Agreement Extends OpenSpan Certified Partner Eco-system to Israel

ATLANTA, GA, April 7, 2008 – OpenSpan, Inc., the enabler of the New Enterprise Desktop, today announced that OpenSpan and Malam Team, a leading Israeli systems integrator, have entered into a strategic agreement whereby Malam Team will become a certified OpenSpan partner for Israel. Malam Team will leverage the OpenSpan Platform to build customer care solutions for enterprises in the healthcare, telecommunications and financial services industries.

“In a competitive global environment where IT budgets are constrained and organizations are motivated to make the most of their existing infrastructure, the OpenSpan Platform brings new efficiencies and cost savings to our customers’ operations,” said Avi Roth, chief architect, Malam Team. “OpenSpan enables the rapid integration of enterprise desktops and legacy applications to drive employee productivity gains and support SOA deployments aimed at improving business agility.”

Malam Team will leverage the OpenSpan Platform to meet the significant demand in Israel for technologies that improve desktop productivity and that arm customer care professionals to deliver a higher quality of service to customers. As OpenSpan certified partners, Malam Team will build and support OpenSpan deployments. The Israeli systems integrator will deploy its sizable .NET development team to create solutions with both the core OpenSpan Platform as well as the OpenSpan Platform for CCF 2008.

“Global organizations are increasingly turning to OpenSpan to improve customer service, eliminate manual cut-and-paste and achieve productivity gains,” said Francis Carden, CEO of OpenSpan. “Partnering with Malam Team extends our reach into Israel and ensures that our Israeli implementations are completed by the foremost desktop integration experts that country has to offer.”

The OpenSpan Platform is the industry’s only software platform that transcends traditional server and user interface integration technologies by leveraging the interactions between applications and the underlying operating system. This dramatically simplifies the integration process across both legacy and modern application platforms, including Web services. It also allows enterprises to build business process automations that span multiple environments, including desktop applications.

About Malam Team
Malam Team, part of the Malam-Team Group, is a major Israeli IT service provider offering a diverse range of end-to-end IT solutions to hundreds of clients and thousands of users in all market sectors while maintaining the highest international quality, service and professional standards. A public company trading on the TASE (Tel Aviv Stock Exchange), Malam Team employs 2,500 experts in diverse IT applications at the company’s and its clients’ sites throughout the country, working to meet its clients’ technological challenges and create business value for them. More information about Malam Team can be found at http://www.malamteam.com/english/index.html.

About OpenSpan, Inc.
Global 2000 enterprises leverage the OpenSpan Platform to integrate applications, automate business processes, extend functionality and build new composite applications in order to realize immediate value on their IT investments. OpenSpan and its partners utilize the company’s unique approach to integration to accelerate service-oriented architecture (SOA) deployments and increase enterprise desktop productivity. The award-winning OpenSpan Platform received the 2007 Product of the Year Award from Technology Marketing Corporation’s (TMC®) Customer Interaction Solutions magazine as well as the 2008 Editors’ Choice Award from Redmond magazine, the authoritative, independent voice of the Microsoft IT community. A venture-backed company, OpenSpan is headquartered in Alpharetta, GA. More information about OpenSpan is located online at www.openspan.com.