Amcom and CPACS Form Sales and Marketing Alliance.

Partnership Meets Customer Demand for Total Business Continuity Software Solutions

MINNEAPOLIS -- Amcom, a provider of mission critical communications software and CPACS, a leading developer of business continuity planning and risk assessment software products, today announced a sales and marketing alliance. As part of the agreement, the companies will co-market and co-sell their respective business continuity software solutions. Amcom and CPACS have a mutual goal to assist organizations with emergency management and crisis communications. Customers benefit with a more complete solution designed for day-to-day and crisis-driven events.

"Many organizations don't have the time or resources to develop a plan that can be properly maintained and executed," said Sean Collins, VP of Sales for Amcom. "Emergency communications is most effective when it supports a comprehensive emergency plan that is accurate, up-to-date and tailored to the specific needs of an organization. Together, we're able to offer customers a more complete set of knowledge, tools and resources for emergency planning."

Amcom e.Notify automated event management solutions support fast, accurate and reliable communications in the event of a crisis. Administrators can use the system to initiate, manage and monitor internal and external communications. The enterprise-wide system automates notification, response management and escalation and supports multiple wireless communications devices, protocols and rules. Pre-defined, customizable templates facilitate instant notification to any combination of individuals, groups, and devices, while features such as escalation, response collection, monitoring and reports provide comprehensive and interactive communications capabilities.

"To support accurate and timely communications, a complete business continuity plan must include up-to-date information including personnel contact information and assignments, communication procedures and reporting," said Ken Bauman, General Manager for CPACS. "By combining our RecoveryPAC family of planning software with Amcom's e.Notify automated event management software and services, we're offering a complete software solution that will address the growing needs of the market."

CPACS provides software solutions for enterprise-wide business continuity and risk assessment planning. CPACS' RecoveryPAC family of software products combine relational database power and flexibility to provide organizations with an intuitive set of tools for the efficient development, maintenance and management of their business continuity/disaster recovery processes and procedures. CPACS's RiskPAC software product line is designed for conducting comprehensive risk assessment and Business Impact Analysis projects in an efficient and consistent manner. CPACS offers an unbeatable combination of software solutions and services that can help an organization support faster and more effective response in the event of a crisis situation, while understanding impacts on business processes, risk exposure and how to mitigate that risk.

About CPACS, LLC 

CPACS has been an international pioneer and leader in the business continuity planning and risk assessment industry for over 23 years. This leadership position has been maintained by providing a high-quality, feature-rich product line that is scalable to address the requirements of a diverse range of hundreds of private sector and government clients worldwide. CPACS no-nonsense approach to software design delivers flexible, streamlined business continuity plan development and risk assessment tools that require minimal training and administrative costs for an overall lower cost-of-ownership. For more information about CPACS, call [phone] or visit us online at www.cpacsweb.com.

About Amcom

Amcom provides mission-critical communications technology solutions for organizations that depend on speed, accuracy, and productivity to support day-to-day business continuity and event-driven communications. Amcom's open technology, standards-based technology solutions are used by more than 400 blue-chip companies in healthcare, education, finance, utilities and government agencies. Amcom customers include Stanford University Medical Center, Emory University, Banner Health System, Cedars Sinai Medical Center, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, U.S. Department of the Army, Yale University, New York Presbyterian University Hospital, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Yale New Haven Hospital, Duke University Medical Center, the U.S. Marines and the U.S. Navy. For more information, call [phone] or go to www.amcomsoftware.com.