Locus Technologies Receives Vendor Rating

SAN FRANCISCO, CA--(Marketwire - May 11, 2009) - Locus Technologies (Locus) today announced that Gartner, Inc., the leading provider of research and analysis on the global information technology industry, has rated the company "Promising" in a recent report.

"Locus is very pleased to have received a Gartner Vendor Rating. Our current customers already know the value our Cloud Computing solutions bring to their environmental information management challenges," said Locus President and CEO, Neno Duplancic. "We believe Gartner's coverage of our firm confirms our position in the market and our commitment to providing customers with cost-effective and innovative SaaS software solutions that meet their current and emerging environmental data and information management needs, including addressing upcoming GHG and Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) reporting."

Locus' flagship environmental data management system EIM is used worldwide to manage and report environmental data and information and is managing over 100 million environmental data records for some of the world's largest companies. Locus' ePortal provides the platform to bring together Locus' modular applications into a single integrated solution that can be tailored for environmental compliance, greenhouse gas tracking, or environmental health and safety (EHS) tracking depending on a company's individual need. Locus' EHS module also provides GRI indicator tracking and reporting capabilities. All of Locus' solutions are on-demand providing customers with cost-effective and timely implementation options to meet their business requirements.

ABOUT LOCUS TECHNOLOGIES

Locus has provided environmental compliance software and data management solutions to industry since 1997. Locus provides on-demand solutions for environmental compliance, sustainability and GHG reporting (including key GRI indicators), environmental information management, and environmental health and safety. Locus' environmental software solutions delivered via Software as Service (SaaS) are used by Fortune 100 companies as a key part of their governance, risk and compliance (GRC) reporting. Locus' solutions are simple, cost-effective and streamline existing business processes enabling companies to do more with less. Key performance indicators (KPI) and robust reporting are included in all of Locus' offerings, which can be deployed at an enterprise or single site level.

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Gartner "Vendor Rating: Locus Technologies" by Dan Miklovic, 21 April 2009

Contact Information: Media Contact: Marian Carr Locus Technologies (650) 960-1640 www.locustec.com