Astute Solutions Earns Software 500 and Fast 50 Rankings

Company Adds to 2006 Honors

COLUMBUS, Ohio, November 3, 2006 - Leading the charge to help consumer-focused businesses differentiate through service excellence, Astute Solutions today announced its inclusion on the 2006 Software 500, Software Magazine's list of the world's foremost software and services providers. The company also announced that is was honored by Columbus Business First with a "Fast 50" award and ranking.

"At Astute Solutions, our main focus and differentiator is developing consumer interaction management solutions to address the unique needs of business to consumer companies. Outlets like Software Magazine and Business First help validate our cause by offering a valuable tool to facilitate the process of building high quality, global and local business relationships," said Astute Solutions President and CEO, Joseph M. Sanda.

"The Software 500 helps CIOs, senior IT managers and IT staff research and create the short list of business partners," says John P. Desmond, editor of Software Magazine and Softwaremag.com. "It is a quick reference of vendor viability. That is content of value."

Targeting medium to large enterprises, their IT professionals, software developers and business managers involved in software and services purchasing, the Software 500 ranking is based on total worldwide software and services revenue for 2005. This includes revenues from software licenses, maintenance and support, training and software-related services and consulting. Suppliers are not ranked on their total corporate revenue, since many have other lines of business, such as hardware. The financial information was gathered by a survey prepared by King Content Co., as well as from public documents, and posted at www.Softwaremag.com.

The Fast 50 award recognizes Central Ohio emerging companies across all industries for their growth and performance over the past three years. Honorees for the 11th Annual Fast 50 were chosen from nominations received by Business First. In-depth company financial information and analysis was used to compile the rankings.

This announcement follows a number of achievements thus far in 2006 for Astute. Earlier this year, Business First of Columbus named Astute Solutions a "Top 25" software vendor. In addition, the company was awarded Customer Interaction Solutions® magazine's "CRM Excellence" award and "Product of the Year" award, and earned a top ranking with IT Week Magazine.

About Astute Solutions
Through its award-winning contact center automation, customer relationship management and knowledge management solutions, Astute Solutions enables consumer-focused companies to differentiate through service excellence. Its ePowerCenter™ and RealDialog™ solutions solve day-to-day interaction challenges and enable high quality customer experiences across all touch points. These solutions optimize operations through immediate, actionable feedback, while meeting the complex technical requirements of the enterprise. Astute Solutions’ Global 1000 customers include: McDonald’s, British Airways, Levi Strauss & Co., L’Oreal USA, Scott’s, GlaxoSmithKline, Abbott Labs, and Dunkin’ Brands. For further details, visit www.astutesolutions.com or call (877) 769-3750.

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