Gilbane Conference - Sun Microsystem's Partner Pavilion Features Traction Enterprise Blogs for Business

Traction Customer Enel North America to Speak at the
“Blogs & Wikis @ Work” Session

Contact:
Jen Revis Snider
Red Javelin Communications, Inc.
617-899-1377
jen@redjavelin.com

November 29, 2005, Boston, Mass. -- Traction Software Inc. of Providence, Rhode Island today announced that it will be demonstrating its enterprise weblog for business, TeamPage, as part of the Sun Microsystems Partner Pavilion at the Gilbane Conference on Content Management in Boston. In addition, one of Traction’s customers, Enel North America’s Ernest Kayinamura, will be speaking at the conference at the “Blogs & Wikis @ Work” session on Thursday, December 1^st at 11am.

“Traction’s customers are extremely successful building electronic content management and collaboration systems that actually work as promised, on time and on budget. Gilbane Conference participants will find Enel North America’s collaboration and content distribution story a very compelling example,” said Greg Lloyd, president and founder of Traction Software. “We’re proud to have customers and partners at the Gilbane Conference representing true innovation in content management.”

About Enel North America’s TeamPage Application
Enel North America is a renewable energy company using Traction's TeamPage to gather competitive intelligence, industry news, company news and CEO updates. They are the North American subsidiary of Enel Spa based in Rome, a $47B power company with 65,000 employees worldwide and a market cap of $52B. Enel North America has operations in 16 states and 2 Canadian provinces. They sell power to utilities or on the open market. They produce the energy at their renewable energy facilities worldwide.

Enel North America found that communicating competitive intelligence, industry news and HR information through email was completely unwieldy and resulted in miscommunication or a total breakdown in communication. They had no corporate Intranet because the parent company uses SAP and BEA for its Intranet, and Enel North America does not have the infrastructure in place to take advantage of those solutions. Plus, those solutions required months of development and training time and they needed a solution that was quick and fast and that the fairly non-technical user base at the company could quickly get up and running using. Traction now serves as their company Intranet. There are about 220 people within the company using the system and it has become a communication system for business-critical information dissemination and comment.

Enel NA chose Traction TeamPage over other, similar solutions because it was extremely fast to train non-technical staff on the system, it enables the easiest system for updating and commenting and setting user profiles and permissions, and it works very well to gather, store and share the significant amounts of unstructured data generated in the course Enel NA's business.

About Traction Software
Traction Software provides business and government organizations with enterprise weblog software that allows groups and teams to communicate more effectively. Traction’s easy to use TeamPage™ software creates a secure communications hub for business information and working communications that collects, organizes, links and shares sources of information in context over time. TeamPage is used for business applications ranging from product development and project management to marketing field communication, competitive intelligence, and sales. Traction Software has been named one of the 100 Companies that Matter by KMWorld and is a winner of the RedHerring 100 and eContent 100 awards. The company distributes its products directly and through global partners. Based in Providence, Rhode Island, Traction Software is a privately held corporation with financing from investors including In-Q-Tel and Slater Interactive. For additional information, visit Traction at www.tractionsoftware.com.

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