Press Release

Hewitt Associates Selects Appfluent Technology
Appfluent software to help manage rapid growth in Business Intelligence environment

Rockville, MD – November 14, 2005 - Appfluent Technology, Inc. the leader in query performance and data usage software, today announced that Hewitt Associates (NYSE: HEW) – the world’s foremost provider of human resources outsourcing and consulting services for over 2,300 companies – has selected Appfluent Query Performance™ to gain better visibility into the data usage and query performance of its customer facing business intelligence (BI) implementation.

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.

“Hewitt Associates is a key customer for us, and we look forward to working with them to provide a mutually beneficial relationship,” said Appfluent CEO Frank Gelbart. “They are clearly the leaders in enabling organizations to focus on strategic initiatives, reduce costs and provide better tools and solutions for employees. With the Appfluent Query Performance, Hewitt can continue to deliver superior performance and end-user experience for their customers.”

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.