Press Release

Appfluent Technology Joins Business Objects as Technology Partner

Rockville, MD – June2, 2005 – Appfluent Technology, the leader in data usage and query performance software, today announced it has joined the Business Objects Technology Partner program to deliver joint solutions address the growing need for effectively improving query performance and consolidating data.

Through a strategic technology partnership with Business Objects, Appfluent enables customers to maximize their investments on the Business Objects platform. Appfluent provides instant insight into data and query usage without any intrusive agents and no performance overhead. With the combined solution, companies can leverage Business Objects reports to access the data and query usage analysis delivered by Appfluent.

The combined solution from Business Objects and Appfluent delivers immediate benefits:

• Analyze data and query access patterns to enable optimal report design and data design, ongoing database tuning and end-user training
• Ensure compliance of data privacy and security regulations by auditing data usage of business critical information
• Gain insights on actual data usage to identify dormant data for database and server consolidation projects and data archiving strategies
• Reduce performance/acceptance testing times of new application releases and data warehouse consolidation projects

About Appfluent Technology

Appfluent Technology is the leading provider of data usage and query performance software designed 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. Appfluent provides a suite of products to optimize query performance based on usage, clean up and consolidate databases and rapidly analyze applications for both test and production environments. For more information about Appfluent Technology, please visit www.appfluent.com.