ThinkFast Consulting Brings Business Intelligence Leadership, Strategic Vertical Expertise to...

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STAMFORD, Conn.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--July 1, 2003

Customers to Benefit from Partner-Enhanced Ability to Transform

Relevant Enterprise Data into Intelligent and Actionable Information

OutlookSoft Corporation, the global innovator of a unified, business

performance management (BPM) solution, the Enterprise Analytic Portal(R) (EAP), has joined forces with ThinkFast Consulting, Inc. by adding them to the growing list of Summit Partner Program members. ThinkFast, headquartered in Chicago, IL, is one of the largest full-service providers of Enterprise Business Intelligence (BI) applications dedicated to the strategic deployment of BPM.. Their addition to OutlookSoft's Summit Partner Program, formed in May of 2003, will add key vertical expertise to EAP implementations, specifically in the areas of healthcare, manufacturing, oil and gas, retail, and utilities.

"Our relationship with ThinkFast allows us to provide our clients with innovative, powerful BPM software solutions and best-of-breed consulting practices that enable them to better plan, understand and manage their performance," said Ken Lavoie, vice president, Business Development, OutlookSoft. "Working together with ThinkFast allows our mutual clients to, quite simply, implement proven solutions that yield optimal and cost effective results that can dramatically impact their bottom line."

ThinkFast Consulting specializes in helping clients define and develop the most effective business intelligence solutions to support enterprise deployment of BPM applications. Their results-proven framework begins with the identification of a customer's specific business needs and performance drivers. Once these business drivers are defined and prioritized, a set of well-defined objectives and measurement criteria are established, information gaps are identified and a roadmap is developed to provide clients with a clear path to achieving their enterprise BPM objectives. The result are BPM solutions that enable customers to improve planning, increase profitability, enhance client relationships and expand market share - all enabling a heightened competitive advantage.

"Customers will undoubtedly benefit from the power and flexibility of OutlookSoft's EAP product combined with ThinkFast's vertical industry expertise and experience in delivering highly customizable BPM solutions," said Tom Phelps, president, ThinkFast Consulting. "We are pleased to see this partnership come to fruition through the Summit Partner Program and look forward to driving mutual client satisfaction and success together with OutlookSoft."

About OutlookSoft Corporation

Headquartered in Stamford, Connecticut, OutlookSoft Corporation is a foremost provider of business performance management (BPM) software that enables companies to plan, understand and leverage their performance - financial and beyond - from a single, unified application. The company's web-based solution, EAP, delivers real-time planning, budgeting, forecasting, consolidation, analysis, reporting, scorecarding, and process management. Leveraging familiar, easy-to-use environments like Microsoft(R) Excel and a standard web browser, EAP facilitates the adoption of BPM to all employees across the extended enterprise. In support of EAP, OutlookSoft also provides related consulting, training, implementation, and ongoing product/client support services, both directly and through a network of strategic partner relationships.

Since its founding in 1999, OutlookSoft has opened offices throughout Europe, the United States and Canada to serve multinational customers across diverse industry segments. OutlookSoft is a Microsoft Certified Solution Partner for Business Intelligence and a Microsoft Data Warehousing Alliance Platinum Partner.

Visit www.outlooksoft.com or call 203 964.3100 for more information.

About ThinkFast Consulting, Inc.

ThinkFast Consulting, Inc. is a premier full-service provider of business intelligence (BI) services designed to provide customers with real-time access to information for strategic and tactical decision-making. ThinkFast leverages technical, business and vertical expertise to help clients' increase profitability, enhance client relationships, expand market share, improve risk management and heighten competitive advantage and meet the deliverables of Corporate Performance Management. With over 350 customers, their expertise, both business and technical, helps identify solutions that provide quick, measurable ROI enabling incremental deployment of solutions across business units and outward to partners and customers. ThinkFast Consulting, Inc. is headquartered in Chicago, and has local offices in Dallas, Detroit, Houston, Kansas City and San Francisco. For more information, visit www.thinkfast.com or call (888) 488-9750.