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Leading Korean Telephone and Internet Service Provider Builds Quality Management Infrastructure on Ascential Software Ascential Software Solutions are Critical to Advancing KT's Business Expansion Initiative WESTBORO, Mass., Jan. 10 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Ascential Software Corporation (NASDAQ:ASCL), the enterprise data integration leader, today announced that KT Corp., Korea's leading telephone and Internet service provider, is using Ascential Software solutions to advance its business vision of becoming a premier global networking company. Ascential Software enables KT to gain a single view of customer information across its enterprise to improve service and maximize revenue opportunities. KT is using Ascential DataStage(TM), Ascential QualityStage(TM) and Ascential MetaStage(TM) to establish a quality management infrastructure using enterprise standards for integrating customer information into an enterprise data warehouse. This strategic approach is part of KT's Six Sigma business quality initiative and enables the company to maintain consistency and accuracy of enterprise data and deliver information on demand to business users in decision-making processes. "KT has integrated crucial customer information from more than 75 source systems into its enterprise data warehouse using Ascential Software solutions," said Won Ho Jang, director, data information team, IT Group at KT. "Standardizing address information in the data warehouse helps KT maintain a data quality assurance and management process from the enterprise point of view, allowing for consistency of the data infrastructure and provision of high-quality information to all end-users." Ascential Software enterprise data integration solutions deliver significant productivity increases and cost reductions to KT by enabling the company to process large volumes of data in much shorter time frames and delivering it on demand to business users who can now make better decisions that impact company profitability. For example, daily sales reports, which used to take one month to generate, now are provided the next business day. Additionally, customer statistical analysis reports, which previously took more than three weeks to develop, are now produced the next business day. "Without enterprise data integration, KT could not move forward with its exciting vision of being the 'The Value Networking Company' that helps to maximize customer value and delivers optimal customized landline and voice solutions," said Hugo Choi, Korea Country Manager at Ascential Software. "Ascential Software is helping KT maintain its high standards of customer service and confidently launch business expansion initiatives." Ascential DataStage, Ascential QualityStage and Ascential MetaStage are components of the Ascential Enterprise Integration Suite(TM), a comprehensive data integration solution that profiles, cleanses and transforms data from virtually any application or system regardless of data volume or latency. Ascential Software's integrated offering is designed to help companies streamline operations, improve customer support, expedite business transactions, and make better tactical and strategic decisions on the basis of the best available information. The suite provides unlimited scalability through parallel processing, complete meta data management and any-to-any data source and application connectivity, and delivers on-demand data integration seamlessly within an enterprise's service-oriented architecture. About KT Korea Telecom (KT), the world's ninth largest telecommunications service provider, operates South Korea's most extensive and sophisticated network for phone and data services. The company is dedicated to providing the infrastructure to fully facilitate the explosive growth of Internet communications in Korea. Currently, Korea Telecom has over three million ultra high-speed Internet subscribers via ADSL, Satellite, Leased Lines and Wireless. The company offers a full line of wire/wireless solutions including LAN/WAN, portal, web hosting, B2B/B2C, wireless, ADSL, ISDN, satellite and many other services. About Ascential Software Ascential Software Corporation (NASDAQ:ASCL) is the leader in enterprise data integration. Customers and partners worldwide use the Ascential Enterprise Integration Suite(TM) to confidently transform data into accurate, reliable and complete business information to improve operational performance and decision-making across every critical business dimension. Our comprehensive end-to-end solutions provide on demand data integration complemented by our professional services, industry expertise, and methodologies. Ascential Software is headquartered in Westboro, Mass., and has more than 3,000 customers and partners globally across such industries as financial services and banking, insurance, healthcare, retail, manufacturing, consumer packaged goods, telecommunications and government. For more information call 1-800-966-9875 (508-366-3888 if calling from outside the US or Canada) or visit the Ascential Software website at http://www.ascential.com/. Safe Harbor Statement under the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995: This release contains forward-looking statements based on current expectations or beliefs, as well as a number of assumptions about future events, and these statements are subject to important factors and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from those described in the forward-looking statements. The forward-looking statements in this release address a variety of subjects including, for example, the functionality, characteristics, quality and performance capabilities of Ascential Software's products and technology; results achievable and benefits attainable through deployment of Ascential Software's products and provision of services; the ability of Ascential Software's products to streamline operations, improve customer support, expedite business transactions, and make better tactical and strategic decisions on the basis of the best available information and improvements in operational performance and decision-making. The following factors, among others, could cause actual results to differ materially from those described in these forward-looking statements: the ability of the company to expand its market share; growth rates for the enterprise data integration software market; general business conditions in the software industry, the technology sector, and in the domestic and international economies; rapid technological change in the markets served by the company; dependence on international operations; global and geopolitical instability; compliance costs associated with regulations to which the company is subject, including the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002, and the impact of such regulations; and difficulties that the company may experience integrating technologies, operations and personnel of completed or future acquisitions. For a detailed discussion of these and other cautionary statements, please refer to the filings made by Ascential Software with the Securities and Exchange Commission, including, without limitation, the most recent Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q. Ascential Software disclaims any intent or obligation to update any forward-looking statements made herein to reflect any change in Ascential Software's expectations with regard thereto or any change in events, conditions, or circumstances on which such statements are based. Ascential Software is not responsible for statements attributed to third parties within this release or in any materials referenced herein. Partnerships described herein shall be deemed to be strategic alliances only, and shall not imply the power of either partner to bind the other partner or to incur obligations on behalf of the other partner. All rights reserved. Ascential, Ascential DataStage, Ascential QualityStage, Ascential MetaStage and Ascential Enterprise Integration Suite are trademarks of Ascential Software Corporation or its affiliates and may be registered in the United States or other jurisdictions. Other marks are the property of the owners of those marks. DATASOURCE: Ascential Software Corporation CONTACT: Chas Kielt of Ascential Software Corporation, +1-508-599-7256, ; or Mary Keith of Porter Novelli, +1-617-897-8200, Web site: http://www.ascentialsoftware.com/

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