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Ascential Software Expert Recognized as a 2005 'Pro to Know' by Supply & Demand Chain Executive Magazine Industry Solutions Executive Will Reilly Brings Data Integration Expertise to Ascential Software's Consumer Packaged Goods, Retail, and Manufacturing Customers WESTBORO, Mass., March 8 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Supply & Demand Chain Executive magazine has selected Will Reilly, an Industry Solutions Executive with Ascential Software Corporation (NASDAQ:ASCL), as a 2005 "Pro to Know" award winner in the Solutions Provider category. The publication chose "Pro to Know" award winners based on their contributions in advancing the discipline of supply chain management (SCM) by equipping SCM professionals with products, services, and industry expertise that enhances performance. Ascential Software provides product, methodology and services to create individual solutions that meet the specific procurement and distribution needs of many industries. Past "Pros to Know" include executives from ChevronTexaco, Hewlett-Packard, IBM, Motorola, Proctor & Gamble, and Pitney Bowes. "Ascential Software's Will Reilly exemplifies our vision of a supply and demand chain provider 'Pro to Know,'" said Andrew Reese, editor, Supply & Demand Chain Executive magazine. "Reilly and Ascential Software have made substantial contributions to the management of global supply chains by bringing to market a broad set of solutions that deliver on its vision for data integration as an integral part of successfully automating and optimizing the supply chain." Ascential Software has more than 3,000 customers, including many of the top names in retail, manufacturing and consumer packaged goods, including Home Depot, Amazon.com, Anheuser-Busch, the Scotts Company, the Boeing Company, Owens Corning, and Harley-Davidson. Data integration delivers essential underlying capabilities for modern supply chains: managing transactions between trading partners, enhancing the validity and quality of the data they share, and delivering that information for use in operational and analytical environments. In this way, Ascential Software solutions are used to underpin data synchronization and RFID programs, help manufacturers operate as participants in demand driven supply networks, and as an enabler for a variety of master data initiatives including product information management, vendor management, margin analysis, and spare parts management. "Companies need to deploy enterprise data integration solutions to maximize investments in supply chain management because bringing together information from myriad sources is critical to optimizing ROI," said Reilly. "With many collaborative partners, dozens of manufacturing locations and complex distribution channels, in addition to thousands of part numbers, bills of material, and sub-assembly IDs, supply chain participants need a single view of the truth and a means of sharing and acting on information. I am honored that Supply & Demand Chain Executive magazine has recognized the key role Ascential Software's data integration solutions play in providing a consistent view of supply chain data." The Ascential Enterprise Integration Suite is a comprehensive data integration solution that profiles, cleanses, and transforms data from virtually any application or system regardless of data volume or latency. Ascential Software's integrated offering is designed to help companies streamline operations, improve customer support, expedite business transactions, and make better tactical and strategic decisions on the basis of the best available information. The suite provides unlimited scalability through parallel processing, complete meta data management, and any-to-any data source and application connectivity, and delivers on-demand data integration seamlessly within an enterprise's service-oriented architecture. About Ascential Software Ascential Software Corporation (NASDAQ:ASCL) is the leader in enterprise data integration. Customers and partners worldwide use the Ascential Enterprise Integration Suite(TM) to confidently transform data into accurate, reliable and complete business information to improve operational performance and decision-making across every critical business dimension. Our comprehensive end-to-end solutions provide on demand data integration complemented by our professional services, industry expertise, and methodologies. Ascential Software is headquartered in Westboro, Mass., and has more than 3,000 customers and partners globally across such industries as financial services and banking, insurance, healthcare, retail, manufacturing, consumer packaged goods, telecommunications and government. For more information call 1-800-966-9875 (or 1-508-366-3888 from outside the U.S. or Canada) or visit the Ascential Software website at http://www.ascential.com/. Media and industry analysts, contact Chas Kielt, director of media and analyst relations, at 1-508-599-7256 or . Safe Harbor Statement under the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995: This release contains forward-looking statements based on current expectations or beliefs, as well as a number of assumptions about future events, and these statements are subject to important factors and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from those described in the forward-looking statements. The forward-looking statements in this release address a variety of subjects including, for example, the functionality, characteristics, quality and performance capabilities of Ascential Software's products and technology; results achievable and benefits attainable through deployment of Ascential Software's products and provision of services; the ability of Ascential Software's products to help companies streamline operations, improve customer support, expedite business transactions, and make better tactical and strategic decisions on the basis of the best available information and improvements in operational performance and decision-making. The following factors, among others, could cause actual results to differ materially from those described in these forward-looking statements: the ability of the company to expand its market share; growth rates for the enterprise data integration software market; general business conditions in the software industry, the technology sector, and in the domestic and international economies; rapid technological change in the markets served by the company; dependence on international operations; global and geopolitical instability; compliance costs associated with regulations to which the company is subject, including the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002, and the impact of such regulations; and difficulties that the company may experience integrating technologies, operations and personnel of completed or future acquisitions. For a detailed discussion of these and other cautionary statements, please refer to the filings made by Ascential Software with the Securities and Exchange Commission, including, without limitation, the most recent Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q. Ascential Software disclaims any intent or obligation to update any forward-looking statements made herein to reflect any change in Ascential Software's expectations with regard thereto or any change in events, conditions, or circumstances on which such statements are based. Ascential Software is not responsible for statements attributed to third parties within this release or in any materials referenced herein. Partnerships described herein shall be deemed to be strategic alliances only, and shall not imply the power of either partner to bind the other partner or to incur obligations on behalf of the other partner. Ascential and Ascential Enterprise Integration Suite are trademarks of Ascential Software Corporation or its affiliates and may be registered in the United States or other jurisdictions. Other marks are the property of the owners of those marks. DATASOURCE: Ascential Software Corporation CONTACT: Chas Kielt of Ascential Software Corporation, +1-508-599-7256, ; or Kristina LeBlanc of Porter Novelli, +1-617-897- 8200, Web site: http://www.ascentialsoftware.com/

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