Ottawa, ON. Montreal, QC. February 20, 2013 – Maplesoft and Alphinat (TSX-V, NPA) today announce they have signed a reseller agreement for the commercialization of Alphinat’s SmartGuide® and SmartGuide® PaaS Edition software.

As part of this agreement Maplesoft will market and provide technical expertise to implement SmartGuide solutions to clients in need of efficient deployment of user-centric online services that leverage existing IT solutions and investments.

“We’re pleased to be able to leverage SmartGuide’s industry leading technology for our clients that wish to automate the front-end delivery of their entire online services application process” , said Carl Nappert, Maplesoft Executive Vice President. “Alphinat SmartGuide provides us with a proven technology to rapidly deliver online services for our clients with applications rendered on multiple devices and platforms”.

SmartGuide was developed by Alphinat to help clients address the uncertainty of end-user adoption of applications – and therefore the risk to the return on investment – on all new projects, especially processes that involve complex and rapidly changing needs in markets and regulated environments. The SmartGuide software suite provides clients with an agile and flexible development tool that allows service aggregation with rapid deployment and high probability of satisfied user outcomes for WEB consolidation and mobile renderings in a single development process.

“We are very pleased to be working with Maplesoft and their team of experts in innovative solution implementation” said Curtis Page, Executive Vice President and COO of Alphinat. “This agreement underlines our commitment to work closely with our partner and help them provide new productivity tools to leverage existing IT investments and be ready for next generation Cloud computing platforms with a best of breed technology to manage their enterprise business processes.”

About Maplesoft

Maplesoft provides it clients world-class Systems Integration, helping clients successfully execute their business strategies, create value and achieve measurable results through the innovative and collaborative delivery of professional consulting services and technology-enabled solutions.

Maplesoft helps drive growth and innovation. We differentiate through our dynamic approach to business, as we focus on exceptional customer service, deep industry experience, best-in-class technology partnerships and quality talent to help our clients gain competitive advantages in today’s increasingly volatile and competitive landscape. For more details about Alphinat or its software suite, please visit http://www.maplesoftgroup.com

About Alphinat

At Alphinat, we are driven by the passion to make secure low-code/no-code application and portal development a reality and easier for everyone. We enable the people with the vision and process knowledge to create great finished applications that IT can more easily deploy in their secure environments. With SmartGuide we provide an easy to use low-code tool and derivative solutions such as SmartGuide for “Dynamics 365 targeted for G&Cs that meet the client’s most critical needs empowering all lines of business to leverage their own process knowledge and expertise to self-serve.

SmartGuide brings you new ways to empower the right people with tools for success at the right time in the application development process. At the same time, we are constantly working to reduce the need to code in order to make application development and maintenance simpler.

So whether you choose to develop your applications with the help of our low-code platform SmartGuide®, kickstart your project using one of our pre-built or derivative apps or engage us or one of our partners to do the work for you, we’re here to help you deploy secure applications in record time.

Alphinat provides a safe and secure workplace and remains an equal opportunity employer promoting our passion for productivity. With that mantra we have issued ourselves a challenge to find and promote the best minds and freely share ideas.

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