Effigent and Sybase Announce Successful Migration of Another Enterprise Customer to PowerEasy ERP Enterprise Solution on Sybase ASE and Mac OS X

Business Wire, June 14, 2005

SAN JOSE, Calif. -- Effigent Inc., today announced that Trimjoist a manufacturer of engineered products has successfully migrated to its POWERASY ERP ENTERPRISE solution on Sybase Adaptive Server(R) Enterprise (ASE) and Mac OS X running on Apple Xserves. The company switched from a legacy Computer Associates ERP system running on HP Unix servers and Windows environment to a single integrated PowerEasy system on Sybase and Apple platform to run its entire financials, sales order processing & fulfillment, inventory management and purchasing functions across multiple locations.

According to Barry Sanford, CEO of Trimjoist, "PowerEasy ERP solution on the Apple and Sybase infrastructure has provided us with a modern integrated ERP system to run our entire operations on a stable, secure and easy to use platform that will meet our company's growing needs. We are new to the Apple and Sybase(R) infrastructure but already are beginning to see the value in terms of ease of administration and maintenance. We intend to keep our IT operational costs low as we expand our operations and the PowerEasy solution leveraging Sybase and Apple technologies will play a key role in our growth."

According to Obul Kambham, CEO of Effigent, "With customers like Trimjoist, Effigent continues to see an increasing demand in the market where customers are looking for alternatives to the traditional Windows based systems to manage their business operations on stable, secure and scalable solutions. We continue to innovate in this area by leveraging enterprise-class technologies from Apple and Sybase to provide customers with a seamless experience to manage their growing businesses."

"The PowerEasy ERP solution when combined with secure information management power of Sybase Adaptive Server Enterprise for Mac OS X and Apple hardware provides an integrated infrastructure that enables unprecedented levels of scalability, reliability and security for small and medium businesses (SMB) to manage their operations," said Dr. Herman Li, Vice-President of Development for Sybase's Information Technology Solutions Group. "The cost-value proposition of this integrated solution ideally fits the needs of the SMB marketplace."

The PowerEasy solution enables small and medium sized companies to manage all key business operations in a single, integrated system which includes financials, sales order management and fulfillment, inventory management, purchase order management and ecommerce. The solution is built on the secure and reliable foundation of Mac OS X and Sybase ASE and provides small and medium businesses with an integrated business management infrastructure.

About Effigent Inc.

Effigent Inc. is a privately held software company with its principal offices in San Jose, California. It specializes in delivering powerful, easy-to-use, enterprise-class applications leveraging Apple technologies to small and medium size businesses. Additional information on Effigent Inc. can be obtained from the website, http://www.effigent.com/.> Sybase and Adaptive Server Enterprise are registered trademarks of Sybase, Inc. All other company and product names mentioned may be trademarks of the respective companies with which they are associated.

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