May 23, 2003

Key Webinar “Managing the High Cost of EDI”
Key and its solution partner EXTOL explore the new challenges, roadblocks and opportunities for the mid sized enterprise deploying EDI technology.

Highlights:

• Tuesday, May 29, 11-noon PDT (2-3 EDT).
• Webinar exploring cost control with EDI.
• Shows how to manage an EDI project.
• Leveraging Internet technology and meeting any AS1, AS2 or XML standard .
• EXTOL provides specific solution.

Key is a Premier IBM Business Partner implementing the solution.Woodland Hills, CA – May 22, 2003 -- Key Information Systems, a systems integration company and Premier IBM® Business Partner that specializes in storage, e-business and high-availability solutions, announced today their KEY Webinar “Managing the High Cost of EDI”, a web-based seminar that explores challenges faced by users of Electronic Data Interchange (EDI), reviews management practices to contain costs and implement changes to EDI, and presents cost containment solutions that are working today.

“EXTOL has a best-of-breed product and we are honored to have the opportunity to implement their products with our customers. The exciting story to tell: Customers get immediate ROI after purchasing EXTOL”. We at Key look forward to a successful year solving our customers’ EDI issues with EXTOL,” stated Pete Elliot, Director of Marketing at Key Information Systems.

“Today, companies need the ability to accommodate a wide range of e-commerce demands from their customers, including EDI, XML, AS2, and more. EXTOL has a successful record of helping mid sized enterprises deploy full functioning e-commerce applications that fit within the budgets and IT resource constraints of the small business setting,” stated Steve Rosen, Vice President of Marketing at EXTOL.

Webinar specifics

Title: Managing the High Cost of EDI
Focus: How to reduce your company’s EDI costs.

What is learned:

1. How to minimize your EDI costs and maintain them at their lowest levels.
2. How to better manage resource, time and technology costs.
3. How to leverage Internet technology and meet any AS1, AS2 or XML Standard.

Benefits/background:

Find out about the alternatives to expensive, complex, time
consuming EDI implementations that have beleaguered so many mid-sized companies.

1. Learn how to reduce your VAN bill by as much as 50%.
2. Deal with customers requiring you to use AS2 standards for Internet EDI
3. Find out if an automated mapping feature would make integration easier
4. Find out how much you could save if you could automatically set up new EDI partnerships
5. Are you interested in eliminating the need for custom programming?
6. Are your early generation EDI tools eating up valuable IT resources?

The sponsors:

Extol is the premier provider of B2B and EDI integration application for small and mid-sized enterprises. Extol enables companies to exchange transactions and documents between their applications and those of their partners. More than just a product, Extol is focused on equipping the enterprise to succeed in the world of e-business, including traditional EDI, Internet-based EDI, XML, AS2 and most industry initiatives

Extol provides a complete B2B integration application, featuring automated functions for partner set up, application and business process integration. For the resource constrained enterprise, EXTOL offers a rapid deployment of a comprehensive B2B system with a low cost of IT ownership. For more information please go to the EXTOL web site at: www.extol.com

When: Thursday, May 29, 2003; 11:00 a.m. - noon PDT / 2:00 p.m. - 3:00 p.m. EDT

About Key Information Systems, Inc.

Key Information Systems, Inc. is a Premier Business Partner with IBM and a systems integrator. Founded in 1995, Key delivers affordable and scalable solutions by integrating business strategies with infrastructure engineering. The company provides infrastructure architecture for storage solutions, business continuity, e-business and computing environment conversion.

Key has been designated a TotalStorage Solution Center by IBM, providing a full line of storage solutions across the total enterprise. This includes ESS (SHARK), SAN, NAS, FAStT, BladeCenter, iSCSI, LTO, Tivoli, TSRM and IBM storage virtualization/management products. Services include consulting in the best way to manage storage resources, business continuity planning and systems integration services to assist organizations migrating between platforms and operating system environments. For more information, visit the company online at www.keyisit.com or call 1-877-442-3249.

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