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ARTEMIS AND MCR PERFORMANCE SOLUTIONS, LLC, PARTNER TO DRIVE STRATEGIC ASSET OPTIMIZATION SOLUTIONS IN ENERGY SECTOR    NEWPORT BEACH, CA – March 6, 2006 – Artemis International Solutions Corporation (OTCBB: AMSI), provider of Strategic Asset Optimization solutions, and MCR Performance Solutions, LLC, a leading energy industry management consulting firm, today announced a partnership designed to extend the companies’ reach into the energy sector. Terms of the agreement were not disclosed.
"Combining the reach and experience of MCR with Artemis’ technology expertise in delivering Strategic Asset Optimization solutions, delivers a significant and positive impact to the energy sector,” said George Bayz, executive vice president and general manager of Artemis Americas. “This partnership with MCR allows us to be intimately involved from the ground up in designing Asset Management solutions to meet the very specific needs of an individual energy provider. Our goal is to deliver best of breed products in a timely manner and this allows us to do just that.”
MCR Performance Solutions is a leading energy industry management consulting firm that assists energy clients in achieving superior performance through business process improvement, cost optimization and strategic risk management.
“MCR believes business process improvements are sustained through easy access to supporting data,” said Frank Craig, co-founder and partner at MCR Performance Solutions. “Our consulting experience and depth in the energy market, combined with the asset optimization solutions from Artemis, will give our customers the competitive edge needed in a challenging market.”
As an industry leader in Nuclear Asset Management processes, MCR has worked for over half of the nuclear facilities in the United States and Canada on projects ranging from business planning and competitive cost analysis to spending optimization, staffing alignment and daily work control.
“MCR’s holistic approach emphasizes thorough due diligence in discovery of potential work across all aspects of an energy facility,” said MCR vice president of Asset Management, Tim Schlimpert. “Our partnership with Artemis will enable our customers to create and maintain a comprehensive long range plan and continuously optimize it against reliability and financial objectives.”
Artemis SAO Solutions
Managers in energy facilities continually struggle to maintain optimized long-range plans while complex and changing environments demand a simplified process to change priorities and plans to address shifting budgets, regulations and market conditions. Artemis’ Strategic Asset Optimization solution allows customers to do just that – adopt best practices for strategic asset management, while dramatically increasing business efficiency and improving the business and engineering management of day-to-day operations and long-range risk management.
About MCR Performance Solutions
MCR Performance Solutions assists energy clients in transforming their management and operational performance by enabling significant leaps in performance through innovative and effective consulting solutions. MCR’s solutions combine unique elements of strategic insight, organizational change, process improvement and information technology. For more information, visit www.mcr-group.com
 About Artemis International Solutions Corporation  Artemis International Solutions Corporation (OTCBB: AMSI) is one of the world’s leading providers of investment planning and control solutions that help organizations execute strategy through effective portfolio and project management. Artemis has refined 30 years experience into a suite of solutions and packaged consulting services that address the specific needs of both industry and the public sector including, IT management, new product development, program management, fleet and asset management, outage management and detailed project management. With a global network covering 44 countries, Artemis is helping thousands of organizations to improve their business performance through better alignment of strategy, investment planning and project execution. For more information visit www.aisc.com.
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