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Montreal, September 18, 2006 – AXON Integration and Development, Inc. is pleased to announce the signing of a major agreement for the development of the new generation systems of Industrial Alliance Auto and Home Insurance, an Industrial Alliance Group company.
 
The project goal is the modernization of the enterprise legacy systems into new Web-based applications developed within a service oriented architecture (SOA).
 
"After a thorough study of the solutions which were offered to us and the evaluation of the main firms on the market, we chose AXON, which distinguished itself from the others because, inter alia, of their personalized approach, their attentiveness to the customer, and their competence in the modernization of RPG applications", said Marcel Lortie, Director Technologies, Industrial Alliance Auto and Home Insurance.
 
The agreement includes acquisition of a customized version of the AXON Plus Java integration and development platform, to support the transformation and re-use of existing RPG applications, as well as the development and deployment of new Web-based business applications within an SOA architecture.
 
The IT staff of Industrial Alliance Auto and Home Insurance will actively participate in the project and will takeover the evolution of the new systems at project completion.  To this end, AXON has included training, coaching, and knowledge transfer activities in its project management methodology.  With this investment, Industrial Alliance Home and Auto Insurance’s clients will benefit from state-of-the-art technologies, and the insurance company will continue to reach its goal of high quality service. 
 
 
About Industrial Alliance Auto and Home Insurance
 
Industrial Alliance Auto and Home (IAAH) Insurance is a general insurance company which offers its own insurance products in the province of Québec since May 1973.  IAAH is a subsidiary of Industrial Alliance Insurance and Financial Services Inc., the fifth largest life and health insurance company in Canada. It insures over 1.7 million Canadians, employs more than 2,600 people, and relies on a network of over 13,000 exclusive agents and brokers. Industrial Alliance manages more than $40 billion in assets and is one of the 100 largest stock companies in Canada.
 
For more information: www.inalco.com
 
 
About AXON Plus
 
AXON Plus is a J2EE integration and development platform suitable for the implementation of modern service oriented architectures (SOA). The platform includes a set of re-usable software components designed to facilitate integration of heterogeneous technologies and application software, re-use of existing legacy systems and development of new Web-based applications, using industry standards and best practices.

The AXON Plus platform was built over many years of research and development and has been proven successfully time and again in many large scale projects. AXON Plus includes many of the best open source components on the market along with our own unique specialized components, all integrated into a coherent, powerful, and scalable platform, which is compatible with J2EE standards and SOA.
 
The latest version of AXON Plus now incorporates an IBM 5250® terminal emulator, enabling RPG applications to execute within Web pages, which facilitates the co-existence of legacy and new Web-based applications on the same screen.

About AXON
 
Our mission is to help our clients develop and modernize their enterprise legacy systems so they can improve their productivity, optimize their business processes, and transact electronically with their customers, suppliers, and partners.
 
Founded in 1998 under the name Modésys Informatique, Inc.,  AXON is a leader in the integration and the modernization of legacy systems as well as the development of Web business applications.
 
We support a culture of partnership with our customers, we value their past investments in IT, and we help them develop, integrate, and transform their systems into Web business solutions within a service oriented architecture (SOA), so that they can quickly meet the needs of a changing marketplace.
 
The AXON team has been a forerunner and, for several years, been applying concepts which are recognized today by the industry as a whole: architectures and SOA transformation, EAI integration, etc.  We do more than master these concepts; we actually translate them into a reality for our customers.
 
Some of AXON successes include: the banking Web site of Laurentian Bank of Canada, the architecture of the new bank ATM of Desjardins, the integration and modernization of Cascades-Norampac systems in their 27 North-American production plants, and the integration of systems-telephony at Visa Desjardins.
 
 
Contact: 
 
Michel Poirier
Vice President, Business Development
AXON Integration and Development, Inc.
Tel.: (514) 286-9366, ext. 229 
michel.poirier@axon-id.com