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Fox & Associates Acquired by Encode, Inc.

encode logo Long Beach, Calif. (June 27, 2007) — Fox & Associates, a Long Beach-based systems integrator consulting firm, announces that it has been acquired by Encode, Inc. Fox & Associates, supported by Encode's larger team of WebSphere product specialists, will continue to service its existing client base with the full range of IBM product solutions. The acquisition underscores both companies' dedication to meeting and exceeding the growing demands of their customers.

Rebecca Fox, founder of Fox & Associates, will join Encode as TX Principal Architect. The Fox & Associates team will also stay on with the combined company, and customers will continue to benefit from the team’s extensive TX knowledge and experience.

“By joining the complementary strengths of Fox & Associates and Encode, we can more efficiently provide both sets of customers with a total technology lifecycle product stack with IBM's WebSphere Transformation Extender V8.1,” says Fox. The acquisition was finalized on April 23, 2007.

Fox & Associates, headquartered in Long Beach, Calif., was established by Rebecca Fox in 1986. Specializing in electronic data interchange (EDI) and electronic commerce for companies using IBM's WebSphere Transformation Extender, Fox & Associates provides training, implementation, mapping services, application integration and outsourcing services for TX. The firm has been an Authorized Reseller and Consultant for Mercator Software since 1993, and its client list includes Fortune 500 companies across several industries, including retail, healthcare, entertainment and insurance.

Encode is an IBM Premier Business Partner, serving the information technology needs of large enterprise and small- to mid-sized businesses. The company uses its cross-brand knowledge base of WebSphere, Tivoli, Lotus, Rational, DB2—and now WebSphere Transformation Extender V8.1—to deliver innovative solutions that improve productivity, enhance relationships and increase returns on technology investments. Encode is based in Freehold, N.J. Please see www.encodeinc.com for more information on Encode.