Press Release

Carbon Five Partners with Grand Central

February 15, 2005

San Francisco, CA

[ PR Newswire · 2005-02-15 ]

Carbon Five, a premium services consultancy firm, and Grand Central Communications, Inc., the leading provider of Integration On Demand(SM) solutions, today announced a partnership agreement that enables Carbon Five to extend the capabilities of Grand Central's award-winning Business Services Network to their customers. Through the alliance, Carbon Five can now offer their customers an easy, cost effective, risk-free solution for business integration that is a better alternative to complex and costly traditional software applications. In addition, Carbon Five can also easily create highly custom solutions for their customers by tapping into Grand Central's rich and rapidly growing Business Services Directory.

"Grand Central understands the value of service-oriented architectures," said Mike Wynholds, president of Carbon Five. "By providing their platform as an On Demand service, we can now develop solutions for our customers without having to invest valuable time and money in commodity infrastructure."

"We are excited to be working with Carbon Five to tackle enterprise customers' integration challenges," said Halsey Minor, founder and chief executive officer of Grand Central Communications. "Together, we are bringing customers a no-risk solution for implementing service-oriented projects that deliver immediate value."

ABOUT CARBON FIVE: Carbon Five is a premium services consultancy based in San Francisco specializing in rich user experiences for Enterprise Java technologies. Carbon Five builds, extends and integrates business applications through a flexible and collaborative process that maximizes return on investment of both time and money. More information available from http://www.carbonfive.com.

CARBON FIVE CONTACT: Mike Wynholds, 1.415.546.0500 x13