Simware Signs Three Integration Partners.

Expands Channel Strategy for Salvo(R) Through Partnerships with

Internet Systems Integrators

OTTAWA, March 1 /CNW-PRN/ - Simware Inc. (NASDAQ: SIMWF), the leader in enterprise-class delivery chain Extranet solutions, today announced partnerships with three Internet Systems Integrators (ISI) to significantly expand the market for Salvo(R) solutions across a variety of vertical industries. The new strategic relationships demonstrate the Simware commitment to provide its customers with timely development and deployment of end-to-end Extranet business applications.

Daedalian Systems Group, INTRANET Technologies, and The Crosshands Group have entered into agreements with Simware to jointly market and sell Salvo, the Simware award-winning Enterprise-to-Extranet Solution(TM). These Internet Systems Integrators (ISIs) represent a rapidly growing segment of the e-business market whose technical expertise, market knowledge, and design capabilities are ideally suited to Internet-savvy enterprise customers. With these ISI partnerships, Simware gains key opportunities for growth in the corporate, Canadian federal and provincial government, and finance verticals.

``Internet Systems Integrators are the key players in the e-business economy. Providing customers with solutions that increase revenues, decrease costs and ensure maximum flexibility for change in the future is crucial,'' said Robert Johnstone, director of major account alliances for Simware. ``Salvo's business logic enables these partners to rapidly deliver advanced e-business applications, particularly distribution management and customer care Extranets, that are robust, scaleable and easily maintained.''

Daedalian Systems Group

Daedalian Systems Group is a rising star in electronic commerce application development. Named one of the fastest growing high tech companies in Canada by Deloitte & Touche and the Financial Post as well as one of Canada's 50 largest IT services firms by the Branham Group, Daedalian provides electronic commerce application development for financial institutions, the Government of Ontario, and general business applications. The company's customers include Toronto Dominion Bank, the Management Board of Cabinet for the province of Ontario, and Toronto Real Estate Board. Visit Daedalian at www.daedalian.com.

``Daedalian specializes in helping companies develop realistic plans for e-commerce initiatives. With Salvo in our toolkit, e-commerce projects that previously faced backend integration problems are now viable and cost effective,'' said Andy Welch, principal of Daedalian Systems Group. ``Salvo's business logic also delivers wholly new information to the client via a browser. When Salvo is combined with our unique business model, our clients get the best in creative design, powerful integration, and unique application development.''

INTRANET Technologies

INTRANET Technologies specializes in Intranet strategy and custom Web application development. Since 1993, INTRANET has provided its services to corporations, Canadian federal government, and provincial government organizations. Sample customers include Canadian Coast Guard and Northern Telecom. Visit INTRANET Technologies at www.intranet.net.

``Salvo is helping companies get real value out of their Extranets by leveraging their existing business applications and infrastructure,'' said Robert Menzies, marketing manager, INTRANET Technologies. ``Our clients understand that their core business applications must be Web based. We help them align their technology strategy with their business objectives, and often Salvo is playing a key role in that strategy.''

The Crosshands Group

The Crosshands Group provides its customers with true electronic commerce solutions that incorporate data from mainframes and other legacy systems. With a visual design background and a focus predominantly on Web commerce, the company creates and manages dozens of interactive Web sites for Canadian government agencies and associations, including Public Works and Government Services Canada (PWGSC) and Agricultural Institute of Canada (AIC), as well as for Sun Microsystems.

``The web sites of today go far beyond mere visual design; the solutions must provide wholly new information to the end users in ways that are useful and meaningful to them,'' said Colin Williams, senior partner. ``Our clients want a fully integrated solution that gives their customers the interaction they demand. We maintain the Web sites for them. This enables our clients to focus on what's important - the information. Salvo gives us a leg up on our competition by providing both business logic for smart new applications and data access to myriad back end systems.'' Visit The Crosshands Group at www.crosshands.com.

About Salvo

Salvo is a proven and easy-to-use application development environment for building delivery chain Extranet applications. A true middle-tier solution, Salvo uses component-based business logic to create new information from existing data stored in corporate systems. Salvo's component-based, multi-tier model ensures that Salvo applications are robust, scaleable and easy to maintain.

About Simware

Simware is the leading provider of Internet-based Extranet solutions for the delivery chain, helping customers get outstanding ROI from distribution management systems, customer self-serve applications and call center alternatives. Simware has earned the trust of its 1000 customers worldwide over the past 17 years because the company understands how to leverage the delivery chain process to increase revenue and decrease costs. Today Simware has delivered over 120 Salvo-based Extranet applications to solve these business problems.

Simware is a publicly traded company (NASDAQ: SIMWF) headquartered in Ottawa, Canada with offices in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Europe, and alliances with leading customer solution providers globally.