Composite Software Named Winner in the Fifth Annual eWEEK Excellence Awards Program

Business Wire, April 20, 2005

SAN MATEO, Calif. -- Composite Software announced today that eWEEK, a Ziff Davis Media publication and one of the industry's leading enterprise IT magazines, has named the Composite Information Server 3.0 a winner in eWEEK's Fifth Annual Excellence Awards program, in the Analytics and Reporting category. Winners will be honored at a special ceremony on April 26, 2005, at The Westin Copley Place in Boston, Mass. All of the winning products in this year's program were announced in a special report appearing in the April 11 issue of eWEEK and at www.eweek.com.

The eWEEK Excellence Awards program provides enterprise IT professionals with a benchmark for assessing a wide range of technology products and services. Evaluating the entries this year was a panel of experts including eWEEK Labs analysts and eWEEK Corporate Partners, providing a unique mix of technical and real-world analysis.

"We are honored that Composite has been selected as an award winner," said Jim Green, Chairman and CEO of Composite Software. "The companies that were finalists in our category are exceptional. When you combine that with eWEEK's high standards, our win is an important endorsement of Composite and the importance of EII."

Products and services were awarded in the following categories:

--Analytics & Reporting

--Application Development

--Business Integration Systems

--Business Relationship Management

--Desktop & Mobile Hardware

--E-Business Foundations

--E-Mail Management & Security

--Enterprise Collaboration

--Enterprise Storage Hardware

--Enterprise Storage Software

--IT Quality Assurance Tools

--Productivity Applications

--Server Hardware

--Networking & Management Tools

--Networking Infrastructure

--System & Application Management

--Authentication & User Management

--Network Data-stream Protection

--Vulnerability Assessment & Remediation

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About Composite Software

Composite Software is the acknowledged leader in Enterprise Information Integration (EII), which provides real-time views of critical business information across multiple sources. The company's flagship Composite Information Server enables access to distributed enterprise data as if it existed in a single location. Founded in 2002 and headquartered in San Mateo, CA, Composite Software is funded by Palomar Ventures, Apax Partners, Lehman Brothers Venture Partners, Clearstone Venture Partners and Dot Edu Ventures. For more information, please visit the company's web site at www.compositesw.com.