Ellie Mae and Pipeline Solutions Partner to Provide ePASS Internet Connectivity to Pipeline Loan Origination System Users

Partnership Delivers Integrated Connectivity to Top Wholesale Lenders and Leading Service Providers

Baltimore, MD-June 16, 2003-Ellie Mae® Inc., the leading provider of desktop and web-enabled productivity solutions and software for the mortgage industry, announced today at the 2003 National Association of Mortgage Brokers Annual Convention a partnership with Pipeline SolutionsT Loan Origination Software (LOS).

Ellie Mae will integrate its ePASS® Business Center, established as the industry-leader for providing seamless Internet connectivity between the desktops of loan origination systems and the nation's leading wholesale lenders and service providers, into the Pipeline Solutions Loan Origination System. The partnership with Ellie Mae will provide Pipeline users with unparalleled access to their local and national providers and a faster, more efficient and secure process for ordering credit, title, flood, appraisals, automated underwriting, lender loan file submission and more, including the innovative Desktop Originator for ePASS.

"Through our partnership with Ellie Mae, we will be able to leverage the unique ordering and retrieval process that the ePASS Business Center provides, while continuing to build significant advancements within the Pipeline application," said Gordon Scott, CEO of Pipeline Solutions. "Our customers can improve their productivity and efficiency, while significantly reducing their costs and the time it takes to originate mortgage loans. Working with Ellie Mae, will ensure that we continue to meet our standard of making the best industry tools available to our customers."

"We believe that our partnership with Pipeline is the perfect combination of two very robust technologies, which, working together, will provide powerful capabilities to Pipeline customers," said Sig Anderman, CEO of Ellie Mae, Inc. "Pipeline has a sound history of maintaining a strong and loyal client base because it is focused on providing the best experience possible for its clients."

About Ellie Mae

Ellie Mae, Inc., the leading provider of desktop and web-enabled mortgage-industry productivity solutions and software, helps automate the loan-origination process from lead to close. Ellie Mae's ePASS® Web-transaction portal is the industry standard, currently processing over 700,000 transactions monthly. ePASS links 175,000 third-party mortgage originators to more than 250 wholesale lenders and 90,000 loan services providers-enabling them to eliminate redundant work, close loans faster and save loan-origination costs. Ellie Mae products include Executive Web Sites for automated lead generation and marketing, Contour® and Genesis 2000® desktop software for advanced loan origination and processing and Ellie Mae Docs for speedy, error-free electronic closing documentation. To learn more about Ellie Mae, call 877-355-4362 or visit www.elliemae.com .

About Pipeline

Pipeline Solutions is a national provider of mortgage origination software, offering seamless integration and automation to mortgage brokers, bankers and credit unions. The company's products streamline the entire lending process, from pre-qualification to closing-seamlessly integrating all steps in the loan origination process.

Since 1987, Pipeline Solutions has provided off-the-shelf loan origination systems that allow non-technical business users to increase efficiency and simplify the often-cumbersome loan origination process. With thousands of end users and hundreds of sites nationwide, Pipeline continues to offer sensible, unparralled product and client-centric support offerings to the financial services community. A full evaluation version of each Pipeline product is available for download at the company's Web site at www.pipesoft.com .

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