Acadient Selects Snapbridge to Help Power Interactive, Multimedia Learning Solutions for Financial Services Industry.

Business Editors/High-Tech Writers

SAN DIEGO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 27, 2004

Snapbridge FDX Information Server Provides Acadient Dynamic,

Flexible XML Publishing Solutions for Managing Content

Snapbridge Software today announced that Acadient, a leading developer and distributor of online education with the largest repository of online financial education in the industry, has deployed Snapbridge FDX Information Server to help develop, update and manage financial education content for its innovative online learning solutions.

Snapbridge FDX Information Server provides Acadient with the optimal platform for complete lifecycle management of information integration initiatives to easily build its mission critical publishing applications. In addition, FDX Information Server's XML and XSLT tools provide the flexibility and power to enable Acadient to develop, transform, customize and reuse data and content effortlessly.

With a handful of authors, Acadient already has successfully utilized FDX Information Server to develop, edit and repurpose over 11,000 documents in less than a year. In addition, FDX Information Server's intelligent and intuitive templating system and use of open standards require minimum system administration and free Acadient's authors from updating and maintaining locked HTML coded content, thereby dramatically cutting costs and improving overall business productivity.

"After reviewing several offerings on the market, Snapbridge's FDX Information Server was the only technology offering a robust, high-level platform flexible enough to manage Acadient's complex, mission critical data publishing process -- right out of the box," said Henrik Sandell, COO of Acadient. "With its reasonable cost, ease of integration and maintenance, FDX Information Server has now become an essential part of our product architecture, giving us a 10 fold improvement over our original manual process for online course building, further enabling Acadient to maintain its place on the leading edge of the course instruction industry."

Moving forward, Acadient plans to widen the scope of FDX Information Server deployment, using it to triple their catalogue base -- including custom print material -- produced from a single source in the XML repository. In addition, Acadient plans to tie FDX Information Server's functionality as a back-end production tool to the front-end of the business. As a result, Acadient would create a seamless bridge between Acadient's learning system and Acadient marketing through a repository of products that can be managed easily and dynamically by FDX Information Server.

"Snapbridge is pleased to add financial services publishing leader Acadient to our growing roster of customers that are realizing the powerful benefits of implementing effective enterprise information integration technology today," said Snapbridge CEO Angus MacDonald. "Acadient joins a growing list of companies selecting Snapbridge products -- from developers downloading our cutting edge XML development tools, to enterprises deploying full information integration solutions in critical initiatives from customer care and risk management to supply chain and multi-channel publishing."

About Snapbridge FDX Information Server

Snapbridge's FDX Information Server, the industry's only comprehensive real-time data federation solution, delivers unprecedented performance, flexibility, and scalability by federating multiple data sources such as relational databases, flat files and web services from content repositories and streaming feeds to create composite objects that can be viewed, or updated as part of a transaction.

Snapbridge's FDX Information Server provides a platform for complete lifecycle management of information integration initiatives, enabling users to migrate projects from development, to staging, to production through an integrated set of project design, high performance XML processing and data federation management capabilities. Snapbridge FDX Information Server replaces the need for much of the custom code in critical enterprise initiatives such as customer care, risk management, supply chain, multi-channel publishing and others, accomplishing data federation ten times faster and at one-tenth the cost.

About Snapbridge Software

Snapbridge provides powerful products and services for information integration, content publishing and XML development. Patent-pending Snapbridge FDX data federation technology delivers unprecedented performance, flexibility, and scalability by federating multiple data sources such as relational databases, flat files, web services, mainframe data, digital images from content repositories and streaming feeds to create composite objects that can be viewed, or updated as part of a transaction. Founded in 2001, the Snapbridge team consists of world-class engineers and management from top companies including SUN, TIBCO, BEA, SAP, iXL -- including members of the teams that defined XML and Java. Snapbridge is working with a number of leading companies in financial services, telecom, travel, media and other industries. The company is headquartered in San Diego and is privately held, with investment backing from JP Morgan Partners and Mission Ventures. For more information, please visit www.snapbridge.com.

About Acadient

Based in Boston, Acadient is the nation's leading developer and distributor of online education and training for corporations, associations and consumers in the financial services industry. With the largest repository of financial education content in the sector, Acadient develops, hosts, and manages e-learning courseware and private-label online universities for industry organizations worldwide. Approved by the National Association of State Boards of Accountancy (NASBA) as a continuing education provider, Acadient partners with premier industry and academic organizations including the National Investment Company Service Association (NICSA), Society of Professional Administrators and Record Keepers (SPARK), Pearson Education, Financial Planning Association (FPA), Keir Educational Resources, The National Underwriter Company and Boston University.

Acadient is a corporate member of the American Society for Training and Development (ASTD), The Sloan Consortium, and the Massachusetts Interactive Media Council (MIMC). Please visit www.acadient.com for more information.