Triversity Joins IBM's ISV Advantage Initiative To Deliver Proven Solutions To Retailers

Triversity Inc., the leader in customer-centric retail solutions that enhance the Customer Experience and improve operating efficiencies, today announced that it has joined IBM's ISV Advantage Initiative in order to further leverage technical, marketing and sales support from IBM.

The agreement strengthens the growing relationship between Triversity and IBM to deliver applications that span the retail enterprise and leverage the latest J2EE (Java 2 Enterprise Edition) technology and the IBM middleware stack. Transactionware Enterprise, Triversity's enterprise POS solution, fully integrates with IBM's J2EE infrastructure, including IBM WebSphere Application Server, IBM WebSphere MQ and IBM DB2 Universal Database software. Transactionware Enterprise also runs on IBM's newest retail offering - Retail Environment for SuSE Linux - as well as legacy 46XX hardware and peripherals.

"Triversity has enjoyed a longstanding relationship with IBM, and the ISV Advantage program further strengthens this relationship," said David Thomas, president and CEO of Triversity. "It will help us work even more closely with IBM, for example on joint marketing and sales activities."

"Medium-sized business customers in the retail industry are seeking open and dependable solutions that can span multiple computing environments," said Buell Duncan, general manager, ISV & Developer Relations, IBM. "We are pleased that Triversity has joined ISV Advantage and are dedicated to working with IBM as a partner of choice to meet the needs of our joint retail customers."

About ISV Advantage
ISV Advantage is administered by PartnerWorld for Developers, the developer resource for IBM Business Partners. It is a worldwide program designed to help software developers reach broader markets, lower their costs of doing business, and take their products to market faster. For more information, visit www.ibm.com/partnerworld.

About Triversity Inc.
Triversity is the fastest growing international provider of customer-centric retail solutions. Triversity's portfolio of solutions enables retailers to transform the Customer Experience throughout the retail enterprise while dramatically improving their operating efficiencies. Retailers around the world have built their businesses around Triversity's market-leading solutions for Point-of-Sale/Point-of-Interaction (POS/POI), Loss Prevention, Retail CRM, Returns Management, Sales Audit, Inventory and Order Management and more. Triversity extends its offerings through partnerships with the industry's leading technology vendors, allowing the company to deliver complete sell-side solutions and services.

Triversity's retail solutions are installed in over 500 retailers in 32 countries, processing billions of transactions a year. Retailers using Triversity's technology solutions include the U.S. Army and Air Force Exchange Service (AAFES), The Children's Place, Discovery Channel, Dollar General, Hallmark, Pep Boys, Rite Aid, Staples - Business Depot, The Shoe Company, The Sports Authority, The TJX Companies, Wawa and Williams-Sonoma. Triversity's world headquarters is located in Toronto, with U.S. headquarters in Philadelphia. Triversity Asia Pacific Ltd. is headquartered in Hong Kong. For more information, please visit www.triversity.com.