CALABASAS, Calif., November 2, 2006 /PR Newswire/

Appeon Corporation and RES-Q® Healthcare Systems today announced the successful migration of key modules from RES-Q Healthcare Systems' Labor Resource Management System, built with Sybase PowerBuilder, to the Web and J2EE. This move to the Web comes in response to RES-Q Healthcare Systems' relentless pursuit of further improving the effectiveness and efficiency of staffing operations for hospitals and healthcare providers.

The new Web-based employee scheduling & personnel management system will boost the speed and responsiveness of staff scheduling activities for the hundreds of hospitals that currently depend on RES-Q Healthcare Systems' solutions. Tens of thousands of hospital staff will now be able to perform their own scheduling from home or any other location with Web access.

RES-Q Healthcare Systems' Labor Resource Management System is a modular PC-based client/server software built with Sybase PowerBuilder. Utilizing extremely sophisticated and complex code, the powerful application provides scheduling, personnel management, workload staffing, and department labor budgeting capabilities to run hospitals of virtually any size. Key application windows comprising the scheduling and personnel management modules, which were the focus of the project, contained between 20 to 37 DataWindows, 20 to 30 controls, and 5,000 to 6,000 lines of PowerScript.

Appeon for PowerBuilder, the revolutionary Web development and deployment platform, automatically converted 90% of the application objects and code to the Web deployed to a J2EE-based architecture. The project was completed in just 60 days. Rewriting these modules from scratch with traditional J2EE Web development tools would have required as much as 18-engineering months or 18 times the effort.

"There is no faster way to move PB applications to the Web and Java world," said RES-Q President and CEO Michael Meisel. "Appeon is generations ahead of other J2EE Web development tools in serving the needs of ISVs like RES-Q."

The resulting Web application precisely replicated of the original rich UI of the client/server application and most of the powerful DataWindow functionality of the application, eliminating user retraining costs and delivering further productivity gains for hospitals and healthcare providers.

"We are very excited that the hundreds of hospitals using RES-Q management tools will be able to offer browser-based scheduling capabilities to their staff," said Armeen Mazda, Senior Director of North American Operations of Appeon Corporation. "We are fully committed to helping RES-Q transform other modules to the Web while preserving the powerful user interface and functionality that makes their solution so productive."

About Appeon Corporation

Appeon Corporation is the industry leader in developing products and services to modernize the application architecture of enterprises. These products and services dramatically reduce the time, cost and risk associated with traditional IT projects. Appeon has helped breathe new life into the IT architecture of thousands of enterprises across 60 countries worldwide. Appeon is a subsidiary of Shell Electric Mfg. (Holdings) Co. Ltd. (HKSE: 0081.HK). For more information about Appeon products and services, visit the Appeon Website: http://www.appeon.com.

About RES-Q Healthcare Systems

Since 1979, with a singular specialization, RES-Q ® Healthcare Systems ( Calabasas, Calif. ) has pursued one mission: advancing scheduling software for hospitals. RES-Q ® Labor Resource Management produces clinically and financially sound, skill-matched and productive staffing in responsive and fair schedules. RES-Q delivers measurable results that hospitals can count on: faster scheduling, reduced overtime, decreased use of costly outside agency staff, greater consistency in the application of equitable scheduling rules, and improved employee satisfaction. With an average of 15 years with the company, and decades of front-line experience in hospital administration, RES-Q's senior management team enables hospitals to set their schedules for today and set course for success tomorrow. For more information, visit the RES-Q Website: http://www.res-q.com.