LONDON and BOSTON, December 18, 2012 /PRNewswire/ --

Equipos, the leading provider of client reporting solutions, today announced that the company's Coric™ Client Communications Suite is now available as a hosted solution with Microsoft Windows Azure.

The award-winning Coric solution empowers Client Services teams to design, build and modify client reports without technical assistance, and deliver them via a client's channel of choice (print, online or mobile device). Coric provides private wealth and institutional asset management firms with best practice client reporting, document management, business process workflow, data modeling and layout building tools that improve operational efficiency, enhance client service and enrich client experience.

"Our ISV community is alive with innovation, and we're committed to helping our partners drive the next generation of software experiences," said Ross Brown, Vice President of ISV and Solutions Partners for the Worldwide Partner Group at Microsoft. "Adding compatibility for the latest Microsoft technologies helps ISVs to stay ahead of the competition and give their customers access to cutting-edge technologies."

"This new Azure hosting option is proving very popular with clients in today's market, which is characterized by clients of all sizes looking for reporting solutions with  infinite scalability and flexible, cost-effective pricing," said Damian Bryan, Chief Architect at Equipos. "By hosting Coric in a Microsoft Windows Azure environment clients benefit from secure, highly-available, infinitely-scalable client communications and reporting solutions. Azure enables clients to quickly build, deploy and manage Coric solutions across a global network of Microsoft-managed data centers."

This hosted Coric solution offers the same feature-rich functionality as the standard Coric Client Communications Suite that is delivered to clients with on-premise infrastructures.

About Coric  (http://www.equiposgroup.com)

Equipos Coric is a best-in-class software suite that automates the end-to-end processes involved in creating a wide range of reports and other client communications including fund fact sheets, UCITS IV KIID, meeting packs, annual reports, tax packs and more. Reports can be distributed in print or via a web site or portal to a desktop, laptop, tablet PC or smart phone. Coric delivers immense scalability, full-functionality document management, sophisticated business-user-definable workflows and layouts, and live global multi-tenant solutions for third-party administrators.  Coric's broad, robust and innovative capabilities have proven to be an architectural best fit for more than sixty international private banks, institutional investment firms and third party administrators.

Press Contact: Lucy Heavens, tel: +44(0)1344-701988, press@equiposgroup.com.

SOURCE Equipos Ltd