WellPoint signs contract with Birch Mountain Resources extending reach in mining sector

CALGARY - WellPoint Systems Inc. ("WellPoint")(TSX-V:WPS), today announced that the company has signed another contract with a growth-oriented company within the mining industry, this time with Birch Mountain Resources Ltd. ("Birch Mountain") (TSX-V: BMD, AMEX: BMD). This arrangement represents WellPoint's fifth contract signed in the mining sector over the past fourteen months.

As was the case with the other companies that have been added to WellPoint's growing list of mining clientele over the past six months, the professional services team from WellPoint will work with Birch Mountain to implement a financial, project and asset management solution based on the Microsoft Dynamics AX platform.

"Regardless of whether a company is mining for minerals, precious metals or petroleum, the financial management characteristics of that company are quite similar to those within other mining operations" says Tom Mawhinney, President of WellPoint Systems. "The ability of our solution to align tightly to those requirements is a differentiating quality for WellPoint that this industry is starting to recognize with increasing regularity."