Axentis Announces Relationship with Littler Mendelson.

Organizations to Fuel Effective Privacy Awareness and Management for Global 2000

CLEVELAND -- Axentis, the leading provider of on-demand governance, risk and compliance (GRC) management solutions, today announced that Littler Mendelson, the nation's largest labor and employment law firm, is providing it with legal services relating to the development of Axentis Privacy Management Suite, the industry's only software-as-a-service (SaaS) offering dedicated to addressing privacy management. The organization will play a critical role in helping Axentis understand, analyze and address key privacy issues.

"Trustworthiness is vital to the success of a company. One of the key criteria driving this is protecting the information of its customers and employees," said Roger Bottum, vice president of marketing at Axentis. "Axentis Privacy Management Suite allows organizations to better manage their privacy program to ensure their reputation remains intact. Through this relationship with Littler Mendelson, we now have increased access to advice on best practices to maintain our leadership position in this area."

With approximately 500 attorneys in more than 30 major metropolitan areas nationwide, Littler Mendelson is the largest law firm in the United States devoted exclusively to representing management in employment, employee benefits and labor matters. The firm's Privacy and Data Protection Practice Group focuses on the full range of privacy and information security affecting employers. Working with Axentis, Littler Mendelson will provide counsel on Axentis' Privacy Management Suite as well as a wide range of privacy and data protection issues. The firm also will serve as an ongoing legal advisor to Axentis.

"Privacy has become a major discussion point for corporations looking to ensure their long-term viability," said Philip Gordon, chair of Littler Mendelson's Privacy and Data Protection Practice Group. "Through this relationship with Axentis, our experienced team of attorneys will be able to offer insights into the compliance challenges that many organizations are now confronting, helping them reduce the risk of privacy violations and security breaches that can expose the organization to civil litigation, government enforcement action, employee disgruntlement, and embarrassing publicity."

The Axentis Privacy Management Suite is designed to empower Global 2000 companies, government entities and educational institutions to successfully address the key issues that directly impact corporate reputation, consumer confidence, employee trust and protection of intellectual property. In addition to its relationship with Littler Mendelson, Axentis is a partner with the Ponemon Institute, an organization dedicated to advancing responsible information and privacy management practices in business and government.

About Littler Mendelson

With approximately 500 attorneys in more than 30 major metropolitan areas nationwide, Littler Mendelson is the largest law firm in the United States devoted exclusively to representing management in employment, employee benefits and labor matters. Littler's internal global migration practice provides support to international clients in moving employees around the world. For more information, visit www.littler.com.

About Axentis

Axentis delivers the only on-demand business performance optimization environment that empowers companies to turn governance, risk and compliance initiatives into better business performance and competitive advantage. With its unique software-as-a-service (SaaS) model, Axentis Enterprise (Ae) Suite delivers a one-world view of the entire organization for better risk management, mitigation and compliance. Ae is easy-to-use and can be deployed quickly, delivering immediate impact and a quick return on investment (ROI). Axentis was recently named an industry leader by Forrester Research in its "Government, Risk and Compliance Wave Study[TM]" and a "Cool Vendor" by Gartner, which also recognized Axentis in a report titled, "Adoption of Software-as a-Service Is Happening Outside of CRM." Current Axentis customers include First Data Corporation, ADT and AstraZeneca Pharmaceuticals. Axentis is headquartered in Cleveland, Ohio with data centers in Boulder, Colorado and Basel, Switzerland. For more information, please visit http://www.axentis.com.