EXHIBIT 99.1

( BW)(OH-POMEROY-IT-SOLUTIONS)(PMRY) Pomeroy IT Solutions Awarded $54
Million In Contracts

    Business Editors

     HEBRON, Ky.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 5, 2004--Pomeroy IT Solutions, Inc.
(Nasdaq:PMRY) today announces that it has been selected to provide national
maintenance, outsourcing, and technology refresh services worth an estimated $54
million over the next five years.
     A financial-services firm has awarded Pomeroy three separate contracts for
services supporting their 9000 branch locations nationwide. The awards include a
five-year nationwide technology maintenance contract, a five-year outsource of
their centralized branch integration and deployment operations, and a technology
refresh project replacing the firm's 27,000 desktop systems over the next twelve
months.
     "These awards point to Pomeroy's dedication to being a strategic partner to
our clients. We have the ability to leverage our business model to drive cost
out of multi-service projects, while maintaining the superior level of service
critical to a client. Combined with our national capability, we believe we can
offer the best solutions for projects of this scale," said Steve Pomeroy,
President and COO of Pomeroy IT Solutions.

     About Pomeroy IT Solutions

     As a solution provider, Pomeroy IT Solutions offers three categories of
service: enterprise consulting, enterprise infrastructure solutions and
lifecycle services. The Company has Clientele across a broad spectrum of
industries, governments and educational organizations. The Company employs
approximately 1,400 individuals, more than half of whom are technical personnel,
and maintain 26 regional facilities in Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Illinois,
Indiana, Iowa, Kentucky, Missouri, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, South
Carolina, Tennessee and West Virginia. For the year ended January 5, 2004, the
Company reported revenues of $598 million.

     Certain of the statements in the preceding paragraphs regarding projected
revenues constitute "forward-looking statements" for purposes of the Securities
Act of 1933 and the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, and as such
they involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors which may
cause actual results to be materially different from those projected. These
projections are based on the estimated needs of the customers as conveyed to
Pomeroy, the terms of applicable agreements and assumptions regarding the
Company's performance thereunder, the nature and volume of products and services
anticipated to be delivered and the Company's ability to obtain sufficient
volumes of products and provide services.

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     CONTACT:  Pomeroy IT Solutions, Inc.
               Michael E. Rohrkemper, 859-586-0600, Ext. 1416

     KEYWORD: KENTUCKY
     INDUSTRY KEYWORD: HARDWARE MARKETING AGREEMENTS
     SOURCE: Pomeroy IT Solutions, Inc.