SoftSmiths Reports Successful E-Tag Testing Results 

Houston, TX. – February 11, 2010 – SoftSmiths, Inc., a leading energy software solutions and services company, today announced successful results in the compliance testing of its E-Tag application suite with version 1.8.1 of the Electronic Tagging specifications as approved by NAESB’s Wholesale Electric Quadrant. E-Tag version 1.8.1 is expected to go into effect by March 16, 2010.

The SoftSmiths Electronic Tagging suite enables market participants to create, verify, approve, and manage E-Tags via its e-Agent, and e-Approval services.

SoftSmiths has been providing fully NERC/NAESB compliant tagging solutions since the days of e-mail tagging and has been a contributing author to the NERC/NAESB E-Tag specification from the beginning.

About SoftSmiths

SoftSmiths, Inc. delivers critical electronic energy trading and operations solutions and services that enable energy industry participants to enhance profitability and reliability in the competitive marketplace. 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. All other products are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective companies.

Contact Information:

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

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