News Release

May 29, 2001

complementSoft* Announces Customer Beta of its New Productivity Toolkit for SAS®** Users

complementSoft provides inexpensive easy to use Graphical User Interfaces for raising user productivity.

Chicago, IL and Minneapolis, MN, May 29, 2001 — complementSoft LLC, a software development company dedicated to raising user productivity through easy to use graphical user interfaces with new functionality,announced today that its first product ASAP* has been put into customer beta and will meet its expected general customer availability date of July 1^st, 2001 at a price of $499 a seat.

With complementSoft’s new ASAP product, SAS® users can now manage their SAS® programs regardless of server location using a drag and drop interface; visualize SAS® program flow and data flow with just a mouse click; and optimize a SAS® program by visually identifying and removing redundant operations, code, or function quickly. Additionally, users will be able to build programs faster and more effectively with a quantum leap in ease of use using the Graphical User Interface and template manager. Finally SAS® users can collaborate with others within and outside the Enterprise via LAN/WAN connections through the ASAP application.

"ASAP will become an indispensable component for all SAS® users and enterprise infrastructures; the productivity gains SAS® users will gain for these organizations will mean SAS® users simply can’t afford to not use it." said Fen Hiew, CTO for complementSoft. "The manual building, debugging, and maintenance of SAS® programs just became a thing of the past. What took hours, days, or weeks yesterday, now takes minutes."

"I’ve seen the ASAP product as it’s developed from a concept to actual beta code," said Randy Erdahl, director of Business Intelligence for Fingerhut Corporation, "SAS® users will find that they’ve taken all the manual labor parts out of SAS®."

"At $499 a seat, SAS® users can’t afford to not use ASAP," said Ed Schroeder, chief managing member of complementSoft. He added "complementSoft will be bringing to market additional components in the near future with the same functionality for other companies applications as well. All through the same interface at the same low price."

About complementSoft LLC

complementSoft designs, manufactures, and markets software products that are designed to raise user productivity by bringing to market inexpensive new graphical user interface tools with new functionality to established software applications. complementSoft’s patented architecture is built upon Java/XML allowing its applications to run on Windows, UNIX, and Linux. For more information, visit www.complementsoft.com.

* complementSoft and ASAP are pending trademarks of complementSoft LLC, an Illinois Limited Liability Corporation

** SAS® and all other SAS® products are registered trademarks of SAS® Institute Inc.