IBM Acquires Westboro Based Ascential Software Corporation





ARMONK, NY, -/3 May, 2005 - Wi-Fi Technology Forum/- IBM announced it has completed its acquisition of Ascential Software Corporation a publicly held company based in Westboro, Mass.

IBM announced a definitive agreement to acquire Ascential Software on March 14, 2005. Ascential's operations will be integrated into IBM's Information Management business.

Ascential Software complements and strengthens IBM's fast-growing information integration portfolio and further extends IBM's ability to enable customers to become on demand businesses by providing a single, agile infrastructure for delivering accurate, consistent, timely, and coherent information. Ascential Software is a leading provider of enterprise data integration software used to help build enterprise data warehouses, power business intelligence systems, consolidate enterprise applications, create and manage master repositories of critical business information, and enable on demand data access.

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