VANCOUVER, B.C., Canada, April 28, 2005

Progressive Solutions Inc. today announced that the company received an order for a 30-user Lumber Track™ inventory and sales management software system from Burke-Parsons-Bowlby Corporation of Ripley, WV. The company also ordered Lumber Track Financials™, Progressive Solutions’ integrated financial and accounting management software.

Burke-Parsons-Bowlby is a leading producer of treated wood products primarily for the railroad, highway guard rail construction and agricultural industries. They also offer many prefabricated products and miscellaneous timbers.

The company has four treating plants located in West Virginia, Virginia, Kentucky and Pennsylvania. Lumber Track will tie together their head office and four treating plants, integrating sales, inventory, logistics and accounting functions into a single system.

“Lumber Track will help us standardize among our divisions, providing consistency and better control,” comments John Rice, Burke-Parson-Bowlby’s Assistant Controller, who will lead the project to implement Lumber Track.

W.G. Downey, Burke-Parson-Bowlby’s VP of Production continues, “The software will automate a lot of tasks we currently do manually. We believe we’ll be more efficient, have better inventory control, improved costing, and ultimately be more competitive.”

Lumber Track – top-selling software for wood products
Lumber Track is the premier business software solution for wood products companies. Its comprehensive feature set integrates all business functions – inventory control, sales, procurement, production, shipping and transportation logistics, accounts receivable and reporting – putting critical information from the entire operation at the users’ fingertips.

Lumber Track is used by other industry-leading companies including: Weyerhaeuser, Norbord, Potlatch, West Fraser Mills, Coastal Industrial Products and Gilman Building Products.

About Progressive Solutions
Progressive Solutions Inc. is the international leader in business software solutions for the forest products industry. Founded in 1989, the company is headquartered in Richmond, BC, with sales offices across the US, UK and Canada. Its main products, Lumber Track™ and bisTrack™, address the procurement, sales, inventory and logistics management needs of wood products manufacturers and wholesale/distributors and building materials distributors/dealers with domestic and export markets.