Municipal Software Welcomes New Partners
Expertware CivilSystems and Logical Design, Inc.
Victoria, British Columbia, October 27th, 2005 - Municipal Software Corporation (TSX-V: MSZ), a provider of business process automation solutions for local government, announced today the addition of two more partners to the growing group of companies in its alliance network. The company has signed an agreement with Expertware CivilSystems Corporation ("Expertware") to distribute Expertware's infrastructure modeling software for water systems, sewer systems and drainage systems. Municipal Software has also signed a co-marketing agreement with Logical Design, Inc. ("LDI") to market the CityView solution suite to its customer base in the United States.
"City Managers today are faced with the problem of aging infrastructure and must manage their assets very carefully," said Iain McLean, CEO of Municipal Software. "Adding the Expertware products to our offering means that we can provide solutions from the pipe and connection level up and help Engineering and Public Works staff in local governments address their day-to-day activities more effectively. Expertware can play a major role in helping clients meet their public health and safety requirements, along with facilitating their growth and development needs." Andrew Laks, President of Expertware, said, "Not only can Municipal Software offer excellent sales and support for the products, but they can also integrate Expertware with the current CityView product to deliver enhanced functionality and develop further Engineering and Public Works solutions."
Iain McLean continued, "We are also delighted to announce our co-marketing arrangement with LDI, a company that has spent 20 years working with local government, primarily with Finance departments in the South Western United States". LDI's primary area of interest is in providing the platforms to run financial systems, primarily software applications such as HTE, New World and ACS, on IBM iSeries environments, and needs to provide more departmental solutions that can integrate to these systems. Kevin Schirmer, Vice President for LDI, said "Our customers have been asking us for current, Windows-based applications that can provide richer departmental workflow right out of the box. We now have an ability to provide this directly to our customers, while still integrating with the financial solutions that they already have in place, leveraging their existing investment in their financial systems further." McLean concluded, "Our aim is to be help municipalities enable transaction-based e-government, to do more with less and to grow. These partnerships add capabilities to our product offering and improve our ability to reach more clients".
Other partnerships for Municipal Software include Microsoft (US and Canada), ESRI (US and Canada), ImageSource (distributors and integrators for document managements systems) and Somacos (developers of meeting management software). Representatives from all of Municipal's partners will be in attendance at the Company's annual User Conference being held November 2nd through 4th in Las Vegas, NV.
About Logical Design, Inc.
Logical Design, Inc. (www.logicaldesign.com) is an IBM® Business Partner that has been providing customer solutions for over 20 years. LDI represents IBM products and is a reliable source for business solutions for many organizations in the capacity of a full service hardware, software and support company, specializing in business information systems. LDI is well positioned to provide information system products and services to meet your organization's requirements - anytime!
LDI offers an understanding and knowledge of the challenges, alternatives, the scope of effort, and the tools available to create a productive and informative Data Processing, Networking and MIS environment.
About Expertware CivilSystems Corporation
Expertware (www.civilsystems.com) produce software products that have been used for over 20 years for the analysis and management of public works. Most of Expertware's clients are civil engineers of cities, municipalities, and consulting companies. The CivilSystems products model complex networks with lot-oriented loading and zoning densities. They include graphic keys and links to geographic information systems, designed for the following applications:
WATSYS for Water Supply - Network model using established analytic methods.
SANSYS for Sewerage - Network model with flows derived using peaking factors.
HYDSYS for Drainage - Network model using rainstorms and hydrograph methods.
CivilSystems Property Connector - Simulates water, sewer and drainage service connections
About Municipal Software Corporation
Municipal Software Corporation (TSX-V:MSZ) provides easily installed, packaged software solutions that manage the everyday business processes of local governments. The solutions are based on 23 years of experience with a product platform that easily adapts to the changing practices of clients. Branded under the CityView name the company provides a number of out-of-the-box solutions automating practices in Property Information, Permits and Inspections, Planning, Code Enforcement, Business Licensing and Cashiering. CityView Application Builder is a set of application development tools that allows the client to develop unique applications to match specific needs. Municipal Software offers a complete range of services from training and customer support of its suite of products to custom development for unique applications.
For further information about Municipal Software and CityView, please contact Iain McLean, CEO, at 1-800-665-5647 ext 243 or IMclean@MunicipalSoftware.com. To learn more, visit www.MunicipalSoftware.com.
