Maconomy and ViaSys form new strategic partnership - Project Engineering customers to benefit from enhanced end-to-end solution

Tonbridge, UK, February 2006 – Maconomy, a leading provider of business solutions and services for professional service companies, has entered into a strategic partnership with ViaSys, vendors of project procurement and materials management software. By integrating the Maconomy enterprise resource planning solution with the latest releases of ViaSys’s software the partnership will provide key infrastructure solutions to the project engineering marketplace. The partnership will enhance the benefits offered to Maconomy’s clients including significant savings of time and money and a fast return on investment.

Phillip Kirkham, MCS Business Development Director of Maconomy, explained: "In ViaSys we have found a partner that is a progressive organisation, with a like-minded view to our own, which will ensure that we can continue to deliver value to our existing and future clients. We provide competitive advantage to businesses in the consultancy and project management sector, so it is important for us to identify and partner with organisations that will support us in providing a complete end-to-end solution. Closer cooperation with organisations like ViaSys builds on our specialist industry knowledge, and will ensure that our solutions provide an even fuller range of customer benefits.”

Mike Gordon, Head of Sales at ViaSys, added: “By working with Maconomy, we see our ability to explore broader solutions to create even bigger opportunities. Maconomy brings significant opportunities to ViaSys through introductions to some of their major international engineering customers. Our goal from the outset was to partner with an organisation that could provide a single, scaleable, integrated system that provides job costing, management and accounting across groups. The aim was to improve information flow and produce both local and group accounts and project profitability. With Maconomy as a partner we can see that is a real possibility!"

About Maconomy
Maconomy has an international reputation for providing leading-edge business solutions and services for Professional Service companies. It offers systems which optimise finance management, job costing, project management, business intelligence, and resource planning in one integrated ERP solution. Maconomy has been developing application software for more than fifteen years. It has delivered solutions for consulting companies around the world to manage all types of projects. These companies include Agilis Group, Devoteam Fischer & Lorenz, FMI, Framfab, Philips Design, Rambøll, Scania IT and Studsvik.

About ViaSys
ViaSys has an international reputation for developing and supporting innovative software packages to improve project supply chain performance. Its portfolio includes project procurement and purchasing software, materials management and control software, supply chain management software solutions, document control and freight forwarding software. Viasys has been developing application software for more than ten years.

Material Advantage, the supply chain management and materials control software system from ViaSys is the preferred choice of many leading sectors of industry including: Oil and Gas, Engineering and Construction.

For further information please visit

www.viasysweb.com
www.maconomy.com