GlobalWise Enters New Channel Sales Partnership With Des Plaines Office Equipment Company

COLUMBUS, OH--(Marketwired - Jul 22, 2013) - GlobalWise Investments, Inc. (OTCQB: GWIV) (OTCBB: GWIV) (the "Company") (www.GlobalWiseInvestments.com) and its wholly owned subsidiary Intellinetics, Inc., a leading-edge technology company focused on the design, implementation and management of cloud-based Enterprise Content Management ("ECM") systems in both the public and private sectors, today announce the signing of a new channel sales partnership with Des Plaines Office Equipment ("DPOE").

DPOE (www.dpoe.com), headquartered in Elk Grove Village, IL, is a comprehensive office technology provider offering scalable solutions to many of today's complex business issues. DPOE offers printers, copiers, network services and document management solutions. DPOE's two premier offerings are Image-Flex™, which serves the Manage Print Services industry to reduce printing costs and enhance productivity, and Tech-Flex™, which is focused on Manage Services and operational process efficiencies around document management.

"This new channel sales partnership with Des Plaines Office Equipment represents another relationship to help us expand our market penetration and growth with our new Intelli-Cloud™ offering. Intelli-Cloud™ is our hosted cloud-based ECM solution powered by our foundational platform, Intellivue™. With DPOE's longstanding Mid-West presence, we now have a premier partner to service that geography. Both of our companies' strategies are perfectly aligned in servicing the small-to-medium (SMB) business sectors. DPOE already has a longstanding document management practice, so we anticipate a quick start to success in the market they serve. Their leadership and sales-force is second to none, and both companies will benefit from each other's vision and creativity in offering new solutions over time," stated William "BJ" Santiago, CEO of GlobalWise.

"We deeply value our growth maturity around Image-Flex™, servicing our Managed Print Services and Tech-Flex™, servicing IT Network Services and Managed Services. We're excited to offer Intellinetics' new cloud-based ECM, called Intelli-Cloud™; it aligns perfectly with both our major offerings. We believe their unique model will give our SMB end-users a competitive advantage in managing their most critical and highly compliant documents or records," said Chip Miceli, President of Des Plaines Office Equipment. "It was extremely important we found the next generation of an ECM cloud-based provider. We were truly impressed with Intellinetics unique packaging and procurement model for the SMB market, as well as its out-of-the-box workflow solution templates. We found their new model much easier for the traditional copier dealer sales representatives to sell because it's not about features and functions but about improving on Business Process Management (BPM). We're truly excited about the launch of this relationship with Intellinetics."

About GlobalWise Investments, Inc.

GlobalWise Investments, Inc., via its wholly owned subsidiary Intellinetics, Inc., is a Columbus, Ohio based Enterprise Content Management (ECM) pioneer with industry-leading software that delivers cloud ECM based solutions on-demand. The Company's flagship platform, Intellivue™, represents a new industry benchmark and game-changing solution by enabling clients to access and manage the content of every scanned document, file, spreadsheet, email, photo, audio file or video tape -- virtually anything that can be digitized -- in their enterprise from any PC, laptop, tablet or smartphone from anywhere in the world.

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