Acucorp Announces New Partner Program

Company Signs IMRI as its First Certified Service Provider

San Diego, CA – June 5, 2003 – Acucorp, Inc., an international developer of COBOL application extension solutions, recently unveiled its new Certified Service Provider (CSP) program with the signing of IMRI, a U.S.-based firm specializing in business systems transformation and enterprise architecture integration. Designed to strengthen the technology offerings of service providers worldwide, the CSP program expands available IT solutions by recommending Acucorp’s extend™ product line for business cases involving legacy extension, application interoperability, and system migration. All CSP partners are required to complete a technical and sales certification process as well as maintain a high level of customer service.

“With the addition of our new CSP program, we’ve created an even more powerful set of partnering opportunities,” explains Pamela Coker, President and CEO of Acucorp. “These opportunities expose us to new customers, new markets, and new revenue streams—enabling us to substantially grow our business as well as expose our technology offerings to a wider audience.”

Through its business transformation practice, IMRI will introduce federal, state, local and private-sector customers to Acucorp’s proven:

• Legacy application modernization solutions
  Expanding the existing distribution channels and increasing efficiency by allowing COBOL applications to run over the Internet

• Data access technologies
  Streamlining business-to-business processes by providing access to disparate mission-critical data sources or remote users

• Application interoperability
  Increasing the return on investment and decreasing the time to market by offering COBOL interoperability with the latest languages and environments including Web services, mobile computing, .NET, Java and XML

• Program portability
  Lowering a company’s total cost of ownership by providing unparalleled portability and interoperability during platform migrations and rehosting

“Acucorp’s application modernization solutions allow companies to migrate their valuable core, legacy IT investments to current, open platform environments,” says Martha Daniel, President and CEO of IMRI. “Combining these solutions with our business systems transformation consulting services, enables clients to align their enterprise software needs with their business and financial needs. This provides a fiscally and technically sound business systems transformation approach that serves as a feasible alternative for all clients—improving key aspects of their corporate bottom line by extracting more leverage from the IT investments of legacy systems and newer technologies.”

About Acucorp

Founded in 1988, Acucorp, Inc. is a privately held company headquartered in San Diego, California, with additional offices in Great Britain, France, Germany and the Netherlands. Acucorp's products are distributed in more than 75 countries throughout the world, and its technology users include Ford Argentina, Red Cross Belgium, Sanyo Extended Data Systems, Seagram Americas, Siemens, The Travelex Group (formerly Thomas Cook), Tower Records and Warner Music Group. The company continues to design, develop, and market robust solutions for extending the life of inherited COBOL applications.

About IMRI

IMRI offers a comprehensive suite of business systems transformation consulting services for services and manufacturing industry verticals and federal, state and local government organizations. IMRI services focus on successfully providing clients with the management and migration services and tools to significantly enhance their business systems and operations, supporting current and future business needs. IMRI maintains a strong consulting partner and enterprise solutions provider network to ensure that every aspect of a client’s business systems needs is achieved. Additional information about IMRI is available at http://www.imri.com or by calling (949) 852-5101.

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