Press Release

Appfluent Technology Supports Self-Managing Autonomic Technology

Rockville, MD – November 21, 2005 - Appfluent Technology, Inc., a leader in query performance and data usage software, today announced support for self-managing autonomic technology from IBM. Effective immediately, Appfluent Technology’s suite of products includes support for the Common Base Format Events from the IBM Autonomic Computing Toolkit, allowing organizations to monitor and aggregate system-activity events.

“We share IBM’s vision of creating intelligent, self-managing, self-healing open systems to help organizations reduce operating costs and provide increased returns on their IT investments”, said Frank Gelbart, CEO, Appfluent Technology. “By providing software that supports IBM’s acAutonomic omputing initiative we are delivering on this vision.”

Appfluent Technology’s suite of data usage and query performance software helps companies gain instant insight into how users interact with enterprise data. With the usage analysis provided by Appfluent’s software, organizations improve performance and management of Business Intelligence (BI) and enterprise applications, reduce the number of databases they maintain and quickly deploy new applications. 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.

“We are pleased that Appfluent Technology has incorporated self-managing autonomic technology into their data usage and query performance software,” said Dave Bartlett, vice president, Autonomic Computing for IBM. “By working with our business partners to add autonomic capabilities to their products, our mutual customers can reap the benefits of self-managing systems.”

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.