DEXTER + CHANEY NAMED TO ‘SOFTWARE 500’ RANKING
OF WORLD’S LARGEST SOFTWARE AND SERVICES PROVIDERS
Latest In Series of Rankings for Company’s Size

SEATTLE, December 5, 2007:  Dexter + Chaney www.dexterchaney.com),developer of Spectrum™ Construction Software employed by construction companies throughout the United States, has earned another recognition for the company’s size. Dexter + Chaney placed 360th in the “Software 500” ranking by Software Magazine of the world’s largest software and services providers, with 2006 revenues of $15.0 million. It marked the fourth straight year that Dexter + Chaney made the list.

Earlier this year, Dexter + Chaney was named to Washington CEO Magazine’s “High Tech 50” ranking of Washington State’s largest technology firms and the Puget Sound Business Journal’s listing of the biggest software firms in the Puget Sound region.

SOFTWARE 500
The Software 500 is a revenue-based ranking of the world’s largest software and services suppliers targeting medium to large enterprises, their IT professionals, software developers and business managers involved in software and services purchasing. The ranking is based on total worldwide software and services revenue for 2006. This includes revenues from software licenses, maintenance and support, training and software-related services and consulting.

Suppliers are not ranked on their total corporate revenue, since many have other lines of business, such as hardware. The financial information was gathered by a survey prepared by King Content Co. and posted at www.Softwaremag.com, as well as from public documents.

“The Software 500 helps CIOs, senior IT managers and IT staff create a short list of business partners,” said John P. Desmond, editor of Software Magazine and Softwaremag.com. “It is a quick reference of vendor viability. That is content of value.”

John Chaney, Dexter + Chaney co-founder and president, explained that the Software 500 and other rankings underscore Spectrum’s acceptance in the construction marketplace.

“Construction companies use Spectrum to manage more than $21.6 billion in construction projects annually,” Chaney noted. “That figure would place Dexter + Chaney clients 108th on the Fortune 500 ranking of America’s largest corporations—ahead of McDonald’s, Goodyear and Coca Cola.” He added that, altogether, Dexter + Chaney customers process more than 12 million checks to employees and suppliers and employ more than 112,800 people.

About Dexter + Chaney
More than 1,000 construction companies throughout the United States use Dexter + Chaney’s Forefront™ Construction Suite.  Forefront Construction Suite includes 30 integrated modules that handle project management, construction accounting, equipment management, service management, human resources, document imaging, remote connectivity and data sharing tasks.  Companies that use Forefront report they have improved profitability and have grown their businesses more than 300 percent without adding accounting staff.

More than 7,000 total users make use of Forefront’s Document Imaging component, which addresses a typically painful problem for contracting firms:  giving management, office staff and project managers the fast access they need to important documents like contracts, change orders, timecards, invoices and others.

For more information about Dexter + Chaney or Forefront, contact Brad Mathews, Vice President of Sales and Marketing, Dexter + Chaney, 9700 Lake City Way NE, Seattle, WA 98115-2347; phone:  800-875-1400 or 206-364-1400; fax:  206-367-9613; e-mail:  info@dexterchaney.com;  www.dexterchaney.com.

Contact
Brad Mathews, Dexter + Chaney
800-875-1400
brad@dexterchaney.com

Jim Fulton
The Fulton Company
360-943-4101
fultonco@olywa.net

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