JOVACO TO ATTEND MAJOR TECHNOLOGY CONFERENCE

Montreal, Oct. 9, 2003 – Montreal-based software developer JOVACO Solutions is pleased to announce that its company representatives will be joining Microsoft Business Solutions (MBS) partners from around the world in the first edition of the Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference from Oct. 9 to 11 in New Orleans, Louisianna.

JOVACO president and CEO Jean-Claude Coutu will be onsite with his team of representatives, ready to meet with MSB partners to promote Project Suite, JOVACO’s project-based ERP solution.

“In a rapidly evolving sector like software and technology, we are still in business after 20 years mainly because we’ve always made it a priority to remain innovative and stay ahead of the curve in terms of technology,” said Coutu.

The Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference, a debut event dubbed by Microsoft as the most significant partner conference in its history yet, is expected to gather over 5,500 solution architects, marketing executives, business leaders and sales professionals from around the world.

“This is a greatly anticipated event for us,” said Coutu, adding that “Project Suite is doing very well in Quebec, and in the past year has started to take off in the U.S.. This conference will be a valuable networking opportunity.”

PROJECT SUITE – SOFTWARE HIGHLIGHTS 2003

JOVACO Project Suite is continually enhanced year after year. Below are some of the added software functionalities and features in 2003, which will be presented at the event:

- PO integration
- Customized reports
- Estimation and control
- Project information display through SmartList.

“With the global economy, business nowadays has become not only more competitive but more complex. We’re entering an era of joint ventures and collaborative commerce between divisions, and outsourcing has become an increasingly popular practice. This requires a technology that is integrated, easy-to-use, that allows people to be interconnected at every stage of their project, no matter where they are. So we’ve added software functionalities that reflect such business reality,” said Coutu.

JOVACO SOLUTIONS INC., MONTREAL

A Montreal-based, family-run enterprise since 1983, JOVACO is an end-to-end business solutions provider and was the first Canadian company to have developed its own project-based ERP system called Project Suite. It has since performed almost 400 implementations of various financial and management systems including their Project Suite. Most installations are in Quebec, with a few in the U.S. as the firm began to market its product south of the border in the past year.
JOVACO Project Suite is an integrated solution that helps companies manage multi-site and multi-departmental projects by combining financial management, project cost control, professional invoicing and online time/expense management. JOVACO products work with Small Business Manager, Great Plains Select and Great Plains.

MICROSOFT BUSINESS SOLUTIONS, USA

Microsoft Business Solutions offers business and e-commerce solutions for the international business community. Their business applications are designed to automate processing in financial, distribution, reporting, e-commerce, human resource and customer service management. Microsoft Business Solutions products are sold and implemented by a worldwide network of partners in 132 countries.

Source:

An Dieu Pham
Communications
(514) 323-3535, ext. 143
or 1-888-988-3535
E-mail: and@jovaco.ca