ABT (Applied Business Technology) appoints John Hibbett as National Sales Manager

Hibbett will work across all of ABT's business software offerings, with a particular emphasis on the small to medium sized business sector.

"We are really pleased with the appointment of John Hibbett,” said ABT Group chief executive officer, Reg King. "Simply put, his depth of experience and level of small business understanding will be a great asset to us," King added.

John Hibbett has previously worked with CDC Software, Praxa and Professional Advantage.

"I'm particularly excited to finally be able to offer a full complement of suitable product offerings to clients," said ABT National Sales Manager, John Hibbett.

"I remember coming up against ABT's Online offering in a previous position and secretly wishing I had the capability to be able to compete. Being able to offer on-premise, online, or a combination solution of both to SME's is very very appealing."

"I do think there is a very good reason cloud applications are gathering so much hype at present - finally the market, and the underlying communications mechanisms are really ready to move many application frameworks online," Hibbett added.

ABT is Australia's leading POS (point of sale) software provider with an extensive client list particularly in the key verticals of telecommunications and distribution. This client list includes more than one thousand Australian ABT POS users amongst Optus World, Virgin Mobile, Telechoice, and Allphones in the communications industry.

ABT also works with major distributors including the worlds leading supplier of distributed electrical supplies, Rexel, Salmon Brothers, Project Lighting and Shannon Electrical.

ABT is also the leading Pronto software distributor in Australia.

The ABT Group includes ABT itself (www.abtgroup.com.au), alongside managed systems expert and provider, ABT Online (www.abtonline.com.au) and intelligent business security systems with ABT Security Systems (www.abtsecuritysystems.com.au)

For more information, please contact:

Paul Goldsmith

tinderbox marketing

M: 0404 871 220

E: paul@tinderbox.net.au

ABT Computer Group, (www.abtgroup.com.au) with over 18 years of operations, are leaders in the delivery of professional IT services

Our Applied Business Technology operation provides the full implementation of middle-market Business Software Applications with such quality applications as Pronto Software and COGNOS-10 Business Intelligence systems.

Our ABT Online (www.abtonline.com.au) operation delivers low-capital cost, fully managed,

"Cloud-based" IT solutions.

Our ABT Security Systems (www.abtsecuritysystems.com.au) operation augments the synergy between Security and IT with fully-managed security and electronic surveillance systems.