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Bear Forest Products selects bisTrack™ software
Survey of products shows bisTrack best fit for their LBM distribution business

VANCOUVER, B.C., Canada, February 14, 2006

Progressive Solutions Inc. today announced that Bear Forest Products, Inc. of Riverside, CA has selected and ordered bisTrack™ business software for its Riverside and Phoenix facilities.

Bear Forest Products is a full-line building materials distributor servicing the lumber dealer, industrial, and factory-built housing, classroom and RV markets. They pride themselves on being an efficient, responsive and customer-driven operation serving Southern California.

“We were looking for software that fit all our needs and was easy to operate,” recalls Barry Schneider, President of Bear Forest Products. “bisTrack has everything we need: administration, management, sales, delivery systems, receivables, payables. It’s easy to transition from one screen to another to gather information. And it offers better reporting, better charts and graphs to help us understand our business better.”

bisTrack’s appeal: ease-of-use and better reporting
“We evaluated two software packages, and Progressive Solutions’ bisTrack was the favorite,” Barry recounts. “We involved everybody in the company, then surveyed them and asked which package they preferred. We got a lot of buy-in for bisTrack and good feedback. It seemed to fit what we were looking for.”

bisTrack is business software designed specifically for building materials dealers, contractor yards and distributors. The software automates all buying, selling, logistics and accounting functions. It is unique in its approach to automate repetitive rule-based tasks and to “push” relevant information to users through system- and user-generated Instant Messages. Its Microsoft® technology platform makes bisTrack easy to use and incredibly powerful in its reporting and integration capabilities.

About Progressive Solutions

Progressive Solutions Inc. is the international leader in business software solutions for the lumber, wood products and building materials supply 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 sawmills, panel mills, remanufacturers, wholesale/ distributors and building materials distributors/dealers with domestic and export markets.