For Immediate Release

CASAHL and Dimension Data Team Up in Australia to Help Lotus Notes/Domino Users Optimize Their Collaborative Application Environments

Dimension Data utilitizes CASAHL ecKnowledge® and support to help Australian customers integrate, extend, or re-engineer their Lotus Notes/Domino applications to work with the Microsoft collaboration platform

SAN RAMON, CA, February 8, 2006 — CASAHL Technology, Inc. and Dimension Data today announced they have teamed together in Australia to assist IBM® Lotus Notes® and Domino customers in optimizing their collaborative application environments. The partnership represents a changing of the guard for collaboration technologies. The Lotus Notes market offers unprecedented opportunities for optimization, including consolidation and retirement of many older programs, conversion of some custom applications to newer specialized software, and integration, extension, and migration to optimize applications between Lotus Notes and the Microsoft® collaboration platform.

As part of Microsoft's “Power Play” program, CASAHL and Microsoft are offering customers a complimentary in-depth analysis of their Lotus Notes/Domino application environment, including recommendations for the future disposition of each application. Following this initial analysis and recommendation phase, companies typically continue on to the next phase of the program, which involves the services of a CASAHL-trained consultant to perform a proof of concept project (POC) free of charge to the customer to showcase implementation of two or three examples of the various optimization possibilities. The primary tool used to implement POC projects is CASAHL ecKnowledge®, which can integrate, extend and/or migrate data and applications between Lotus Notes/Domino and the Microsoft collaboration platform (including Windows® SharePoint® Services, InfoPath®, Microsoft® Office, SQL Server, and .NET).

Once customers have completed the initial two phases of the program, they are equipped with data, facts, and a roadmap of directions regarding steps to take to optimize their remaining Lotus Notes applications. Implementation of the roadmap is carried out by CASAHL's certified partners, such as Dimension Data, with full support from CASAHL and Microsoft. Tasks may include discarding unused applications, consolidating duplicate applications, and re-engineering selected applications to run using other technologies, including Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services, InfoPath, Office, SQL Server, and .NET, among others.

“The market for this type of work is huge and growing,” according to Peter Menadue, National Business Manager, Application Integration at Dimension Data. “We are seeing many large and medium-sized companies asking for services to integrate, coexist or migrate their collaborative applications between Lotus Notes and Microsoft platforms. CASAHL is a valued partner to us because they have both the tools and the expertise to support us.”

“More and more companies are making the strategic business decision to move from Lotus Notes/Domino to Microsoft for their collaboration needs to increase employee productivity, reduce IT costs and improve business processes,” said Tony Ward, Server Business Director, Microsoft Australia. “It's great to see migration solution partners like CASAHL and Dimension Data address this opportunity and help these customers benefit from the transition to Microsoft's collaboration platform.”

Michelle Chua, VP of Business Development for CASAHL, agrees that there is a good marriage of skills between Dimension Data and CASAHL and plenty of work to go around. “CASAHL is an ISV,” she says, “and our involvement with Microsoft's Power Play program is generating large numbers of significant projects around the world. We need globally experienced consultants like Dimension Data Professional Services to work closely with the client and manage these implementation projects.” To make the partnership a win-win situation for both partners and customers, CASAHL will train Dimension Data Professional Services on CASAHL tools and processes and will provide technical support to Dimension Data consultants in the field.

“Working together,” says Chua, “we can service the growing Australian Lotus Notes customer demand for integration, coexistence and migration between IBM and Microsoft collaboration applications and platforms.”