Ascentium Acquires UK-based Artemis Corp.

Combined SharePoint Expertise Drives Web 2.0 Growth and Innovation
BELLEVUE, Wash.--(Business Wire)--Ascentium Corporation, a leading interactive marketing and
technology consultancy, today announced the acquisition of top
Microsoft UK SharePoint Products and Technologies partner, Artemis
Corporation. This expansion represents Ascentium's first international
office and allows the company to cater to growing business
opportunities throughout the United Kingdom and Europe.

A Microsoft Gold Certified Partner, the Artemis team is best known
in the UK and throughout the global Microsoft enterprise content
management (ECM) and SharePoint Products and Technologies communities
as thought leaders in compliance, governance and unified communication
solutions. By joining the Ascentium team, Artemis will be able to
augment their deep SharePoint Products and Technologies and ECM
expertise as well as offer strategic and complementary services such
as analytics, interactive marketing, CRM, and business intelligence to
better serve their existing customers and to expand the business
internationally.

"For over a decade, Artemis has provided our customers with the
most innovative solutions to solve their content management and
collaboration challenges. By pooling our collective ECM and SharePoint
expertise as well as adding a host of complementary Ascentium services
and investment, we will be able to deliver on that commitment to
customers like never before," said Tony Sloggett, co-founder and the
chief solution architect for Artemis, at the announcement of the
acquisition.

Established in 1997, the Artemis team has a long successful track
record in designing, delivering, and supporting innovative solutions
that transform the way their customers do business. The company's
success in delivering Microsoft-centric solutions to solve challenging
business problems such as meeting government compliance requirements
and deploying dynamic, collaborative portals has been recognized with
two Global Awards at last year's Microsoft Worldwide Partner
Conference. An innovative company with significant intellectual
property, Artemis recently launched RAPID for Office SharePoint Server
2007 which features a comprehensive classification framework that
enables organizations to maintain compliance by extending Office
SharePoint Server 2007 to support any taxonomy.

"We're excited about this opportunity to partner with such a
stellar team that also shares our commitment to our customers'
continued success," said Jim Beebe, president of Ascentium. "We are
looking forward to bringing Artemis into the Ascentium family to
better serve the UK market and to scale to the increasing demand for
enterprise-ready SharePoint services in Europe."

"We are very pleased to see partners such as Ascentium and Artemis
combining in order to better serve the high demand for
SharePoint-powered solutions in Europe," said SharePoint Product
Marketing Director Tom Rizzo. "Their early investments in the
SharePoint platform are now bearing fruit with rapid growth and
customer success."

About Ascentium Corporation

Ascentium Corporation (www.ascentium.com) is an interactive
marketing and technology consultancy that delivers award-winning
experiences, products, and information-driven business solutions to
achieve its clients' strategic objectives. Making Inc. magazine's list
of the fastest-growing private companies in the U.S. for the past
three years, Ascentium continues to see substantial growth in creative
and marketing, Web initiatives, collaboration, enterprise content
management, systems integration, custom development, customer
relationship management, and strategic business engagements. The
company's clients include Boeing, Dell, Expedia, InfoSpace, Microsoft,
Providence Health Systems, and Starbucks. Ascentium is headquartered
in Bellevue, with offices in London, Los Angeles, Baltimore, Spokane,
Wash., Portland, Ore., Austin, Texas.

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