[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 147 (2001), Part 6]
[Senate]
[Page 7877]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]



                   TRIBUTE TO BOTTOMLINE TECHNOLOGIES

 Mr. SMITH of New Hampshire. Mr. President, I rise today to pay 
tribute to Bottomline Technologies of Portsmouth, New Hampshire, for 
the honor of being named the 2001 Business of the Year by Business NH 
Magazine.
  Bottomline Technologies is a Portsmouth-based firm that has become a 
global leader in business-to-business Internet-based transactional 
processing. The company was founded by Dan McGurl, recipient of the 
1998 Entrepreneur of the Year Award from the New Hampshire High 
Technology Council, and Jim Loomis 12 years ago.
  Bottomline is the creator of the LaserCheck system which allows 
businesses to streamline the payment of paper checks. More than 5,500 
client companies throughout the world utilize Bottomline's software 
solutions.
  The company has earned recognition from Inc. Magazine being named as 
one of the fastest growing private companies. It was also named as one 
of the fastest high technology companies by Deloitte & Touche and Hale 
and Dorr.
  Bottomline was recognized with the 2000 United Way Special 
Achievement Award for achieving 119 percent of its contribution goal 
that year.
  Bottomline Technologies has been a leader in the high technology 
sector of the New Hampshire business community and a good neighbor to 
civic organizations. I commend them for their dedicated service to the 
citizens of New Hampshire. It is an honor and a privilege to represent 
them in the U.S. Senate.

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