Crystal Decisions Selects Augmentum, Inc. as Offshore Software Development Partner.

Leading Provider of Business Intelligence Software Selects Augmentum; Crystal Decisions Leverages Augmentum Teams in China and India to Enhance Crystal Reports Functionality and Reduce Costs.

Foster City, CA — December 8, 2003 — Augmentum, Inc., a leading provider of value-added software development services, announced today that Crystal Decisions, a leading global provider of business intelligence software and services, has selected Augmentum as their outsourcing software development partner. Crystal Decisions is leveraging dedicated Augmentum teams in India and China for the next generation release in the award-winning Crystal Reports product line.

"Our relationship with Augmentum has given us the ability to put more into our releases. We can deliver more features and functionality in the same time," said Andy Handford, Vice President, Product. Ryan Wong, Director of Product Development and Chief Architect, added, "What makes this work is Augmentum provides additional bandwidth to my team. Augmentum gets productive very quickly. After an afternoon whiteboard session with the Augmentum US principal along with some members of my team, the projects can begin. I trust the Augmentum team, and not just for the simple things."

Augmentum provides a unique model — the Augmentation Model — which brings unmatched time-to-productivity to offshore outsourcing. In only 90 days Augmentum has delivered services and software along the full product development life cycle for Crystal Decisions, including testing, quality assurance, porting, and new development.

"We are very pleased to be supporting Crystal Decisions, acknowledged throughout the industry for excellence, quality, and overall value to their enterprise customers", said Frank Yu, President and COO, Augmentum, Inc. "Our decades of experience with the realities of commercial software development have allowed us to become a true extension of Crystal Decisions' team and contribute to their continued success. The Augmentation Model — mitigates offshore risk for our software customers, while ensuring that growth, quality delivery, and cost containment goals are met."

About Augmentum
Augmentum offers value-added software development services to its customers worldwide. We augment our clients' teams as their extension, utilizing leading edge development tools and technologies, as well as proven processes, to create commercial-quality software. Our management has decades of collective experience outsourcing commercial software and solutions. Augmentum, Inc. is headquartered in Shanghai, China and Foster City, California. We have grown to over 450 people worldwide in two years since our founding, and won the Red Herring Asia Top 100 award in 2005. For more information, please visit www.augmentum.com or call (650) 578-9221.

About Crystal Decisions
Crystal Decisions is a leading global provider of business intelligence software and services with more than 15 million licenses shipped. Since 1984, Crystal Decisions has powered winning organizations with one of the fastest ways for employees, partners and customers to access the information they need to make the best decisions and ultimately reduce costs and increase productivity. The Crystal brand is among the most trusted names in enterprise reporting and more than 360 Independent Software Vendors (ISVs) have standardized on Crystal Decisions' solutions. Headquartered in Palo Alto, Calif., Crystal Decisions has more than 30 offices worldwide and can be found on the Internet at www.crystaldecisions.com.

For more information contact:
Lisa Carnochan
Augmentum, Inc.
650-255-1740
lisa.carnochan@augmentum.com