ATLANTA, January 23, 2008 – OpenSpan, Inc., the enabler of the New Enterprise Desktop, today announced that the company experienced 440 percent revenue growth in 2007 over 2006. OpenSpan attributes this rapid expansion to a growing demand among Global 2000 corporations for an essential tool that rapidly integrates, automates and extends applications across the enterprise desktop.

During the past year, 30 new customers deployed the OpenSpan Platform across large, highly demanding production environments in the financial services, telecommunications, healthcare, outsourcing and call center industries. At the same time, OpenSpan expanded its deployments at existing customer sites and generated 40 percent of its revenue from outside of North America. To keep pace with the growing demand, OpenSpan increased its headcount by 300 percent in 2007.

“The OpenSpan Platform is eliminating real enterprise pain points while simultaneously increasing productivity for business users,” said Francis Carden, CEO of OpenSpan. “It’s no wonder that more and more leading global corporations are turning to the OpenSpan Platform to integrate applications and automate business processes as well as to rapidly integrate Web services into their existing legacy application environments. With the OpenSpan Platform, our customers often realize near immediate ROI at the desktop-level, driving IT improvements across the entire organization.”

On the partnership front, OpenSpan initiated new or expanded existing alliance relationships with Accenture, Aspect Software, Avanade, i5, Microsoft, Vertical Thought and Westbrook Technologies. These alliances extend OpenSpan’s reach and ensure a consistent level of quality deployment for customers.

Customers were not the only ones to rave about OpenSpan in 2007. The OpenSpan Platform received a 2008 Editors’ Choice Award from Redmond magazine, the authoritative, independent voice of the Microsoft IT community, as well as a 2007 Product of the Year Award from Technology Marketing Corporation’s (TMC®) Customer Interaction Solutions magazine, the leading publication covering CRM, call centers and teleservices since 1982. CRN, part of CMP’s family of Channel Solutions, also called out OpenSpan as a 2007 CRN Emerging Tech vendor for its innovative integration technology, enabling partners and customers to more easily deploy software applications into complex IT environments. These awards are the latest in a number of third-party endorsements of the OpenSpan Platform.

OpenSpan made significant technology upgrades to the OpenSpan Platform in 2007, including:

The company also introduced a dedicated new product, OpenSpan for CCF, with integration and pre-built components for Microsoft Customer Care Framework 2008.

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 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.