Released on = April 23, 2007, 12:53 am

Press Release Author = UNIVERSE Software GmbH

Industry = Software

Press Release Summary = UNIVERSE Software PDF solutions win two awards

Press Release Body = Germany’s Initiative Mittelstand enterprise initiative has been
evaluating products, services and solutions according to their benefit to small and
medium-sized businesses since 2004, awarding particularly exceptional performance in
the discipline with an innovation prize. Software solutions by UNIVERSE Software
GmbH have received a prize in two award categories each from an independent jury of
experts and editors from information and communications technology magazines and
journals.

Innovation for small and medium-sized businesses – this is a title that the
companies had to earn for their products, solutions and services to join the winners
of the Initiative Mittelstand’s innovation prize for information and communications
technology in 2007. Around 1,200 competitors took part in the race for the €150,000
prize. UNIVERSE Software GmbH was awarded twice for the most innovative products,
once in office organisation and once in IT security.

“We’re thrilled that our solutions, pdf-FormServer and pdf-Recover, were able to
make the grade amongst the huge numbers of competitors in the two categories,” says
UNIVERSE Software GmbH CEO Thomas Bäcker. “After all, there were a lot of other
highly interesting contenders for the coveted prize this year. These awards are a
fantastic show of recognition for the years of development we’ve put into our
products for saving PDF forms and configuring security settings in PDF documents.”

UNIVERSE Software GmbH, located in Solingen, Germany, develops and distributes
extremely powerful, but at the same time exceptionally simple to use PDF (portable
document format) software solutions, 100 % Adobe compatible, 90 % less expensive.
All products are based on innovative JAVA technologies. This technology enables
maximum independence concerning hardware and operating systems.
Focus of all solutions is the ease of use, a high efficiency, productivity and open
platform strategy. Based on these components UNIVERSE Software provides lots of
different solutions for your daily business: Create PDF forms & files, save filled
out PDF forms, auto fill in PDF forms from databases, disable restricted operations
on PDF files, remove master passwords, process PDF forms data, convert FDF and much
more. The main benefits are: Quick, simple and useful. UNIVERSE Software was founded
in 1998.


Web Site = http://www.pdf-office.com

Contact Details = UNIVERSE Software GmbH
Thomas Baecker
Postfach 11 10 70
D-42670 Solingen
phone: +49 (0)212-334450
fax: +49 (0)721-151561042
mail: info@pdf-office.com
web: www.pdf-office.com