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Axentis Delivers Insurance Sales Compliance Solution for Salesforce.com's AppExchange

CLEVELAND, OH — December 4, 2006 — Axentis, the leading provider of on-demand governance, risk and compliance (GRC) management solutions, and salesforce.com [NYSE: CRM], the market and technology leader in on-demand business services, today announced the availability of Axentis Insurance Sales Compliance for salesforce.com's AppExchange. Salesforce.com customers can now deploy the Axentis Enterprise Insurance Sales Compliance module as part of their Salesforce implementation, making it easier and faster to manage sales training and ensure compliance and certification requirements. Axentis Insurance Sales Compliance for AppExchange is immediately available for deployment at http://www.salesforce.com/appexchange. Applications available via the AppExchange directory are built using Apex, the world's first on-demand platform.

"The partnership represents the second step in our relationship with salesforce.com and further demonstrates Axentis's commitment to forming a strong, comprehensive SaaS compliance offering," said Robert Hoyt, CEO of Axentis. "Leveraging the Axentis Insurance Sales Compliance solution, brokers and agents utilizing Salesforce now have access to a comprehensive tool that empowers them to effectively monitor all key compliance requirements from one platform. This capability allows these individuals to ensure the smooth ongoing operation of their organization."

Axentis Insurance Sales Compliance makes it easier and faster to manage sales training and ensure compliance and certification requirements. Specifically, the solution allows users to automate and distribute the right compliance content to the right brokers and agents. Axentis Insurance Sales Compliance then enables each to leverage the same application for a broad range of governance, risk and compliance applications, including IT Risk and Sarbanes-Oxley.

"With their second solution for the AppExchange, Axentis continues to lead the way in delivering on-demand risk and compliance management solutions for salesforce.com customers," said Matt Holleran, vice president, AppExchange partners, salesforce.com. "Salesforce.com customers can go to the financial services category on the AppExchange and easily deploy the Axentis solution to ensure compliance and certification requirements from within Salesforce."

Axentis is the only GRC company leveraging the SaaS model to deliver consistent workflow, reporting, security and content and learning management. Currently 700,000 users from Global 2000 companies located in more than 100 countries trust Axentis with their GRC requirements. Whether tackling Enterprise Risk Management, Sarbanes-Oxley, HIPAA, Corporate Code of Conduct, Anti Money Laundering statutes, Operational Risk, or COBIT, Axentis Enterprise is the common platform resource used to automate processes, reduce costs and manage risk.

Apex and the AppExchange
Apex, the world's first on-demand platform, provides unprecedented ease of customization and integration enabling a whole new generation of on-demand applications that go beyond CRM. All Apex components and applications can be easily shared, exchanged and installed with a few simple clicks via salesforce.com's AppExchange directory, enabling all the innovation that Apex unleashes to benefit the entire on-demand community.

Axentis Insurance Sales Compliance for AppExchange is one of more than 400 applications that are now available on salesforce.com's AppExchange, the world's first on-demand application directory, found at http://www.salesforce.com/appexchange.

The Apex platform, formerly known as the AppExchange platform, is available today. As previously announced, the next release of the Apex platform is currently scheduled to be available in conjunction with the release of Winter 07, and the Apex programming language is currently scheduled to be available during the first half of 2007.