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blackboxIT appointed as
reseller and Primary European Partner
by Haley Systems Inc

England – March 9 2006 – blackboxIT, a leading supplier of business rule and process technologies, today announced a partnership with Haley Systems Inc. blackboxIT was appointed by Haley as their Primary and Preferred supplier of Haley’s business rules software and consulting services to the European Union.

“Understanding rules on both the IT and business levels is fundamental to successful implementation of Haley’s products,” stated Hans Witt, Haley’s President and CEO. “blackboxIT’s level of understanding and the reputation of their own rule capture solutions make them an ideal partner.”

blackboxIT’s emergeIT product captures business rules from existing IT systems to help organizations modernize, replace or extend legacy systems without sacrificing the integrity of existing application suites. blackboxIT solutions are applied internationally by organizations in finance, government and healthcare where the effective management of rules and the applications containing them is critical.

The combination of blackboxIT’s emergeIT, which captures rules from existing systems and HaleyAuthority, which captures rules from business people using natural language, provides a unique solutions to the issues of corporate rule capture. Knowledge bases using rules from both sources can be combined, then executed and deployed using the HaleyRules inference engine. David Goode, blackboxIT’s CEO said, “The addition of Haley products to our portfolio significantly enhances the scope of our business rules solutions.”

About blackboxIT

blackboxIT develops, implements and supplies software to capture business policies and procedures from both business people and IT systems to create, manage and deploy re-useable business rules and business processes. By enabling business people to be directly involved in the capture, improvement and management of rules and process, blackboxIT helps reduce the lag between business change and IT change enabling organisations to become more agile, reduce costs and gain market advantage. www.blackboxIT.com

About Haley Systems

Founded in 1989, Haley Systems, Inc. is the first business rules management system (BRMS) vendor to address the demanding needs of dynamic enterprises that require frequent and rapid changes to complex business processes and rules. The Haley Business Rules Management Suite is the only BRMS on the market to combine high-performance, rules-based processing with natural English language understanding.
Haley customers use plain English to automate business rules in their strategic software applications. By empowering business users to manage business rules and decisions directly from their desktop, Haley eliminates the IT bottleneck caused by dependency on programmer intervention to create and maintain rules. Haley users gain dramatically reduced rule change cycle times, resulting in several competitive advantages, including improved customer responsiveness, enhanced revenue opportunities, faster time-to-market and reduced IT costs. Major Global 1000 companies such as Adobe, Cigna, BUPA, KPN and One Beacon Insurance, as well as government organizations including the U.S. Army, and the Department of Labor rely on Haley products. Based in Pittsburgh, Pa., Haley is privately held, with venture capital backing from Pequot Ventures, Draper Triangle Ventures, LP, and PA Early Stage. For more information on Haley Systems, visit www.haley.com.