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The container and dry goods shipping company has a bumper first half, with profits 90% greater than in the comparable period a year ago--but analysts question how long it will last.

BOSTON, MA (MARKET WIRE) Payments and settlement, the final processing piece in the accounts payable puzzle, is typically wrought with manual methods, with as many as 65% of B2B payments made via paper-based checks. By utilizing electronic payment methods such as ACH (Automated Clearing House), commercial cards, and wire transfer, enterprises can reap the benefits of cheaper transaction costs and reduce the risk of fraud, according to a new benchmark report published by Aberdeen, a Harte-Hanks Company (NYSE: HHS).

HOUSTON, TX (MARKET WIRE) NextPage, a leader in proactive information risk management, announced today that the NextPage Information Tracking Platform extends Microsoft SharePoint information control to the unmanaged and uncontrolled documents at the edge. By extending control to the edge, efficiently disposing of documents that enterprises don't need becomes a reality. In an average enterprise, 80 percent of its documents should be properly disposed of based on policy. In complementary fashion NextPage tracks the dissemination and evolution of documents beyond SharePoint to include email attachments and document

AUGUSTA, GA (MARKET WIRE) Ipswitch Messaging Division, a leading developer of messaging solutions, today introduced MailArchiva and Sonian Hosted Archival Systems, two solutions to email archival. MailArchiva is an installed email archiving system for companies of all sizes. It works in conjunction with the award-winning IMail Server to archive all incoming, outgoing and internal emails. Sonian Hosted Archival Systems is Ipswitch's archival solution for the industry that requires a hosted provider. Sonian, an archiving technology pioneer, provides an affordable, scalable, reliable and secure hosted email archiving

AGOURA HILLS, CA (MARKET WIRE) Interthinx(R), Inc., the leading provider of proven risk mitigation, mortgage fraud prevention, and regulatory compliance tools for the mortgage industry, has formed a strategic alliance with iMortgage services. iMortgage services (iMS) provides nationwide appraisal, automated valuation (AVM), broker price opinion (BPO), fraud, closing, title, and warranty products to the mortgage industry. The alliance enables Interthinx to offer a full suite of collateral risk products to its customers, bolstering its current offerings of cascading AVMs, forensic review appraisals and other risk mitigation

BOSTON, MA (MARKET WIRE) Over 80 percent of U.S. business executives think their companies are "better prepared" for a downturn than their competitors are, according to a recent survey by The Boston Consulting Group (BCG) -- even though few have taken any measures beyond basic cost cutting. But there's far more that companies can do to capitalize on a downturn and emerge stronger than before, says BCG in a new report titled "Winning in a Downturn: Six Actions to Take Now."

AURORA, IL (MARKET WIRE) In acknowledgment of exceptional service and sales performance, Sikich has been named to the 2008 Microsoft Dynamics Inner Circle. This is the third time Sikich has been awarded this distinction by Microsoft in recognition of their achievements.

MINNEAPOLIS, MN (MARKET WIRE) Paisley, a leading provider of software for governance, risk and compliance (GRC), today announced that it has been positioned by Gartner, Inc. in the leaders quadrant in the "Enterprise Governance, Risk, and Compliance Platforms Magic Quadrant"(1) report.