Encompass® Professional Edition Launched by Ellie Mae

New product is a deluxe edition of Encompass mortgage loan origination system

Dublin, CA—June 5, 2006—Ellie Mae, an award-winning provider of innovative software and services for the mortgage industry, has announced the creation and launch of a new edition of its mortgage automation system, Encompass Professional Edition. Encompass Professional Edition is a deluxe, multi-user program which adds substantial marketing and productivity tools beyond those included in Encompass Standard Edition.

Unlike other Encompass loan origination software products, this new product features an advanced marketing campaign manager, contact synchronization with Outlook® and ACT!®, and a software development toolkit enabling users to develop custom applications around Encompass.

The campaign management tool within Encompass Professional Edition empowers mortgage originators with the ability to easily create, manage and execute marketing campaigns. It automates any number of campaign tasks including sending e-mails, printing letters, sending faxes, scheduling phone calls, and getting reminders on the calendar or task list.

"With Encompass Professional Edition, brokers and loans officers can define and execute multi-step marketing campaigns," explains Jonathan Corr, chief strategy officer at Ellie Mae. "For instance, if a loan officer wants to send scheduled monthly communications to his clients or referral partners, he can simply create one or a series of e-mails, and then load them into the campaign. The loan officer simply sets when the e-mails should go out, and Encompass Professional Edition will then automatically send the e-mails at the scheduled time." Corr adds, "Encompass Professional Edition is also ideal for planning and executing lead follow-up. It automates the process of turning leads into prospects, prospects into clients, and customers into repeat clients."

Encompass Professional Edition is the only Encompass product to include contact and task list synchronization with Outlook and ACT!. With this capability, mortgage professionals can synchronize their contacts and tasks within these popular applications, without having to manually update one or the other. "Having the task list automatically synchronized with Outlook or ACT! makes great sense for originators who use these software programs as part of their marketing campaigns," states Corr. "As we see more and more loan officers using PDAs and hand-held devices to store their contacts, this synchronization allows them to take their Outlook or ACT! contacts and tasks with them on the road."

Encompass Professional Edition also includes Ellie Mae's software developer kit (SDK), which enables companies to build custom applications in-house. It can be used for integrations with the user's web site, for sending and receiving data with other applications, for exchanging Encompass data with other systems such as accounting systems, and much more.

With this latest release, Ellie Mae now offers four editions of its acclaimed Encompass solution: Encompass Personal Edition for the company of one, Encompass Standard Edition for multiple users, Encompass Professional Edition, and Encompass Anywhere for web-based anywhere access. After the launch of Encompass Professional Edition, Encompass Anywhere will be upgraded to become a web-based version of Encompass Professional Edition.

Encompass is estimated to have 26 percent market share of the loan origination system market, and has been deployed by seven of the nation's top 10 brokerages, 135 of the nation's top 250 brokers. Encompass has been deployed by over 12,000 companies and is used by 120,000 users.

About Ellie Mae, Inc.
Ellie Mae is an award-winning provider of software and services for the mortgage industry, which was recently named to the Inc. 500 list of America's fastest growing private companies. Ellie Mae provides a comprehensive line of products and services including the company's flagship Encompass® mortgage automation system, Contour™ and Genesis 2000® loan origination software, Encompass Websites™ for mortgage brokers, and Ellie Mae Docs™ services for document processing. Ellie Mae's ePASS® Network is the mortgage industry's online transaction platform enabling all mortgage companies in the United States to easily do business online with dozens of leading lenders and thousands of settlement service providers. Ellie Mae is based in Dublin, California. To learn more about Ellie Mae, visit www.elliemae.com or call (888) 955-9100.

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