Insurance Institute of Canada Assures Growth with Aptify

June 30, 2006

The Insurance Institute of Canada (IIC), the professional education arm of Canada's property and casualty insurance industry has selected Aptify(R) as its enterprise-wide customer and member relationship management software. Aptify is a leading international provider of customer and member relationship management, e-Business, education management and other applications. Through this partnership, IIC will be able to significantly improve many of its business processes and use Aptify to serve as a central data repository for all of its affiliates internationally.

The new Aptify system will enable IIC to grow its existing membership activities; reduce and eliminate manual and duplicate efforts required to maintain business; improve internal and external communications; improve collaboration between Institute locations and streamline the consistency of content amongst the provincial Web sites. Aptify's integrated business applications will provide IIC robust analytical and reporting tools for its growing business intelligence requirements.

"We selected Aptify because they have the capabilities to help us best service our members," said Dawna Matton, Vice President, Operations for IIC. "Aptify recognized our challenges and were able to show us a product that met our needs. Aptify's product will provide IIC the flexibility to grow and optimize our business processes for years to come."

With more than 20 Institutes and Chapters across Canada connected through Aptify, the Insurance Institute will have the ability to maintain professional programs and manage examinations for more than 35,000 individuals. Aptify's Education Management application will handle IIC's complex and growing education requirements. Aptify's expertise in assisting organizations in many countries will provide IIC with a flexible foundation that fully supports the environment in Canada.

Aptify will help improve IIC's inventory management and greatly expand its on-line product catalog with the added capacity to easily sell products and services on-line through Aptify's dynamic e-Business application. On-line visitors will have access to all IIC's full set of product offerings and events through a secure login.

"The Insurance Institute of Canada will be well positioned to expand and better serve our members, students, instructors, affiliates and the public through the Aptify solution," said Matton. "Aptify's flexible technology will help establish the foundation for our growth plans."

"We are eager to assist IIC in implementing its strategic vision and look forward to a successful long-term partnership. IIC will be able to fully leverage Aptify's technology and we are pleased to have been selected by such a prestigious organization in Canada," says Aptify CEO Amith Nagarajan. Matton adds, "We were looking for a true partnership and felt Aptify further distinguished itself through an approach of building a collaborative and open relationship with IIC."

ABOUT THE INSURANCE INSTITUTE OF CANADA

The Insurance Institute is the educational arm of the property and casualty insurance industry in Canada. With offices all across Canada, it is a professional association of 35,000 individual members employed in the general insurance business with insurance and reinsurance companies, brokerages, agencies, adjusting firms, employers of risk managers and others. The Institute is the provider of the Fellow Chartered Insurance Professional (FCIP) and the Chartered Insurance Professional (CIP) designation programs. For more information, please visit www.insuranceinstitute.ca.

ABOUT APTIFY(R)

Since its inception in 1993, Aptify has grown to be a leader in enterprise application software for business. Aptify provides business solutions and e-business applications for membership management, subscription and publication fulfillment, exposition and meeting management, along with a wide range of other business solutions. Aptify applications offer users greater flexibility, rapid implementation, scalability and lower cost of ownership.

Aptify Membership, one of Aptify's business solutions, is the most technologically advanced membership and customer management system available today. Aptify Membership meets the needs of associations, non-profits and other member-based organizations of all sizes with a comprehensive suite of business applications and integrated e-Commerce and Web-enabled applications. Aptify is headquartered in Washington, D.C. and maintains offices in Chicago, California and Pennsylvania. Aptify has an active international partner presence in Canada, the United Kingdom and Australia. Aptify was recognized twice by the Inc 500 as one of the fastest growing privately held companies headquartered in the United States.

CONTACT:

Lou Baccam, Aptify(R),
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www.aptify.com