MONTREAL (Quebec), March 6th, 2023

Alphinat Inc. (TSXV: NPA) announces the election of Eric David to position of the Chairperson of Alphinat’s Board of Directors and the release of SmartGuide version “X.1”.

Alphinat is pleased to announce the appointment to Chairperson of the Board of Directors after several years of board services and valuable insights on corporate and strategic development for Alphinat. In this role Eric continues guiding management more directly with this increase to his role on the board, the board committees and management support.

Eric brings more than 30 years of experience in the software industry including senior executive roles at various companies including CSDC Systems (now part of Granicus) where he oversaw growth, marketing, and strategic partnerships. “Eric has worked to partner with Alphinat in the past helping to evolve our enterprise strategy” said Curtis Page, President, and CEO of Alphinat, he adds “We are grateful to have Eric take on the added responsibility with our team and his ongoing support to management and the board continues to be impactful”.

Michel Lemoine our Chairperson Emeritus will continue with his tireless service to the Board of Directors after steering Alphinat through many formative and difficult years as a Canadian enterprise software startup. “Michel has been the guiding light for Alphinat as Chairperson since 2007 and for this we are ever appreciative” said Eric David Alphinat ‘s Chairperson.

SmartGuide version X.1 (10.1) on our product evolution “X.1 introduces several improvements to make developing, compliance and configuring applications easier than ever” explains Harold Russel Alphinat’s Chief Software Architect, he adds “With this version it continues to be the easiest and the most pleasant way to create secure web/mobile applications for your organization”.

SmartGuide X.1 expands SmartGuide’s accessibility and compliance dynamic interaction capacity and focuses on facilitating the integration of source control systems, as well on the addition of numerous functionalities to reduce the use of code in the creation of your apps.

SmartGuide X.1 “Low code No code” solution makes it possible to create enterprise grade applications that include features such as dynamic validation messages, recalculate fields, trigger events on fields, or even stop the processing of a sequence of actions.

Multilingual support has also been greatly improved, allowing labels to be translated directly from the Designer interface without the need to use an Excel file.

An improved “base theme” is provided which allows better accessibility compliance and updates.

  • Smartlet source files now separated by pages, for easier versioning
  • Smartlet localization files in JSON form separated by page, to facilitate version management
  • Metadata now available at theme level
  • New simplified Smartlets navigation URL, allowing you to ride in default Smartlets multiple mode
  • Scripts in beanshell now with highlighting for easier reading
  • Rules support via beanshell scripts
  • Action GotoSmartlet can now trigger Smartlet initialization destination
  • Actions to show/hide a field
  • Ability to assign an error message to a field
  • Ability to put a read-only field on an action
  • New function available to delete cookies
  • Extension functions can return arrays of values
  • As well as several performance optimizations

Contact Alphinat at sales@Alphinat.com for more information.

SmartGuide allows the IT department to focus on the infrastructure, technical conventions, connections to existing systems and demonstrated that it offers our clients and partners the lowest Total Cost of Ownership compared to alternative solutions.

To accelerate future growth, Alphinat has focused on five main areas of solution development:

  1. SmartGuide® Grants and Contributions solution (www.SmartGrants.ca) was developed in conjunction with a federal department of the Canadian Government. This platform offers unparalleled productivity for federal, state and municipal clients creating calls for grants including financial program creations for applications, adjudication and payments;
  2. SmartGuide® Portal Edition for Dynamics 365 (www.SmartD365.com) has optimize the way that clients can now create and deploy online services on top of Microsoft Dynamics 365 CRM solutions. This offering is available in SaaS mode as well as on-premises;
  3. SmartGuide® Green House Gas Registry solutions (www.SmartGHGR.ca) is a green fintech solution allowing governments and industry to work together in reducing the harmful effects of greenhouse gas. Alphinat currently has three provincial clients for our SmartGHGR.ca solution;
  4. SmartGuide® Claims solutions (www.SmartClaims.ca) was developed in conjunction with a major IT consulting partner, which aims at offering unparalleled productivity to federal, state and municipal clients for financial claims applications, adjudication and settlements for financial compensation and class action settlements;
  5. SmartGuide® CIVIC Portal, CIVIC Portal for Permits & Licensing (www.PermitSmart.ca) and SmartGuide® Municipal Cloud are Municipal Cloud and on-premises solutions front ending partner solutions and other digital services for improved user experience for both the cities and their citizens.

The company delivers solutions to various federal, state / provincial agencies and municipalities across North America. In addition, the company continues to be involved in supporting its partners to ensure the delivery of solutions to government customers.

Alphinat’s full filling information can be found on SEDAR, at www.sedar.com.

About Alphinat

At Alphinat, we are driven by the passion to make application development easy for everyone and system interoperability issues a thing of the past. We enable people with the vision of how a finished application should look and behave to be a major part of the development process. After all, what better way to ensure a favorable outcome than to provide those closest to an application’s end-users with a vested interest in its success throughout its development?

That’s why we bring you new ways to empower the right people at the right time in the application development process. At the same time, we’re constantly working to reduce the need to code in order to make application development and maintenance simpler and less error-prone.

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 apps or engage us or one of our partners to do the work for you, we’re here to help you deploy better applications in record time. Visit us at https://www.alphinat.com for more information. We look forward to hearing from you.

Forward-looking statements

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For further information please contact:

Mr. Curtis Page

Chief Executive Officer

Alphinat Inc.

(514) 398-9799 ext 225

[1] Dynamics 365 is a trademark of Microsoft Corporation

[2] Amanda™ is a registered trademark of Granicus