TORONTO/HALIFAX – xwave, an Aliant Company (TSX: AIT), announced today it has won contracts with Capital District Health Authority (Capital Health), the City of Greater Sudbury and the Town of Oakville to implement PeopleSoft applications and upgrades.

For Halifax-based Capital Health, xwave is implementing the following Employee and Manager Self Service products: Position Management, eRecruit, eBenefits, and Benefits Admin. All applications are components within the PeopleSoft Human Resources Management System (HRMS). Employee and Manager Self Service products provide managers and employees across CDHA with real-time data access, enabling them to view, update and initiate changes to their own data directly. Position Management allows Capital Health to more effectively track positions and vacancies in the context of budgetary control and reporting. eRecruit streamlines and simplifies the recruiting process. eBenefits and Benefits Admin improves benefit-processing and allows employees to view and update benefit information themselves.

“xwave is providing us with a leading-edge solution, ” said Natalie Hovey, Director of Financial Services, Capital District Health Authority. “Implementing these products will improve accuracy and data quality, reduce duplication, empower employees and managers, and enable CDHA to better serve its employees.”

For the City of Greater Sudbury, xwave is upgrading the City to Financials version 8.8 as part of the PeopleSoft Enterprise solution. Additional functionality is a primary impetus behind this upgrade; it will provide system users with self-serve capabilities, giving the City more flexible control over financial data.

For the Town of Oakville, xwave is implementing an EnterpriseOne ERP application that involves the installation of Financials and HRMS applications. Together they will consolidate Oakville’s previously disparate systems, increasing productivity and improving the timeliness of both information and related resourcing. The new PeopleSoft platform will also increase the validity of information, and its scalability will support the Town’s long-term growth.

“We offer clients one of Canada’s largest PeopleSoft practices—one that not only possesses solid technical expertise in both Enterprise and EnterpriseOne, but that also brings to the table proven public-sector and, specifically, municipal-government and healthcare experience,” said Jules Fauteux, Managing Director, Consultant Services, xwave. “In addition, we ourselves use PeopleSoft. Thus we understand the financial and operational challenges faced by these organizations, and we have the technical expertise to deliver PeopleSoft solutions that will them overcome hurdles and ease change management. Clearly, these wins illustrate that clients recognize this. The fact, too, that we have this expertise in Central and Atlantic Canada as well as the northeastern U.S. enables us to effectively provide services to other regional- and municipal-government organizations seeking similar improvements.”

As a PeopleSoft consulting alliance partner since 1996, and one of the first Canadian PeopleSoft 8 certified partners, xwave employs more than 50 certified consultants with experience developing, implementing and maintaining a full range of PeopleSoft ERP applications. For the Nova Scotia Community College, the company has for several years provided infrastructure and application-management services supporting the College's PeopleSoft and Exchange systems.

About Capital District Health Authority
The Capital District Health Authority exists within the largest integrated academic health district in Atlantic Canada, and is known as Capital Health. The Capital Health District is one of nine health districts in Nova Scotia formed in the fall of 2000. Geographically, the Capital Health District consists of the Halifax Regional Municipality and the western portion of Hants County in Nova Scotia. The Capital District Health Authority provides core health services to 395,000 residents, or 40 per cent of the population of the Nova Scotia and tertiary and quaternary acute care services to residents of Atlantic Canada. Specialized adult health services are provided to a referral population from the rest of the province of 550,000, and to residents of New Brunswick and Prince Edward Island.

About xwave
xwave, an Aliant Company, is a full-service business-solutions provider that serves clients through three service lines: systems integration and software engineering, infrastructure services, and product fulfillment. These areas offer clients a broad delivery capability: xwave plans, designs, builds and operates IT solutions that span both corporate and operational systems and fulfill all infrastructure needs. With more than $360 million in revenues and 1,900 people, xwave is one of the largest IT-services companies in Canada, with locations in St. John’s, Halifax, Moncton, Saint John, Fredericton, Ottawa, Toronto, New England and Ireland. More information can be found at www.xwave.com.

For further information, contact:
Karen.Ewing@xwave.com
877-332-4605