DC Energy Selects SoftSmiths to streamline NERC E-Tag processing

Houston, TX. – January 10, 2006 –  SoftSmiths, Inc., today announced that DC Energy has selected SoftSmiths Electronic Tagging and e-Link applications. DC Energy is a proprietary trading firm that uses a rigorous analytical approach to identify and transact on attractive investment opportunities in the energy markets.

SoftSmiths Electronic Tagging and e-Link applications provide energy organizations with the industry leading solution for a seamlessly integrated NERC compliant Tagging application with either homegrown or 3rd party supplied scheduling systems.

Energy Transaction Tagging has been around since 1999 and has assumed a more critical role in ensuring reliability. With new business practices, increased transaction volumes, and growing operations, energy companies increasingly recognize that automation is imperative to support their business.

SoftSmiths’ integrated Electronic Tagging solution can automate creation of E-Tags from a schedule or receive E-Tags to create a schedule, thereby streamlining the process, avoiding double entries and potential errors.

About SoftSmiths

SoftSmiths is a leading provider of proven business critical Transaction Management Systems and services for Load Serving Entities, Generation Production Entities, Purchasing Selling Entities, and Transmission Providers who operate in physical markets to sell, purchase, trade, and deliver energy in the most efficient and cost- effective way. SoftSmiths’ seamlessly integrated, scalable, and adaptable solutions provide ready-to-deploy, out-of-the-box functionality that is highly configurable and customizable to meet companies' unique needs. SoftSmiths' proven solutions and in-depth knowledge of the industry's business practices allow its customers to automate manual processes, eliminate redundancies, and increase business visibility across the enterprise to allow faster decision making and more informed decisions, thereby improving profitability, operational efficiencies and cash flow. The company has been successfully delivering e-business solutions to energy service companies since 1997.

SoftSmiths is a registered trademark of SoftSmiths, Inc.

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Hugo Stappers
Phone:    713.626.9184
Fax:          713.626.0186
Email:      mkt@softsmiths.com
Website:  www.softsmiths.com

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