Sydney 1 December, 2008: Having an experienced management team in place will be a key to survival for many small-to-medium businesses in the current economic downturn, according to company director and business expert Andrew Blunden.

Mr Blunden, who has held roles as Chief Financial Officer, Company Secretary and Director for listed and privately owned companies including Sonic Healthcare and Computershare, said businesses with a good team in place are likely to do well, despite all the doom and gloom in the economy.

“It is no secret that having the best people managing your business is key,” said Mr Blunden, now managing director of Part Time Professionals, which sources executives for businesses needing experienced management support. “Having an experienced and reliable team of people will ensure that businesses make all the right decisions in this tough environment.”

In a timely response to the financial crisis, Part Time Professionals has just released a white paper for business owners, managers and entrepreneurs that reveals the secrets about how any business can afford a great management team. Downloadable from www.21stcenturymanagement.com.au, this free report provides an easy-to-follow roadmap to build the best management team in your business.

“Up until now, business owners thought that having the best management team was only the privilege of large and established “blue chip” corporations” Mr Blunden said. “Having worked with many fast-growth business success stories over the last 25 years, it’s about time this myth was exposed.”

Part Time Professionals was established to introduce quality and affordable accounting talent to Australian businesses. Now representing over 200 experienced accounting professionals – including former partners of Big Four chartered firms and former CFOs of ASX 200 companies – it knows how to introduce top executive talent into business.

“We created our unique solution because many companies were still struggling to afford top in-house accounting and executive talent. Our research highlighted the problems with franchised accounting resources, professional firms seconding their employees and off-site outsourcing of accounting functions. These old solutions weren’t perfect. Our business was established to give companies a better solution.”

About Part Time Professionals:

Part Time Professionals was established in 2006 and now represents over 200 qualified and experienced CFOs, financial controllers, accountants and other executives who are seeking both part-time and project assignments.

Through its unique Australian business model, Part Time Professionals introduces members of its CFO Network to prospective clients with an aim of providing the most experienced accounting talent to business in the most affordable way. At the same time it provides administrative services and marketing support to all its members, together with its exclusive Member Benefits program.

About the Managing Director, Andrew Blunden:

Andrew Blunden has spent over 25 years assisting fast-growth companies to maximise their value in the Australian marketplace.

He has held roles as Chief Financial Officer, Company Secretary and Director for both publicly listed and privately owned organisations that include Sonic Healthcare Ltd, Computershare Ltd, Sunshine Heart Inc., Proteome Systems Ltd, Lan Systems Pty Ltd and Serco Australia Ltd. He has also held executive roles in the fields of Finance, Company Secretarial and Human Resources.

In 2006 Andrew co-founded Part Time Professionals (www.ptprofessionals.com.au), a company that provided a unique solution to the skills shortage through the provision of part-time executives, accountants and managers throughout Australia. During the current financial crisis, the affordability of the part-time solution is particularly relevant. As an experienced ‘Part Time Professional’ himself, Andrew is also passionate about encouraging business growth and development and is a founding Director of Pittwater Business Limited - a not-for-profit company with over 300 business members that was formed to support the growth and development of sustainable and successful business in Sydney’s north.

Mr Blunden holds a Bachelor of Commerce (Newcastle University), a Corporate Directors Diploma (University of New England) and is a Member of the Australian Institute of Company Directors, Institute of Chartered Accountants, National Institute of Accountants and the Financial Executives International.

For more information, please contact:

Andrew Blunden

Managing Director

www.ptprofessionals.com.au

David Young, VP Infrastructure Services of leading SaaS solutions provider Global MainFrame, announced today the company has successfully tested and launched its proprietary Dynamic Provisioning Engine, which now forms the robust back-end of the Energy Resource Manager platform. “We are continuing to set the pace for the Oil and Gas sector,” Young says. “DPE is a fully integrated and secured service, which complements our Microsoft partnership, to enable the efficient delivery of network resources to activate any requested software.”

The Dynamic Provisioning Engine seamlessly performs the work of several engines commercially available today. With intuitive operational and administrative overlays, it deploys new services in the field very quickly. DPE also provides users a requisite policy-based security component and authentication control for selected business management, communication and CRM solutions. Augmenting existing accounting systems, this technology currently allows users to create and modify accounts, add (and delete) multiple users, change user passwords and check user balances.

“It serves as a centralized gateway, and as a result of the automated provisioning processes,” Young continues, “users will realize the activation of any purchased service in a very short amount of time. The system allows us to push content dynamically. At provisioning time, it can log on to any network device and make the necessary changes to activate a service in real-time and allows for the incredibly efficient distribution of our systems, modules and applications online.”

The engine, which utilizes various Microsoft solutions, is extremely flexible and will scale accordingly to accommodate many thousands of new clients and users. “Our development team has done a tremendous job in responding to the needs of our Oil & Gas clients,” Young concludes. “We’ve definitely come along way since cumbersome assembly languages controlled the market. This software paves the way for our exciting new programs coming down the pipe and straight into the hands of users in the field.”

About Global Mainframe: http://www.globalmainframe.com

Global Mainframe, trading on the NASDAQ Bulletin Board, symbol: GMFCF, delivers asset management SaaS modules online. Now a Certified Microsoft Partner, Global MainFrame has been selected one of Microsoft’s 14 exclusive field-managed partners out of 3,000 in Western Canada. Additional modules will cover operational areas such as dispatching, field ticketing, inventory controls, and employee training. Global Mainframe also offers an extensive mapping engine integrated into its base platform to help clients’ visualize and operate their businesses efficiently and effectively.