The Gale Group Selects REAL Software Systems

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REAL Software Systems, Inc. (RSS), developer of Alliant Royalties, announced today its agreement with the Gale Group, an operating unit of the Thomson Corporation (Toronto: TOC.TO - news) and global leader in research and reference publishing, to continue its long standing relationship by implementing the company's newest software: Alliant Royalties. Alliant will replace several existing systems at Gale by addressing its full range of requirements.

"We continue to evolve our company right along with our customers and industry at large," says RSS Vice President and General Manager, David Aloisi. We have invested heavily in what we believe will address the strategic needs of our existing clients and other companies requiring flexible functionality in the royalty area.

Alliant provides a framework designed to address changing requirements affected by strategic decisions and evolving business models. It is an incredibly flexible software solution designed to manage royalty and contingent compensation agreements regardless of complexity. It addresses the challenges of integrating data from multi-systems, flexibly adapting to evolving business needs and providing unprecedented data integrity through a variety of approaches. These include support for multiple flexibly designed interfaces, rule-based processing, multiple data access methodologies, integrity controls, and ease of use approaches to shield day to day users from much of the inherent complexities of today's royalty structures.

"We have avoided the use of hard-coded functionality in Alliant," explains Michael Wolfe, Director of Software Development at RSS. "We learned that instead of shooting at a moving target, we were better off designing with the utmost flexibility and allowing the specific functionality to evolve within the software itself." With more traditional approaches, Wolfe continued, "you need scarce and expensive programming talent a lot of time to constantly modify code." With Alliant the flexibility is inherent and adaptations to new and evolving requirements can be completed much more quickly and efficiently.

For Gale the decision to continue with RSS was a quick one. "No one else came close to RSS," says Claire Hogikyan, Senior IS Manager at Gale. "These people clearly understand our challenges. We had RSS go through the same battery of tests as other vendors to prove Alliant was capable of addressing both our print publishing and electronic publishing needs. RSS came out the strongest." Hogikyan also noted, "We are encouraged that RSS will work closely with us to achieve our implementation goals and support Gale's growth as we continue to look at new and innovative ways to market our products and services."

About REAL Software Systems, Inc.

REAL Software Systems, Inc. (www.elcamino.com/rss) is the leader in contingent compensation and rights management solutions for industries that license intellectual property. The company is a wholly owned subsidiary of El Camino Resources International, Inc., a leader in the marketing and financing of high technology products and services. Based in Woodland Hills, CA., RSS develops and markets high-end solutions for managing the business of intellectual property distribution and compensation. RSS serves clients in the entertainment, book publishing, Web Publishing, information processing, and licensing (including Pharmaceuticals, Software, and Merchandising) industries.

About The Gale Group

The Gale Group (www.galegroup.com) is a world leader in e-reference publishing for libraries, schools and businesses. Best known for its accurate and authoritative content as well as its intelligent organization of full-text magazine and newspaper articles, the company creates and maintains more than 600 databases that are published in electronic form, as well as in print and microform. The Gale Group includes such noted reference publishers as Macmillan Reference USA, Charles Scribner's Sons, Primary Source Microfilm, UXL, Thorndike Press, K.G. Sauer and Graham & Whiteside.