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MONOLITH CORPORATION JOINS DATAFLUX ALLIANCE PROGRAM

Monolith provides business intelligence, data warehousing and infrastructure solutions, including end-to-end consulting, mentoring, and training services to businesses throughout the southeastern United States. This partnership will enable Monolith to extend their service offering to clients by providing data quality and data integration technology from DataFlux.

Tony Fisher, DataFlux president stated, "We are excited about working with Monolith as a DAP member and are pleased that their due-diligence has shown again that DataFlux's products are the most useable, flexible and powerful out-of-the-box data quality solutions available. We look forward to working with Monolith to offer their clients the best way to manage, cleanse and integrate their critical data assets."

Mark Mueller, president and ceo Monolith Corporation said, "Recognizing that data quality is a major issue for virtually all of our business intelligence and data warehousing customers, we are absolutely delighted to partner with DataFlux to provide a robust data quality management solution. DataFlux's data quality management solutions, combined with Monolith?s training and consulting services provides a turnkey solution for companies who have significant data quality issues at a unique price point that small to mid-size companies will find attractive. Simply stated, when contrasted with other offerings, there is no other solution that offers companies the cost savings, rapid ROI and excellent value proposition found in the DataFlux/Monolith solution."

For more information about the DataFlux Alliance Program, information is available on the DataFlux Website at www.dataflux.com.

About Monolith Corporation

Monolith Corporation is a privately held company, based in Raleigh, NC, with offices in Toronto, Canada and Tampa, FL. Since its incorporation in 1986, Monolith has committed itself to developing, implementing, and supporting solutions that improve the business processes of its clients, specializing in business intelligence and data warehousing solutions, and infrastructure and computing architecture solutions. Much of Monolith's success is due to an investment in the highest quality people, certified professionals trained in the latest technology. Monolith has cultivated alliances with technology leaders to ensure that its staff is qualified to provide superior service and the most innovative technology available. Through these associations, Monolith is able to provide customers with a wealth of technical expertise and experience in designing and implementing solutions to meet the demands of today's challenging business environments. For more information about solutions from Monolith Corporation, visit: www.monolith.com.

About DataFlux Corporation

DataFlux is a North Carolina-based software company that provides leading edge technology for data cleansing, data augmentation, data linking and consolidation, and data scrubbing. The versatile DataFlux products are designed to significantly improve the accuracy, consistency and reliability of an organization?s critical data, enhancing the effectiveness of data-driven applications and initiatives such as data warehousing, business intelligence, e-commerce systems, data mining, customer information systems, sales force automation, marketing databases, customer/prospect profiling and list management. DataFlux is a wholly owned subsidiary of SAS Institute, the market leader in providing a new generation of business intelligence software and services that create true enterprise intelligence.