Press Release

Cisco Systems Chooses Appfluent Technology
Appfluent software provides technology leader with insight into data usage and query performance

Rockville, MD – March 14, 2006 - Appfluent Technology, Inc. the leader in query performance and data usage software, today announced that Cisco Systems, Inc (NASDAQ: CSCO ) - the worldwide leader in networking for the Internet, has selected Appfluent Technology to help increase operational efficiency of managing and maintaining their Business Intelligence and Data Warehouse deployments.

”Appfluent is pleased to provide a technology leader such as Cisco Systems with easy-to-deploy and easy-to-manage solutions that will deliver instant data usage and query performance insight, enabling them to optimize performance and reduce data management costs for their BI applications” said Appfluent CEO Frank Gelbart . “Leading global 2000 organizations are increasingly relying on Appfluent Technology to reduce TCO, improve application database performance and mitigate risk from unauthorized data access, and Cisco’s adoption of Appfluent is further validation of that.”

Appfluent Query Performance™ helps companies reduce the time and resources spent on resolving query performance issues by instantly delivering insight into how users interact with data. Appfluent’s unique architecture does not require intrusive agents and does not add any performance overhead, eliminating implementation risks and reducing the total cost of ownership.

About Appfluent Technology

Appfluent Technology delivers software that provides data usage and query performance analysis to help IT organizations improve performance of Business Intelligence (BI) and enterprise applications, reduce the number of databases they maintain and quickly deploy new applications. Some of the leading companies in the world rely on Appfluent Technology, including Business Objects, Owens & Minor, Morgan Stanley, Pfizer, Hewitt Associates, Avnet and the State of New Jersey.