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IAF Software Announces Partnership with ThinkFast Consulting


SANTA CLARA, CA - April 8, 2003 - IAF Software, Inc., a leading business intelligence solutions provider, today announced a partnership with ThinkFast Consulting, Inc., a full-service provider of integrated business intelligence (BI) solutions. ThinkFast will resell IAF Coaster(TM) and IAF Vista(TM), as part of its Oracle Business Intelligence Practice.

IAF Vista is an easy-to-use BI application tool that allows business users to create OLAP reports by point-and-click, without support from corporate IT staff. IAF Coaster is an innovative metadata management tool that allows customers to create and manage their own analytic models without changing data structures in a corporate data warehouse. ThinkFast will focus on the delivery of BI and Analytical Application solutions, including data warehousing, financial management, sales and marketing management and customer analytics for Oracle's Business Intelligence products in conjunction with IAF Coaster and IAF Vista. IAF customers will benefit from having a powerful, flexible solution delivered by ThinkFast consultants with vertical industry expertise in Consumer Products, Energy, Financial Services, Healthcare, Manufacturing, Retail, and Utilities.

"IAF Software has developed products based on our experience in delivering solutions to global customers," stated Akihide Ito, co-founder and CEO of IAF Software, "By partnering with ThinkFast, the largest consultancy dedicated to BI services in the United States, we are pleased to be able to accelerate adoption of our products."

"Oracle has fully integrated multi-dimensional technology directly into the Oracle9i Database, and IAF Software has developed an excellent set of tools to exploit this technology," said Tom Phelps, president of ThinkFast Consulting. "Combining IAF Software's products for Oracle with our technical, business and industry expertise, we can help our clients' identify and implement solutions that provide quick, measurable ROI enabling incremental deployment of solutions across business units and outward to partners and customers."

About ThinkFast Consulting, Inc.
ThinkFast Consulting, Inc. is a premier full-service provider of enterprise-wide business intelligence (BI) services designed to provide customers with real-time structured access to information for strategic and tactical decision making. ThinkFast delivers custom applications that help clients' increase profitability, enhance client relationships, expand market share, improve risk management and heighten competitive advantage. With over 350 customers, their expertise, both business and technical, helps identify solutions that provide quick, measurable ROI enabling incremental deployment of solutions across business units and outward to partners and customers. ThinkFast Consulting, Inc. is headquartered in Chicago, and has local offices in Dallas, Detroit, Houston, San Francisco and St. Louis. For more information, visit www.thinkfast.com.

About IAF Software, Inc.
IAF Software addresses a major issue facing many businesses - how to make valuable corporate data more accessible to business users. Established in 2000, IAF Software is a private company located in Silicon Valley, and is a subsidiary of IAF Consulting, Inc. Headquartered in Tokyo, Japan, IAF Consulting (www.iafc.co.jp) is the only independent consulting company focusing on the Data Warehouse and Business Intelligence market in Japan. Global customers include Mitsui, NTT Group, and Toshiba. Drawing on its global consulting experience in the data warehousing area, IAF Software provides enterprise customers with a robust BI application platform that is powerful yet easy to use. Additional information about IAF Software is available at www.iafsoft.com.

ThinkFast Consulting Contact:
ThinkFast Consuling, Inc.
Anne Stein
Phone: (864) 244-9126
E-mail: astein@thinkfast.com
URL: www.thinkfast.com

IAF Software Contact:
IAF Software, Inc.
Shinji Matsumoto
Phone: (408) 567-9460
E-mail: smatsumo@iafsoft.com
URL: www.iafsoft.com

IAF Vista and IAF Coaster are trademarks of IAF Software, Inc. Oracle is registered trademark of Oracle International Corporation. All other brand or product names are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective holders.

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