Intland Software’s collaborative development platform, codeBeamer, is in the finals of the 2005 Software Development Jolt Awards

Cary, North Carolina, January 20, 2005 – Intland Software, the leading provider of Web-based collaboration and change management solutions for software development teams, today announced that the codeBeamer collaborative development platform has been selected as a finalist in the 15th Annual Software Development Jolt Product Excellence Awards, in the Change and Configuration Management category.

Jolt Awards are given to products that have "jolted" the software development industry with improved speed, increased efficiency, and overall impact on the development community. "This is the 15th year that Software Development magazine has recognized the best and most useful products with the Jolt Product Excellence and Productivity awards. For a tool, book or website to reach finalist status indicates just how valuable an aid it is in delivering high-quality software development solutions. Not only that, these finalists' innovativeness reaffirms the importance of the developer market," commented Rosalyn Lum, the magazine's Technical Editor.

"We are honored that codeBeamer has been selected as one of only six finalists in the Change and Configuration Management category”, stated Dan Snider, director of North American operations, Intland Software. “We believe by focusing our solution on tightly integrating collaboration with change management, across the lifecycle, we are best addressing the challenges now facing distributed development teams. The result is real-time visibility, availability and control of all assets; these are essential requirements for increasing team productivity and reducing costs”. Continued Snider, “We have developed codeBeamer with these requirements in mind, providing not only innovative critical change management capabilities but also the ability to capture and use intellectual capital generated during the development process. The Jolt Awards’ panel has a reputation for recognizing innovative solutions; we are very excited that our technology and direction has met with the panel’s criteria for finalist selection”.

The Jolt Award evaluation process is now in progress and the winners will be honored at a gala ceremony on the evening of March 16, 2005 in Santa Clara, California and in the June 2005 issue of Software Development. For more information on the awards please visit Software Development magazine at www.sdmagazine.com

About Intland Software

Intland was founded in 1998 with the mission to innovate a new generation of collaborative software development tools to address the escalation in team distribution and ever-increasing project complexity. Intland's collaborative software development solution, codeBeamer, is being used across widespread industries by major organizations such as USDA, DaimlerChrysler, Dassalt Falcon, Winterthur Insurance, Credit Suisse Financial Services, FIDUCIA AG, Schering AG, Sherwood International and many others. codeBeamer is selected by organizations for its comprehensive collaborative development features, change management, project management, centralized web-based administration and for it's scalability with IBM DB2 database, it's integration with Eclipse IDE, and it's integrations with industry standard Software Configuration Management. Intland has offices in Cary, North Carolina and Stuttgart, Germany; visit Intland’s web site at www.intland.com

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