(Boca Raton, FL- October 3, 2005) – Campus Management Corporation, a leading provider of enterprise resource planning (ERP) software for higher education, today announced a licensing agreement with Empower Financials Inc. (Ann Arbor, MI), an established developer of financials, payroll, and human resources software. Under terms of the agreement, Campus Management now has exclusive worldwide rights to develop and distribute the Empower Financials and Personnel software products in its served markets. This includes full source code rights, enabling Campus Management to pursue a new roadmap for the suite’s future, one dedicated to the particular needs of higher education.

Campus Management has branded the new solution as CampusVantage™ Financials and HR. The company will issue the first in a wave of significant new enhancements of the CampusVantage suite in the first quarter of 2006—including enhancements of special value to higher education. CampusVantage will be available as a stand-alone solution, as well as an integrated suite within Campus Management’s CampusVue™ and CampusVue Collegiate™ enterprise systems.

“We have made significant investments in our financials and human resources business,” said Tim Gilbert, vice president of marketing for Campus Management. “We have an aggressive timetable to expand our software in the financials and human resources arena. This new product creates an opportunity to further leverage our competencies in financial aid packaging, compliance, student accounts, and other funding and transactional areas,” said Gilbert.

In addition to CampusVantage, Campus Management also sells and supports Microsoft Dynamics-GP (Great Plains), another financial and human resources software, that integrates with its student information system.

In a related announcement, Shelly Tollefson has been named to a newly created position, as Solutions Manager-Financials and Human Resources, for Campus Management. Tollefson joined the company in September and will lead an expanded, dedicated team of developers, support, and consulting professionals, also being formed. Tollefson came from Lawson, where she held senior positions as a business analyst and product development manager for its human resources and payroll offerings. Prior to this, she was a lead consultant with a Chicago-based firm working on their JD Edwards financials implementations.

“There are distinct brand and platform preferences in higher education,” said Tollefson. “Differing philosophies, methodologies, and goals of universities and colleges call for different kinds of answers. Dynamics-GP is highly configurable and Microsoft is deeply invested in the public sector. Those combine to make Dynamics-GP the right fit for business officers who appreciate best-in-breed technology,” Tollefson said.

“CampusVantage features all the necessary functionality, automated workflows, and key Web-based services that are essential to many of the institutions who approach us today for our expertise in student information solutions. The user interface has been re-designed to mirror our ERP system’s look and feel, it offers great value for the money, and it is the right solution for business officers who want a wholly unified interface across all of our ERP applications.”

Empower Financials’ product suite features rich functionality to address the finance, fund accounting, grant, and HR workflows at most higher education institutions, presenting a powerful “value for money” argument. Microsoft’s Dynamics, meanwhile, provides a wide range of configurability, comprehensive analytics, and the backing of the Microsoft Business Solutions name.

About Empower Financials
Empower Financials was incorporated in 1983 in Ann Arbor, MI to provide accounting, payroll, and distribution software to what was then an emerging market for packaged software. The founders of the company had a number of years experience in providing quality software and service for one on the world's largest payroll and accounting service corporations, Automatic Data Processing (ADP), and they formed Empower Financials to bring that expertise to the packaged software industry.

Its first products were targeted for medium and large corporations, running on mainframe computers. The initial success of the company came from meeting the complex requirements of many large organizations, including the world's seventh largest coal company, Macy's Department Stores, multinational paper companies, educational institutions, and a host of smaller, yet complex installations.

Beginning in 1993 with the emerging dominance of the Windows operating system, the company introduced the Empower Financials product line, incorporating the functionality required by complex organizations, but with a friendly, easy-to-use Windows interface. This duality of experience and power, combined with Empower Financials' capabilities with multiple database managements systems (Sybase, SQL Server and Oracle) provided scalability, enabling Empower Financials to service a wide variety of organizations, from a small company with 50 employees to a publicly traded billion dollar transportation company. For more information on Empower Financials, visit: www.empowerfin.com.

About Campus Management Corporation
More than 900 colleges and universities worldwide rely on Campus Management for efficient, scalable, and flexible administrative solutions that enhance operational excellence. Rapid implementation, proven user training, and superior support services distinguish Campus Management’s CampusVue™ administrative suites for higher education. Campus Management’s commitment to continuously evolving its technology has resulted in a vast, long-term enterprise solution capable of millions of daily transactions, providing real-time operational visibility across departments and multiple campuses. As a result, the company has been awarded Microsoft’s 2005 award for Best Innovation in Higher Education, recognizing cost-effective and innovative IT solutions, and Microsoft’s ERP Solutions Developer of the Year (2003). Campus Management’s solutions feature comprehensive, configurable modules for the entire student lifecycle and the school’s operations.

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