Jamaican Business Partner Joins the Global ARCHIBUS Community


May 19, 2005—Boston, Massachusetts—ARCHIBUS, Inc.—developer of the world’s #1 Total Infrastructure and Facilities Management (TIFM) solution—is pleased to announce the addition of Digital Systems and Supplies to its global sales and support channel.

Digital Systems and Supplies is headquartered in Kingston, Jamaica, with additional offices in Manchester, Clarendon, and St. Catherine. With a staff that has more than 20 years of experience, the company provides software and systems integration services and support to its local clients. Areas of expertise include system analysis and design, systems integration, software customization and system maintenance, computer/equipment sales and services, software sales and technical support, computer graphics and document services, and facilities management.

"With our combined technical experience and skills, intimate knowledge of the market, and track record of excellent customer service, we expect to deliver mutually beneficial results as an ARCHIBUS business partner,” says Delroy Ellis, Director of Marketing and Technical Services and Digital Systems and Supplies. “We expect many of our current customers will benefit from the deployment of ARCHIBUS for their facilities management solutions."

Extending its Scope of Services
As a new member of the ARCHIBUS Business Partner community, Digital Systems and Supplies will serve the Caribbean market with ARCHIBUS solutions. “As the global demand for infrastructure and facilities management solutions increases, the need for trained consultants at the national, regional, and local levels also rises,” says Bruce K. Forbes, President and CEO of ARCHIBUS, Inc. “We are confident that Digital Systems and Supplies will be able to provide the resources and expertise to meet our customers’ specific ARCHIBUS-related product and service needs.”

Digital Systems and Supplies' major client base is in Jamaica. It serves the financial sector, including banks, insurance companies, and building societies; the telecommunications sector, including two of the three major phone companies in Jamaica; the utilities sector; and the large and growing hotel sector. The company is also a member of the Jamaica Computer society. For more information about the company, contact digital@digitalsystemsstore.com or visit www.digitalsystemsstore.com.

About ARCHIBUS, Inc.
ARCHIBUS is the #1 provider of infrastructure and facilities management solutions in the world, with expenditures for ARCHIBUS-related products and services exceeding $1.5 Billion (US). With ARCHIBUS, organizations can use a single, comprehensive, integrated solution to make informed strategic decisions that optimize return-on-investment, lower asset life-cycle costs, and increase enterprise-wide productivity and profitability. Reductions by as much as 34% in infrastructure and facilities-related costs are being realized by client organizations.
Today, more than 3,000,000 ARCHIBUS users collectively manage over 1.4 Million buildings around the globe. Available in over 130 countries and more than seventeen languages, ARCHIBUS is supported through a global network of over 1,600 corporate real estate, information technology, infrastructure, and facilities management professionals.
Headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts, ARCHIBUS, Inc. created the first integrated computer-aided facilities management system in 1982. Since then, ARCHIBUS, Inc. went on to create the world’s first computer-integrated facilities management (CIFM™) Enterprise and the world’s first Total Infrastructure and Facilities Management (TIFM™) Solution. Today, ARCHIBUS solutions are considered to be the best of class, commercial-off-the shelf (COTS) offerings which can be rapidly deployed in less than 90 days with a return-on-investment, typically, in less than 6 months.
   
   
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