Largest Foodservice Software Developer Chooses InterGis for Routing and GPS Solutions

InterGis and NECS, Inc. announced an agreement today to integrate and jointly market InterGis’ routing software solution with NECS’ extremely successful software for the foodservice distribution industry.

Torrington, CT (InterGis) August 23, 2006 -– InterGis (http://www.intergis.com) and NECS (http://www.necs.com), Inc. announced an agreement today to integrate and jointly market InterGis’ routing software solution with NECS’ extremely successful software for the foodservice distribution industry. With 1,500 foodservice distributors running their business on NECS software and a history that dates back to 1987, the Company boasts the largest installed base of users in the industry. NECS software features include inventory control, order entry, accounts receivable, purchasing, accounts payable, general ledger and commissions. Customers are based in the United States, Canada and Puerto Rico. InterGis is the premier developer of routing, scheduling and dispatching software solutions, including its Visual Control Room (VCR) product for companies providing delivery operations. Visual Control Room automates routing, scheduling, dispatching, and route/territory planning, while reducing transportation costs and creating the most efficient delivery routes and work schedules possible.

“We’re excited about the automation that the InterGis solution will bring to our customers for the routing component in our software,” commented Chris Anatra, president, NECS. “Our customers are either full line distributors, with over 10,000 line items, or specialty distributors such as meat, cheese, poultry, seafood or produce. They typically run 10-20 trucks with 20-30 stops/day to supply restaurants, schools, grocery and convenience stores. The current routing solution in our software provides a manual process that allows dispatchers to create and modify truck routes based on the needs of the day. Because it’s manual, it depends on the dispatchers knowledge of the customers needs and location. InterGis’ Visual Control Room will change all that – the system does the thinking and automatically generates the best routes while accounting for individual customer needs – and handles it all much quicker than a manual system. This fits nicely with our determination to deliver easy, simple solutions for our customers, many of whom migrate to computers paper-based methods for the first time with one of our systems”

“For almost 10 years, InterGis has been selling Visual Control Room (VCR) and bringing significant improvements in operational efficiencies by providing automated routing, scheduling and dispatching solutions to companies delivering products,” said InterGis president, Steven Brown. “Our relationship with NECS is part of our strategic focus to broaden our reach by integrating VCR into other best-of-class products where a solid solution is already in-place with a significant user base. NECS is a perfect fit.”

NECS is a privately held company headquartered in Madison, CT. NECS employees are dedicated and focused on one purpose only: serving the needs of food distributors. The average size NECS customer has sales of $25 million per year, with all customers ranging in size from smaller distributors with sales revenues of $3 million per year, up to distributors with sales approaching $200 million per year. NECS has been successful because of the system's ease of use and simplicity. Typical NECS customers comment on how quickly and easily their office staff got up-to-speed and felt comfortable with the system.

InterGis creates and markets proprietary software solutions that perform automated routing, scheduling and vehicle optimization for companies who have transportation, delivery or distribution fleets and for companies who have field service or mobile workers. InterGis products are designed to bring cost-saving, operational efficiencies to these businesses by providing software that produces the least cost assignment and best utilization of resources of work to be done, through a suite of easy-to-use, visual/graphic tools. InterGis also offers their software to developers and other business associates who are looking to form partnerships in marketing complete solutions, or use the routing, scheduling and mapping engine within their own software applications.

For more information, contact InterGis at 860.496.4900, sales@intergis.com or go to http://www.intergis.com.

For more information about NECS and NECS software solutions, visit the company’s Web site at: http://www.necs.com, or call Chris Anatra or Harold Haynes at 800.766.6327.

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