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PDS Announces Partnership with Gelco Expense Management

Alliance Offers HR Professionals a Web-based HR, Payroll, Benefits
and Expense Management Solution

Blue Bell, Pa., October 26, 2004 – PDS, an award-winning developer of web-based human resource and payroll systems, today announced its partnership with Gelco Expense Management. Together, the two companies will provide organizations an end-to-end solution that incorporates HR, payroll and expense management information for effective control and business process efficiency.

“Expenses can be a time- and cost-intensive process for any organization to manage,” said George Brady, vice president of Sales and Business Development at PDS. “Gelco offers a comprehensive expense management solution that has been implemented by hundreds of organizations. This partnership will enable our Vista customers to streamline their business processes and incorporate expense information with other HR and payroll data.”

“It is a logical partnership for both companies to bridge our HR, payroll and expense management solutions,” said Ann Altepeter, vice president of Business Development at Gelco. “We believe that through this relationship, we will be able to link valuable HR data that will ease the pain for HR professionals and help to increase their productivity.”

PDS’ Vista HRMS (Human Resource Management Systems) and Payroll product suite has been designed for companies in a wide variety of industries that have employees in the U.S. and/or Canada. The Vista solution can be configured to reflect a company’s business practices and processes. Individual users or groups of users can be provided with specific functionality according to their job responsibilities and authority to access sensitive information.

Gelco offers a complete outsourced solution that manages every phase of the expense management process – from the capture of the initial expense data through payment, compliance, receipt management and audit. Obtaining this important T&E data will enable organizations to conduct strategic business analyses.

About Gelco Expense Management
Gelco Expense Management, a division of Gelco Information Network, is the largest and most experienced provider of expense management and reimbursement programs. Gelco provides comprehensive outsourced expense management solutions to help organizations worldwide realize T&E cost savings by supporting policy compliance, increasing process efficiency and providing expense management reporting. The Gelco solution empowers organizations with a complete suite of web-based services including expense reporting, auditing, reimbursement and analysis services. Gelco Expense Management annually processes over $5.7 billion in expense payments for over 2.2 million users. For more information about Gelco Expense Management, please visit the company’s Web site at www.gelcoexpense.com.

About PDS
In the software development business for more than 30 years, PDS is a provider of a web-based, feature-rich, completely integrated human resource, benefits administration and payroll software application that enables organizations to focus on more strategic issues and less on administrative HR and payroll activities. PDS offers a full range of professional services to a wide variety of industries in the U.S. and in Canada. Founded in 1974, PDS is a privately-held company headquartered in Blue Bell, Pa. For more information on PDS visit www.pdssoftware.com.

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