The combined company will be one ofthe two largest vendors of MR and EFM software worldwide, with the industry'slargest dedicated and most experienced R&D staff. The company will continue to make a significant investment in R&D to secure and maintain its technological leadership and further establish its product portfolio as theengine of MR and EFM.

“Today is a great day for thecustomers, partners and employees of Pulse Train and Confirmit”, saysConfirmit's CEO Henning Hansen. “We see very significant synergies between the two companies. By bringing the businesses and the product portfolios together; we are in a position to better serve the growing global market for MR and EFMsoftware.”

“Software development is aboutpeople. In Pulse Train and Confirmit, we are fortunate to have great employees with solid experience in software development for MR and EFM. The combined company will have the largest and most experienced R&D team in our industry, and the market can expect significant innovations and operational value in the time to come.”

Pulse Train's CEO Pat Molloy comments: “We are at a milestone, not only for the two companies and theirpeople, but also for the industry as a whole. During my 25+ years in theindustry, businesses have been largely relying on multiple disconnected systemsand platforms. Not any more. Our product vision is to offer one complete platform with an elegant, modern architecture for any quantitative marketresearch project or feedback process, regardless of data collection mode ormethodology. We have known Confirmit for a long time and I personally lookforward to the integration of the two businesses and technologies, and how we together will empower the industry to drive further efficiencies, speed, quality and innovation into the market research process whilst lowering totalcost of ownership.”

The product portfolios of Confirmitand Pulse Train consist of complementary technologies.

For MRbusinesses, the consolidation will lead to one complete multi-mode software platform with a modern architecture that …
- Enables any quantitative MR project (methodology or collection modeinference)
- Covers the entire MR process from A to Z (design & collection, dataprocessing, through to analysis & reporting)
- Enables lower cost of ownership through standardization, automation andintegration

For Global 5000 companies, the consolidation will lead to one complete enterprise software platform that …
- Enables data capture onto the single platform, irrespective of the deviceused (online, wireless, paper, etc.)
- Adds analytical capability to an already powerful reporting and data delivery engine.
- Enables a lower cost of ownership through standardization across theenterprise.

The new combined company will have more than 200 employees and have offices in Oslo (headquarters), Guildford, London, Moscow, New York, Yaroslavl, and San Francisco. Henning Hansen will be the CEO of the integrated companies. Pat Molloy will serve on the executive management team of the combined business, bringing his 25+ years of experience to help drive the company forward.

OSLO, Norway and GUILDFORD, UK - May23, 2007: Confirmit (OSE: CONF), the world's leading provider of software for Market Research (MR) and Enterprise Feedback Management (EFM), and Pulse Train, a leading international provider of specialist MR software, today jointly announced their intent to combine the two companies.