News Release--For Immediate Release--April 14, 2003

Digital Controls and VARtek to Partner to Bring Schooltools@work to K-12 Schools across the Midwest

Dayton, Ohio—Digital Controls Corporation announced today a new relationship between its e-solutions@work web applications division and VARtek Services, Inc. of Centerville, OH. The two companies have reached an agreement for VARtek to re-sell Digital Controls' Schooltools@work web application for K-12 Schools. VARtek will be marketing Schooltools@work to its customer base in Ohio as well as K-12 schools in Indiana, Michigan, Kentucky, Illinois and West Virginia.
 
"We at the e-solutions@work division of Digital Controls are excited about expanding our services to more school districts," said John Lynch, Vice President and General Manager of e-solutions@work. Added Mr. Lynch, "This agreement with VARtek enables us to put our package into the service of more school districts and their communities."

"We are excited about ability to further help K-12 schools with the important area of communications between parents and schools," Michael Hosford, CEO of VARtek Services. Added Hosford, "The Internet continues to change the way the world operates and communicates. School websites have become complex information environments with the numbers of web pages running into the 1,000's and the number of teachers, students and parents accessing this information into the 10,000-20,000-user range for many schools.

Keeping this level of content management up to date is a complicated process that is made easier with the tools that e-solutions@work has created. School officials and teachers want to provide a high level of accurate and up to date information to parents on subjects such as school closings, homework assignments, field trips and many other communications and this tool cost effectively accomplishes this process." 


ABOUT SCHOOLTOOLS@WORK
Schooltools@work, an Internet web application package, focuses on the communications between the school district and the community that the school district serves:  students, parents, property owners and prospective new residents.

The software package, hosted on an Internet server, enables school personnel: administrators, teachers, sports and extracurricular activity coaches to provide the community with up to date information on the school's many functions.

Schooltools@work addresses the problem of only a few people within the district being able to "publish" information which creates a "bottleneck" to timely information.

More effective communications between the district and its community increases community involvement in the district's activities and improves understanding of the district's needs.

ABOUT VARTEK SERVICES
VARtek Services was started in 1989 and has a track record of sales growth, commitment to customer satisfaction, and product development with an emphasis on improving the way technology is used in the K-12 learning environment. They are experts in technology for schools and have been providing high-quality technology implementations to K-12 public school districts and Catholic schools for the past 14 years. VARtek has designed a line of products and services that help K-12 schools to better manage the cost and ease of deploying and maintaining technology, where by creating a more stable and useful technology environment for students to learn and teachers to teach.

VARtek Services Contact: Phil Morris, VP of Sales, VARtek Services 1785 S. Metro Parkway Dayton, OH 45459, 937-438-3550, 937-438-3972 fax,
[email protected]

ABOUT E-SOLUTIONS@WORK,
e-solutions@work focuses on database driven web applications for the
education (K-12), and local and county government markets. They have developed web application solutions for schools and local and county government that make the task of managing and posting web site content simple enough for content owners to publish it themselves.  Content management and publishing can now be delegated to the people who own the information, administrators, teachers, coaches, city officials, support staff, advisors, principals, etc. All the content can now be managed right through the content owner's browser; no special software is required!

ABOUT DIGITAL CONTROLS CORPORATION
Digital Controls is an IT services, software and development company with over 35 years of providing technology solutions to its IT customers around the United States. 
We serve our customers through three divisions:     
Technology Services Group™, e-solutions@work™ and Plus Technologies
®.

Technology Services Group provides on-site and remote managed services for network and systems support, network security management services, a suite of professional services that include network and system design, staging and installation and complex configuration services. In addition, TSG offers predictively priced IT hardware and software deployment solutions. The company's Internet applications division, e-solutions@work focuses on database driven web applications for education (K-12), and local and county government. In addition, the company's software division, Plus Technologies, is a developer and marketer of Advanced Print Spooling, Document Delivery and Printer Management software solutions.

Digital Controls Contact:   Joel Vedder, VP of Corporate Marketing, Digital Controls Corporation, 305 S. Pioneer Blvd, Springboro, OH 45066 937-746-8118
937-743-8575 fax  
[email protected]

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