Corporate Profile for Computer Methods International Corp., dated June 28, 2002.

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Published Date:   June 28, 2002

Company Name:     Computer Methods International Corp. (CMiC)

Address:          4850 Keele Street
                  Toronto, ON M3J 3K1

Main Telephone
 Number:          416/736-0123

Internet Home
 Page Address
  (URL)           www.cmic.ca

Chief Executive
 Officer:         Allen Berg

Chief Financial
 Officer:         Allen Berg

Public Relations
 Contact:         Bassem Hamdy
 Business number: 416/736-0123
 E-mail address:  [e-mail]

Industry:         Construction/Engineering ERP Software

Company description:

CMiC History

Computer Methods international Corp. was founded in 1974 to conduct software research and development, primarily for IBM computers. Since then CMiC has provided software solutions to primarily the project and financial management industries such as construction and engineering and more recently to professional services organizations. CMiC has continued to evolve with the technology advances as they occur. CMiC is affiliated with CFMA and participates in the AEC, AICPA and CFMA trade shows.

In 1978 CMiC developed and offered software solutions specific to the construction industry on the IBM System 5100 series later migrating the software solutions to the System 23, 36 and 38 platforms. In the mid-1980's, CMiC developed construction specific software solutions on a PC-networked environment utilizing Business Basic software.

Since early 1988, CMiC has applied all available resources and manpower in the research and development of our ORACLE(R) based mPOWER software for the construction and engineering industries. The Oracle based product was developed from ground up utilizing the best techniques available in relational database model design and did not use any legacy code or file structures from any previous product ever developed. The product name was simply the CMiC Software Series and was released into production in 1991 with its first installation. The technology deployed was and still is 100% native Oracle, utilizing the Oracle development environment for the application code and the Oracle RDBMS for the database. The CMiC Software series was a character based system operating in a UNIX environment using at first serial connections and then with the proliferation of desktop PC's, a terminal emulation via a network to access the application and database. Beginning in 1994, CMiC embarked on a massive project to convert the entire product to client/server operating under a Windows environment, and released its client/server version in the fall of 1995.

A marketing effort to name the product was launched and the new name for the entire suite of product was mPOWER Software, which remains until today. The mPOWER Software in 1995 was to be the first construction specific product to be released in a client/server configuration on a relational platform. Throughout, additional functionality and additional modules were and are continuing to be added, where the functional enhancements never cease. These enhancements are driven by CMiC's own research and development agenda as well as customer driven modifications and functional requirements. In 1997, mPOWER Software was release on a 32-bit platform providing additional stability to the software. Remote access to mPOWER was delivered through the Citrix or Terminal Server configuration and CMiC has been successful in deploying that environment for the past 4 years.

In the fall of 2000, CMiC released its totally web-enabled version of the mPOWER Software enabling any user to operate the software via an Internet browser, mitigating the need for deploying a Citrix or Terminal Server layer and be able to access the software via a URL anywhere, anytime. This version allows for a hybrid deployment, i.e. a concurrent client/server and web-enabled deployment. In 2001 CMiC released the mPOWER Portal that will serve as the gateway to the entire corporate activity across the organization.

CMiC prides itself on the high degree of impact that its products and services have on its customers businesses. It is central to the philosophy at CMiC that information systems must be well integrated in order to provide maximum benefit, and the best way to provide true integration is to utilize a single vendor's solution in as many areas of the company as possible. Where no solution is available from the selected vendor, it is critical that the integration be as transparent and seamless as possible.

CMiC will continue to create additional products, which will allow companies, which utilize CMiC solutions to automate more and more of their business under a common platform and system solution.

All CMiC solutions can be accessed from anywhere in the world via a web browser. The location of the physical server is immaterial to the user. Based on their security privileges, users gain instantaneous access to all information stored in their corporate systems at any time, from any location. In addition to being able to access any data on demand, significant data can also be regularly delivered graphically to users via electronic alerts, email and portal applets.

From a business perspective, CMiC will continue to grow steadily, maintaining profitability, without incurring any debt. We will continue to serve the high end of our target markets, with a long-term and very intimate relationship with each of our clients. This strategy has proven to provide a high degree of employee satisfaction and job security in the past, leading to an unusually high degree of retention among senior employees.