Mauritius Post selects Escher Group's WebRiposte™ to automate postal counters as community hub
 

Mauritius Post selected Escher Group's counter automation solution for its reliability, low cost of ownership, and flexibility to host a wide variety of postal, financial and government services

Boston, Mass. - May 25, 2004 - Escher Group Ltd announced that Mauritius Post has selected WebRiposte™ and Essential to automate the island's post office counter network. Mauritius Post joins a customer base of 19 postal authorities that have implemented the Riposte® family of products to support a full range of services from postal transactions to retail sales, bill payments, banking and government services.

"We are confident that Escher WebRiposte will allow Mauritius Post to cruise ahead providing various efficient Counter Services to materialize our vision of making our Post Office a Community Hub in each and every region across our country.", Giandev Moteea, Chief Executive Officer of Mauritius Post.

Escher Group's postal counter automation solution, Essential, is a standards-based, transaction management environment and application framework. It enables the rapid development, distribution, and management of secure, high-performance applications across distributed, multi-channel networks. Essential is built on the proven WebRiposte transaction-processing platform. Its unique XML-based messaging model enables postal networks of all sizes and in the most remote geographic locations to easily and securely automate services. By leveraging Essential's open architecture, Mauritius Post will be able to significantly improve business processes, quickly deliver new services to market, and easily integrate with third-party applications.

Anil Gujjalu, Information Systems Manager for Mauritius Post added, "Being specialized in developing software uniquely for the Postal Industry, Escher is the only vendor that has been able to provide a solution that not only answers our current needs but has also developed other applications that will help us in generating additional revenue in the future. We were looking for a solution that was scalable, flexible, easy to deploy, robust and user-friendly. WebRiposte was the answer."

A spokesperson for Escher Group said: "as with many postal authorities, Mauritius Post has moved from a government body to a private company and is seeking new ways to maximize revenue. We admire the post's forward-thinking approach that will create the postal retail network as a community hub, and Escher looks forward to working with Mauritius Post to accomplish this goal."

 

About Escher Group, Limited

Escher Group Limited is a leading provider of distributed transaction processing and data management solutions and services. The company offers a business-to-business XML-based transaction management environment, used in thousands of locations worldwide. Since its introduction in 1993, Riposte®, Escher's flagship messaging solution, has grown to become the market leader in post office counter automation.

Trademarks: WebRiposte and Riposte are trademarks or registered trademarks of Escher Group, Limited in the United States and/or other countries. All other product names mentioned herein are trademarks of their respective owners.