Stonebridge and ICSynergy Join Forces to Deliver JES-Based Business Solutions

DALLAS, December 19, 2003 – Stonebridge Technologies and ICSynergy, two of Dallas’ leading technology consulting and systems integration companies, today announced that the companies have formed a joint marketing alliance to leverage the companies’ complementary strengths and business systems expertise.

In the agreement, Stonebridge and ICSynergy will jointly market business solutions combining ICSynergy’s deep knowledge of Sun Microsystems’ Java Enterprise System (JES) with Stonebridge’s core competencies in business intelligence, data warehousing, enterprise application integration (EAI), knowledge management technologies and fully integrated server and storage networks.

James Ivy, Stonebridge Technologies’ CEO, said, “The Stonebridge-ICSynergy partnership is focused on demonstrating JES as the enabling technology for more-traditional business applications. This alliance will provide customers with the strategic benefits afforded by JES, which is a true game-changing technology breakthrough. JES is the cornerstone of a robust service-oriented architecture that brings the vision of services on demand to reality.”

Mike Thompson, Managing Partner for ICSynergy, added, “By pairing the strengths of our two companies, this alliance has raised the bar for JES integration and dramatically increases our mutual services portfolio. Stonebridge has enormous talent in real-world business initiatives such as business intelligence, advanced analytics, data warehousing and server consolidation. ICSynergy brings our industry-leading competency in the Java Enterprise System and the repeatable JES solutions that we’ve built across multiple industry verticals. Combining these skill sets and products creates a powerful value proposition and enables us to leapfrog the competition overnight.”

Stonebridge and ICSynergy are leading advocates of secure and highly scalable service-oriented architecture (SOA) as a means to significantly reduce application development costs. SOA provides the optimal Web services environment in which software components can be exposed securely as services on the network, enabling them to be re-used for different applications and purposes.

About Stonebridge Technologies

Stonebridge Technologies provides business and technology integration services to help organizations achieve a higher level of operational excellence through more effective integration of data, processes and technology. Stonebridge's solutions are focused on business intelligence, knowledge management and business process integration, and are built on the company's deep experience in technology consulting, systems integration, custom application development and fully integrated server and storage networks. More information about Stonebridge is available at www.sbti.com and by telephone at 800-776-9755.

About ICSynergy

ICSynergy is a next generation consulting and system integration company that partners with clients to create synergistic business and technology solutions that rapidly deliver measurable value. The synergistic integration of technology, process and people is ICSynergy’s trademark. ICSynergy is a thought leader in the Enterprise Portal, Identity and Messaging solutions space and has built repeatable blueprinted Sun Java Enterprise System (JES) solutions that dramatically reduce delivery timeframes while reducing cost and complexity. The company has demonstrated expertise across multiple industry verticals including Retail, Manufacturing, Public Sector, Travel & Leisure and Telecom. For more information about ICSynergy, visit www.icsynergy.com or call (214) 291-5859.

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