Montreal, Quebec - February 23, 2000. HMS Software announced today the appointment of PrimArabia Premier Management Technologies of Riyadh, Saudi Arabia as a distributor for HMS's TimeControl throughout the Middle East. PrimArabia will begin immediately to represent TimeControl with a full service operation based in Riyadh including sales, technical support, and implementation expertise. PrimArabia will also be establishing resellers throughout the Gulf States including the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Kuwait, Bahrain, Oman, Qatar, and neighboring Egypt, Lebanon and Jordan.

"Our expansion into the Middle East is a strategic move for us," says Chris Vandersluis, President of HMS. "PrimArabia has extensive experience implementing project control systems in the region and a wide range of contacts throughout the Arab world. Our recent visits to the Middle East have shown a tremendous interest in activity-based-costing in general and in TimeControl in particular."

"We're very excited by the opportunity to represent TimeControl here in the Middle East," says Helal El-Saadi, General Manager of PrimArabia. "We believe in representing 'best-of-breed' solutions to our clients. We believe that TimeControl is a solution that will enable organizations here to become more effective. There is a real commitment of organizations throughout the Gulf to be as effective as they can and TimeControl is a system that assists them in doing that."

The new relationship between HMS and PrimArabia continues HMS's worldwide expansion of TimeControl. "We are committed to expand our international and domestic channels extensively throughout this year," according to Vandersluis. "We expect our dealer network to have doubled by mid-year. The alliance with PrimArabia is a good example of the kind of highly skilled organizations that we seek out to represent us in different regions. Prospective dealers must have not only sales experience but must also have the technical expertise and enterprise-wide system experience to properly support TimeControl in an enterprise environment."

PRODUCT BACKGROUND
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 as an enterprise solution in use by companies worldwide. TimeControl is designed specifically for activity-based-costing environments. It includes features such as hierarchical user structures to allow for multiple levels of timesheet authorisation and an open data architecture which makes the product ideally suited for integration with existing data systems in any organisation. TimeControl 3 is a true 32-bit client/server system supporting Oracle, Sybase, MS SQL Server and Informix. It includes both a Windows and a Java interface.

ABOUT PRIMARABIA
PrimArabia Premier Management Technologies is based in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, and with a major office in the Eastern Province, in Al-Khobar. Its staff composes years of experience in implementing activity-based-costing and leading project control systems throughout the Middle East. PrimArabia is the only direct Primavera Authorized Representative serving the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. PrimArabia is a full-service operation offering sales, technical support, consulting and training at its offices and on-site with organizations throughout the region. For further information, feel free to visit the PrimArabia Website at http://www.primarabia.com

ABOUT HMS
Based in Montreal, Canada with offices in Toronto, HMS Software has been a leading supplier of project management products and services since 1984. HMS' first customised timesheet application was written in 1984. With the launch of TimeControl as a commercial application in 1994, HMS Software began servicing clients world-wide. HMS Software's client list reads like a who's who of business. It includes CAE Electronics, EDS, Ericsson, Bombardier-Canadair, General Motors, IBM, Informix, Dofasco Steel, the U.S. Navy, Sask Tel, Weyerhaeuser and hundreds of others. HMS has representatives or distributors in Australia, the UK, Mexico, Finland, Norway, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Italy, Germany, Malaysia, South Africa, Hong Kong, and the U.S. For further information, feel free to visit the HMS Software Website at http://www.hmssoftware.ca.

For information contact:
Storm Vandersluis
Director of Marketing
Heuristic Management Systems Inc.
(514) 695-8122
http://www.hmssoftware.ca
storm@hmssoftware.ca