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Apr 21, 2008 - Alight Planning 4.5 Debuts, Allowing Finance Staff to Easily Integrate Actuals Data

Mar 4, 2008 - Alight Named "Best New Vendor of 2008" by BPM Partners

Sept 24, 2007 - Alight Announces True Driver-Based Financial Planning Software with Advanced Analytics

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ALIGHT PLANNING 4.5 DEBUTS, ALLOWING
FINANCE STAFF TO EASILY INTEGRATE ACTUALS DATA

Powerful Capabilities Make Variance Analysis
and Rolling Forecasts Easier to Implement

PLACERVILLE, CA; April 21, 2008 — Alight LLC, maker of Alight Planning software, today announced the immediate availability of Alight Planning Version 4.5 featuring expanded support for importing and integrating actuals. Version 4.5's new features for combining actuals data into plan files further enhance its groundbreaking driver-based planning architecture, giving finance staff the ability to automatically perform variance and causal analysis between actuals and plan, spread actuals data into rolling forecasts, and model actuals data using Alight's unique units/rate/amount architecture.

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ALIGHT™ LLC NAMED "BEST NEW VENDOR OF 2008"
BY BPM PARTNERS

Respected BPM Advisory Firm Lauds Alight Planning, Company's
Flagship Software, For Having Modeling "Built Throughout the Entire Product"

PLACERVILLE, CA; March 4, 2008 — Alight LLC, maker of Alight Planning financial planning and analysis software, today announced that BPM Partners, the leading independent authority on business performance management (BPM) solutions, has named Alight as its "Best New Vendor of 2008" in its annual "Beyond the Hype 2008" Webcast. In awarding the honor, BPM Partners cited the unique driver-based planning architecture of Alight Planning, as well as the product's deep-seated modeling capabilities.

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ALIGHT PLANNING ANNOUNCES TRUE DRIVER-BASED FINANCIAL
PLANNING AND ANALYSIS SOFTWARE WITH ADVANCED ANALYTICS

New Alight Planning Software Streamlines Complex Business Modeling For More Accurate Strategic Plans, Revenue Projections, Budgets and Rolling Forecasts

PLACERVILLE, CA, Sept. 24, 2007 — Alight Planning announced today the industry's most robust driver-based financial planning and analysis software with a multitude of innovative features including a units, rates and amounts architecture, automated sensitivity analysis, goal seek operations and intuitive modeling with object-based linking. Aimed at mid-sized businesses through Fortune 1,000 divisions, Alight Planning automates complex business planning so users can move beyond the limitations of Microsoft® Excel for more accurate strategic plans, revenue projections, budgets and rolling forecasts.

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