Concordant, Inc. Announces Partnership Agreement with Local Security Technology Leader UCHow Technologies, Inc. Firm partners to deploy Flagship SDEserver.

BOSTON -- North Chelmsford-based Concordant, Inc., a provider of IT infrastructure and security solutions for clients in regulated industries, today announced a partnership agreement with UCHow Technologies, Inc. The company, based in Watertown MA, builds highly secure, real-time collaboration and business software environments. Under the agreement, Concordant will implement solutions using UCHow's Information Security and Collaborative product suite, including its acclaimed SDEserver(TM) software application as part of an integrated security solution.

"We are thrilled about partnering with UCHow, as their product's attributes include secure and compliant collaboration and business frameworks. These features are especially important to our clients in highly regulated industries that demand secure infrastructure services," said Kirk Quinn, Managing Director of Strategic Partnerships. "This opportunity will enhance our ability to provide a more complete solution for many of our customers in the healthcare, financial services, and pharmaceutical industries."

Concordant will specifically provide deployment expertise assuring secure and regulatory compliant implementations of UCHow's flagship SDEserver(TM) software application, which enables secure and regulatory-compliant confidential eMeeting services, including: chat; presentations; documents; audio/video; and applications within the organization and across the globe.

"We are confident that Concordant's core infrastructure services expertise combined with our SDEserver(TM) product suite will provide real value to clients within heavily regulated industries," said Julie LeMoine, President & CEO of UCHow Technologies. "This partnering agreement continues to assure our customers that we are meeting the most stringent security and compliance regulations."

SDEserver(TM) was named one of the top 30 applications to emerge in 2003 by Forrester Research and has been written up by several analysts groups as the option for companies needing a cost effective, yet secure approach to real-time collaboration and business frameworks. It was designed to answer the need for secure online communication, collaboration, and access to tools in business environments and enables customers to support compliant confidential exchanges.

About Concordant:

Concordant, Inc. (http://www.concordantinc.com), based in North Chelmsford, MA, provides secure IT infrastructure solutions for customers in regulated industries. Utilizing a proven toolset and methodology from planning through implementation, Concordant is the unrivaled choice to provide secure Microsoft-based infrastructure solutions within the Healthcare, Financial services, and pharmaceutical verticals.

About UCHow Technologies:

UCHow Technologies, Inc. (http://www.uchow.com), based in Watertown, MA is a company of security and collaborative experts, who have spent years evolving online delivery channels and business models. U C How Technologies was founded by noted technology and security expert, Julie LeMoine in 2000, to harness and integrate the current technology in Information Security and Real-time Collaborative techniques to create a secure, well designed, easy to use and deploy product suite for the enterprise or SMB business.