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IBM Selects MSI Systems Integrators for Ambassador Program

Representatives from Seven Asian Pacific Companies Convene in Omaha Today

[OMAHA, NE - May 31, 2006] - MSI Systems Integrators, Inc. (MSI) has been chosen by IBM to host the Ambassador Program II session today based on MSI's successful Technology Enablement Centers ™ (TEC), strategic business model, and MSI's infrastructure centric approach to building information technology solutions.

The purpose of IBM's Asian Pacific Ambassador Program II is one of the enablement actions that allow key Asian Pacific IBM Business Partners to model the successes achieved by IBM's United States business partners. The intent of the mindshare meeting with MSI is to help international companies learn how to accelerate the information technology solutions' process for their own customers in the worldwide marketplace. Key to the strategic sessions will be a tour of the TEC facilities, an MSI core solutions demo and round table sessions with business leaders from seven companies from Singapore, Indonesia, Korea, People's Republic of China, Taiwan and Australia.

"The TEC, now an international tool used around the world, is designed for education, demonstration and proof-of-concept projects in a laboratory setting," said Phil Sauvageau, chief operating officer, MSI Systems Integrators. "Our TEC model provides hands-on and collaborative activities, helping customers of all sizes understand how to embrace business innovation with IT hardware and software across the enterprise in order to become a true on demand business."

Each TEC is comprised of solution labs that contain hardware and software technologies from IBM, Cisco, Microsoft, McDATA and other industry leaders. The TEC's data center power, monitoring, and environmental equipment provide the 'plug and play' environment necessary for IT individuals to determine what is best for their organization's current or planned IT infrastructure.

A photo opportunity will be available at MSI TEC at 4:00 p.m., today, May 31, 2006 at the Omaha office, located at 14301 First National Bank Parkway, Suite 400. For more information about the TEC tour, please call Teresa Mardesen at 402.965.2394.

MSI currently has eight TECs located in Omaha, Neb.; Bloomington, Minn.; Overland Park, Kan.; West Des Moines, Iowa; St. Louis, Mo.; Portland, Ore.; Peoria, Ill; and Salt Lake City, Utah. Since the opening of the first Technology Enablement Center in 2000 in Omaha, MSI has hosted more than 1000 briefings with a customer satisfaction rating of 85%. With a number of TECs, MSI created the capability to demonstrate the replication of data over long distances for companies facing rapid data growth, backup, disaster recovery and business continuance issues.


About MSI Systems Integrators

MSI Systems Integrators helps companies make their businesses better by providing IT optimization, enterprise security, unified communications, business intelligence, business integration, business continuity, content management and open source solutions. A leading provider of hardware, software and services, MSI has deep technical skills and partners with technology leaders such as Symantec, HP, IBM, Cisco Systems, Microsoft, and VMware to provide world-class business solutions that help companies be more responsive, productive and resilient. MSI is headquartered in Omaha, Nebraska with offices throughout the United States. For more information about MSI, please visit www.msiinet.com or call 800-640-4674, extension 2394.

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For more information, press only:
Teresa Mardesen
MSI Systems Integrators
(800) 640-4674, x2394
tmardesen@msiinet.com

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