News Release

July 19, 2001

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

Chicago, Illinois and Minneapolis, MN - July 19, 2001 (PRN): 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 reached general customer availability as of July 1st, 2001 at a price of $499 a seat. complementSoft confirmed that the General Release of ASAP 1.0 is already being used in over twenty organizations on three continents worldwide; from university research settings to financial/banking enterprises to pharmaceutical organizations.

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 the 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.

“As ASAP evolves, it will become an indispensable component for all SAS users; the productivity gains SAS users will have 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. For example, creating a program flow, tree view, or data flow diagram of a SAS program which might take hours, days, or even weeks yesterday is now a mouse click away with ASAP.”

“At $499 a seat, SAS users can't afford to not use ASAP,” said Ed Schroeder, Chief Managing Officer of ComplementSoft He added “In the next few months ComplementSoft will be bringing to market further enhancements for SAS users as well as additional components 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 entirely upon Java and 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.