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HMS Software and Projects/Applications Resources Group announce Strategic Alliance partnership

Publishers of TimeControl collaborate with Projects/Applications Resources Group to provide enhanced services with TimeControl and Oracle/Projects

Montreal, June 25, 2010 - HMS Software, a leading provider of project management and enterprise timesheet solutions, has announced a new strategic alliance partnership with Projects/Applications Resources Group; a specialist in Oracle EBS implementations with a particular focus on the Oracle Projects and Oracle Financials Applications.

"This is a great technical partnership for us," explains Chris Vandersluis, President of HMS. "The PAR Group has over 20 years' experience just like HMS does and they are specialists in the financial side of the project management paradigm where HMS has the matching extensive experience in project management and timesheets. Both companies have clients and industry experience in common."

With the acquisition of Primavera by Oracle, the combination of TimeControl, Primavera and Oracle Financials has become even more significant. Primavera provides the high-end project functionality. Oracle Projects and Oracle Financials provide the accounting, job costing and billing ERP functionality. And, TimeControl provides the enterprise-wide timesheet functionality designed to link with both Primavera and Oracle Projects.

Combining the skills of HMS Software, its partners and the Projects/Applications Resources Group means that clients who wish to implement all three systems will be able to work with experts in all three of these domains at once.

"We're very excited about working with HMS and their TimeControl timesheet system," says Patricia Bowyer, President of the Projects/Applications Resources Group. "We have worked on a number of Oracle Projects/Primavera projects and the combination of HMS Software's expertise in enterprise timesheet functionality with their TimeControl opens new avenues of enterprise solutions for our clients."

HMS Software's relationship with Oracle stretches back to 1997 when TimeControl first supported the Oracle database. Our long-standing partner relationship with Oracle has allowed us to test new versions of TimeControl on upcoming releases of the Oracle database. HMS Software originally became a Primavera Technology partner based on the integration of our TimeControl timesheet software which has pre-configured links to move data to and from the Oracle Primavera project management system. Now Oracle Primavera clients who require more financially oriented timesheets or timesheets which are well suited for both payroll and project updating purposes can deploy the TimeControl timesheet and Oracle Primavera together.

The bi-directional link between TimeControl and Oracle Primavera allows for project, task and resource information to be moved from the project managements system and actual hours, costs and task progress to move from TimeControl back to Oracle Primavera. TimeControl's additional functionality makes the product an attractive add-on when an organization wishes to implement Oracle Primavera and to use the timesheet data to update both project management and financial systems such as Payroll, Billing, Human Resources or Job Costing. TimeControl is able to link to virtually any financial system including Oracle Financials, SAP, Timberline and Microsoft's Dynamics group of finance packages.

Some of the clients who have already adopted TimeControl to work with Oracle Primavera's systems include the Atlanta Hartsfield Airport, Koch Industries, Opal-RT, Schering-Plough, Acergy, San Mateo County and Aecon.

For more information about TimeControl and how it links to Oracle Primavera, visit the TimeControl website at www.timecontrol.com/use-cases/linking-with-primavera-p6.

About the Projects/Applications Resources Group

With over 20 years of Oracle experience, PAR Group provides world-class consulting resources with both the depth and breadth to help you select and deploy the right solution for your business needs, delivering dependable quality performance at a reasonable cost through all phases of your project, from selection through system implementation, training, and production stages.

Offering significant experience and understanding of the Oracle EBS product stack, PAR Group is able to optimize the potential benefits, including leverage of pre-integration tools, maximizing high availability, lower total cost of ownership via standardization, centralizing/defragmentation of data, along with the ability to identify realistic gaps which require a best of breed approach, integrating other vendors solutions as necessary for the best business practices.

For more information on the PAR Group, please visit their website at www.pargroupinc.com.

About TimeControl

TimeControl was originally released in 1994. It was immediately successful in the project management sector and today is recognized not only as a project management solution, but also as an enterprise timesheet solution in use by companies worldwide. TimeControl is designed as a multipurpose timesheet able to serve the needs of both Finance and Project Management simultaneously. It includes features such as a multi-browser, multi-device interface, a PC and mobile interface, vacation approvals, executive dashboards, extensive approval functionality, flexible reporting and links to project management and corporate systems which makes the timesheet product ideally suited for integration with existing systems in any organization. TimeControl's flexibility allows it to be deployed for use as a time and attendance, time and billing, project tracking and flex-time system. TimeControl is available both for purchase for an on-premises installation or as an on-line subscription in the Cloud.

To access the free Hosted TimeControl Trial site, visit our free trial page.

For more information about TimeControl, monitor the TimeControl blog at http://blog.timecontrol.org/ or the TimeControl website at www.timecontrol.com.

For information about TimeControlOnline, our hosted timesheet subscription service in the cloud, go to www.timecontrol.com/features/timecontrol-online.

For any other questions, please contact HMS Software at info@hms.ca.

TimeControl is represented around the world by our distributors in Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Canada, Chile, Croatia, Czech Republic, Egypt, Finland, Ireland, Mexico, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Russia, Singapore, Sweden, Thailand, the UK, and the U.S.

About HMS Software

Based in Montreal, Canada with offices in Toronto, HMS Software has been a leading provider of project management and enterprise timesheet systems and services since 1984. HMS Software's first customized timesheet application was written in 1984. With the launch of TimeControl as a commercial application in 1994, HMS Software began servicing clients worldwide.

HMS Software's client list reads like a who's who of business. It includes Acergy, Aecon, Rio Tinto, the Atlanta Airport, the City of Montreal, the County of San Mateo, Electromotive Diesel, EXFO, FT Services, Kelly Services, Koch, Merck Frosst, the Government of Quebec, Georgia Pacific, Parker Hannifin, Rolls Royce, Sobeys, Volvo Novabus, Zimmer Inc. and hundreds of others.

For further information about HMS Software, please visit the HMS website at: www.hms.ca or contact us at info@hms.ca.