Total Resource Management and Spescom Enter Strategic Partnership
Delivering Rapid Access to the Right Information is an Essential Enabler to Integrated Asset Management™

OCTOBER 16, 2006 – Alexandria, VA – Total Resource Management, Inc. (TRM) announces an alliance agreement with Spescom Software, Inc. to further advance TRM's Integrated Asset Management™ solutions into the document, configuration and records management areas. TRM's business is focused on optimizing the asset management systems that support the lifecycle of all enterprise assets. Spescom is the leader in enterprise content and configuration management solutions that capture, store and manage information about assets, products and processes throughout their lifecycles.

The partnership between TRM and Spescom allows TRM to add the eB® solutions from Spescom to TRM's Integrated Asset Management suite of offerings. These include asset management strategies, reconfiguration, change management and asset optimization solutions. TRM is also a leader in Maximo® deployment solutions, system engineering solutions and eLearning solutions.

"We have developed a proprietary Integrated Asset Management framework which leverages the best of several disciplines, methods and analytics to optimize the management of tangible and intangible organizational assets. Spescom's leadership in the document and configuration management field, plus TRM's focus on improving the management and performance of all enterprise assets, including physical, technology and human assets, is a natural fit," commented Ray Brisbane, president and CEO of TRM.

Spescom eB enables documents, as well as physical items (product or assets) and functional items (processes or services) to be structured, identified and linked. This enables effective lifecycle configuration management by controlling the effects of change and ensuring information integrity.

“Spescom’s current business plan is to develop partnerships with organizations that are leaders in industries where we have limited knowledge and resources. TRM is a great company that meets our stringent criteria. We are excited to have TRM as a partner,” said Spescom Software CEO Alan Kiraly.

"One vision of our partnership is to interface this state-of-the-art tool set with Maximo and integrate the capabilities of eB with the premier enterprise asset management system. Our customers will benefit from the extension of Maximo® with functionality they've never had any place else," explained Vince Gilbert, Principal Strategist at TRM.

About TRM
Total Resource Management, Inc. (TRM) delivers strategic consulting and information technology solutions in an Integrated Asset Management framework. We help organizations improve the management and performance of their enterprise assets, both tangible (facilities, infrastructure, production and logistics) and intangible (technology, business processes and human capital). Over the past decade, the company has supported over 200 clients with asset management technology expertise, professional services and productivity enhancement products that result in significant improvements to their business operations. Its headquarters are located in Alexandria, Virginia and supporting offices are located across the U.S. Total Resource Management’s Advanced Technology Centers are located in Virginia, California, Washington, Pennsylvania, Kentucky and Hawaii. More information is found at www.trmnet.com.

About Spescom Software
Spescom Software (OTC BB: SPCO.OB) is a leading provider of enterprise content and configuration management solutions. Spescom’s advanced software captures, manages and controls all enterprise content in context to the assets, products and processes that it relates to, resulting in improved customer satisfaction, productivity and safety. It achieves this through a tightly integrated suite of document, configuration and records management technologies, combined with a powerful workflow capability that enables the identification of all critical enterprise information, the effective management of change and other business processes and the maintaining of records to ensure regulatory compliance. Spescom, a Microsoft Gold Partner, leverages the Microsoft technology to meet the stringent reliability, throughput and scalability requirements for these highly regulated markets. Visit www.spescomsoftware.com.