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Contractors Pipe and Supply Awarded First Annual Activant- WIT and Co. Technology Partner of the Year

Yardley, PA, June 28, 2006 - Activant®, recently awarded Contractors Pipe and Supply with the first annual Activant -WIT Technology Partner of the Year Award. Activant is WIT's first Approved Source business system software provider; and Contractors Pipe and Supply, a Farmington Hills, MI based plumbing fixtures and supplies wholesaler, received the first award for their forward-thinking commitment to technology, as illustrated by their recent adoption of Activant Prophet 21™ as their enterprise software solution.

Prophet 21, a leading enterprise software solution for distributors, combines the familiarity of Windows with the power of SQL Server in a highly customizable solution that helps distributors increase sales, improve customer service, and reduce operating costs. Features include order management, inventory management, warehouse management, purchasing, financial management, customer relationship management, business reporting and analysis, PDA integration, and e-business.

According to Don Preston, Contractors Pipe and Supply's IT director, the decision to choose Prophet 21 was a simple one. "We recognized that a major opportunity exists for us to use Prophet 21 to differentiate ourselves from our competition," he says. "The ability to partner with a single vendor for our warehouse, e-commerce, and inventory management system was very important to us."

The Power of Independents

Established in 1974 by five independent distributors committed to ensuring the success and survival of the independent plumbing wholesaler, WIT and Co. now has more than 85 members conducting over $2.5 billion in annual sales. As a WIT approved source technology provider, Activant offers WIT members various benefits, including free and secure benchmarking surveys, consultation for WIT's technology committee, expert articles in member publications, and preferred pricing for add-on Activant produced software products.

"Activant is proud to partner with WIT to help bring its members the technology solutions and services to help them succeed," said Mike Wentz, director of national accounts at Activant, "For example, WIT and Activant have collaborated to integrate Prophet 21 and Activant's Internet trading network, Trading Partner Connect with WIT-NET, a member driven electronic data interchange (EDI) network."

Chuck Zweck, WIT's director of MIS, echoes the dedication Activant brings to WIT's mission and membership as the group's first approved source business system software provider. "Activant will be a good partner for the future. Their willingness to work with WIT and its distributors on initiatives reducing cost and increasing WIT's value to those distributors is paramount to the relationship."

Adds Preston: "The ability to combine the buying power of WIT's membership and consistent focus on issues directly affecting the independent plumbing wholesaler, with the features and scalability of Prophet 21, is indispensable."

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