Contivo Selects Liaison Technologies as a Preferred System Integrator.

Partnership Provides Customers Flexible, Portable Outsourced or in-House Business-to-Business Integration Services for Data Mapping 

ATLANTA -- Liaison Technologies, a leading provider of business-to-business (B2B) managed services and infrastructure, announced today that Liaison and Contivo[R], the leading provider of automated data integration design solutions, have formed a strategic partnership. Liaison Technologies will be the "preferred" system integrator for Contivo.

This agreement gives Contivo the ability to offer Liaison's consulting and professional services to current and prospective customers. Likewise, Contivo's software solutions can be made available to Liaison's Data Exchange Platform customers as a value added service through a referral relationship. From the customer's perspective, this makes both Liaison and Contivo, even more compelling and complete solutions, offering their clients integration services, and onshore and offshore development services.

"Because of our years of practical experience with systems integration using Contivo technology, we have the ability to streamline the implementation process with Contivo's clients by offering implementation and on-going managed services leveraging the Contivo platform," said Bob Renner, chief executive officer of Liaison Technologies. "Both Contivo and Liaison have taken an open and portable approach to data and systems integration that avoids customer lock-in and ensures investment protection in data and system mapping. The goal of this extended partnership is to allow customers to easily migrate from an in-housed managed integration model to an outsourced service or vice versa, to meet their unique business needs."

Both Liaison and Contivo's solutions are compatible and interoperable with most business-to-business software platforms. Contivo and Liaison together will help companies simplify, streamline and manage the most complex integration tasks. Specifically, the joint offerings accelerate map creation and maintenance, improve processing efficiency and portability of mapping, and provide demonstrated cost savings across a broad range of data and system integrations.

"Some companies want to lock their customers in by making it difficult to switch from outsourcing a platform to hosting a platform in-house, but our partnership with Liaison reaffirms our commitment to offer an open, portable solution that does not constrain our customers," said Ed Wiggins, president and COO of Contivo. "Contivo selected Liaison not only because of their extensive experience integrating technology but also because of their expertise with the Contivo platform. Our ability to offer the technology to move maps from one platform to another with little effort is invaluable."

About Contivo

Contivo helps enterprises integrate data faster and more effectively than traditional hand-coded methods. Comprised of Contivo Vocabulary Management Solution (VMS)[TM] which includes Contivo Repository[TM], Contivo Analyst[TM], Contivo Builder[TM] and Contivo Manager[TM], Contivo automates data transformation for application implementation and integration independent of middleware or integration platforms. Contivo eliminates the need for a translator, reducing costs and risk. Contivo's code generation feature can be executed on any Java or XSLT platform including but not limited to webMethods, BEA and TIBCO. Contivo's recently expanded capabilities and platform support enable data integration across the enterprise, extending to legacy systems and Web services. To learn more about Contivo, call [phone] or visit www.contivo.com.

About Liaison Technologies

Liaison Technologies helps companies transform themselves into real-time enterprises. Clients are able to maximize profits through shortened time-to-market, improved supply-chain flow and synchronized product information. More than 3,000 organizations have benefited from Liaison Technologies' managed services, consulting services, as well as its real-time transaction network, master data management and product information management solutions. Liaison Technologies Data Exchange Platform enables more than 2 million XML-based, real-time transactions per month. To learn more about the results Liaison Technologies has delivered for real-time enterprises like International Paper, Weyerhaeuser Company, Merck & Co., PaperlinX, MAP, Lecta Group, M-Real, Sappi, Stora Enso, Grupo Portucel Soporcel and Unisource, call 866-336-7378 or visit www.liaison.com.