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Liaison Technologies Acquires Contivo, Inc.



    Liaison Technologies, Inc. a global data management and
    business-to-business (B2B) integration services provider, announced
    today it has completed the acquisition of Contivo, Inc. a leading
    provider of application independent automated data transformation (or
    mapping) software. The terms of the deal were not disclosed.

    The deal comes on the heels of Liaison´s recent announcement of
    its merger with Anilinker, a European integration services company.
    Announced on March 13, that merger agreement nearly doubled Liaison´s
    size and extended its ability to serve the global needs of
    multinational customers.

    "The addition of Contivo brings a wealth of strategic technology,
    intellectual property, and expert resources to our rapidly growing
    organization," said Bob Renner, CEO of Liaison. "We plan to leverage
    this innovative technology to our customers´ advantage, and help them
    create, migrate, and own their own business-critical maps, no matter
    what integration platform they select."

    "This acquisition sets Liaison Technologies apart in the
    Integration Service Provider (ISP) market as the only company to offer
    both full-service integration outsourcing and application-independent
    data transformation that complements a wide variety of
    service-oriented architecture (SOA) applications," said Ed Wiggins,
    former CEO of Contivo, Inc. and Liaison´s new Executive Vice President
    of Business Development.

    The acquisition allows Liaison to broaden its integration
    solutions and offer mapping services and software for its customers´
    enterprise application (EAI) and B2B integration needs. Liaison will
    continue to market the acquired software under the Contivo brand name.

    About Liaison Technologies

    Liaison Technologies is a global business-to-business integration
    services provider. More than 5,000 organizations around the world have
    benefited from Liaison´s integration, master data management and
    consulting services. Liaison enables more than 3 million electronic
    transactions every month for companies like Amazon.com, CHEP
    International, Cloetta Fazer, Merck & Company, MetLife, Siemens, Stora
    Enso and U.S. Bank. Liaison has offices in Amsterdam, Atlanta, and
    Tampere, Finland. For more information, visit www.liaison.com or call
    866-336-7378.

    About Contivo

    Contivo is the leading provider of automated data transformation
    solutions for integrating Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) to
    legacy applications. Leveraging Contivo´s software in complex global
    enterprise integration provides a significant reduction in the overall
    complexity and deployment time, and enables comprehensive data
    management with extensive documentation and reporting features.
    Contivo utilizes standards-based Java or XSLT data transforms to
    easily integrate with major middleware software, ESB solutions and SOA
    hardware appliances such as BEA, Cisco AXG, Cisco AON, IBM WebSphere
    DataPower, IBM WebSphere Message Broker, JBOSS, TIBCO Business Works,
    and Software AG webMethods.

    Contivo provides its data transformation solution to a range of
    industries including Financial Services, Telco, Insurance,
    Pharmaceutical, and High Tech Manufacturing. Founded in 1998, Contivo
    is privately held by Scale Venture Partners and Voyager Capital, and
    is headquartered in San Jose, Ca. For more information, go to
    www.contivo.com.