CIB Software joins The Document Foundation Advisory Board

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Berlin, November 10, 2014 - The Document Foundation (TDF) announces that
CIB Software is now a member of its Advisory Board. CIB Software, based
in Munich, Germany, is a leading developer of standardized document
lifecycle management applications with more than 25 years of experience.
In addition, the company has been a reliable partner in IT consulting
from planning through to maintenance.

"Documents and their processes are at the heart of CIB's business. CIB
has for nearly a quarter of a century provided enterprise solutions for
many of Germany's leading financial institutions. It was only natural to
add our backing to LibreOffice as the leading free / open source office
suite using the ISO ODF standard," says Ulrich Brandner, CIB Software's CEO.

“We are happy to see another company capable of adding value to
LibreOffice joining our Advisory Board,” says Thorsten Behrens, Chairman
of The Document Foundation. “The vision of a growing ecosystem around
LibreOffice is becoming a healthy reality.”

TDF Advisory Board has 16 members: AMD, CIB Software, CloudOn,
Collabora, FrODeV (Freies Office Deutschland), FSF (Free Software
Foundation), Google, Intel, ITOMIG, KACST (King Abdulaziz City of
Science and Technology of Saudi Arabia), Lanedo, MIMO (Consortium of
French Ministries), RedHat, SPI (Software in the Public Interest),
Studio Storti and SUSE.

About CIB

The CIB group specializes in document lifecycle management applications.
Renowned financial institutions and insurance companies, public
administrations as well as international industrial companies are using
CIB software to manage their correspondence on a daily basis. Over 300
million documents are produced per year using CIB technology. The
company has 150 employees at its offices in Munich, Karlsruhe, Münster,
Hamburg and Minsk (Belarus).

Media Contacts: https://www.cib.de/presse.

About The Document Foundation

The Document Foundation is an independent, self-governing and
meritocratic organization, based on Free Software ethos and incorporated
in Germany as a not for profit entity. TDF is focused on the development
of LibreOffice - the best free office suite ever - chosen by the global
community as the legitimate heir of OOo, and as such adopted by a
growing number of public administrations, enterprises and SMBs for
desktop productivity.

TDF is accessible to individuals and organizations who agree with its
core values and contribute to its activities. At the end of June 2014,
the foundation has over 200 members and over 3,000 volunteer
contributors worldwide.

Media Contacts: https://www.documentfoundation.org/contact/.

Short link to TDF blog post: http://wp.me/p1byPE-vW.