ATLANTA, GA - April 05, 2005 — Inovis, a leading provider of business-to-business solutions and services, announced today its intention to receive GDSN Interoperability Certification for Inovis Catalogue™, the North American retail industry's leading product data synchronization application with over 100 million items.

The test, which will take place later this year, certifies participating data pools as a source, recipient or both for the Global Data Synchronization Network (GDSN), a global, Internet-based initiative that enables trading partners to quickly and efficiently exchange supply chain data that is accurate, up-to-date and compliant with universally supported standards.

"The viability of the GDSN has been predicated on the participation of more, credible data pools within the network," said Gene Alvarez, vice president, META Group. "The addition of experienced service providers with large trading communities would be a key benefit at a very important time and will add needed momentum to the GDSN initiative."

"We have a long history of helping retailers and suppliers realize the business benefits of successful data synchronization, as evidenced by Inovis Catalogue's leadership in data synchronization for the retail market," said Michael Croxton, senior vice president of marketing and product management for Inovis. "Over the past 15 years, Inovis has played an active role in the development of industry standards. Achieving GDSN certification is the next step in our continued commitment to improving global trading partner communication."

The GDSN Interoperability Certification testing program is overseen by the GDSN Board of Directors of GDSN Inc. and conducted by Drummond Group Inc. (DGI), a leading interoperability and conformance testing company. For a data pool to successfully complete the certification process, it must demonstrate full interoperability with all other participating data pools and the GS1 Global Registry using DGI's Interoperability Compliance Process®, a robust interoperability process methodology. Data pools are measured against a set of development standards established by the GS1 GDSN Task Group as well as test plans and criteria defined by DGI.

About Inovis Catalogue™
Inovis Catalogue is the North American retail industry's leading product data synchronization application. With over 100 million unique items, Inovis Catalogue enables more than 4,700 marketers, manufacturers, suppliers and retailers to share the latest product information with 550 total product attributes including price, style, color and size. Inovis Catalogue offers a complete solution for item setup and synchronization, and supports the latest EAN.UCC System global standards initiatives. Inovis is a UCC-certified Solution Partner for UCCnet™ services. By automating business processes such as item setup and maintenance and product marketing content management, Inovis Catalogue helps customers achieve increased revenue and greater productivity.

About Inovis
Inovis is a leading provider of business-to-business solutions for global trading relationships. With more than 20 years of experience, Inovis enables collaborative business processes and solves the complete B2B integration challenge for more than 20,000 customers and their trading partners. The company’s comprehensive line of B2B software and managed services help companies speed transaction flows, synchronize product information and improve supply chain processes. For more information, visit www.inovis.com.

Inovis is a trademark of Inovis, Inc.