Alberta Business Wins National Award for Innovation

Yvonne Tollens, Co-Founder of ComputerAid Professional Services was named a 2006 RBC Canadian Women Entrepreneur on November 21, 2006 at the Toronto Awards Gala. Yvonne was chosen from a slate of over 800 applicants to be the recipient of the Intel Innovation Award saluting the country’s most innovative entrepreneur in implementing new ideas with technology to create a competitive advantage for their organization and industry.

Agriculture is the second largest economic industry in Alberta; ComputerAid solutions assist in the management of over $1.5 Billion of cattle and commodity inventories on their feedlot management packages each year. Yvonne is the guiding force behind this leading technology and software Company. This award recognizes twenty years of continual innovation and successful implementation of software, hardware, and technical solutions in agriculture.

“Our goal is to ensure that we have solutions ready as the industry changes and advances so our clients transition seamlessly through those times” states Yvonne. ComputerAid continues to set the “new normal” for innovative solutions and customer support. “Innovation is the foundation of our success we use the latest tools available to ensure our clients can continue to operate in rural areas and remain competitive in the global marketplace.”

Yvonne is the co-founder of the Okotoks, AB based ComputerAid Professional Services Ltd. - the most successful Canadian feedlot software and technology Company in the cattle industry. In conjunction with her husband Ralph Tollens, ComputerAid was launched in 1986 to assist family and friends with collecting and managing data for their cow calf operations. Over the years the amount of data and the timeliness for this data has continued to expand and ComputerAid software now tracks information on 1.6 million animals each year. ComputerAid has continued to meet their client’s needs by continually looking for new ways to enhance data collection through sustainable software solutions with reliable and effective technology advancements. Their vision is to provide the tools, technology, and training to ensure the profitability, sustainability and global positioning of their clients as the leaders in the cattle industry.

About The Award Since 1992, the RBC Canadian Women Entrepreneur Awards (CWEA) has paid tribute to Canada’s most successful female entrepreneurs for their important contributions to the Canadian and global economies as well as their communities.

For more information contact: Media contacts: Tanya Thorn, ComputerAid Professional Services Ltd., (403) 938-3020, info@computeraidpro.com www.computeraidpro.com