (including performance data and reports), PDF files, etc. Specifically, Q.Know provides a real time repository to gather and store all information related to a specific project which can be accessed 24/7 from any location. With Q.Know’s help, Orbis’ client services team will be able to more efficiently file, retrieve and share all information and communications to better manage and track investor needs.
Because Q.Know works from within Microsoft® Outlook®, Q.Know’s intuitive solution for filing, retrieving and managing all electronic information can be quickly learned by the firm’s staff without having to adapt to new applications or change the environment in which they currently work.
Q.Know was designed and developed by financial services executives, teamed with proven technologists, to solve the problem of managing unstructured information. Q.Know achieves this by ensuring that all electronic documents and data are consistently filed – and therefore, easily found, without employing wide ranging search technologies that typically return long lists of unrelated information.
Q.Know enables team members and related third parties, such as legal and regulatory bodies, immediate access to all relevant information in a secure, shared environment. By bringing all functionality together in a logical, yet business customized format, Q.Know brings greater transparency to high value transaction-oriented businesses by providing more efficient and complete access to data, resulting in:
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Better visibility to all information related to a specific project, client or deal;
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Ensured regulatory compliance; and
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Improved customer satisfaction.
Q.Know Technologies, Inc. has created the first information management software based on how people really think and work. Q.Know offers a simple and intuitive approach to retrieving, sharing and managing information, enhancing deal development and execution with more efficient and complete access to data. The result is real time deal visibility, ensured regulatory compliance and improved customer satisfaction. Q.Know works seamlessly with existing applications, such as Microsoft® Outlook® and Office, and is quickly implemented and easily learned. For more information, please visit www.qknow.com.
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