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Member Special Offers: Detailed Information

MISA/ASIM Canada has established national licensing agreements with companies that are associate members of our five regional organizations.

Together these agreements constitute a new channel for purchasing goods and services – a one-stop Web page that contains special offers that are uniform across the country. This marks the first time that municipalities across Canada have had equitably priced access to the same products and services.

To date, 10 vendors have made offerings available at discounted prices available to qualifying municipalities – those that are members of MISA Atlantic, MISA BC, MISA Ontario, MISA Prairies or RIMQ.

For any inquiries to MISA/ASIM Canada about these special offers, please contact administrator Lawrence Moule, 416-662-3950, lmoule@sympatico.ca.

Adobe Systems Canada

In December 2007, MISA BC, Softchoice Vancouver and Adobe Systems Canada announced that they have renewed a two-year agreement under Adobe’s contractual licensing program (CLP) under which all municipalities within MISA/ASIM Canada member associations receive 12-per-cent discount pricing for Adobe products.

Adobe’s CLP programs are described at http://www.adobe.com/aboutadobe/openoptions/clp.html.

There are two options on how to participate based on your initial order:

If your municipality orders very few Adobe products -- for example, an initial order of less than 1,000 Adobe points -- then you can continue to order using MISA BC’s CLP membership number. For example, Adobe Acrobat Pro = 450 points, Adobe Acrobat Std = 300 points
If your municipality orders several Adobe products and can obtain 1,000 or more Adobe points on your initial order, then you can choose to have your own affiliate CLP membership number and still obtain the same MISA discount pricing. Benefits of having an independent membership enrolment include having:

Unique serial numbers
Free media downloads
Purchase history reports.

Please contact your preferred Adobe authorized software reseller or Softchoice to ensure proper enrolment.

“eUniversity” Courses from Chalk Media

Please note:

The Chalk Media vendor special offer expires February 14, 2010. MISA is discussing a new special offer with an alternate vendor.

Member municipalities of the five associations within MISA/ASIM Canada can gain access to online training courses at affordable cost through a cooperative project of MISA BC and Chalk Media.

MISA BC has set up an “eUniversity” of more than 1,300 MindLeaders online courses from Chalk Media, available through an e-learning portal at www.misa.bc.ca.

The courses cover such subjects as Web development, business skills development and desktop computing, as well as training in technologies offered by many vendors. Subscribers can click on the Education button on the MISA BC home page and download courses using a password.

Course authoring software is available for organizations to produce their own courses. The agreement with Chalk also permits MISA BC to host vendor-supplied courses on the portal.

Any municipality within the membership of MISA/ASIM Canada associations wishing to make use of these courses is asked to contact Colin Redwood of the Corporation of Delta, chair of MISA BC’s Education Committee, at credwood@corp.delta.bc.ca.

DesTech

DesTech Consulting & Education has announced a special offer under which municipalities in the association’s member community can obtain contracts for DesTech’s Remote Database Monitoring solution at the best prices offered by the company in Canada.

DesTech’s Remote Database Monitoring solution is designed to enable organizations to obtain maximum performance and uptime through proper database configuration and management, including emergency support and service. Any municipality that is a member of one of the five regional associations within MISA/ASIM Canada can purchase the solution under the special pricing structure, described in the enclosure.

The solution is also described at www.destech.com/remote_database_monitoring.

Toronto-based DesTech has confirmed that the prices for its database monitoring solution, under one-year or multi-year contracts, are substantially below current market prices. Furthermore, should any municipal customer at any time receive a price lower than the advertised price under the offer, that lower price will then apply to all participating customers.

To inquire about the DesTech offer, please contact:

Neil Stevens DesTech Consulting & Education 69 Yonge St, Suite 1200 Toronto, Ontario M5E 1K3 416-368-8455 ext.228 or toll free 866-368-8455 nstevens@destech.com

Digital Boundary Group

Digital Boundary Group and MISA/ASIM Canada are pleased to announce that municipal members within MISA/ASIM Canada associations are able to purchase two special offers from Digital Boundary Group:

Online security-training program for computer users
Web application penetration testing

Digital Boundary Group and Terranova have joined as partners to offer MISA/ASIM member municipalities access to the SecurIT Savvy complete end-user program. It is customized to include graphics, policy and other special content for each participating municipality at a 15-per-cent reduction from list licensing rates and fees.

SecurIT Savvy is an online training program that presents the basic principles of information security, as well as practices related to it. This program helps users to understand and apply best practices to security matters. The complete program includes marketing materials, awareness quiz, training modules and follow-up information reminders, all customized with the graphics of the municipality.

You can learn more about SecurIT Savvy by reading these documents:

National Offer SecurIT Savvy
SecurIT pricing

Digital Boundary Group has been providing Web application penetration-testing services to a number of municipalities for four years. This service offering is now available to all MISA/ASIM member municipalities at discounts of 15 to 25 per cent from list price, based on the number of applications the municipality tests each year.

Web application penetration testing is designed to enable the municipality to determine the existence of vulnerabilities in the application before taking the application live.

Kaspersky Lab

Kaspersky Lab is offering to sell to qualified municipalities three-year licensing contracts for its security solutions for the price of two-year licences. The offer covers products called Kaspersky Business Space, Enterprise Space and Total Space.

Municipal purchasers can call 1-866-295-8503, or a local Kaspersky reseller, to obtain the discount. Details of the special offer are published in the enclosed page titled Kaspersky Offer.

Kaspersky Lab, based in Massachusetts, is the world’s largest privately held anti-malware company. Its Canadian headquarters is in Markham, Ontario. www.kaspersky.com.

For more information please contact:

Fred Jandrasits Account Executive, Kaspersky Lab 15 Allstate Parkway, 6th Floor Markham, ON L3R 5B4 1-905-415-4584 1-866-295-8503, ext 4584 fred.jandrasits@kaspersky.com

Sophos plc

Municipalities within MISA/ASIM Canada member associations may purchase Sophos Endpoint Security and Control in accordance with a licence schedule with MISA/ASIM Canada. All licences will be bound by the Sophos End User Licence Agreement.

A minimum three-year subscription is required to access the pricing offered in this standing offer. Pricing details are available in the Members Only sections of Web sites published by MISA/ASIM Canada member associations.

Licensing includes updates, upgrades, and the following software:

Enterprise Console - Manage your entire network from one computer
Sophos Anti-Virus for:

Windows 9x, Windows NT, Windows 2000/XP/2003/Vista
Mac OS X
Linux, Unix, Netware, OpenVMS

Sophos Client Firewall - protect information and prevent data intrusion, managed centrally from the console
Sophos Mobile Security - protect mobile devices
Simplified Network Access Control
SAV for NetApp Filers - protect your stored data
Maintenance and standard support included in all subscriptions
Financing options available to facilitate long-term purchases

Sophos Endpoint Security and Control – Single console, engine, agent and the SophosLabs network to provide:

Standard, Genotype and Behavioural Genotype updates

Anti-virus
Anti-spyware
Potentially unwanted application/Adware protection
Controlled applications (VoIP, IM, P2P, games)
Device control (optical media drives, removable storage, and wireless networking protocols)
Client firewall
Behaviour analysis (HIPS)

For further information, please contact:

Harry Gill Account Executive, Sophos, Vancouver Harry.gill@sophos.com 604-484-6475

Strategy Institute

The cost of attending a variety of business conferences will be reduced in the coming year for qualified municipal employees as a result of an agreement between MISA/ASIM Canada and the Strategy Institute.

The Strategy Institute, a Toronto-based company that produces conferences for business and public-sector leaders in targeted topic areas, has joined MISA/ASIM Canada’s member special-offers program to offer savings to municipal purchasers.

Employees of municipalities that are members of any of the five regional associations within MISA/ASIM Canada will receive 15 per cent off the cost of attending any Strategy Institute conferences through October 2010.

In the event that Strategy Institute offers more savings to any particular municipality, the company will extend that as a special offer to all municipalities in the MISA/ASIM membership. The offer has therefore been designated as “platinum” within the MISA/ASIM Canada Member Special Offers program.

Information about Strategy Institute conferences is available at www.strategyinstitute.com. The first conference for which the special offer will apply will be the “Canadian Smart Grid Summit” in Toronto on October 14-15, 2009.

For further information, please contact:

Waleed Khan Senior Marketing Manager StrategyInstitute 401 Richmond Street West, Suite 40 Toronto, ON M5V 3A8 416-944-8833 x 268 khan@strategyinstitute.com

TELUS

TELUS and MISA/ASIM Canada are pleased to announce that municipal members within MISA/ASIM Canada associations are able to purchase TELUS solutions, products and services at special value pricing.

Visit www.telus.com/misa to learn more about the special offers. Many of the solutions available are designed to address the specific challenges and requirements of local government organizations -- improved operational efficiency, enhanced public safety, accountability and transparency.

Using the site, you will:

Access a single resource offering solutions, products and services designed specifically for municipalities;
Benefit from a national pricing arrangement available only to municipal members of the five organizations within MISA/ASIM Canada;
Gain access to resource information including white papers, case studies and current research;
Find out about new products, special pricing/offers, upcoming conferences and webinars.

The solutions, products and services TELUS is offering can all be customized to the needs of your individual municipality, or in some cases can be acquired on a shared basis with other municipalities of similar size and need.

The solutions, products and services TELUS is offering include security, collaboration tools, AVL, municipal portals, high-performance workforce solutions and mobile inspections. Municipal implementations and applications are documented. The offerings can be customized to the needs of your individual municipality, or in some cases can be acquired on a shared basis with other municipalities of similar size and need.

Visitors to www.telus.com/misa can access the “Contact us” box to discuss unique requirements and be provided with more specific pricing information from a TELUS team member.

Texthelp Systems -- BrowseAloud

A software product designed to make Web sites more accessible by converting written texts to spoken words is being made available to municipalities through MISA/ASIM Canada at discounted prices that are standard across the country.

MISA/ASIM Canada has signed an agreement with Texthelp Systems Ltd., based in Northern Ireland, to make its BrowseAloud speech-enabling solution available at standard discounts to municipalities that are members of the five regional associations that comprise MISA/ASIM Canada.

BrowseAloud reads Web content aloud, making it more accessible to those with learning disabilities, dyslexia or visual impairments, or where English or French is a second language.

BrowseAloud can read embedded Word and PDF documents. The application enables the user to hover over or select text in order to hear it read aloud. The end user can also convert text to an MP3 file.

You can learn more by reading these documents:

The BrowseAloud plug-in application is downloaded by the end user and provides a range of options, which users can tailor for their own needs (i.e. preferred voice and speed, display colours, text-magnification options etc.).

A member municipality within a MISA/ASIM Canada association would be set up as a customer on Texthelp Systems’ extranet and the URL for its Web site would be enabled and added to the company’s directory of enabled sites. Texthelp would then provide a BrowseAloud logo/download link, which would be added to the municipality’s Web site to help notify end users that the service is available.

The BrowseAloud plug-in can then be downloaded at: http://www.browsealoud.com/page.asp?pg_id=80299

Municipalities can purchases licences for the product direct from Texthelp Systems at standard prices discounted from regular levels, if they are members of MISA/ASIM Canada associations. Technical support is available from Boston with a toll-free number.

Specific information on prices is provided to member municipalities of MISA associations on the associations’ Web sites. For example, municipal member representatives with access to the Members Only section of the MISA Ontario site can log in to www.misa.on.ca, look under Member Resources on the sign-in page and click on “Member Special Offers.”

For further information or to place orders, please contact:

Ian Stuart Business Development Manager, BrowseAloud Texthelp Systems Ltd. 25 Randalstown Road Antrim, Northern Ireland BT41 4LJ Toll free 1-877-778-6977 ian@BrowseAloud.com

Trend Micro

Trend Micro Incorporated is offering substantial discounts on one- or three-year licences for a variety of products designed to protect computers, networks, servers, collaboration systems and data centres. For details please see the enclosed product descriptions and price list.

The offer from Trend Micro covers the following products:

Worry Free Business Std
OfficeScan 10 Client Server Suite STD
OfficeScan 10 Client Server Suite ADV
ScanMail Suite for Exchange
ClientServer Messaging Suite
NeatSuite ADV
PortalProtect for Microsoft Sharepoint
MessageArchiver – Email Storage
Email Encryption Client
Intrusion Defense Firewall
Deep Security

The products are described at http://us.trendmicro.com/us/home/enterprise. They are available through Canadian resellers including Accuetrust, Acrodex, CDW , Compugen , DELL , LongView, Metafore , NCI and SoftChoice.

Trend Micro, based in Cupertino, CA, has its Canadian headquarters in Toronto. With operations globally, Trend Micro has more than two decades of experience in endpoint, messaging and Web security.

For further information please contact:

Bob Browne Regional Account Representative Trend Micro 91 Silverstone Road NW Calgary, Alberta T3B 4Y6 403-608-0804 bob_browne@trendmicro.com

Websense Canada

Websense Canada Inc. has announced that municipal members within MISA/ASIM Canada associations are able to purchase Websense solutions at discounts of up to 66 per cent off list prices.

The offer applies to 14 products within the Websense suite of Web, data and e-mail security products.

Websense has set up a tailored microsite on the Web specifically for municipal customers interested in this special offer. Prices and discounts for the range of solutions are listed at http://sites.syndicationlane.com/websense/misa/home. The information is also contained in the enclosed pricing document.

Websense describes its special offer as “best customer pricing,” with terms that municipalities could not normally negotiate on their own. The company has committed that its special offer through MISA/ASIM Canada will continue to contain the best pricing available to municipalities, so MISA/ASIM Canada has designated the offer as “platinum.”

Ottawa-based Websense Canada is wholly owned by Websense, Inc. (NASDAQ: WBSN) of San Diego, California, whose products are designed to enable organizations to use the Web, including Web 2.0 applications, safely to meet business goals without having to worry about security, productivity and liability threats such as malware, inappropriate content and data loss.

Regional contacts for the special offer are listed on the Websense microsite. For further information please contact:

Fiaaz Walji Canadian Country Manager, Websense Canada 613-299-3543 fwalji@websense.com