Vision Solutions Announces Strategic Alliance With DataMAX Software Group

ORION(TM) Integrator Bundled With DataMAX’s RFGen Will Serve PeopleSoft, SAP and Other ERP Applications

IRVINE, CA -- -- 10/18/2004 -- Vision Solutions, a leading worldwide Managed Availability solutions provider, today announced a strategic alliance with DataMAX Software Group, Inc., a leader in Automated Data Collection solutions.

Under the agreement, DataMAX will distribute Vision’s multi-platform data integration solution, ORION Integrator, with DataMAX’s RFGen family of wireless data-collection, bar-coding, and RFID solutions. ORION Integrator will facilitate real-time data replication and integration between RFGen, PeopleSoft®, SAP, and other ERP and Legacy applications, thereby allowing DataMAX to expand its customer base. DataMAX chose ORION Integrator because it required a powerful, real-time data-replication and integration solution that is flexible enough to fit the disparate environments and complex topologies found in the enterprise-software market.

“No other solution offers the flexibility and the seamless integration that ORION Integrator does,” said Brian Meine, vice president of sales and consulting for DataMAX Software Group. “We looked at competitive solutions, but ORION Integrator’s real-time integration can’t be beat.”

“This is an exciting agreement for Vision Solutions and for ORION,” said David Wegman, executive vice president of marketing and business development at Vision Solutions. “In addition to expanding business opportunity for both companies, this agreement will help solidify ORION Integrator’s position as the leading information-sharing and data-integration solution for sophisticated enterprise architectures.”

About ORION Integrator

ORION Integrator provides real-time, transactional data replication, transformation and filtering across multiple operating systems, database technologies and hardware platforms. ORION Integrator is a scalable and flexible engine-based solution that will allow an organization to meet complex data-integration and replication needs. For more information on ORION Integrator, please visit www.orionintegrator.com or e-mail info@orionintegrator.com.

About Vision Solutions

Headquartered in Irvine, CA, Vision Solutions provides solutions for assuring the availability of a company’s mission-critical applications and data. With more than 1,850 customers and 10,000 licenses in 70 countries, the company is a leading Managed Availability vendor for the IBM® eServer® iSeries™ and its native operating system, i5/OS™ (formerly OS/400®), as well as for Windows® and Linux on the iSeries platform, and Windows and Linux on independent machines used in conjunction with iSeries.

Through its worldwide network of channel partners, the company supports virtually every industry with its world-class solutions: Visualize™, Vision Suite®, ORION and Symbiator®. The company provides extensive professional services, worldwide support and education to the global market. Vision Solutions is an IBM Premier Business Partner and an IBM High Availability Business Partner. Vision Solutions is a member of the publicly traded IDION group of companies (JSE: IDI). For more information on Vision Solutions, please visit the company’s website at www.visionsolutions.com.

About RFGen

RFgen is an established software business partner with SAP and PeopleSoft. RFGen is a software system that allows you to quickly and easily create barcode data-collection applications designed to interface interactively with your business application. Results are achieved by means of a Windows point-and-click interface, using true client-server/open-system methods. RFGen is the barcode software that makes the integration and deployment of RF applications a snap.

About DataMAX Software Group

DataMAX Software Group, Inc. is the leading independent provider of Automated Data Collection Software Solutions and Services. Over the last few years, DataMAX has enjoyed nearly a 100% compounded annual growth in software shipments. Founded in 1983, DataMAX currently supports over 2,000 installations of its RFGen software worldwide, having more than 100 associated resellers domestically and internationally. Information about DataMAX and RFGen can be found at www.rfgen.com.

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