SCOTTSDALE, AZ (April 18, 2001)–CRC Information Systems, Inc. has unveiled THE Smart System, a powerful yet affordable new business management system specifically designed for small and growing graphic arts companies. This complete and fully integrated system encompasses applications from industry specific estimating through financial accounting. These tools assist companies in controlling costs, increasing productivity, and analyzing sales and marketing efforts. THE Smart System finally gives small graphic arts companies a complete business management solution that not only allows for but actually promotes significant and sustained growth. Unlike competitive systems, it provides users with a natural upgrade path to CRC’s more comprehensive solution, THE System, as their company and information management needs continue to grow. Further, THE Smart System package comes complete with a Dell PowerEdge TM series server – one of the most powerful and scalable products on the market today. CRC has been developing solutions for medium to large graphic arts companies for nearly two decades and last year outsold competitive systems by a margin of more than 4 to 1! In fact, on a recent system selection project, Deloitte & Touche selected THE System from CRC as the best of breed from a field of 28 other business management systems available to the graphic arts. With the introduction of THE Smart System, CRC will bring this same level of commitment and performance to the industry’s small business community.