7 February 2006 | Traction Software Expands European Distribution and Support

Signs Two European Resellers, Covering Benelux, Austria, Germand, France & Switzerland. February 7, Providence, RI -- Traction Software Inc., the leading developer of enterprise blog software for effective team collaboration, today announced that it has signed two new European resellers to distribute, integrate and support Traction’s enterprise blog solution, TeamPage. The two resellers, Adhena Consulting AG, focused on Switzerland, Austria, France and Germany, and e-mediate, covering Belgium, the Netherlands and Luxemburg are both focused on bringing the latest in enterprise content management solutions to its customers in a variety of industries.

“Our clients want to leverage the power of their workforces by creating team collaboration platforms that help employees, customers and partners effectively communicate and manage projects collectively,” said Martin Pfister, Managing Director and co-founder of Adhena Consulting AG. “There are a lot of different online collaboration tools out there, but TeamPage has the security features, customization capabilities and integration characteristics with corporate standards and platforms. The richness and enterprise-class nature of the TeamPage solution gives us complete confidence in recommending it to our customers.”

“We are proud to be able to add Traction Software to the list of software vendors and valued partners that we work with, and we are excited about the opportunity that Traction’s enterprise blogging solutions bring to companies in the Benelux,” said Mr. Vincent Bendeler, marketing director, e-mediate. “In the Benelux, blogging has become very popular in a relatively short time. Using Traction’s robust products, businesses will be able to take interactive communications to the next level.”

“Traction’s customers are extremely successful building electronic content management and collaboration systems that actually work as promised, on time and on budget. Gilbane Content Management Conference participants found 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 like Enel (a global 100 power company) and IJIS.org, recently named to the Business Week Web Smart 50. They represent true innovation at the crossroads of collaboration, knowledge management and content management. As Traction is adopted by clients such as these, we are delighted to establish these two new alliances that will enable us to continue our market expansion into key European countries.”

About Adhena Consulting AG
Founded in 2004, Adhena Consulting AG of Basel, Switzerland, set out to eliminate the frustrating and costly inefficiencies in team communications and information management. Adhena excels in partnering with businesses, small and large, to address such challenges through innovative web-based environments. The award-winning Traction team collaboration platform combined with our quality focus and service dedication offer Adhena's clients an industrial-strength solution that makes knowledge capture, sharing and reuse a reality. For additional information, visit Adhena’s Traction powered website at www.adhena.com

About e-mediate
As a specialized value added distributor of software products and components, e-mediate brings a unique portfolio of Internet technology to the Benelux market. Its solutions concentrate around three of the most promising fields of expertise in web technology today: Digital Imaging, Web Content Management and Digital Asset Management. Working closely with selected IT companies and web agencies, e-mediate creates cutting-edge solutions to improve business processes based on proven technology. For additional information, visit e-mediate at www.e-mediate.nl

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

Traction is a registered trademark and Traction TeamPage is a trademark of Traction Software, Inc.

Contact:
Jen Revis Snider
Red Javelin Communications, Inc.
617-795-0798
jen@redjavelin.com

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