Advanced Systems International Retains Donnelly, Penman, French, Haggarty & Co.

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SOUTHFIELD, Mich.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dec. 12, 2001

Advanced Systems International, Inc. (OTC:ADSN) today announced that the Company has retained Donnelly, Penman, French, Haggarty & Co. (DPFH), one of the largest independently owned investment banking firms headquartered in the mid west to evaluate strategic alternatives and associated funding initiatives.

Detroit-based Donnelly, Penman, French, Haggarty & Co. (www.dpfhco.com) is a full service banking firm and NASD registered broker dealer, which provides comprehensive merger and acquisition, capital raising and financial advisory services to both public and private companies. The principals of the firm have participated in more than 160 transactions together since 1995, and have more than sixty years of investment banking experience.

"Advanced Systems International, Inc ("ASI") is well positioned with its product offerings to provide customers with the tools to manage labor costs and productivity, as well as address security concerns, across an entire enterprise. Our association with DPFH will assist ASI in addressing the financial alternatives and potential strategic initiatives necessary to allow the Company to fund growth with strategic partners and develop additional applications for workforce optimization, biometric utilization, and distributed data management," stated Gerry Pesut, President and CEO.

About Advanced Systems International

ASI is a supplier of application software for the e-business information market. The Southfield, Mich.-based company offers a broad range of high-end workforce management systems and application software for the transparent collection and distribution of business across the enterprise. Managers are provided the capability to track critical material, production process, inventory and labor data, in real-time, to support their cost efficient, streamlined, supply chain, order fulfillment and e-business initiatives. For more information on ADSN, visit our website at http://www.advsysintl.com.

The Company's customers include market leaders such as: Daimler Chrysler (NYSE:DCX), Continental Airlines (NYSE:CAL), Johnson Controls (NYSE:JCI), HJ Heinz (NYSE:HNZ), Dana Corporation (NYSE:DCN), Sara Lee (NYSE:SLE), Lear Corporation (NYSE:LEA), Rolls-Royce (LSE:RR), Volvo (NASD:VOLVY) and Imperial Tobacco.

In conjunction with the provisions of the "Safe Harbor" section of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995, this news release may contain forward-looking statements pertaining to future anticipated projected plans, performance and developments, as well as other statements relating to future operations. All such forward-looking statements are necessarily only estimates of future results and there can be no assurance that actual results will not materially differ from expectations. Further information on potential factors that could affect Advanced Systems International, Inc. is included in the company's Form 10KSB filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission.