Tech-Savvy Supreme Lending Deploys Ellie Mae's Encompass

Banker's move simplifies compliance and company-wide communications

DUBLIN, CA—August 15, 2005—Ellie Mae, an award-winning provider of innovative software and services for the mortgage industry, has announced that Supreme Lending, a Dallas-based banker that operates one of the nation's leading branch operations, is deploying the Encompass Mortgage Automation System across its 90 branches spanning 24 states.

"Before deploying Encompass, we were using Calyx® Point®. We decided to make the switch after we analyzed the new architecture that Point® has been working on, and we didn't feel it was going to meet our needs for security compliance and growth purposes. It was too hard to manage multiple locations from the Point® platform. But that's not the case with Encompass. We expect our branch managers to love using Encompass, especially the tracking and processing abilities that help originators close loans more efficiently," asserted Scott Everett, President of Supreme Lending.

Supreme Lending considers security compliance and company-wide communications a big reason to switch to Encompass. "Encompass does a much better job with compliance. For instance, HUD is changing forms all the time so that we regularly need to e-mail our branches to let them know that they need to change the HUD or e-letter. With Encompass, all we have to do is put the form on our server and it's automatically extracted to all our branches when they print their new forms. This ability to instantly update data in everyone's systems really helps us be efficient. For instance, when we change our fee structure, it's automatically on everyone's servers. When we do anything, it's literally right there", says Everett.

Over the years, Supreme Lending has distinguished itself through its commitment to embracing superior technologies. "We're going totally paperless. We have not had a fax machine in-house for over four years. We have a fax server which routes faxes to e-mail, we have network scanners to digitize documents, and we offer voice-over-IP phone systems for our branches. We are hosting Encompass ourselves, and everyone operates over a single network", explains Everett.

"Knowing how tech-savvy Supreme Lending is, it seems natural for the company to deploy the Encompass Mortgage Automation System. Much like other steps they've taken to keep up with the latest technology advances, Encompass will help them conduct business more efficiently, and will help them attract and retain more branches. That will translate to more customers, greater volume, and greater profitability. We are pleased to add them to our long list of Encompass users", says Jeff Benjamin, Director of Sales at Ellie Mae.

About Ellie Mae, Inc.
Ellie Mae, Inc. is an award-winning provider of software and services for the mortgage industry, which has been recognized in each of the past three years as one of the fastest growing companies in the California Bay Area, and most recently has been named to the Inc. 500 list of America's fastest growing private companies. Ellie Mae provides a comprehensive line of products and services including the company's flagship Encompass® mortgage management system, Contour™ and Genesis™ loan origination software, Executive Web Sites for mortgage brokers, and Ellie Mae Docs services for document processing. Ellie Mae's ePASS® Network is the mortgage industry's online transaction platform enabling 40,000+ mortgage companies in the United States to easily do business online with leading lenders and nearly 100,000 settlement service providers. Ellie Mae is based in Dublin, California. To learn more about Ellie Mae, visit www.elliemae.com or call (888) 955-9100.

*Source: 2004 Inc. 500 listing of the nation's fastest-growing private companies

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