Ascential Software's DataStage XE Product Family Captures Broad Industry Support.

Business & High-Tech Editors

ORLANDO, Fla.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 5, 2001

TDWI World Conference--

Ascential(TM) Software Corporation (NASDAQ: ASCL), the leading provider of Information Asset Management solutions (IAM), today announced extensive industry support for the newest release of the Ascential DataStage(R) XE Product Family (See related DataStage announcement for details). With this release, Ascential has deepened its commitment to driving the development of the data integration marketplace, providing the industry with the most complete solutions for managing the collection, validation, organization and administration of information assets.

Andersen

"Ascential Software's commitment to delivering the most comprehensive solutions for managing information assets has allowed Andersen to leverage the value of structured and unstructured data sources," said Jane Griffin, partner, data management group, Andersen worldwide. "As our customers expand their organizations, the scalability and manageability assured by the newest release of Ascential's DataStage XE product family will be key to helping our customers achieve even greater business successes."

Business Objects

"We are pleased to continue to support Ascential Software with its latest release of DataStage," said Mark Tice, group vice president of global alliances for Business Objects. "The combination of Ascential's leading information asset management technology and our advanced BI solutions, not only enables joint customers to access, analyze, and share corporate information across the enterprise, but it also allows customers to easily access and extract enterprise data from any source seamlessly through Business Objects analytic solutions."

Compaq

"With its DataStage XE product family, Ascential Software provides a best-of-breed data integration platform that effectively utilizes the performance and scalability of Compaq's Tru64 UNIX AlphaServer environment," said Jackie Kahle, vice president of high performance systems product marketing at Compaq Computer Corporation. "Our long-term relationship and mutual technical investments with Ascential ensures that companies can implement an AlphaServer-based solution that maximizes the utilization and value of their exponentially-growing information assets."

iWay Software

"Organizations are looking for a powerful development platform to integrate existing enterprise IT assets with new Internet technologies," said John Senor, president of iWay Software, an Information Builders company and market leader in middleware that accelerates e-business initiatives through the rapid integration of complex back-office systems. "Recognized as the industry's most complete data integration solution, Ascential's DataStage platform is ideally suited to help companies bring together information and meta data from across all enterprise applications. We are pleased to partner with Ascential to extend the reach of Ascential's products to legacy environments such as IMS, VSAM, and other data sources."

SAP

"SAP is working closely with Ascential Software to provide DataStage for Enterprise Applications (SAP Edition) customers with the most comprehensive and scalable data integration capabilities for multi-data warehouse environments," said Peter Grendel, director of global solution marketing, mySAP Business Intelligence. "Together, SAP and Ascential provide the industry's most comprehensive data integration business intelligence infrastructure that encompasses enterprise meta data. The enhancements made to Ascential's DataStage product family further round out the full business intelligence potential of SAP's complete data sharing, analysis and legacy integration capabilities."

About Ascential Software

Ascential Software Corporation is the leading provider of Information Asset Management solutions to the Global 2000. Customers use Ascential products to turn vast amounts of disparate, unrefined data into reusable information assets that drive business success. Ascential's unique framework for Information Asset Management enables customers to easily collect, validate, organize, administer and deliver information assets to realize more value from their enterprise data, reduce costs and increase profitability. Headquartered in Westboro, MA, Ascential has offices worldwide and supports more than 1,800 customers in such industries as telecommunications, insurance, financial services, healthcare, media/entertainment and retail. More information on Ascential Software can be found on the Web at http://www.ascentialsoftware.com.

(c)2001 Ascential Software. All rights reserved. Ascential is a trademark and DataStage is a registered trademark of Ascential Software Corporation and/or its affiliates and may be registered in other jurisdictions. Compaq, AlphaServer, and Tru64 are trademarks of Compaq Information Technologies Group, L.P. UNIX is a trademark of The Open Group. Other trademarks are the property of the owners of those marks.