Augmentum, Silver Sponsor of the Gartner Outsourcing Summit 2006, Provides Entire Gravity Software Engineering Team: Product Management, Development, Test, Enhancement and Maintenance for Gravity's Software as a Service.

April 3, 2006 — Foster City, CA

Gravity, a leading provider of comprehensive talent acquisition services for the knowledge worker industry, announced the next version of their leading recruitment Software as a Service, Gravity Hiring Life Cycle Management 2.0. The product will be generally available in Q2.

"Hiring Life Cycle Management (HLM) 2.0 takes our platform for best practices in high-tech hiring to the next level–adding feedback from our client roster to the rich set of features and functionality already supporting our best practices hiring service," said Steve Hazelton, CEO of Gravity. "We aim to make life easier for executives growing their companies in today's economy. And the technology behind HLM was specifically designed to provide decision makers with an easy-to-use web-based solution that gives them all the information they need in one place, enabling our clients to integrate candidate data across a wide variety of resume sources and applications. This capability alone empowers our clients to hire people faster than their competition. But what really sets HLM apart from other competitive offerings is not just our rich feature set and simplicity of design: it's in the quality (and quantity) of business consulting we give our customers with this solution. HLM is the industry's only full-service functional and technical solution for hiring that was designed from the ground up with ease-of-use, flexibility, and control in mind. This one-two punch of software and service creates the only true hiring best practices solution on the market."

Hazelton added, "Augmentum has been able to work directly with our domain experts, serving as an entire software engineering team from product management through architecture, to quality assurance and release. We believe we have brought a product and service to market that leapfrogs anything previously available, in an incredibly rapid idea-to-development-to-release cycle. Augmentum has been a critically important partner in our quest to create a powerful and intuitive technology platform through which we can leverage our services expertise."

"Augmentum is pleased to serve as Gravity's software engineering team and to support the rapid growth and unique value Gravity Hiring Life Cycle Management offers," said Frank Yu, President and COO of Augmentum. "Our background as senior management in top software product companies and our track record in serving our existing customers gives us a deep understanding of how to work directly with business owners to derive good software requirements." Yu added, "Our distributed development teams have a disciplined methodology to release software on-time and on-budget, and the technical capabilities to build robust and scalable software as a service in the most cost-effective manner."

Gravity Hiring Life Cycle Management Service and Software 2.0 offers:

• Integration: HLM brings it all together: careers websites, posting responses, resumes from research and job banks, interview schedules, candidate feedback, internal referrals, agency resumes, etc.
• Find the Talent: HLM is centered on mining and ranking as many data sources as possible to not just find candidates, but also to get an accurate read on the available talent in today's market. It enables Gravity clients to add research seamlessly to any job, and the candidates are delivered directly to the hiring manager's pipeline—not in multiple inboxes.
• Expert Process: With efficiency and repeatability in mind, Gravity provides consulting during all stages of hiring. Starting with job descriptions crafted according to strategic and tactical criteria, interview functions driven by quantifying ability, talent, and character–HLM drives best practices from start to finish.
• The Hiring Coach: No other system or service identifies the inefficiencies and bottlenecks in the hiring process like HLM. Our solution is designed as a proactive a hiring "coach" that identifies exceptions in process, finds their source, and resolves them. Successful hiring is not a reactive business process, and HLM was designed with this in mind.

About Gravity
Gravity delivers cutting-edge technology and services that enable companies to take control of their hiring initiatives. By coupling technology with process management and consultation we provide an end-to-end hiring solution that integrates talent acquisition with corporate strategy and human capital management objectives. We were ranked one of the San Francisco Bay Area's "Fast 50" for 2005 by the San Francisco Business Times. Gravity is headquartered in San Francisco, California with a research office in Salt Lake City, Utah. Our solutions are at work in some of the most demanding and nuanced hiring environments nationwide. For more information, visit www.gravitypeople.com.

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.

Gravity Contacts:
Joel Passen
415-982-5500 x 137
joel@gravitypeople.com

Augmentum Contacts:
China: Belinda Qin
011.86.21.5131.4277 ext. 431
belinda.qin@augmentum.com

USA: Lisa Carnochan
650.578.9221 ext. 104
lisa.carnochan@augmentum.com