GÜTERSLOH and KARLSRUHE, Germany and PALO ALTO, California, April 20 /PRNewswire/ --

- The Combination of Three Companies in the Field of Semantic 
Technologies Results in the Formation of a Global Market Leader That Offers a 
Portfolio of Complementary Products and Services and Produces Transatlantic 
Synergies for Growth in the Software Market for Unstructured Information

Empolis GmbH (GÃŒtersloh), former arvato-Bertelsmann subsidiary, Attensity
Corporation (Palo Alto, Calif., USA) and Living-e AG (Karlsruhe) today
announced they have united to form the Attensity Group. This move makes
Attensity Group a worldwide market leader in the field of semantic
technologies. The new company will employ 300 people worldwide and expects to
generate revenues of approx. USD 50 million in 2009.

Together, Attensity Group combines state-of-the-art technology and
decades of know-how creating a next-generation international software company
that can help shape the new market for semantic processing of unstructured
information. The move also represents a breakthrough for companies and
organizations using semantic information technologies to analyze and
automatically and efficiently process their unstructured data, as they stand
to experience a quantum leap in their productivity.

The new Attensity Group unites the technologies of the three partners:
Empolis GmbH a leading provider of enterprise content and knowledge
management solutions in Europe; Living-e AG a leading specialist in
intelligent multichannel communication and information management solutions;
and Attensity Corporation, with its First Person Intelligence(TM), a leading
provider of text analysis software. The new Attensity Group offers business
applications that use semantic technologies to analyze, interpret and
automatically process the exploding amount of unstructured data (e-mail,
documents and images) businesses must deal with. These applications quickly
provide relevant answers, improve processes and allow effective knowledge
management as well as better management of customer relations.

Attensity Group's headquarters are in Palo Alto, California. Former IBM
manager Ian Bonner has been named Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the new
group of companies. "We could not be happier about forming this market
powerhouse. The combination of Living-e, Attensity Corporation and Empolis,
all leaders within their respective market segments, creates a significant
wealth of complementary and synergistic technologies, market presence and
customer experience across multiple geographies," said Ian Bonner. "With the
rich and expanded technology capabilities of Attensity Group, we will offer
the market an integrated suite of user applications based on semantic
technologies that enable companies to optimize and improve business
processes."

Moving forward the US market will be supported by Attensity Corporation.
In the markets in Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA) the Living-e and
Empolis teams will join forces. The companies have united their sales efforts
to offer combined solutions, support and implementation services to the
market. Attensity Group currently holds 97 percent of the shares in Living-e.
This allows customers worldwide to benefit from a portfolio of products and
services that complement each other.

Dr. Stefan Wess, Managing Director of Empolis GmbH and Managing Director
EMEA of Attensity Group, explains: "With Attensity Group, we will be able to
develop the potential of Empolis in the international markets and solidify
our position as a leading provider in the market for semantic software
solutions."

"We have combined leading makers of semantic, statistical and artificial
intelligence products to form Attensity Group, and we are drawing clear
synergies from this. Customers of the companies involved benefit by being
able to acquire integrated end-to-end solutions for efficient knowledge
management from a single source," said Guido Polko, CEO of Living-e and
Attensity Group's designated new senior vice president of operations and
strategic projects.

Contact Attensity Empolis Europe:
    Thomas Huber
    semanticom GmbH
    Unter den Linden 21
    10117 Berlin
    Telephone:    +49-30-74-69-73-97
    Mobile phone: +49-151-14-96-58-10
    E-mail:Thomas.Huber@semanticom.eu