For Immediate Release

PowerSteering's On-Demand Software Assists Katrina Relief Effort

March 1, 2006

In the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, PowerSteering Software is aiding the recovery effort by providing free use of its project tracking software to the Coastal Family Health Center, a Biloxi-based community health center serving more than 30,000 Mississippi residents.

Coastal provides medical, dental, and mental health care to communities along the Mississippi Gulf Coast, with a focus on meeting the needs of people with limited resources. When Katrina struck in August, 2005, the storm inflicted severe damage on all nine of Coastal's clinic locations. At many sites, all medical and office equipment was completely destroyed.

For the past several months, Coastal has been working closely with Hands On USA, a national volunteer organization, to restore health services to the area. Project management has been a major challenge from day one. To say the least, the relief effort has a lot of moving parts, with thousands of tasks to be accomplished and ever-changing priorities to be juggled.

This is where PowerSteering helps out. Despite limited access to equipment, teams of Coastal employees and Hands On volunteers are able to work in the field and get the project information they need, where and when they need it. The software allows Coastal to keep track of what needs to be done when, what each individual is responsible for, and where projects may have gone off course.

David Campbell, Executive Director for Hands On USA and a member of PowerSteering's Board, has spent most of the past several months in Biloxi helping organize a broad range of relief projects, including helping Coastal Family Health Center resume operations. "Keeping Coastal up and running is literally a matter of life and death for some members of this community," said Campbell, "and with only portable computers, no network, and no infrastructure, PowerSteering's 'virtual' solution seemed a natural fit."

"PowerSteering Software has been extremely valuable in enabling us to get back on our feet," said Joe Dawsey, Executive Director of Coastal Family Health Center. "It allows Coastal and Hands On to more effectively manage our most precious asset - manpower - to make sure our most critical projects are getting the attention they need."

"Obviously, the most important goal is to continue to provide care to the people of the Gulf Coast at a time when they need it most. With the help of Hands On and PowerSteering, we are working to reopen clinics and restore health services to this storm devastated area."

"It might not occur to a lot of people that effective project management is one of the key capabilities needed in a disaster recovery effort," stated David Boghossian, founder of PowerSteering Software. "But it's hard to imagine a situation where the stakes are higher or the circumstances more challenging. We're just happy that our software has been able to contribute in some small way to such important work. Since Katrina, Disaster Risk Management has been on the minds of many of our corporate clients, and PowerSteering is helping them make sure they are prepared should the worst ever happen."

Despite the progress made so far, with four Coastal clinics still closed and the rest needing major repairs, a lot of work remains to be done. If you would like to know more about Coastal Family Health Center, visit http://www.coastalfamilyhealth.com/. And to learn more about Hands On USA's Katrina relief efforts and how you can make a contribution, please visit http://www.handsonusa.org/.

Contacts:

Coastal Family Health Center Joe Dawsey, Executive Director 228-861-1248

Hands On USA David Campbell, Executive Director 617-312-2999

PowerSteering Software Linda Duchin, VP of Marketing 617-995-5763