EXTOL International Names Daniel Sapir Vice President of Worldwide Business Development

POTTSVILLE, Pa., June 29 /PRNewswire/ -- EXTOL International, the mid-market-focused B2B integration solution provider announced today that Daniel Sapir has joined the company as its vice president of worldwide business development.

Sapir comes to EXTOL with more than 20 years of high technology experience, including executive positions with EMC and IBM, as well as numerous successful technology startups. Most recently he served as managing director for iCentric Solutions Consulting energy sector. Previous to that, Dan held senior level positions with Aspen Technology, and IBM's Informix Software and Ascential Software divisions.

"Dan has an impressive track record of building a strong channel sales pipeline and growing businesses' bottom-line," said Tony Baran, CEO of EXTOL. "His ability to match prospects' needs with the right solution will be invaluable as we expand our services and hone in on key vertical markets."

In his role as vice president of business development, Sapir will have worldwide responsibility for EXTOL's channel partners and alliance operations. His core focus will be on developing and executing a comprehensive partner program, consisting of the creation of partner infrastructure and recruitment plans, and all channel marketing activities.

"EXTOL has a very strong position in the marketplace," said Sapir. "The company has developed a solution that addresses the unique integration challenges mid-market companies face each day. By focusing on this core group, EXTOL is able to effectively serve its customers and deliver a measurable ROI in the process."

EXTOL provides mid-market-focused solutions to simplify complex B2B integration, helping companies onboard new trading partners, integrate new supply chain partners and automate a wide range of manual transaction processes.

With a flexible and comprehensive solution, EXTOL enables fast reengineering of interfaces and business processes as system requirements, ERP and other large-scale software upgrades are made, or new business initiatives are implemented. EXTOL's modular design and flexible implementation model reduces the complexity of mid-market integration, delivering a comprehensive integration solution set that's easy, fast and effective.

Sapir assumed his new role as vice president of business development effective June 7th. For more information about EXTOL International, visit www.extol.com.

About EXTOL International

EXTOL makes it simple for lean mid-market businesses to connect and conduct electronic commerce with trading partners as well as efficiently manage internal application integration. Our comprehensive and easy-to-implement integration solutions generate results in a fraction of the time and with significantly less resource commitment than similar solutions. EXTOL offers mid-market companies that often struggle with limited budgets, resources and skills the same level of partner integration and performance that larger organizations enjoy – without the high cost or effort usually associated with integration solutions. The combination of EXTOL's leading-edge technology and team of industry experts ensures an effective solution for automated trading partner communication. At EXTOL, we simplify B2B integration for mid-market businesses. For more information about EXTOL, visit www.extol.com.

SOURCE EXTOL International