Clear Technologies and Silvon Software to Provide a Complete, End-to-End Customer Management Solution to iSeries Customers.

Business/Technology Editors

COPPELL, Texas--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 20, 2001

Clear Technologies, Inc. today announced an alliance with Silvon Software to provide IBM iSeries middle-market customers with an end-to-end solution to automate their operational CRM and business intelligence functions. The partnership combines the integrity of two of iSeries' top ISV partners whose products complement each other in a way that is unique to this market. The terms of the agreement include sales channel collaboration and joint marketing programs between the firms.

"We are excited about the opportunity this partnership will provide," said Greg Colley, president of Clear Technologies. "For the first time, customers will be able to take advantage of the power of our combined products, Clear Technologies' Engage and Silvon Software's Stratum(TM), rolled into one end-to-end solution that offers complete relationship management and the analytics needed for a strong competitive edge."

"This marketing partnership offers highly robust, yet very affordable, operational and analytical CRM solutions to mid-market businesses that traditionally have been unable to invest in higher-end CRM applications," said John H. Hughes, senior vice president of Silvon Software, Inc. "It's a pleasure for us to team up with Clear Technologies to help iSeries users increase their customer retention and loyalty rates by having a single, integrated view of customer activity from which revenue-building and customer management decisions can be made."

About Silvon Software - www.silvon.com:

Silvon Software is a global supply chain-focused business intelligence solutions provider headquartered in the western Chicago suburb of Westmont, Illinois. Since 1987, Silvon has focused on software-based business intelligence/analytic application solutions for manufacturing, wholesale distribution and retail organizations.

The Silvon Stratum suite of analytic applications features completely integratable modules for Sales Performance Management, Marketing Performance Management, Manufacturing Performance Management, Procurement Performance Management, e-Business Performance Management, Customer Relationship Analytics and Activity Cost Management.

Silvon's analytic applications run on the IBM AS/400, Windows NT and Unix platforms. Silvon provides professional services and global support along with a network of OEMs, value-added resellers and independent distributors. The company's products are currently installed in more than 1,400 sites worldwide.

About Clear Technologies - www.cleartechnologies.net:

Clear Technologies, Inc., is a Premier IBM Business Partner and a Lotus Premier Business Partner focused on delivering Customer Driven technology solutions to for IBM's Middle Market eBusiness Customers. In October IBM announced the new eServer line of products and selected Clear's CRM product, Engage as one of its key midmarket CRM solutions. Engage is an affordable CRM suite that provides enterprise-wide relationship management from contact to contract and beyond. Additionally, Engage has powerful marketing and project-related service activity tracking modules. Clear Technologies is located in Coppell, Texas, and was founded in 1993. For additional information on Clear Technologies, Inc., or Engage, visit www.cleartechnologies.net and www.getengage.com.