Microsoft PDC, Los Angeles CA, and Dublin, Ireland — November 18th, 2009 — TradeFacilitate, the innovative new web-based solution for international paper-free trade documentation has selected InishTech to provide Software Licensing Management for its online service.

TradeFacilitate is dedicated to reducing the costs associated with dated and inefficient paper based international trade transactions and increasing the trade competitiveness of buyers and sellers globally. It provides a European Union (EU) validated solution with global capability and scalability that enables traders and their transport intermediaries to create and manage all their relevant trade, transport and customs data, using only an invoice, and assists in linking their physical and financial supply chain activities.

TradeFacilitate is committed to being the market leader in low-cost, high-value global standards based paper-free eTrade services. Web Service solutions such as the TradeFacilitate, which is based on the recently announced Microsoft Windows Azure platform, demand flexible new licensing models to reflect the changing deployment environment and customer pricing models. InishTech’s Software Protection and Licensing Online Service (SLP Service) is designed to meet these needs.

“We provide our customers with a seamless, paper free service that simplifies their trading operations. We need total flexibility in packaging and delivering our service to the customer so that we can meet their individual requirements. SLPS allows us to do that with ease. The service is very powerful yet extremely easy to use and manage,” said TradeFacilitate CEO, Conor O’Riordan.

The TradeFacilitate solution is developed using the Microsoft .NET Framework and is a great example of how technology can simplify business operations in the new smart economy.

According to Aidan Gallagher, CEO of InishTech, TradeFacilitate is exactly the type of customer that can benefit from using InishTech SLP Service. “TradeFacilitate has a deep understanding of their customers and marketplace and have developed a solution that will deliver real business benefits to their clients. The Microsoft .NET Framework and Azure have enabled them to deliver a powerful solution in a robust Web Service environment. We are delighted to be part of that solution and look forward to helping TradeFacilitate grow their business models in a proactive way with flexible licensing.”

“At Microsoft, we see great value for customers when Visual Studio Industry Partner program partners such as InishTech are utilized by services such as TradeFacilitate to develop Web-based solutions which highlight the scalability and agility that’s possible with the Microsoft developer platform,” said Cyrill Glockner, director of Business Development at Microsoft Corp.

TradeFacilitate’s commercial solutions are currently available to buyers and sellers in the European Union and Australia and will be rolled out to USA and China,among other countries from November 2009.

About TradeFacilitate
TradeFacilitate was founded in 2006 to deliver an innovative web solution for SME traders to interface cost effectively with new electronic Customs systems being implemented by the world’s major trading blocks to enhance the security, transparency and efficiency surrounding the global movement of goods. Based on UN standards and successfully validated through an EU funded pilot, the TradeFacilitate solution is one of the leading global e-trade applications to be hosted within a state-of-the-art Microsoft datacenter in Dublin, Ireland. For more information visit http://www.tradefacilitate.com.

About InishTech
Founded in 2009, InishTech provides Software Developers and Product Managers globally with code protection and license management solutions that protect their most valuable asset and enable their customers to deploy and use their products in the most flexible manner possible. InishTech’s Software Licensing and Protection (SLP) Services provides ISVs with a choice of either a managed service or in-house server that is both easy to deploy and simple to integrate with back office systems. For further information, please visit http://testinish.azurewebsites.net.