SoftSmiths named in Houston’s Top 25 Software Development Companies

Houston, TX. – April 1, 2005 –  SoftSmiths, Inc announced today that it was named in the Houston Business Journal’s annual Top 25 list of Houston-based Software Development Companies. SoftSmiths is an industry pioneer and a leading provider of proven business critical Power and Gas Transaction Management Systems.

This year's list appears in the Houston Business Journal Book of Lists and provides ranking of the hottest area companies in their fields.

"Everything we do revolves around driving customer success," said SoftSmiths CEO Nathan Sheik. "Their needs drive our innovation. Our customers needed the ability to implement flexible, real-time, and efficient enterprise-wide Transaction Management Infrastructures, and we responded with ETIM, the industry's first comprehensive Energy Transaction Integration Manager platform. They wanted modular applications that tightly integrate with existing transaction and scheduling application platforms, and we introduced our "Best-of-Fit" solutions that allow easy upgrading of vulnerable components in customers' aging systems infrastructures. As we released our 2005 product portfolio, including solutions for Power, Gas, Fuel and Regional Markets, we continue to innovate to meet our customers' requirements."

For more than 8 years, SoftSmiths has been executing on its vision to provide solutions that allow energy companies to implement a truly seamlessly integrated, scalable and flexible transaction management infrastructure. Today SoftSmiths technology represents the next generation and provides solutions to address requirements of portfolio/operations optimization, where visibility is critical and real-time access to information imperative, and the future needs of the evolving marketplace.

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.

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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