Trucking Company Purchases Hummingbird's Genio Suite 4.0

Hummingbird Ltd, a world-leading enterprise software company, announced that Trimac, a premier bulk hauling and trucking company in North America, has purchased Hummingbird's Genio Suite 4.0. Genio Suite will provide Trimac Corporation with a universal data exchange solution that will populate Trimac's enterprise data warehouse.

With Genio, Trimac will be able to extract from their various Financial and HR applications and populate their data warehouse. A number of data marts will be created for multidimensional analysis of account information, products, customers, schedules etc. Eventually, Trimac will set up a centralized process whereby Database Administrators will be able to effectively manage requests for data migration into the enterprise data warehouse.

"Trimac has chosen Genio to help improve access to corporate data from within the entire organization," said Martin Zardecki, Business Intelligence Project Manager at Trimac. "This technology facilitates the implementation of data marts used for trip analysis, haul analysis, and profitability either by customer or equipment."

"We are pleased that Trimac has chosen to implement Hummingbird's Genio Suite," said Barry Litwin, president, Hummingbird Ltd. "Genio, a component of Hummingbird's Enterprise Portal Suite 2.0, allows organizations to design, deploy and maintain data transformation and exchange processes with great ease. This will dramatically simplify internal systems and will ensure the consistency of data between the heterogeneous systems Trimac currently uses."

About Trimac

Trimac Corporation is an industrial transportation services corporation, providing services in highway transportation of bulk materials through Trimac Transportation System and truck fleet management services through Rentway. The Corporation employs 4,900 people across North America. For more information, please visit www.trimac.com.

About Genio Suite

Genio Suite enables IT professionals to realize data exchange from any source to any target across the spectrum of operational and decision support systems in the enterprise, including data warehouses, OLAP cubes, enterprise resource planning (ERP), customer relationship management (CRM) and financial systems. Genio automates many of the tasks that normally require timeconsuming programming, allowing users to rapidly develop data transformation routines with immediate return on investment.

About Enterprise Portal Suite

Hummingbird Enterprise Portal Suite builds on proven Hummingbird technologies, providing a fully customizable Web-based workspace that provides a single point of access to all business-critical information and resources. Beyond access, Enterprise Portal Suite enables users to quickly process, filter, and act on information from any enterprise source.

About Hummingbird

Hummingbird is a leader in the development of enterprise software solutions that provide access to all business-critical information and resources. The Hummingbird EIP (Enterprise Information Portal) leverages the company's core strengths in network connectivity, data integration & reporting, and document & knowledge management to connect users to all the business information they need, aggregated and categorized through a single user interface. With a diverse product portfolio, Hummingbird offers complete global enterprise solutions from advanced host connectivity, through sophisticated data exchange, query and reporting and analytic applications, to powerful information management at the desktop or on the Web. The company offers its products, along with related consulting, education, and support services, in more than 50 countries around the world. For more information, please visit www.hummingbird.com.

Contact Eileen Foley, BenchMark Porter Novelli, 416-423-6605, efoley@bmporternovelli.com.