VANCOUVER, British Columbia, June 13, 2005 (PRIMEZONE) -- Imagis Technologies Inc. ("Imagis") (OTCBB:IMTIF) TSX-V:WSI) (DE:IGYA) announced today that the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has procured software licenses for the company's flagship integration toolkit and servers, the Briyante Integration Environment. The purchase order, for an amount in excess of Cdn$350,000, was received on behalf of the DHS Metadata Center of Excellence.
Imagis software licenses will be delivered with consulting and training services and will be used to design and deploy a metadata (data describing data) repository and a federated query information sharing capability. The extensive competition to provide DHS with these capabilities included most of the major metadata repository vendors.
"This represents a tremendous opportunity for Imagis and we are delighted to be working with the U.S. Department of Homeland Security," said Roy Trivett, Imagis President and CEO. "Our products offer DHS the ability to rapidly solve their data sharing problems. It should be noted that this was not an easy piece of business to win as all vendors, including Imagis, viewed this opportunity as very strategic."
Imagis has proven its decentralized approach to secure, reliable, standards-based information sharing through a growing number of projects at the county and local level. Imagis' solutions do not require modifications to existing systems and overcome many of the technical and political barriers often associated with creating data integration and information sharing networks, namely data ownership, trust, and cost.
This is the firm's first project for the U.S. federal government, which selected Imagis for its ability to deliver both metadata and federated query technologies in a single-vendor solution. The project is to begin immediately.
About Imagis Technologies Inc.
Based in Vancouver, British Columbia, Imagis specializes in developing and marketing software products that enable integrated access to applications and databases. The company also develops solutions that automate law enforcement procedures and evidence handling. These solutions often incorporate Imagis' proprietary facial recognition algorithms and tools. Using industry standard "Web Services", Imagis delivers a secure and economical approach to true, real-time application interoperability. The corresponding product suite is referred to as the Briyante Integration Environment (BIE).
Numerous production deployments of BIE have demonstrated remarkable reductions in the time, complexity, and risk associated with defining, implementing, and supporting integrated access to physically and technologically disparate computers. The broad ranging applicability of BIE into a variety of areas (e.g., health care, financial services, government services, telecommunications, etc.) has been clearly demonstrated by recent, highly successful deployments in the United States and Canada. Imagis booking and facial recognition systems are deployed in Canada, the United Kingdom, United States, Mexico and the Far East.
Imagis is a Microsoft Certified Partner.
For information about Imagis or the company's products and services, please refer to www.imagistechnologies.com.
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"Roy Trivett" President and CEO, Imagis Technologies Inc.
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