'Delivering Results in the Real-Time Enterprise' is the Topic of an Ascential Software Experts Forum at The TDWI World ConferenceComputerworld Editor-in-Chief Maryfran Johnson To Moderate a Discussion of Strategies and Solutions WESTBORO, Mass., July 30, 2003 -- Ascential Software Corporation (Nasdaq: ASCL), the enterprise data integration leader, today announced that it will host a special event in conjunction with The Data Warehousing Institute (TDWI) World Conference to stimulate a best practices discussion of one of the greatest challenges and opportunities facing IT organizations today -- delivering valuable business information from strategic enterprise applications in "real time." The Ascential Software Experts Forum, "Delivering Results in the Real-Time Enterprise," will convene on Monday, Aug. 18, from 7 to 10 p.m. at the Boston Marriott Copley Place and Convention Center. Computerworld Editor-in-Chief Maryfran Johnson will moderate the forum. Guest experts include IT executives from Harvard Pilgrim Health Care, Landstar System, Inc., McKesson Corp., Pfizer Inc. and Room Solutions. The Ascential Software Experts Forum is open to all TDWI World Conference attendees. The TDWI World Conference, the premier event for data warehousing and business intelligence professionals, will be held in Boston Aug. 17-22, 2003. "Companies will no longer tolerate the trade-off between getting their business information either right but with a delay, or now with redundancies, gaps or inaccuracies," said Mike Cassettari, Ascential Software vice president and chief marketing officer. "They want their business information right now. That's why 'Delivering Results in the Real-Time Enterprise' will be one session that IT professionals can't afford to miss." Ascential Software customer experts participating in the forum include: -- Ralph Miller, director, corporate architecture, Harvard Pilgrim Health Care. Harvard Pilgrim, New England's oldest nonprofit managed health care organization and the region's top-ranked health care provider for member satisfaction, has deployed Ascential(TM) DataStage(R) XE to directly connect members, providers and employee partners to the real- time data they need through the company's Harvard Pilgrim Online Web site. The initiative is reducing HPHC's recurring hardware and software costs by 75 percent. -- Bob Leo, IT director, Landstar System, Inc. Landstar, one of the country's most innovative and fastest-growing transportation services companies, has deployed the Ascential(TM) Enterprise Integration Suite to share strategic business data across its extensive network of independent truckers, agents and customers via the Web. -- Stephen Zander, director of architecture technology, McKesson Corp. McKesson, the second-largest pharmaceuticals distributor in the United States, is using Ascential DataStage XE/390 to automate a data warehousing environment for its growing business, natively supporting both mainframe and client/server platforms in the process. With Ascential DataStage XE/390, McKesson will better know its customers, provide critical performance information to business users, and continuously refine its overall financial performance. -- Danny Siegel, IT director for data management/architecture, Pfizer Inc. Pfizer's Pharmaceuticals Group is using Ascential DataStage to manage product and customer information and better serve its health care provider customers. Ascential DataStage has helped Pfizer ensure all departments are working with a single set of data that clearly outlines customer buying habits. With Ascential DataStage, Pfizer has slashed data processing time nearly in half by automatically integrating terabytes of incoming data. -- Kevin Curtis, director, Room Solutions, a leading UK provider of systems and services to the insurance market. Room Solutions has just announced the completion of an extensive testing program to gauge the business value of the new Ascential Real-Time Integration Services (RTI Services). In one test, a process that can take a broker several days to complete was encapsulated into a service that took only seconds to execute. About Ascential Software Ascential Software Corporation is the leading provider of enterprise data integration solutions to organizations worldwide. Customers use the Ascential Enterprise Integration Suite to integrate and leverage data across all strategic analytic and enterprise applications with confidence in the accuracy, completeness and timeliness of critical information. Ascential Software's powerful data profiling, data quality, data transformation, parallel processing, meta data and connectivity solutions enable customers to reduce total cost of ownership and increase return on IT investment. Headquartered in Westboro, Mass., Ascential Software has offices worldwide and supports more than 2,200 customers in such industries as financial services, telecommunications, healthcare, life sciences, manufacturing, consumer goods, retail, and government. More information on Ascential Software can be found on the Web at http://www.ascential.com. Safe Harbor Statement under the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995: This release contains forward-looking statements based on current expectations or beliefs, as well as a number of assumptions about future events, and these statements are subject to important factors and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from those described in the forward-looking statements. The forward-looking statements in this release address a variety of subjects including, for example, the functionality, characteristics, quality and performance capabilities of Ascential Software's products and technology; results achievable and benefits attainable through deployment of Ascential Software's products; anticipated innovation and product development; customer requirements and expectations; reduction of cost of ownership by customers and return on IT investment. The following factors, among others, could cause actual results to differ materially from those described in these forward-looking statements: the ability of Ascential Software to expand its market share; growth rates for the enterprise data integration software market; general business conditions in the software industry, the technology sector, and in the domestic and international economies; rapid technological change in the markets served by Ascential Software; dependence on international operations; global and geopolitical instability; and difficulties that Ascential Software may experience integrating technologies, operations and personnel of completed or future acquisitions. For a detailed discussion of these and other cautionary statements, please refer to the filings made by Ascential Software with the Securities and Exchange Commission, including, without limitation, the most recent Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q. 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