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Conversant Inc.
www.conversantinc.com

Charles Royal
206-669-8320

JOPLIN, MO, June 06, 2005 – UtiliPoint® International, Inc. has ranked Conversant, Inc. and its Customer Watch™ CIS as the best solution among emerging developers of utility billing and customer information systems.

Conversant was named the premier up-and-comer in the UtiliPoint® TVAM study, whose results were announced at CIS Conference 29 in Phoenix, Arizona. The TVAM (Technology Vendor Analysis Matrix) series is the first industry vendor ranking of its kind. Ethan Cohen, director of Utility and Energy Technology for UtiliPoint®, says “We developed the study to be used primarily as a research-based, pre-selection tool for utilities. We worked more than a year to develop the methodology, and were inspired by utilities’ need for an accurate, independent, and unbiased benchmarking and assessment of industry vendors.”

Stan Royal, Conversant’s Chief Executive Officer said, “We are grateful to be recognized as the best among those companies bringing new technology to our industry. The acknowledgment from UtiliPoint® reinforces the early successes we’ve worked hard to achieve in our short history.” Jon Brock, COO for UtiliPoint®, went on to note that implementations of Customer Watch™ like the one at Intermountain Gas are changing the fundamentals of CIS projects.

This honor represents the first time Conversant® has been ranked first place in the TVAM studies, but Customer Watch™ has formerly won other technology awards. Customer Watch™ has previously received a first place honor for the “Best Implementation of a Distributed Application using Object Technology” in the OMG Object Application Competition, as well as second and third place awards at the Comdex Internet Application Competition.

Mr. Royal continued, “The superior design and technological framework of Customer Watch™ has allowed us to build a radically different product in a very short timeframe. We’re pleased that UtiliPoint® has recognized the value of Customer Watch™ and that utilities and service providers of all types have implemented our solution. We’re excited to lead the next wave of customer care and billing products, and be able to do so in a way that doesn’t take years or cost tens of millions of dollars to employ. On-time and on-budget CIS implementations are not only achievable, they will become commonplace.”

About Conversant
Conversant created the first production-proven, 100% open source Java Customer Information System. Conversant develops and markets software that increases efficiency and lowers cost in the utility enterprise. Conversant’s products are designed for the needs of the future while providing for the requirements necessary to maximize operations today.

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