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Forsyth County had a strong need for an operating and especially salaries solution, and was impressed with the features of TeamBudget Capital and TeamBudget Operating. Forsyth County is also pleased with the fact that Questica has experience integrating with their current financial package, GEMS, which will make the implementation even smoother.

The City of Lynnwood is excited to have a budgeting solution that allows users to enter budget requests into one solution while managing and tracking changes. Lynnwood uses the GEMS financial system, one of the many financial systems TeamBudget integrates with. Remote implementation and training will begin this week of TeamBudget Capital and TeamBudget Operating.

Along with the many benefits of TeamBudget Capital and TeamBudget Operating, Fort St. John was pleased that Questica could implement and train remotely to cut down their expenses. The City of Fort St. John uses Microsoft Dynamics, one of the many financial systems TeamBudget can integrate with.

The Town of Sudbury chose our web based TeamBudget Capital solution to eliminate the confusion and errors created with Excel spreadsheets. They were also impressed with the access to over 30 predesigned reports along with the option to customize reports. The Town of Sudbury decided to have TeamBudget Capital implemented remotely to save valuable dollars.

Questica has once again, through Veritest testing requirements, achieved Microsoft's highest partnership status for its TeamBudget applications. Questica has worked hard to achieve this status with its Web based .NET solutions.

After reviewing and testing various CIP systems, Chico, CA has selected TeamBudget Capital as their CIP Planning and Forecasting Suite. Chico has faced the challenges of maintaining an Excel based solution and now are planning to consolidate all of their data into TeamBudget Capital. TeamBudget Capital will streamline the process of gathering, controlling and reporting on the CIP Plan.

Washington County, has completed its RFP process with the selection of Questica’s TeamBudget Capital. Looking to improve on their existing Excel based system, Washington chose TeamBudget for its ability to address several key issues – specifically to increase the speed with which information can be consolidated and reported upon.

Implementation is due to be completed by December 31, 2007.

The County of Grande Prairie has recently selected TeamBudget Capital to answer its Capital Budgeting needs. TeamBudget’s secure web-based solution will allow all users to dynamically create and track their budgets, and will provide a more consistent and unified approach to maintaining the County’s finances.

The City of Grande Prairie has chosen Questica’s TeamBudget Capital to provide a cost effective solution for its budgeting needs. The web-based tool will enable the City to easily develop and maintain its Capital budgets and analyze data with an eye to improving future budget plans.

Having completed its first full budget cycle using Questica’s TeamBudget Capital, and pleased with the significant improvement to its budget process, the City of Champaign has purchased TeamBudget Operating. This web-based application will provide Champaign with a centralized point for all budget preparation and tracking, and will reduce the commitment of time required by everyone involved.

After realizing numerous tangible benefits during its budgeting cycle using Questica’s TeamBudget Capital, the Town of Southampton has purchased TeamBudget Operating to further improve its budgeting process. The new application will reduce the amount of manual work required in preparing and maintaining Operating budgets, and will provide users with a more seamless workflow system.

The City of Windsor has selected Questica’s TeamBudget Capital software to refine their Capital budgeting process. TeamBudget Capital is a secure web-based solution that will enable the City to better prepare current budgets, analyze data and understand long-term budget impacts.

The Municipality of Anchorage has chosen Questica’s TeamBudget Suite to answer its budgeting needs. Anchorage conducted an RFP to determine which solution best fit it’s desire for a modern, fully functional budgeting system. Questica’s TeamBudget will enable Anchorage to efficiently develop and analyze its operating and capital budgets, while providing specific capabilities such as easy accessibility by all users, departmental consolidation, and performance measurement.

The City of Lethbridge has completed its RFP process by selecting Questica’s TeamBudget Capital solution. TeamBudget was chosen for its ability to streamline the capital budgeting process, and to provide seamless budget preparation and analysis for all levels within the City.

Lethbridge was specifically interested in providing a unified, fully functional budget system that would:

1) reduce the time consuming task of manual entry and verification

2) provide all users with real-time budget status and information

3) eliminate the need for excel spreadsheets being emailed back and forth between finance and the business unit

Microsoft outlines the benefits of the TeamBudget Capital software in its’ recent online article. Through profiling the budgeting challenges faced by municipalities like the town of Southampton, NY, it captures Questica’s unique ability to simplify the budgeting process.

With one of Canada’s fastest growing communities, The Region of York (pop. 850,000) has selected Questica’s TeamBudget Capital solution to manage their $500 million capital budget. TeamBudget is an industry designed solution which provides the Region the ability to submit, review, approve and maintain all of their capital budgets through one unified web interface. TeamBudget Capital is expected to enhance the efficiency of The Region of York’s capital budgeting process.

The Town of Okotoks has selected TeamBudget to answer its’ Capital and Operating budget needs. The secure web-based solution will fully automate the process of budget preparation, submission and tracking.

The Town of Kingsville, choosing TeamBudget Capital and Operating, improves it’s budgeting process by providing a unified point of entry for all of it’s departments.

The City of Dawson Creek is very pleased with its decision to purchase Questica’s TeamBudget Capital and Operating solution. The solution will provide centralized project based budgeting with the ability to easily track actual costs against the proposed budget.

The Town of Banff wanted to purchase a solution to automate their budgeting process. They selected Questica's TeamBudget Capital and Operating to provide real-time budgeting and improved reporting, in a secure web based environment.

The Town of Jasper has selected Questica’s TeamBudget Capital and Operating solutions for its unmatched ability to produce and maintain their capital and operating budget. The TeamBudget Suite is designed to be a fully featured product, solving the cumbersome and difficult processes of assembling, tracking, analyzing and reporting of capital and operating budgets.

TeamBudget Capital and Operating allows the Town of Bancroft to share project information across all departments and develop several versions of the budget up to 25 years. Users can create separate budget details for multiple budget versions at yearly, monthly and quarterly levels.

The Town of Sidney, deciding to implement both TeamBudget Capital and Operating, will benefit from having a budgeting solution, specifically designed for the public sector. The TeamBudget Suite was developed to streamline the operating budgeting process by reducing major pain points of paper based budgeting.

Peter Rondinone brings with him a wealth of experience as both an independent financial consultant, and as a project manager and financial manager for companies of varying size and scope. Mr. Rondinone’s extensive practical implementation experience, together with his work as an auditor, will provide valuable insight as Questica continues to move forward in developing effective solutions to municipal budgeting concerns.

The Town of Canmore is excited about its recent acquisition of Questica’s powerful and simple to use web based budgeting solutions. TeamBudget Capital and Team Budget Operating will enable department heads to easily create budgets and allow finance to present concise, accurate information to Senior Management and Council. TeamBudget eliminates the need for the dozens of excel spreadsheets being passed between departments by providing a single, controlled point of entry for all budget information.

After successfully using TeamBudget Capital, the City of Murrieta chooses to implement TeamBudget Operating to simplify its operating budget process. By deciding to implement both TeamBudget Capital and TeamBudget Operating, the City of Murrieta will benefit from having a complete, integrated budgeting solution.

The City of Waconia selects Questica's TeamBudget Capital and TeamBudget Operating solutions to streamline their budgeting process as part of a complete financial system procurement. Working with Diamond Muncipal Solutions, Questica was able to demonstrate how simple the budgeting process could be through its web-based solution.

Questica would like to thank all those that participated in our draw for the LCD TV at the National GFOA, AMCTO and MFOA. We are pleased to award the tv to Brian McKay of the City of Sarnia.

David Weldon's numerous years as the Chief Administrative Officer for the Town of Richmond Hill as well as his countless years on several associations have given him a great understanding of the pain points of municipal budgeting. Mr. Weldon lends his extensive experience with the public sector to assist Questica in understanding municipal budgeting concerns and developing solutions to fulfill these issues.

With an urgent need for a solution to simplify their capital budgeting process and a three week deadline, the Town of Acton, MA, a town of 20,000 residents, has purchased TeamBudget Capital. Questica's ability to move quickly ensured Acton's quick turnaround time, from procurement to implementation, was met. Acton is pleased to be able to use TeamBudget Capital for their upcoming capital budget report.

The City of Champaign is impressed with the solution’s staging process, connected with approval routing, which corresponds to the City’s needs. As projects move through different stages, automated actions can be associated to the project, such as approvals, which means projects can be promoted or demoted for further assessment. This continual movement of projects ensures that budgets will be compiled in time for final council approval.

In collaboration with our partner, Diamond Municipal Solutions, the Nunavut Power Corporation purchases TeamBudget Capital and TeamBudget Operating to streamline its budgeting process. By purchasing both Questica’s capital and operating solutions, the Nunavut Power Corporation benefits from one point of contact for all of its budgeting needs.

“We are very excited to be implementing TeamBudget Capital as it will decentralize the capital budget process and allow us to better direct finance resources from compilation to analysis and financial planning. TeamBudget Capital will provide us with a valuable tool to link corporate and departmental strategies with multi-year capital plans and our long-range financial planning model.” Marjorie Johnson, Manager of Capital – City of Vaughan.

After successfully using TeamBudget Capital for over a year now, the Town of High Level moves forward with implementing TeamBudget Operating to manage its operating budget process. By deciding to implement both TeamBudget Capital and TeamBudget Operating, the Town of High Level will benefit from having a complete, integrated budgeting solution.

Dennis Parass, Questica's Chairman, is featured in an article in the National Post along side Condoleezza Rice and Martha Stewart.

Dennis Parass, Chairman of Questica has received the 2005 Ontario Global Traders Gold Award in the Leadership category for the Central Ontario Region. The ceremony was held last week in Barrie, Ontario.

Dennis Parass, Chairman of Questica Inc. and President of Handling Specialty will be honored as an Ontario Global Traders Award Recipient for the Central Region on Thursday, April 6 at the Holiday Inn Hotel in Barrie, ON.

“Due to the success of our TeamBudget Capital solution, our customers requested that we build a comparable operating budgeting system. Questica is pleased to offer TeamBudget Operating ”, states TJ Parass - President, Questica Inc.

Questica is proud to join the elite list of Microsoft Gold Certified Partners, who represent the highest level of competence and expertise with Microsoft technologies, and have the closest working relationship with Microsoft.

After a lengthy RFP search, the Region of Niagara has decided to purchase Questica’s TeamBudget Capital solution. The solution was determined the perfect fit for Niagara as it will streamline their budgeting process and allows for custom reporting. Questica will also be building a debentures/bond management module to assist the Region of Niagara in tracking their borrowing and bond repayments.

TeamBudget Capital allows the Town of Addison to share project information across all departments and develop several versions of the budget up to 25 years. Users can create separate budget details for multiple budget versions at yearly, monthly and quarterly levels. Tracking budgets has never been easier with easy comparisons of actual versus budgeted costs.

Questica worked closely with the City of Buffalo’s strategic planning department to assess the needs of the city. The city procured the TeamBudget Capital solution to streamline their entire budgeting process including producing reports for their council.

The town of Southampton, working with Gartner, evaluated numerous capital budgeting products. Southampton selected TeamBudget Capital for its unmatched ability to provide the unique public sector needs in budget preparation.

After reviewing several budgeting systems available in the market, the Town of High Level chooses Questica’s TeamBudget Capital as the best solution to satisfy their capital budgeting needs. One key concern for the Town of High Level was the amount of clerical errors in developing budgets in spreadsheets and then creating reports for council. TeamBudget Capital's simple to use web interface allows for easy entry of budget information which can then be used to generate ready made or custom reports for council.

The city of Brampton, wanting to purchase a solution to automate their capital budgeting process, has selected Questica's TeamBudget Capital (formerly Capital Forecasting and Budgeting) to provide real-time budgeting and improved reporting, in a secure web based environment.

The City of Hamilton is very pleased with its decision to purchase Questica’s TeamBudget Capital solution. The solution will provide centralized project based budgeting with the ability to easily track actual costs against the proposed budget. Along with customizable alerts, users will be better capable of managing the capital budgeting process.

Questica Inc. is pleased to announce that it has entered into an agreement with Diamond Municipal Solutions to offer capital and operating budgeting solutions designed to help Diamond’s clients meet their budgeting needs. Questica’s budgeting solutions are a valuable addition to Diamond’s current suite of offerings for the public sector.

An industry developed solution for the Public Sector

TeamBudget Operating has been developed as an operating budgeting solution designed exclusively for the public sector. Questica has consulted with numerous public sector organizations to ensure that TeamBudget Operating fits the specific needs of municipalities. TeamBudget Operating has many features that will improve and eliminate the frequent budgeting process errors that are common when spreadsheets are passed between several individuals and multiple departments.

Questica’s Chairman, Dennis Parass, has been interviewed in the March 2005 issue of Mechanical Engineering magazine. With over 36 years experience in the manufacturing industry, including 22 years specifically in custom design manufacturing, Dennis offers his thoughts on the software required by small-mid sized Engineer-to-Order manufacturers.

In addition to the annual Niagara Entrepreneur Award categories, the Entrepreneur of the Decade Award was added in 2003 to commemorate the 10th Anniversary of the awards. Dennis Parass, Chairman of Questica Inc. has been the first person to be honored with this award.