Datalliance Continues Strong Vendor Managed Inventory Growth Through First Half of 2006

• Datalliance VMI sales volume, SKU's managed, and locations supported realize significant growth in first half of 2006
• Ingersoll-Rand, Honeywell, Simplot, and Canplas commit to Datalliance VMI service in 2nd quarter of 2006

Cincinnati, Ohio, August 4, 2006 - Datalliance® today announced significant growth in key business metrics for its Datalliance Vendor Managed Inventory (VMI) service for the first half of 2006. Sales transactions processed through the service exceeded $5B annualized, customer locations increased to 4,600, and total SKU's managed increased to 6.3 million. In addition to this growth in VMI business activity, Ingersoll-Rand, Honeywell, Simplot, and Canplas committed to the Datalliance service in the second quarter of 2006

Datalliance is a comprehensive, proven Vendor Managed Inventory (VMI) solution that enables suppliers and their customers to establish effective VMI relationships quickly and easily while facilitating supply chain collaboration across the Internet.

"As a result of the business benefits that companies are realizing, VMI continues to be one of the hottest supply chain applications", stated Carl Hall, Datalliance, president. "In the first half of 2006, our Datalliance VMI service experienced strong growth in all of the major metrics that we use to monitor our business. Our ongoing investment in all aspects of our VMI service is paying off as we continue our consistent growth trend and are recognized as the leading VMI solution in the market. Datalliance is a proven solution that manages a large scale of business for our customers on a daily basis. The addition of new customers such as Ingersoll-Rand, Honeywell, Simplot and Canplas is further confirmation of the benefits of VMI and the continued growth of Datalliance."

About Datalliance

Datalliance is a Software as a Service company with extensive experience designing, developing and executing mission critical supply chain systems for Fortune 500 companies. As a result of extensive industry and technology experience, Datalliance has developed a comprehensive VMI-based e-commerce service. Datalliance enables suppliers and their customers to establish effective VMI relationships quickly and easily as well as facilitating collaboration across the Internet. Datalliance customers include companies such as: Philips, Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company, Johnson & Johnson and SKF.

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Contact: Jennifer Warner, Datalliance
513-791-7272 or jwarner@datalliance.com