Wolters Kluwer and Ellie Mae integrate closing and document preparation products

Now, users of Encompass Closer will be able to easily access Desert Document Services from within the Encompass mortgage management system.

The collaboration will enable lenders who utilize Encompass Closer to connect to Desert Document Services' industry's leading document preparation solution, to help protect themselves from secondary market risks and increase their speed, accuracy and flexibility in preparing and delivering compliant disclosure and closing package documents. As an added benefit, this integration will also give Ellie Mae's Encompass customers access to Wolters Kluwer Financial Services' industry-leading and warranted VMP Mortgage Solutions compliance forms and content, found within the Desert Document Services solution.

"By adding Desert Document Services to the other suppliers in our integrated Encompass document solution, we will be offering virtually any type of document set for any investor to our customer base," says Richard Roof, senior vice president of Strategic Partnerships at Ellie Mae. "Wolters Kluwer Financial Services is a very high quality service provider with excellent technology that will work seamlessly and easily with Encompass Closer."

"We're very happy to be partnering with Ellie Mae," says Jason Marx, general manager of Wolters Kluwer Financial Services' mortgage line of business. "Like Wolters Kluwer Financial Services, Ellie Mae has a reputation for leveraging technology to make the mortgage origination process much more efficient and cost-effective for lenders. By working together, Wolters Kluwer Financial Services and Ellie Mae will be helping lenders increase operational efficiencies and reduce secondary market risk, which is more important than ever in today's current mortgage market."