Tuesday, March 27, 2001 – London, England -- Through a collaborative partnership with E-SoftSys, London-based TradePoint Systems Limited now provides e-Commerce solutions, both on-site and offshore application development, with an offer of savings in excess of 50% over traditional industry rates for the provision of external software skills. E-SoftSys has perfected the offshore software development; maintenance and quality assurance services model in the U.S.A.including the successful completion of major projects for TradePoint’s own U.S.A. Company. Through their alliance with E-SoftSys,TradePoint is now able to offer these resources to U.K. Companies, as well as post development support, at significantly less than the cost of the same development in the U.K. TradePoint Systems can provide supplemental resources, a complete team, or manage the entire project. In addition to e-Commerce solutions, TradePoint now provides on-site services including requirements analysis and definition, design, programming, testing and quality assurance. Offshore services include the development and maintenance of e-Commerce applications, web portals, websites, client/server, applications and legacy systems. Quality assurance and technical writing services can also be provided offshore. The skills inventory of the analysts and programmers available includes proven expertise in tools such as MS Visual Interdev, Microsoft.NET, XML, Visual Basic, FoxPro, Visual FoxPro, C++, Java, Flash and databases such as Oracle, Sybase and SQL Server. The Q.A. center has expertise in Visual Test, WinRunner, WAS and Rational Robot. Time constraints, availability of the right skills, and increasingly difficult financial considerations all make delivering projects on time an uphill struggle for today’s businesses. TradePoint provides “one stop shopping” for the delivery of new projects on time and well within budget.

For further information, please contact:

Nigel Lothian, Managing Director
TradePoint Systems Limited
Phoenix House
Amity Grove
London
SW20 0LJ
Tel: +44 (0)20 8944 1003
Fax: +44 (0)20 8971 6767
Email: nlothian@TradePointsys.co.uk
Web: http://www.TradePointsys.co.uk