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Canadian Tire Corp. to Use Activant eCatalog Solutions At Canadian Tire and PartSource Stores

Retailer/Wholesaler Introducing Integrated Activant PartExpert Suite, LaserCat 3 eCatalog to More Than 560 Business Locations

LIVERMORE, CA, June 16, 2009 – Activant Solutions Inc. and Canadian Tire Corporation, Limited have signed an agreement that will bring the industry-leading Activant® PartExpert® Suite of data products and Activant LaserCat® 3 electronic catalog to all Canadian Tire Retail and PartSource business locations.

Canadian Tire Retail will convert from its proprietary auto parts catalog to the Activant PartExpert suite of data solutions. These include the new, Windows-based Activant LaserCat 3 eCatalog, Activant Cover-to-Cover® graphical eCatalog module, Activant All Lines database and Activant InterChange® reference for the network’s parts operations, as well as fully integrated labor and MOTOR repair information, service intervals and tire fitment data for its service bays.

In addition to Canadian Tire Retail locations, the company’s rapidly growing network of PartSource retail and wholesale parts stores also will rely on the Activant PartExpert suite.

“Improving the overall automotive customer experience for our customers, we will now be providing our counter professionals and service advisors with the most advanced and powerful front-line business tools,” said Tony Kuczynski, vice president of automotive, Canadian Tire Corp. “Activant is uniquely positioned to be our technology partner in launching a fully integrated suite of data products that will help each of our employees, regardless of experience, deliver a superior customer experience. Our access to the industry’s most extensive parts database – combined with millions of product images, TSBs, labor estimating information, OE service intervals, MOTOR repair information, tire fitments, and a true VIN decoder – represents a significant competitive advantage. Activant also has demonstrated the ability to provide service and support to each of our locations.”

The Activant PartExpert suite, featuring more than 2,900 product lines, five million part numbers and 16 million interchanges, is tightly integrated with a broad range of other products – including Activant Service Intervals Plus™, LaborExpert®, InterChange® and Integrated Service Estimator™ – for a complete, front-to-back data solution appropriate for virtually any parts and/or service operation.

Developed through extensive insight gained from a study of counterperson needs and preferences, the Activant LaserCat 3 eCatalog helps reduce the time needed to look up, recommend and sell the right parts for automotive and light- and medium-duty truck applications. Featuring an innovative graphical user interface that consolidates critical information into a single screen, the eCatalog’s advanced logic significantly reduces the number of “clicks” required for most lookups and allows the counterperson to reduce or even eliminate the need to take notes while serving a customer.

“Canadian Tire and Activant share a vision for leveraging the power of world-class data and catalog functionality at the point of sale,” said Tom Aliotti, senior vice president and general manager of the Activant automotive business group. “This is a highly complex industry. The winners will be those who minimize the effects of that complexity at every customer touch point. Activant is proud to be Canadian Tire’s technology partner in this initiative.”

About Activant Solutions

Activant Solutions Inc. is a leading technology provider of business management solutions serving small and medium-sized distributors and specialty retailers. Activant provides customers with industry-specific software, professional services, content, supply chain connectivity, and analytics. Over 30,000 customer locations use Activant to manage their day-to-day operations, in both USA and Canada. Activant’s systems are designed to help customers increase sales, boost productivity, operate more cost-efficiently, improve inventory turns and enhance trading partner relationships. Headquartered in Livermore, California, Activant has operations in Texas, Colorado, Illinois, Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Utah, Canada, Ireland, and the United Kingdom. For more information, please visit www.activant.com.

This announcement relating to Activant may contain statements that are forward looking within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995, as amended, such as statements concerning trends, future technology or products, or Activant’s execution. These statements are based on current expectations and are subject to risks and uncertainties which could materially affect the company’s results, including, without limitation, market demand for products and technology, the company’s ability to meet that market demand, the integration of Activant’s technology and products with technology and products supplied by others, the integration of Activant’s products into the businesses of its customers, customer acceptance of Activant’s products, and the retention and deployment of skilled Activant service providers. Except to the extent required by applicable securities laws, we undertake no obligation to update or publicly revise any of the forward-looking statements. Please refer to our most recently filed Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the fiscal quarter ended March 31, 2009 filed with the Securities Exchange Commission (“SEC”) on May 13, 2009 and our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended September 30, 2008, both of which can be found through the Activant investor relations website at www.activant.com/company/investors, for a full discussion of the risks and other factors.

Note: Activant, the Activant stylized logo design, PartExpert, LaserCat, InterChange, Activant Cover to Cover,and LaborExpert are registered trademarks, and Integrated Service Estimator and Service Intervals Plus are trademarks, of Activant Solutions Inc. Motor Information Systems is an owner of the Motor databases, and MOTOR is a trademark of Motor Information Systems, a division of Hearst Business Publishing, Inc.

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Pinnacle Communication Group
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