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Kanalytics Announces Global Partnership with Microsoft to Deliver Solutions Sharing Network
Company Leverages Knowledge Management Expertise and Extends Offering for Commercial Markets

Annapolis, Maryland – December 14, 2004 – Kanalytics Inc., a leading provider of knowledge management and business intelligence solutions, today announced its global partnership with Microsoft (MSFT) to deliver an online knowledge management solution for the government sector. With the Solutions Sharing Network (SSN) offering, organizations will not only be able to share information, but also share code and applications, all by leveraging their existing technology tools. The result is increased collaboration and a dramatic boost in efficiency, productivity and overall effectiveness. The SSN initiative marks Kanalytics’ first critical milestone in bringing its knowledge management solutions to the market.

The announcement comes on the heels of Microsoft’s recent launch of its Solutions Sharing Network for government agencies, a global initiative to increase communication, information and knowledge exchange and collaboration between government organizations, academic institutions and other public sector agencies. Kanalytics will continue to work with Microsoft on the initiative, and will now make its product – Kanalytics’ Knowledge and Collaboration Center – available for commercial application. The offering will be initially designed for the healthcare/pharmaceutical and financial services markets.

“Government customers have been asking Microsoft for a better way to share information and content across departments, ministries and countries. The Solutions Sharing Network is an excellent cross government knowledge management platform that enhances communication, collaboration and information sharing. We are proud to partner with Kanalytics to deliver these knowledge management solutions to our customers,” said Pete Hayes, vice president of the public sector for Microsoft in Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA).

The SSN web-based portal, available in nine languages, is currently being used by governments around the globe to share information, solutions, architectures, best practices and application source codes. Microsoft is currently providing the solution, which is based on Kanalytics’ patent pending technology, to 13 government or municipal organizations and expects 200 sites by next year.

“We are excited about partnering with Kanalytics to bring our SSN vision to life. Our goal is to enable collaboration so that organizations can share IT solutions, architectures, code, and best practices to increase efficiencies and reduce long-term costs,” said Gerri Elliott, corporate vice president for the Worldwide Public Sector organization at Microsoft. “The deployment of SSN has already begun in the government sector, and we expect Kanalytics – with its deep understanding of knowledge management, as well as its ability to deliver customized knowledge management products across industries – will play a key role to build and implement SSN around the globe.”

Unlike other knowledge management offerings that require customers to purchase additional products and technologies, Kanalytics leverages clients’ existing IT investment in Microsoft tools. The knowledge management platform is an environment that allows people to share enterprise objectives, functional processes, organizational units, people and information resources. Features include program and project management, portfolio management, as well as performance management capabilities. Business intelligence features are a key ingredient to the success of the product suite featuring customer analysis, customer segmentation, attrition analysis, and churn analysis, among others.

“We have seen an incredible need in the market to do more with fewer resources – organizations need to maximize IT investment, while improving efficiency, enhancing collaboration and increasing responsiveness. Despite this need, many organizations lack the technology foundation to enable this kind of knowledge,” said Steve Cranford, CEO of Kanalytics.

Cranford continued, “Until now, traditional knowledge management platforms have been costly and difficult to implement or adopt. By leveraging an organizations’ existing IT investment, our joint solution with Microsoft is a first important step in what we expect will be a transformative knowledge management solution for both the public and private sectors. In essence, we’re creating what we believe will be an ERP equivalent for enterprise information management.” Kanalytics has been working to develop this technology with Microsoft over the last 12 months.

The knowledge management product for the private sector will be available for purchase in the first quarter of 2005. Kanalytics is currently working with beta customers such as the National Association of Counties (NACO) and is working with Cooley Godward LLP to close on investor funding that will be used for product development and marketing.

Kanalytics Inc. provides an array of business and technology solutions and services in key vertical markets across the globe. Its K.Central Information Management Product Suite includes enterprise portfolio, performance, process, and knowledge management solutions, that are quickly integrated into a company’s environment to facilitate the capture, organization, analysis, management, and re-use of critical business information. Kanalytics Inc. is a Microsoft Gold Certified partner. For more information on Kanalytics, Inc., contact us at contactus@kanalytics.com or visit us on the Web at www.kanalytics.com.