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Backplane/BAG Announce Partnership

Backplane Inc and Business Architecture Group Inc (BAG) announced a business partnership that will add BAG's superior data storage and migration services to Backplane's hosted billing and customer care system.

As a result, companies who take advantage of Backplane's hosted billing and customer care solution, Backplane Billing, will be able to easily migrate their legacy data and continuously access their data in a Web-based format. Backplane will immediately offer its customers the functionality of BAGe Miner, BAG's Web-enabled data warehouse that supports the extraction, processing, storage, and analysis of critical enterprise data.

"The partnership between Backplane and BAG is a perfect example of bringing business solutions and technology together," says Mike Lampa, CEO of BAG. "The combination of Backplane's product suite built upon a reliable state-of-the art architecture and BAG's data integration services will seamlessly integrate a first-class, Web-based billing engine with a full-featured, Web-based business intelligence platform."

"With BAGe Miner, our customers will have instant access to very powerful legacy data that is indispensable when utilizing a robust billing system such as Backplane Billing," said Ben Dillon, Backplane CEO. "For Backplane customers, this partnership makes their transition easier and allows them to quickly realize the benefits of our next generation billing solution."

About Business Architecture Group Inc

Business Architecture Group Inc (BAG) delivers advanced solutions that help clients achieve their operational and strategic objectives. BAG uses their Integrated Architecture Framework to improve the integrity, interoperability, and accessibility of corporate information. A featured BAG solution is BAGe Miner, a hosted, Web-enabled data warehouse that supports the extraction, processing, storage, and analysis of data via dedicated access or the Web. BAGe Miner gives you a functional data warehouse and an integrated, enterprise view of operational data. For more information about B-A-G visit www.bag-works.com or call toll-free 866/Know BAG.

About Backplane Inc

Backplane Inc is dedicated to making companies of all sizes more successful by providing mission critical business solutions that enable growth, increase profitability, and reduce expenses. Backplane Billing is the first hosted billing and customer care system to offer recurring service providers a comprehensive, enterprise-class solution -- from order management and service activation to bill presentment and payment processing. Backplane Billing gives recurring service providers the power of an enterprise-class system without the pain of implementing or managing a solution in-house. For more information about Backplane, Inc. visit www.backplane.com. For sales inquiries call toll-free 866-596-0600, or email sales@backplane.com.