OpenSpan Grows 440 Percent in 2007; Adds 30 New Customers in Financial Services,...

OpenSpan Grows 440 Percent in 2007; Adds 30 New Customers in Financial Services, Telecommunications and Call Center Markets

Global 2000 Corporations Deploy OpenSpan Platform to Drive
Productivity Enhancements through Enterprise Integration and
Automation
ATLANTA--(Business Wire)--OpenSpan, Inc., the enabler of the New Enterprise Desktop, today
announced that the company experienced 440 percent revenue growth in
2007 over 2006. OpenSpan attributes this rapid expansion to a growing
demand among Global 2000 corporations for an essential tool that
rapidly integrates, automates and extends applications across the
enterprise desktop.

During the past year, 30 new customers deployed the OpenSpan
Platform across large, highly demanding production environments in the
financial services, telecommunications, healthcare, outsourcing and
call center industries. At the same time, OpenSpan expanded its
deployments at existing customer sites and generated 40 percent of its
revenue from outside of North America. To keep pace with the growing
demand, OpenSpan increased its headcount by 300 percent in 2007.

"The OpenSpan Platform is eliminating real enterprise pain points
while simultaneously increasing productivity for business users," said
Francis Carden, CEO of OpenSpan. "It's no wonder that more and more
leading global corporations are turning to the OpenSpan Platform to
integrate applications and automate business processes as well as to
rapidly integrate Web services into their existing legacy application
environments. With the OpenSpan Platform, our customers often realize
near immediate ROI at the desktop-level, driving IT improvements
across the entire organization."

On the partnership front, OpenSpan initiated new or expanded
existing alliance relationships with Accenture, Aspect Software,
Avanade, i5, Microsoft, Vertical Thought and Westbrook Technologies.
These alliances extend OpenSpan's reach and ensure a consistent level
of quality deployment for customers.

Customers were not the only ones to rave about OpenSpan in 2007.
The OpenSpan Platform received a 2008 Editors' Choice Award from
Redmond magazine, the authoritative, independent voice of the
Microsoft IT community, as well as a 2007 Product of the Year Award
from Technology Marketing Corporation's (TMC(R)) Customer Interaction
Solutions magazine, the leading publication covering CRM, call centers
and teleservices since 1982. CRN, part of CMP's family of Channel
Solutions, also called out OpenSpan as a 2007 CRN Emerging Tech vendor
for its innovative integration technology, enabling partners and
customers to more easily deploy software applications into complex IT
environments. These awards are the latest in a number of third-party
endorsements of the OpenSpan Platform.

OpenSpan made significant technology upgrades to the OpenSpan
Platform in 2007, including:

-- Enhanced Web adapter in v2.2

-- Support for .NET 2.0 and Microsoft CCF 2.6 in v3.0

-- Java adapter, Siebel v7 adapter and enhanced Web services
support in v3.1

-- Enhanced support for Citrix, Microsoft Office 2007, Windows
Vista and dynamic Web tables in v3.2.

The company also introduced a dedicated new product, OpenSpan for
CCF, with integration and pre-built components for Microsoft Customer
Care Framework 2008.

The OpenSpan Platform is the industry's only software platform
that transcends traditional server and user interface integration
technologies by leveraging the interactions between applications and
the underlying operating system. This dramatically simplifies the
integration process across both legacy and modern application
platforms, including Web services. It also allows enterprises to build
business process automations that span multiple environments,
including desktop applications.

About OpenSpan, Inc.

Global 2000 enterprises leverage the OpenSpan Platform to
integrate applications, automate business processes, extend
functionality and build new composite applications in order to realize
immediate value on their IT investments. OpenSpan and its partners
utilize the company's unique approach to integration to accelerate
service-oriented architecture (SOA) deployments and
increase enterprise desktop productivity. The award-winning OpenSpan
Platform received the 2007 Product of the Year Award from Technology
Marketing Corporation's (TMC(R)) Customer Interaction Solutions
magazine as well as the 2008 Editors' Choice Award from Redmond
magazine, the authoritative, independent voice of the Microsoft IT
community. A venture-backed company, OpenSpan is headquartered in
Alpharetta, GA. More information about OpenSpan is located online at
www.openspan.com.

OpenSpan, Inc.
Joe McGonnell, 678-527-5400
jmcgonnell@openspan.com
or
Schwartz Communications
Keith Giannini/Kevin Carter, 781-684-0770
openspan@schwartz-pr.com

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