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Invention Machine Enters 2007 with Record Growth and Corporate Momentum


    Invention Machine Corporation, the leading provider of software
    that accelerates product innovation, today announced record growth in
    2006 marked by substantial year-end revenues, strong new customer
    acquisitions and existing customer expansions, and significant new and
    localized product introductions. Record revenues in the fourth quarter
    capped another year of strong, profitable, double-digit growth, far
    exceeding the overall industry averages and demonstrating increasing
    demand for Invention Machine's Goldfire Innovator.

    "We are proud of our success in 2006 and the momentum and market
    traction we have achieved," said Mark E. Atkins, Chairman, President
    and CEO of Invention Machine. "Invention Machine's strategy has been
    to listen to our customers, fund R&D investments, and continue to
    deliver world-class solutions that uniquely address manufacturer's
    most pressing innovation challenges. We look forward to building on
    this foundation and accelerating our growth in 2007."

    Customer Momentum Driven by Continued Adoption across Verticals
    and Geographies

    Invention Machine experienced substantial customer growth in more
    than 15 countries across key manufacturing industries, including
    automotive, aerospace and defense, chemicals, consumer packaged goods,
    electronics, energy, life sciences and pharmaceuticals. 2006 customer
    wins include: Hyundai Heavy Industries, Thales, PepsiCo Inc., Dassault
    Aviation, Arcelik AS, Gaz de France, Leggett & Platt, Alcan, Samsung
    Electronics Co. Ltd., Mitsubishi Chemical Corporation, Siemens, LG
    Micron, Airbus, Solutia Inc., Sun Chemical, and Cardinal Health.

    Global Expansion

    In order to meet increased global demand for its Goldfire(TM)
    solutions, 2006 marked an important year in corporate expansion:

    -- Opening new offices in Frankfurt, Germany

    -- Doubling the size of its global direct sales, marketing and
    services organizations

    -- Expanding the management team with the addition of Jeff Boehm,
    Vice President of Marketing and Strategy, Barry Daitch, Vice
    President of Services, and Jeff Jarvis, Vice President of
    North American Sales

    -- Appointing former Ascential Software Chairman and CEO, Peter
    Gyenes, to Invention Machine's Board of Directors; and

    -- Expanding the company's presence in Asia Pacific and Europe
    with the addition of new resellers in Taiwan, India, Malaysia,
    Italy, Portugal and Sweden.

    Product and Services Leadership

    2006 was a banner year for Invention Machine's product portfolio
    with two major releases of its flagship product, Goldfire
    Innovator(TM) and a series of local language versions of the software.
    Notable releases include:

    -- Goldfire Innovator(TM) 3.0, which ushered in a new class of
    knowledge-enabled innovation capabilities based around
    breakthrough semantic analysis functionality, enabling users
    to more easily leverage existing information sources to solve
    complex manufacturing challenges. Goldfire Innovator's Root
    Cause Analysis (RCA) and newly introduced Failure Mode Effects
    Analysis (FMEA) modules, which facilitate more rapid and
    comprehensive failure diagnosis and improve design
    reliability, are built upon a powerful new semantic structure
    - the Cause-Effect relationship - providing users the ability
    to automatically identify and retrieve 'causes' and 'effects'
    of events across internal and external data sources.

    -- The release of Goldfire Innovator with a French semantic
    engine including a unique, patent-pending cross-language
    search capability, which allows users to access and leverage
    concepts across both French and English documents.

    -- Goldfire Innovator(TM) 3.5, which includes a new German
    semantic engine along with numerous feature enhancements.

    -- The release of a fully localized Japanese version of Goldfire
    Innovator including a Japanese semantic engine.

    2006 was also a strong year for the Invention Machine Services
    Group with the re-engineering and growth of the services team, the
    roll-out of several new and robust service offerings, and the
    successful completion of a record number of customer engagements.

    About Invention Machine

    Invention Machine Corporation is the leading provider of solutions
    that enable global 2000 manufacturers to accelerate and expand idea
    generation, increasing innovation and accelerating time to market of
    higher quality products. More than 1200 leading manufacturers use
    Invention Machine's solutions to raise returns on their R&D
    investments, improve design and production processes across the
    product lifecycle, and continually fuel product pipelines with
    innovative products. Headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts, Invention
    Machine has offices in the UK, France and Germany and distribution
    partners throughout Europe and Asia-Pacific. Invention Machine
    supports Global 2000 customers worldwide including Delphi, HP, NEC,
    Northrop Grumman, Renault, Samsung, Saipem, Shell, ST
    Microelectronics, and Whirlpool. For additional information, please
    visit www.invention-machine.com.