ACCPAC -- To be much more than meets the eye

Apparently trustful by (although certainly informed) hard and/or by its heavy competitors 'recent initiatives, International economic environment of ACCPAC (www.accpac.com), a subsidiary company independent of Computer Associates International, Inc. (NYSE: CA) which had offered the accountancy and a broader range of other solutions of businesses of company for the small ones and of intermediate size undertaken, continuous to increase its print of step and operations of products in the whole world. For this purpose, its last now offering product extends from accountancy to include the management of report/ratio of customer (CRM), the management system of human resources (HRMS), manufacture, the management system of warehouse (WMS) and much of aspects of e-business. On December 18, ACCPAC also announced that it classified a report/ratio of recording with the Securities and Exchange Commission of the United States (dryness) concerning an initial public offering suggested (IPO) of the ordinary actions. All the shares are offered by ACCPAC International, Inc., and it offer will be controlled by RBC Capital Markets, SoundView Technology Group and Adams, Harkness & Hill, Inc. Although the report/ratio of recording concerning these values was classified with dryness, it did not come yet into effect. These values cannot thus be sold nor can of the offers buy are accepted before time when the report/ratio of recording between into force.

During last year ACCPAC announced what follows:

  * Acquisition of. AGS Software, Inc. for the software of sales outlet (position)

  * Acquisition of. limited eWare for the software of CRM

  * Acquisition of software of manufacture of software of Lahey

  * Release of. version 5.0 of series of advantage of ACCPAC for a solution 100% based on the WEB of accountancy for the companies of intermediate size.

  * Release of series of advantage of ACCPAC for the desktop machine of Linux

  * Release of. of exchange of electronic ACCPAC the first exchange of information (EDI) offering to integrate applications of accountancy of semi-market with services of exchange of businesses of IBM, intended to provide the documents accessible from transaction of EDI above the Internet.

  * Release of. 2003 simply of accountancy the new version of its programme of accountancy integrated for small social office chairs/(SOHO).

  * Formation of. of programme of distribution of success of sales of ACCPAC a total programme of distribution for third realizers of ACCPAC.

  * An agreement to collaborate with In line CGA Services Corporation to develop it. in line of CGA a new interactive system based on the WEB which will provide a simple source of information and services for the General certified Accountants (CGAs)



Recently, on January 14, ACCPAC announced that it acquired all the capital of AGS Software, Inc. from Toronto, ABOVE, Canada, including the software of the sales outlet (position) developed by the AGS. The application of position offers supposedly the wide automation of front of store, an interface based on the WEB intuitive and the support of the multisite operations. An addition with ACCPAC with 'continuation of S of the business applications of company, the product also is supposedly entirely integrated with the accounting package of series of advantage of the flagship ACCPAC, and will be launched on the market like ePOS of ACCPAC. President Marc Cashman of software of AGS joint ACCPAC because the director, strategic sales of ePOS, and all the former employees of AGS were offered positions to ACCPAC.

The ePOS of ACCPAC automates the process of control of customer of sales outlet. The product makes the information of customer and immediately accessible product, and handles discounts, setting on side, automated the electronic payment treating, paying and more. Machine to run of a web browser, it can automate activities of the multisite retail sales and integrate in a centralized deployment of series of advantage of ACCPAC.