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Opterus and Vortex Connect Announce Partnership to Develop Mobile Ops-Center

Toronto, Ontario - January 11, 2010 - Opterus Inc. and Vortex Connect today announced a partnership whereby Opterus will leverage Vortex Connect's expertise in mobility to jointly develop Opterus' Mobile Ops-Center (MOC). MOC will ultimately allow retailers to conveniently access full Store Ops-Center (SOC) functionality on their mobile devices.

"The Opterus solution, Store Ops-Center is a leading store communication and task management solution and we are excited to establish this business partnership. The solution enables retailers to rapidly and accurately transfer information from Head Office to the stores completely and more effectively and now they'll be able to do all that from their mobile device," said Adrian Schauer, President, Vortex Connect. "We are seeing more retailers begin to take advantage of the considerable return on investment derived from mobile functionality combined with powerful solutions like the Opterus Mobile Ops-Center."

"Our partnership with Vortex Connect will allow us to extend the functionality of our solution to popular mobile devices faster and more consistently than we could have on our own," said Rick Peters, Chief Product Officer, Opterus. "Our customers and prospects have been looking forward to this piece of the solution for some time and our strategic relationship with Vortex is an important part of the product roadmap for Store Ops-Center."

Opterus will initially offer Store Audit capabilities for Mobile Ops-Center, with plans to expand the functionality to include the full suite of Store Ops-Center’s features on MOC later this year.

About Vortex Connect
Vortex Connect develops software solutions that allow leading retailers to manage their staff more effectively – driving significant cost savings, enhancing quality of customer service and increasing employee retention. Vortex Connect provides a full-suite of workforce automation and task management solutions that use mobile technology. Vortex Connect has partnered with a number of Workforce Management Companies, including Opterus and Kronos. For more information, visit www.vortexconnect.com.

About Opterus
Opterus Inc. is a leading provider of a cost-effective, easy-to-implement store information and execution management solution that increases productivity and improves retail enterprise communications. Opterus Store Ops-Center software is an on-demand, web-based retail portal designed to communicate corporate policy and day-to-day objectives between corporate office and store locations. This solution is specifically designed for retail operations, and provides store personnel with clear, concise and timely direction, along with the proper tools to best do their jobs to support corporate initiatives. Opterus is based in Toronto, Ontario and was founded in 2006 by a group of seasoned retail industry technology veterans. For additional information about Opterus, please visit www.opterus.com.

Media Contact:
Neil Grunberg, VP of Sales Marketing
(416) 483-9934 x255
neil.grunberg@vortexconnect.com

Janet Hawkins, President
416-840-8495 x707
janet.hawkins@opterus.com

Catherine Seeds
Ketner Group PR + Marketing (for Opterus)
512-794-8876
catherine@ketnergroup.com