Twin Cities Power Selects SoftSmiths

Houston, TX. – March 2, 2010 – SoftSmiths, Inc., a leading energy software solutions and services company, today announced that Twin Cities Power, a power marketer active in the North American energy market, has selected SoftSmiths Electronic Tagging and e-Link applications to streamline its NERC E-Tag processing.

The SoftSmiths Electronic Tagging suite enables market participants to create, verify, approve, and manage E-Tags via its e-Agent, and e-Approval services. With SoftSmiths e-Link Application Programming Interface (API), seamless integration with either homegrown or 3rd party supplied Energy Trading and Scheduling systems can be established.

“Twin Cities Power selected SoftSmiths because it provides the power industry’s superior solution to automate the creation of E-Tags from a schedule or receiving E-Tags to create a schedule, thereby simplifying the process, avoiding double entries and potential errors,” said Hugo Stappers, Director of Sales and Marketing at SoftSmiths.

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.

SoftSmiths’ Software-as-a-Services (SaaS) delivery model provides an automated, web-based environment that helps customers to simplify implementation, accelerate time-to-market and gain ongoing processing efficiencies, while requiring minimal IT support.

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.

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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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