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Press Release

For Immediate Release

PowerSteering Redefines On-Demand Access With New 5.0 Release

_New Ease-of-Use Innovations Boost Team Productivity and Effectiveness_

May 17, 2006

PowerSteering Software, the leader in On-Demand Performance Improvement solutions, today announced the availability of PowerSteering 5.0, establishing a new standard in ease-of-use and on-demand reach for users throughout the world.

Driven by feedback from PowerSteering's longstanding Voice of the Customer program, the release extends the traditional concept of on-demand with a relentless focus on user productivity, flexibility and accessibility. While PowerSteering has always been quick to deploy and easy to use, 5.0's intuitive user interface, enhanced reporting capabilities, streamlined navigation, and limitless configuration options deliver "just-right" functionality to the executive user and more comprehensive capabilities to the everyday user. Executives, Team Leaders, and Project Managers all benefit from comprehensive and real-time program visibility customized to their exact specifications, including the metrics that are most important to them.

"PowerSteering 5.0 has redefined ease-of-use and will make it even easier for our teams to share ideas, collaborate across the globe and run more efficiently," stated Sarah Pannell, Senior Business Analyst at Falconbridge, Ltd.

PowerSteering 5.0 provides users across functions of the organization with the capabilities they need to execute strategy more effectively and efficiently and improve performance by:

• Empowering executives with on-demand reports and instant visibility across their entire portfolio of Performance Improvement projects
• Increasing productivity with tools for project management, collaboration, best practice sharing, and document management
• Aligning projects with corporate strategy by enabling project idea submission, scoring and approval against multiple criteria

The release incorporates nearly 100 innovations to improve user productivity:

• Internationalization: the ability to support any language, currency, date or number format, with Spanish & French immediately available upon release

• Role-Based Reporting: users can specify their preferred report type, report frequency, report delivery mechanism and report format with unlimited options

• Complete "Brandability:" the entire color scheme of the application may be customized and corporate logos incorporated into the design

• Smart Personalization: the system automatically remembers user preferences and restores settings upon sign-in

• Drag & Drop: for configuring lists and adding team members quickly and easily

• Pop Edit: a dynamic interface for making on-the-fly edits to fields on screen, without requiring redirection to a separate "edit" page

• One-click Table Export: data tables on many screens can be exported to Excel, Word or Acrobat with a single click

The 5.0 release eliminates the overhead and administrative burden inherent in other applications, supports multiple methodologies, and scales easily from hundreds of users to thousands. As a hosted solution with no software to install, new users gain access instantly with virtually no training required. They are automatically empowered with the exact information they need in the exact format they stipulate -- accessible to them as often as they need it.

Powered by next generation web technologies, 5.0 is PowerSteering's most significant new release. Summarized Steve Sharp, CEO of PowerSteering Software, "We have the privilege of working with some of the world's most sophisticated and respected companies. With PowerSteering 5.0, we've captured the collective insight of more than 150,000 users and raised the bar for the entire industry."