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Airclic Continues Torrid Pace in Delivering Mobilization Solutions for Extending Core Business Processes

Best Quarter in Company History Highlighted by Deals with Leading Companies including Alaska Air, Circuit City, Konica Minolta, and Ryder

NEWTOWN, Pa., May 15, 2006—Airclic®, a leading provider of business process mobilization solutions, today announced that the quarter which closed March 31, 2006 was the most successful in the company’s history. Marked by new or expanded agreements with Automatic Data Processing, Inc. (ADP), Alaska Airlines, CD&L, Circuit City Stores, Inc., Konica Minolta, Ryder Logistics and a number of other industry leaders, the company continued to enable any size company to implement easy-to-use, low cost, flexible mobilization solutions. The company more than tripled its growth in sales and customer acquisitions as compared to the same quarter last year. Additionally, during the quarter the company continued to expand its sales and distribution channels through partner agreements.

“In the year that I’ve served as CEO, we’ve made incredible progress in showing that companies of any size – from enterprise to emerging – can realize the benefits of adopting business process mobilization solutions,” said Tim Bradley, CEO for Airclic. “The Airclic solution is a flexible solution that can be rapidly implemented at a fraction of the cost of previous solutions. We believe we are providing an ‘inflection point’ technology that will make mobilization of business processes available and efficient for the vast majority of businesses.”

According to Gartner, “Business-process improvement” moved up from the eighteenth spot in the CIO business priorities list in 2004 to the top spot in 2006. Additionally, “mobile workforce enablement” came in as the number three “technology priority” for CIOs.1

A study by Accenture outlined four types of business processes best for mobilization. These processes are: “Anchor” processes that enhance workflow including creating, reviewing and updating work orders and workforce scheduling and dispatch; “Supplemental” processes such as mobile inventory, asset tracking and monitoring; “Enabling” processes including signature capture, alerting or printing; and “Niche” processes that are generally applicable in specific industry segments and applications such as sales pipeline management, account and contact management.2 Airclic solutions can be easily adopted in each of these areas.

Airclic’s milestones in the first quarter of 2006 include:

  • Sales and customer growth has more than tripled when compared to the same quarter the previous year.
  • The company’s first $1 million deal with Konica Minolta to mobilize its field service repair and inventory management processes
  • Other key deals include:
    • Alaska Air, which is expanding its use of Airclic to track its cargo handling services.
    • CD&L has added additional Airclic enabled mobile devices to provide proof of delivery to one its strategic customers, Bank of America.
    • A leading worldwide diversified entertainment company recently mobilized its park maintenance staff members with mobile phones loaded with the Airclic application, improving their ability to maintain the parks according to their exacting standards.
    • Ryder Logistics is now able to provide instant visibility to the auto distribution for many of the world’s largest auto manufacturers.
    • A leading international waste management services company can easily track its thousands of roll-off waste containers using its Airclic solution.
  • Secured $2.86 million in an additional round of over-subscribed Series B venture financing to expand Airclic’s sales, business development, marketing and client services functions.
  • Expanded Airclic’s international reach into Spain, Scandinavia, and Central and South America.
  • Hired industry veterans Lisianna McManes as director of sales for general business and Tracey L. Roesler as director of enterprise business development.

Airclic continued to expand its ‘Mobilized by Airclic’ business relationships spanning multiple industries and markets including logistics/transportation, security, manufacturing, field services and construction, education and government. The ‘Mobilized by Airclic’ relationship allows partners to extend critical business process applications to mobile workers generating additional partner or channel revenue opportunities.

  • Signed a new partnership with Exotrac, provider of real-time logistics management software for the retail and automobile industries. This builds upon existing partnerships that include: CXT Software (Phoenix, Ariz.), Penguin Blue USA (Wilmington, Mass.), Sierra Data Systems (Sacramento, Calif.), ScanHealth (Duluth, Minn.), TSI Automation (Waterbury, Conn.), Traktronix (Orem, Utah) and Westgate Software (Draper, Utah).

Airclic MP® is the market’s first comprehensive, on-demand platform for accelerating and streamlining remote and mobile processes. The flagship product, Airclic MP, combines sophisticated application design tools; simple and inexpensive data-capture technology; and powerful back-end software for data aggregation, migration, reporting and analysis. Using Airclic MP, companies can immediately:

  • Enable mobile and remote workers to accurately capture and transmit events and transactions via a cell phone, PDA or Blackberry® in real time;
  • Streamline operations to achieve a higher level of accountability and customer service;
  • Accelerate the flow of information, people and materials;
  • Optimize their mobile processes.

1. Source: Gartner Executive Programmes (EXP) survey, January 2006.
2. Source: Accenture: “Creating Value with Mobility: An Enterprise Perspective” by Mike Russell, January 2005

About Airclic®

Headquartered in Newtown, Pa., Airclic is a leading provider of mobile process automation solutions that enable companies to quickly, easily, and cost-effectively deploy mobile applications based on their business processes. With Airclic, organizations have fast, inexpensive visibility to see the “who, what, where, when, and why” of their field operations and drive new levels of accountability and customer service without the high costs and risks of custom implementations. For more information, visit: www.airclic.com

Airclic is a registered trademark and Airclic MP is a trademark of Airclic, Inc. in the United States and/or other countries. All other trademarks or registered trademarks are property of their respective holders.

For more information, contact:

Airclic
Matt Matsui
651-222-9791
matt.matsui@airclic.com

Lois Paul & Partners
Jolene Hajj
781-782-5849
jolene_hajj@lpp.com



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