Corporate Wide Incentive Solution From CompanyDNA Rolls Out at NexInnovations.

Business Editors

TORONTO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--July 18, 2002

CompanyDNA, a leading innovator of incentive solutions today announced that NexInnovations Inc., Canada's largest independent technology services provider, is rolling-out a corporate wide incentive solution powered by CompanyDNA. The solution from CompanyDNA is designed to help NexInnovations promote their corporate objectives to achieve long-term business goals, encourage employee motivation, and forge a strong corporate culture.

CompanyDNA's solution, which replaces an existing employee recognition process, is a technology-enabled service that automates NexInnovations' peer-to-peer and manager-to-employee recognition programs, enabling NexInnovations to streamline their efforts, save administrative time, reduce human resource costs and increase employee productivity.

With over 1,400 employees across Canada, NexInnovations found that CompanyDNA's automated incentive solutions provided them with several key benefits: - CompanyDNA's solution is scalable to meet the needs of the

company's different departments - corporate, sales, information

technology, and distribution. - It is attractive for both managers as well as employees leading to

greater participation and a more meaningful understanding of how

effective various programs are. - Includes flexible reporting based on the way the company is

organized.

"We want to reward employees for efforts over and above their immediate responsibilities and to promote best practices, but we also needed to enhance our existing system and its robustness," said Frank Price, Vice President, Human Resources, NexInnovations Inc. "CompanyDNA's solution gives us the flexibility to implement, manage and track any number of programs we put into practice. With this solution, we can now effectively measure our results across the board quickly."

Another key differentiator for NexInnovations was CompanyDNA's online incentive portal. Under the previous system, employees had to select reward items from printed catalogs, and at times items were out-of-stock or unavailable. CompanyDNA's incentive portal, an up-to-date online catalog with millions of items from name brand merchants, ensures that all listed items are available.

In the first week after launching the CompanyDNA solution, already half of NexInnovations' employees were registered in the program with managers and employees eager to begin recognizing each other's efforts to deliver key business initiatives and best practices.

"Incentive programs are becoming more important in retaining channel, customer and employee focus on results and relationships," said Janice P. Anderson, CompanyDNA's CEO. "Companies need their employees to stay focused on their key objectives and effectively reward them. Our solution enables organizations to provide timely and appropriate recognition to their employees who are delivering results, satisfying customers and achieving a better work environment."

About NexInnovations Inc.

As a founding player in the Canadian Information Technology industry, NexInnovations delivers leading technology infrastructure consulting, product deployment and support expertise to organizations across Canada. Business and government, both local and national, rely on NexInnovations to help them meet their particular information technology challenges as they adapt to the digital economy. NexInnovations employs one of Canada's most collectively experienced IT teams with over 1,400 employees in 35 locations coast-to-coast. With revenues of $700 million in its last fiscal year, NexInnovations ranks as Canada's largest independent technology services provider. For more information about NexInnovations, please visit www.nexinnovations.com.

About CompanyDNA

CompanyDNA is a leading innovator of incentive solutions for improving sales performance and strengthening channel loyalty. Whether a company is looking to achieve short-term successes or to attain long-term objectives, CompanyDNA takes the time to understand their business, their challenges and their strategic intent. AT&T, Avaya, DocuCom, Fort Dodge Animal Health, Nokia and Tech Data are among the many organizations across various industries that have benefited from CompanyDNA's extensive experience, comprehensive execution and results oriented approach. For more information about incentive programs from CompanyDNA, visit us at www.companydna.com or call at 1-888-354-7301.

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