Los Angeles, CA- June 24, 2009 - Today, Solver proudly announced it has been selected as the 2009 Microsoft Worldwide Partner of the Year in Business Intelligence. The company was chosen out of an international field of top Microsoft partners for delivering market-leading business intelligence and reporting solutions built with the Microsoft suite of Corporate Performance Management solutions and technologies.

"Inspired by Microsoft's People-Ready Business campaign and initiatives that enable organizations to provide "BI to the masses", Solver has developed software and service solutions with Microsoft products and technologies to make performance management affordable and easy to implement. This strategy coupled with vertical industry initiatives in Public Sector, Education, Health, and Retail provide our customers and partners with highly competitive Business Intelligence solutions to support organizational transformation through process improvement and growth." said Nils Rasmussen, CEO, Solver.

Awards will be presented in a number of categories, with winners chosen from a pool of nearly 2,000 entrants worldwide. The Business Intelligence Partner of the Year award recognizes partners who provide scalable, reliable, and available data solutions that help customers make better, faster, and more relevant decisions for the business. Additionally, solutions that enable organizations to monitor, analyze, and improve business performance with Microsoft Office PerformancePoint Server will also be considered for this award.

To be eligible for this award, you must:

• Be active in one of the two specializations of the Business Intelligence competency.
• Profile your nominated solutions in Partner Solution Profiler.

"Solver's Business Intelligence solutions have helped state and local governments increase government accountability and citizen satisfaction. Their scalable solutions were built leveraging the full stack of business intelligence tools from Microsoft," said Robert Deshaies, Vice President, U.S. Partner Group, Microsoft Corp. "We are pleased to recognize partners like Solver who are leveraging Microsoft's software-plus-services model and business intelligence tools to help customers maximize their revenue and reduce costs."

"We are honored to be recognized with this award from Microsoft and will continue to use our expertise to assist Microsoft and Microsoft partners in the efficient deployment of Business Intelligence across customers' organizations.  We continue to see validation of our investments and focus on high-impact Business Intelligence solutions that completely align with Microsoft's leadership in Business Intelligence," said Johan Magnusson, Managing Director, Solver Europe.

The Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference Awards recognize Microsoft partners that have developed and delivered exceptional Microsoft-based solutions over the last year.

Los Angeles, CA, March 15, 2009 - Nils Rasmussen, President of Solver presented at the Second Annual Health and Human Services Alliance Assembly in Reston, VA on March 10, 2009. 

He described Solver's Microsoft-based BI solution as a complete performance management solution that helps health and human services (HHS) organizations in the areas of budgeting, reporting, scorecarding and dashboards. Based on a quick-to-implement, template driven SQL Server data warehouse, the entire solution is easily adapted to an organization's existing infrastructure with integrations to everything from general ledger systems to purchasing and clinical systems. Solver's BI solutions for HHS can accommodate a large number of users (such as budget contributors or scorecard users) through a web-based interface and SharePoint portal options. It also offers a KnowledgeBase module to support extensive process improvement directly integrated to scorecard KPIs.

Los Angeles, CA, November 21 - Solver today announced that they are among the first 25 companies to receive the Performance Management specialization designation from Microsoft. The Performance management specialization is a sub-set of the Microsoft Information Worker Competency. By achieving this Specialization, Solver has demonstrated that they have the skills and knowledge necessary to successfully implement and support Microsoft Office PerformancePoint Server for customers.

The Microsoft Business Intelligence Stack, including PerformancePoint, provides all of the functionality that is needed for performance management including scorecards, dashboards, management reporting, analytics, planning, budgeting, forecasting, and consolidation. The application reaches all employees, across all business functions (finance, operations, marketing, sales, and human resources).

"Solver extends and optimizes performance management software, such as PeformancePoint Server, by bridging the gap between needs and technology capabilities, and thereby lowering risk accelerating implementations, "says Nils Rasmussen, Principal of Solver.

"Solver has shown that they are leaders in the performance management arena by being one of the first 25 partners in the United States to achieve the Performance Management Specialization from Microsoft.  By gaining this specialization, Solver has become a member of a small group of industry leaders that have proven their expertise in that field.  It sets them apart," says Steve Symons, Business Development Manager (Business Intelligence) at Microsoft.

About Solver
Solver provides game-changing performance management and business intelligence capabilities to Global 2000, mid-market and public sector organizations around the world. They deliver innovative business-driven solutions that enable dramatic improvements in their clients' market position, profitability and performance. Solver leverages Microsoft's market-leading business intelligence technology platform and complementary value added components such as Orange Peel's Business Intelligence Studio, Profitbase and SAP to build planning, analytics and business monitoring solutions that transform your organization's strategy into actionable results. For more information please go to www.solverusa.com.

Los Angeles, CA, August 28, 2008 --( PR.com )-- Solver, a Performance Management and Business Intelligence (BI) solutions provider has announced a partnership with Webalo, a leader in mobile business intelligence and creator of The Mobile Dashboard. This partnership will focus on delivering BI and Performance Management information directly to mobile devices and allowing executives and other mobile employees to access critical information from virtually any location, by means of their PDA, or other mobile device.

By utilizing Webalo's Mobile Dashboard, Solver is able to transform key reports, dashboards, scorecards, and key performance indicators (KPIs) into easy-to-read, easy-to-navigate mobile applications that adapt automatically to the native user interface of their mobile device. "With BI moving at such a fast pace, offering our customers and partners automated reports and KPIs on their mobile devices is just a natural extension to the Microsoft-based BI solutions we offer," said Nils Rasmussen, Principal of Solver. Our clients will be thrilled that they can quickly find the data that they need, online or offline, with a dynamic, highly-configurable interface that is tailored to their specific device.

Business Intelligence and reporting are a critical application for the mobile workforce, from executives to line managers, for the reason that decision makers at all levels are demanding instant access to key performance indicators about their business. Solver recognizes the value of this solution for the "on-the-go" mobile work force, specifically in the retail space; regional branch managers for example can now have the capability to view sales data and reports with just a click of a button without going from store to store. This solution accurately helps improve productivity by reducing lost time, significantly increasing responsiveness and reducing IT costs, by enabling users to sense and respond to changes.

"As more and more companies demand immediate delivery of business intelligence to an increasingly mobile workforce," said Peter Price, president & CEO of Webalo. "We're looking forward to partnering with Solver, one of the leading Microsoft business intelligence (BI) partners, to enable delivery of critical business data as well as performance management information to any kind of mobile device directly to the executives that need it - thereby making Microsoft BI mobility a reality."

About Solver
Solver provides game-changing performance management and business intelligence capabilities to Global 2000, mid-market and public sector organizations around the world. They deliver innovative business-driven solutions that enable dramatic improvements in their clients' market position, profitability and performance. Solver leverages Microsoft's market-leading business intelligence technology platform and complementary value added components such as Orange Peel's Business Intelligence Studio, Profitbase and SAP to build planning, analytics and business monitoring solutions that transform your organization's strategy into actionable results. For more information please go to www.solverusa.com.

About Webalo
Webalo technology transforms enterprise applications and data to make them compatible with mobile devices. This eliminates the need for traditional custom programming, reducing the deployment of mobile applications from weeks or months to, in most cases, less than a day. The resulting "anywhere, any time, on-demand" availability of enterprise data on handheld devices turns such devices into viable alternatives to desktop, laptop, and palmtop computer hardware, and lets mobile employees work more productively - on the spot - to solve problems, answer questions, monitor operations, close sales, and make informed decisions.

The Webalo Mobile Dashboard Service - available both as a hosted service and as a behind-the-firewall appliance - lets non-IT business administrators securely specify the content of mobile-accessible information, and the companion Webalo Proxy Server configures it, in seconds, to conform to the native user interface of any BlackBerry, Windows Mobile, Palm, Symbian, or Java-enabled smartphone. Webalo's technology transforms the role of Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) into a User Oriented Architecture, enabling Web services to communicate with users as effectively as they communicate with other system services.

Software vendors and system integrators such as Actuate, IBM, Nokia, and RIM are working with Webalo to enhance both their service oriented business applications and their mobile devices. Los Angeles based, Webalo is privately held and was founded in 2000. For more information please go to www.webalo.com.

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Los Angeles, CA- Solver, a Performance Management and Business Intelligence solutions provider announced today that it has been named a Microsoft National System Integrator (NSI) Partner. Microsoft's NSI Program consists of a select group of strategic organizations that provide significant value driving the Microsoft platform and application business nationwide.

"We are thrilled to be part of Microsoft's NSI program, as it reflects Solver's growing national footprint to deliver performance management and business intelligence solutions to Global 2000 and mid-market organizations" says Scott Stein, Chief Operating Officer of Solver. "We continue to see validation of our investments and focus on innovative high-impact performance management solutions that completely align with Microsoft's current momentum establishing the leadership position in business intelligence."

The NSI program will help expand joint focus and engagement between Microsoft and Solver, including overall strategic planning, alignment of geographical and field resources, collaborative marketing efforts as well as deeper product team engagement and executive sponsorship .

"The NSI designation requires partner business commitment to providing outstanding customer satisfaction and building deep competencies in Microsoft technology. Solver's proven ability to deliver business-driven Microsoft solutions across multiple geographic and industry segments makes them an ideal NSI partner" says Greg Urquhart, General Manager of National SI & ISV Partners at Microsoft.

"Being recognized as one of the premier Microsoft partners proves how committed Solver is to delivering business value to customers. Solver is one of a few partners in the NSI program exclusively focused on delivering Microsoft Business Intelligence solutions. We will use our deep expertise to help Microsoft and other partners efficiently deploy BI across a customer's organization" says Nils Rasmussen, President of Solver.

About Solver
Solver provides game-changing performance management and business intelligence capabilities to Global 2000, mid-market and public sector organizations around the world. We deliver innovative business-driven solutions that enable dramatic improvements in our clients' market position, profitability and performance. Solver leverages Microsoft's market-leading business intelligence technology platform and complementary value added components such as Orange Peel's Business Intelligence Studio, Profitbase and SAP to build planning, analytics and business monitoring solutions that transform your organization's strategy into actionable results.

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LOS ANGELES, CA, June 2, 2008 ---- Solver, a Performance Management and Business Intelligence (BI) solutions provider, has announced plans to organize the company to better serve enterprise and mid-market clients.  Solver has been a proven leader delivering innovative business driven solutions for over thirteen years, and this marks a strategic milestone that reflects company growth as well as the evolving and distinct needs of both Global 2000 and mid-market clients.

Solver recognizes that serving clients and partners in the mid-market arena is different from helping large Global 2000 companies satisfy their corporate planning, budgeting, forecasting and analytics requirements. "In order to continue providing game-changing performance management capabilities, we must understand and focus on what success looks like for our customers", says Scott Stein, Solver's Chief Operating Officer. "Large companies require solutions that address complexity and scale across the enterprise, while medium-size companies tend to demand fast implementations and packaged solutions to align with their economic expectations".

"Microsoft has brought performance management and business intelligence within reach of medium size companies and we are very excited to capitalize on this market opportunity" says Nils Rasmussen, President and Co-founder of Solver. "With our sales and consulting teams organized around customer size, we can focus on what is important to each client and provide a tailored solution." Solver's mid-market team is focused on delivering Microsoft PerformancePoint Server and related Microsoft BI add-ons like ProfitBase, Orange Peel's Business Intelligence Studio and other Microsoft-based value added BI solutions to the mid-market.

Solver's Enterprise division will provide comprehensive performance management solutions to Global 2000 organizations. "Solver has the appropriate mix of business and technology expertise required to work with CFOs and other business leaders to help transform organizations through powerful budgeting, planning, scorecarding and analytics capabilities" says Per Solli, CEO and co-founder of Solver. "We will continue to provide services and software add-ins like BI Studio to differentiate Microsoft PerformancePoint Server against the legacy BI vendors currently suffering from the uncertainty of recent acquisitions, market consolidation and other survival tactics as a result of Microsoft's entrance into enterprise performance management". Solli and Stein will be heading this enterprise group.

This new organization will strengthen Solver's partnering strategy with Microsoft by more closely aligning the Solver field organization to the Microsoft field organization which is also organized by customer segment. "Solver is a valued Microsoft Business Intelligence partner and we look forward to working more closely with them to bring pervasive business intelligence solutions to both enterprise and mid-market customers" said Bob Lokken, Senior Director of Business Intelligence.

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The world of Business Intelligence has changed drastically and continues to evolve every year. With more than a decade worth of expertise in this industry, Solver is firmly positioned to provide clients and partners with deep knowledge and understanding of current technologies and to provide leading-edge Microsoft and ProfitBase based solutions that supports ever-changing client needs.

Solver is a Microsoft Gold Partner that specializes in delivering business reporting and business intelligence solutions to the market place. For more than a decade, Solver was the leading global partner for the Microsoft Enterprise Reporting solution, and now is taking the same, focused role for the successor product, Microsoft PerformancePoint Server. Since the pre-beta versions in 2005, they have been involved with this powerful business intelligence suite, supporting Microsoft with a team of consultants and subject matter experts at their headquarters in Redmond, Washington, assisting with internal implementations and providing their developers with feedback.

Solver is now positioned as a global leader in PerformancePoint Server implementations and related value added add-ons from Solver and from strategic partners such as ProfitBase. Solver works with the Microsoft's sales and services teams and with partners globally to provide best-in-class implementations of the Microsoft PerformancePoint Server business intelligence suite and related add-ons.

Strategic Partnership with ProfitBase

In addition to Microsoft, a key strategic partner for Solver is ProfitBase. Solver is keenly aware of the effort involved consolidating information from the many business systems that most clients have. "ProfitBase 2007 is an exciting new data warehousing technology that allows us to fill a major need that Dynamics partners and customers have been requesting," said Nils Rasmussen, co-founder of Solver. "The market wants an affordable and easy way to combine Microsoft Dynamics ERP data with data from other in-house business systems into one enterprise database, and then perform analysis and reporting."

"The hard work in any business intelligence project is getting the data consolidated into a nice, clean data warehouse. ProfitBase 2007 really makes this easy. We can then use front-end tools like Solver's XL Reporter or any of Microsoft tools including Microsoft PerformancePoint Server to give information workers nice dashboards and reports. The combination is a great solution," Rasmussen goes on to say.

"Solver has very strong ties to the Microsoft Dynamics partner network, has excellent business intelligence and market knowledge and we are both committed to Microsoft technology," said Larry LeBlanc, president of ProfitBase NA Inc. "Because Dynamics customers and partners are a major part of our strategy, Solver is the perfect partner for us. Our products fit nicely together."

Vertical Market Focus is Key

Solver understands that every market segment has its own set of problems and challenges. Understanding and becoming experts in all market segments is virtually impossible to do and do well. Therefore, Solver has an in-depth focus in four key vertical market segments: Retail, Public Sector, Media and Financial Services. "We have very strong domain knowledge in Public Sector, Media and Financial Services, and because ProfitBase has such a strong product offering around Retail we are now making that a focus for us this year. Additionally, ProfitBase helps us to package up our knowledge as templates and offer solutions that can be deployed very quickly. This means we can offer our customers a more competitive solution and at the same time reduce the risks that are inherent to custom developed solutions."

Tier is Strategic Partner in Public Sector

Solver has long been a proponent of partnering with other Microsoft partners that offer in-depth expertise in certain areas. A great example of this is the strategic alliance between Tier, a premier provider of Microsoft business solutions in public sector. Tier serves more than 50 cities and counties around the Unites States with their Microsoft-based financial solutions, and Solver brings top Business Intelligence (BI) expertise to the relationship, in addition to add-on solutions. ProfitBase is the cornerstone of the public sector BI offering as it provides an easy-to-maintain, central data warehouse that pulls data from the various data sources in the organization and provides it to the front-end report writers, budget tools and analysis solutions.

Big Push in BI Market

Microsoft is making a big push into the BI market with the launch of PerformancePointServer this fall. Solver and ProfitBase are in a very strong position to support that launch and bring added value to customer around the world. "We are very pleased with the Solver relationship. Solver has a very strong relationship with Microsoft, understands the value that ProfitBase 2007 brings and is helping us grow our presence in the market both in North America and in Europe. We look forward working with them in the future", notes Borre Tharaldsen, Managing Director of ProfitBase AS.

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LOS ANGELES, CA, October 21, 2007 --( PR.com )-- Over the past two months Solver has sponsored Microsoft's PerformancePoint Server launch in New York as a Platinum sponsor and the latest event which took place on October 12th in Johannesburg, South Africa.

Among the sponsors for the event in Johannesburg is Harvey Jones System, a leading business intelligence solutions provider which will be the first company in South Africa to be certified on Microsoft's PerformancePoint Server 2007 solution.

Solver has also developed the training material for PerformancePoint Server for Microsoft globally and will train Harvey Jones consultants and selected partners on corporate performance management solutions. Solver offers solutions for both the Enterprise and Mid-Market space that will cover full business monitoring, analytics, planning, and reporting for customer and prospect base.

"Solver has written an add-on, called Business Intelligence Studio, which complements PerformancePoint's existing functionality. In addition, we will use an accelerator, ProfitBase, to ensure rapid implementation," says Keith Jones, MD of Harvey Jones Systems.

ProfitBase 2007 is a rapid configuration data warehouse tool that significantly reduces time-to-value. It simplifies the integration of PerformancePoint Server into the operational data of the business which results in faster implementation and deployment of business intelligence solutions.

"With the release of PerformancePoint Server, Solver addresses full performance management capability. Solver is continuously building great partnerships and continues to value working with companies such as Harvey Jones and ProfitBase to drive performance management" says Johan Magnusson, Managing Director for Solver EMEA.

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Los Angeles, California February 2, 2007 -Solver, Inc. a leading business intelligence, reporting, and analytics provider has attained Gold Certified Partner status in the Microsoft Partner Program with competencies in Microsoft Business Solutions and Database Management Solutions. As a Gold Certified Partner, Solver has demonstrated expertise with Microsoft technologies and proven ability to meet customers' needs. Microsoft Gold Certified Partners gain access to some of the most current and valuable resources available in the industry, including technology updates and partner-exclusive training.

"This is a significant milestone for Solver," said Nils Rasmussen, Principal of Solver, "As a Gold Certified Partner, it increases our traction inside the Microsoft technology and deployment ecosystem and positions us well for the huge number of Microsoft product releases this year including Performance Point Server 2007."

"Microsoft Gold Certified Partners, which have certified expertise and direct training and support from Microsoft, can build a positive customer experience with our technologies," said Per Solli, Principal of Solver "Today, Microsoft recognizes Solver, as a new Microsoft Gold Certified Partner for demonstrating its expertise in providing customer satisfaction with Microsoft products and technology."

Achieving the Microsoft Competency certification requires a combination of employee technical certifications, multiple customer references and other business measures. Data Management Solutions focuses on business intelligence, data warehousing, SQL 2005, and in-depth reporting solutions as well as associated development tools. Microsoft Business Solution focuses on providing financial and supply chain management and customer relationship management (CRM) capabilities. The Microsoft Business Solutions competency provides a unique opportunity to develop a trusted advisor relationship with customers' key decision makers and is completely consistent with Solver's focus on business intelligence, reporting, budgeting, and analytics. In the Microsoft Business Solutions space, Solver works with Microsoft Dynamics GP (formerly Great Plains), AX (formerly Axapta), and SL (formerly Solomon), and CRM.

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Solver Inc., an industry leader in Business Intelligence ("BI") and Business Performance Management ("BPM") solutions, today announced that Eric Forgo has joined the company as General Manager, Eastern Region with regional headquarters in Boston. The expansion is part of Solver's drive to best serve its growing Eastern Region customer and partner base as the BI and BPM markets expand.

Eric brings a breadth of experience from senior operational and financial positions across the high technology sector. Eric was most recently with ePartners, Inc. as the Northeast Region VP of Services, a position he held for eight years. While there ePartners received multiple awards such as the Global Partner of the Year and the Customer Loyalty award from Microsoft Business Solutions. Prior to that he was the CFO of C-Bridge Internet Solutions and worked in various other Financial Management positions for software companies such as Fastech Inc. (now Brooks Automation), UCCEL (now Computer Associates), and other technology concerns. "Solver is perfectly positioned to provide timely and relevant information delivery to decision makers through the use of analytics and dashboard technologies" Forgo said. "I can't think of a better place to be."

"We are pleased to welcome Eric as a strong new addition to our team," said Nils Rasmussen, co-founder, Solver Inc.. "With his experience in technology and services companies combined with his strong financial and operational skills, we are confident that Eric will help us take Solver to the next level as we continue to be a leading player in the Business Intelligence market place." "With the coming release of Microsoft Performance Point Server, we expect significant growth and having an East Coast presence is integral to our success."

Eric has a Master's degree in Business Administration from Boston University and received his Bachelor's degree in Accounting from the University of Connecticut, Storrs.

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Los Angeles, CA - June 26, 2006 - Stemming from Microsoft's announcement of their new Business Intelligence solution, Microsoft Office PerformancePoint Server, Solver, an award-winning Microsoft Partner specializing in budgeting, reporting and performance management solutions, announced its own plans to expand its business intelligence division into one of the largest in Microsoft's network of partners. Already a year before the release of Microsoft's new product, Solver has put its plans into action in anticipation of the growth in demand for BI Solutions -- increasing its BI staff, opening its first European office and strengthening its relationships within the Microsoft Partner community.

"Advanced Business Intelligence is the key to the success of a business," explains Per Solli, co-principal of Solver, Inc. "Solver has been providing this service for fifteen years already. Now with Microsoft's recent commitment and support in this field, we're expecting more interest in our services. It makes sense for us to prepare for the demand. Positioning us to be the leaders in BI solutions within the Microsoft community will be an added bonus."

Solver's growth strategy has already begun. Their European office, Solver Scandinavia, opened its doors in January 2006 to better service the European and global communities with budgeting, reporting and business intelligence services. Located in the city of Vejle in Denmark, Solver Scandinavia has been part of the Microsoft Redmond development team designing Microsoft Office PerformancePoint Server, the next-generation BI solution. Solver's contributions to the development of Microsoft's new BI product has also included the participation of U.S.-based staff members, fueling Solver's growth of their dedicated Business Intelligence staff from 15 to more than 30. This initiative has helped Solver establish one of the largest staffs focused on BI solutions in the Microsoft Partner channel.

Already in high demand, Solver works with over 100 of the top Microsoft financial business solutions partners. They have assisted these partners in successfully integrating performance management and analytics tools in hundreds of mid-sized businesses and large corporations across North America. "As more and more companies realize the potential that a powerful business intelligence solution can have on their operations, Solver plans to be there to lend our expertise," states Nils Rasmussen, co-principal at Sales for Solver, Inc., "We see the increase in staff and the opening of our European office as the beginning stages of a growth spurt that will poise us to be the premier financial BI experts in the Microsoft channel."

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Based on the powerful Microsoft Enterprise Reporting solution, Solver has developed a Position Control model for Federal, State & Local Government that collects data from an organization's back-end systems (e.g. Human Resource, Payroll, General Ledger and Budgeting) and provides managers with detailed reporting. The solution is based on feedback from mid-size and large organizations that need tighter control of employee-related items like: Open/Filled positions, actual versus budgeted salaries, salary increases, actual versus budgeted headcount, etc. The solution is available both for private and public sector.

"Working with Microsoft, clients and our partners, it became obvious that there was a strong demand for a Position Control solution that could help administrators and financial managers oversee their employee-related financial and statistical items in a data warehouse-based environment that merges and reconciles the employee data from clients' various systems" says Solver's VP of sales, Nils Rasmussen.

Q1 and Q2, 2005 has been all-time record quarters in Solver's 10 year history. Driven by Sarbanes-Oxley reporting requirements as well as a strong interest in Business Intelligence tools from Microsoft, organizations are increasingly turning to Enterprise Reporting as the solution for the financial consolidations and budgeting needs. "Thanks to our excellent Microsoft Business Solutions partners across the country as well as successful joint sales with Microsoft's enterprise sales force, we are on track for a record year", says Solver's VP of sales, Nils Rasmussen.

Microsoft has now released Enterprise Reporting 7.5 Service Pack 3. This new version has new features, bug fixes and, among other things, supports Great Plains customers that have upgraded to Great Plains 8.0.

Solver will for the second year in a row be a Gold sponsor at Microsoft Convergence in Orlando, Florida. Due to increased interest (partially because of Sarbanes-Oxley and partially because of the many outdated ERP report writers being used today) in easy-to-use yet powerful financial reporting tools, XL Reporter and Microsoft Enterprise Reporting are expected to be of top interest to the expected 4,000 attendees. Improved financial reporting flexibility has clearly become priority for companies across the country. More than 400 people attended Solver's solutions forum in 2003, and more are expected in 2004.

To accommodate partners' and customers' need for software demonstrations of XL Reporter, the revolutionary Excel-based reporting tool from iLytix, Solver now offers general webinars every three weeks. For a webinar schedule go to: http://www.xlreporter.com/seminars/webinar/xlreporter_seminar.htm . The webinars consist of a 50 minute software demo followed by a 10 minute Q&A session.

Solver received the Global Enterprise Reporting Award for 2003 at Microsoft's annual Global Partner Event in New Orleans on October 8 to 11, 2003. More than 8,000 attendees were listening to keynote speeches from Steve Ballmer and Jeff Raikes. During the award ceremony, Solver Inc. accepted their third Global Enterprise Reporting Excellence Award for their commitment to selling, implementing and supporting Microsoft Enterprise Reporting.

Solver was proud to be a sponsor of the Strategic Planning & Budgeting for Community Colleges Webinar held on September 30 and again on October 30th to show financial managers the Microsoft solutions available to streamline and automate budgeting, planning & reporting processes.

These Webinars show how to enhance your ERP investment with better budgeting and reporting. Microsoft Enterprise Reporting automates your planning and reporting processes to ultimately allow management much more time to analyze data and make better business decisions.

As part of their semi annually renewal and upgrade program, Microsoft launched version 7.5 of ER. New features include updated user interface to web-look, enhanced report distribution module as well as implementing Microsoft SQL Server DTS Services for easier upload of GL data from the major ERP systems, such as PeopleSoft, Oracle, J.D. Edwards, SAP, BAAN, Axapta, Great Plains and Navision. Customers will receive their upgrade sets directly from Microsoft.

Solver proudly announces that it will sponsor Microsoft Global Partner Conference Momentum in New Orleans October 8.-11. 2003. More than 8,000 partners from Microsoft's World Wide Partner Channel will attend and major key note speakers are announced among them we find Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer.