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November 15, 2005

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PRESS CONTACT: Abbe Buck, HighViz Consulting Group

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Connection Concepts’ DataPortal™ special IBM webcast introduces Instant “data” Messaging without uneeded extra development. DataPortal™ Product Version 1.2 was demonstrated during the 31 minute webinar.

Hartford , CT , November 15, 2005. Connection Concepts, Inc. of Hartford Connecticut and Washington, DC, has teamed with IBM and their business partner Raindance to demonstrate their unique product DataPortal, ( www.data-portal.biz) a product that enables the immediate exchange of business data over the Web without a developmental effort.

IBM hosted a special e-seminar last Tuesday, October 18 th that demonstrated DataPortal to a select group of industry professionals in financial, industrial and government areas. Many of the questions that followed the event prompted Connection Concepts to make the webinar available to those that are unfamiliar with this new and dynamic solution, starting with their strong business alliances within the IBM organization. Connection Concepts is an IBM Business Partner.

President and CEO of Connection Concepts Gary Whitten explains that “ DataPortal can provide a standardized business communication channel that facilitates the integration and automation of business systems and processes without the standard need for databases.

“Setting a new standard ”
“DataPortal has set a new standard for exchanging business data over the Web, effortlessly and immediately, without development, over the World Wide Web.” Whitten said, going in depth. “Although many products exist for data integration, they are primarily tools to aid data and database development. DataPortal requires no development to simply exchange business data. DataPortal is a “plug and play” solution directly for the customer that can be implemented by the end user – no middleman or “integrator” is required.

“DataPortal transfers a database over the Web in its entirety, including both structure and content, from a source Database to the destination database without development or prior knowledge of the source Database.” Whitten continued. Whitten says that similar to the document-centric web, DataPortal can be used to publish a complete database residing in any supported, standards-compliant Database system. “The published Database can be transferred, by an authorized client, to any other supported, standards-compliant target Database”, he said.

During the webinar, Whitten demonstrated the various ways DataPortal provides an instant exchange of data, moving business information as simply as sending an Instant Message. He gave a case study regarding Connection Concepts client Sikosky Aircraft, demonstrating how the product was customized and developed for Sikorsky. “Sikorsky fared very well with DataPortal. They were able to maintain their influx of manufacturing data effortlessly on a daily and hourly basis by using the product.” Whitten also says, “Having worked with Sikorsky was where DataPortal became a vital tool to drive business data without the need for the traditional database.”

Connectivity from Connection Concepts
Connection Concepts, the developer of DataPortal, works in Government and Industry with a unique data solution that has yet to be utilized widely by general organizations until now. Recognized by IBM and the Gartner group, DataPortal is interactive with IBM, interfacing with IBM solutions such as WebSphere, MQ, and DB2. DataPortal also works seamlessly with other solution offerings provided by Microsoft, Novell, Oracle and SUN (Java), and is equally adept in enterprise locations from 50, 500 to 500,000 users. For more information on DataPortal™, and Q & A from October 18 th’s eSeminar broadcast, please see the information below.

For a limited time, Connection Concepts will allow select businesses to view the IBM eSeminar.

To log on to the webinar, place the following link in your browser: https://whiteglove.on.raindance.com/confmgr/
view_stored_doc.jsp?docId=9542193330079201233059243862&docType=recording

For more information about this unique technical solution, please log on to www.data-portal.biz , e-mail www.data-portal.biz , or call William Raymond, SVP at 1-800-382-2240.

For interviews with Connection Concepts’ principals Gary Whitten and SVP William Raymond, Contact Abbe Buck at HighViz Consulting Group, abbe@highviz.net 1-800-380-2825

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Here is some of the Q & A that followed the October 18 th Seminar:

DataPortal Technical Q & A

What is DataPortal™?
DataPortal is a new product that provides a standardized framework for exchanging business data immediately and without development effort.

How does DataPortal™ work?
DataPortal transfers a Database over the Web in its entirety, including both structure and content, from a source Database to the destination Database without development or prior knowledge of the source Database.

Similar to the document-centric Web, DataPortal can be used to publish a complete Database residing in any supported, standards-compliant Database system. The published Database can be transferred, by an authorized client, to any other supported, standards-compliant target Database.

The user requires only a DataPortal Web URL; no development effort or explicit software installation on the client is needed, if the DataPortal Applet client is used. DataPortal provides the kind of effortless business data transfer that is required to reduce or even eliminate one of the barriers to the integration and automation of business systems and processes.

What is he DataPortal™ Solution?:
DataPortal™ transfers business data in the form of database data, minimizing the need for unnecessary conversions –where the goal of a typical business data transfer is to move data from one database to another. DataPortal™ only needs to use the standard Web infrastructure and a user requires only a Java-enabled browser and the URL of a DataPortal™ server to perform a transfer.

Business data can be transferred, shared and exchanged over the Web using DataPortal immediately , without development effort or need for unnecessary and costly data conversions.

DataPortal can serve as a standard for business data communication and will eliminate project time delay that result from development effort to exchange business data.

DataPortal will overcome an important barrier to widespread integration and automation of business systems.

How does DataPortal transfer data?
DataPortal transfers a Database over the Web in its entirety, including both structure and content, from a source Database to the destination Database without development or prior knowledge of the source Database. Similar to the document-centric web, DataPortal can be used to publish a complete database residing in any supported, standards-compliant Database system. The published Database can be transferred, by an authorized client, to any other supported, standards-compliant target Database.

What are the requirements of the user, if they do not need standards such as EDI?
The user requires only a DataPortal Web URL; no development effort or explicit software installation on the client is needed, if the DataPortal Applet client is used. Therefore, DataPortal provides the kind of effortless business data transfer that is required to reduce or even eliminate one of the barriers to the integration and automation of business systems and processes.

Is there an example of how DataPortal works with information?
As a practical example, a set of orders can be generated by a business system and stored as records in its resident database. The database DataPortal transfers a database over the Web in its entirety, including both structure and content, from a source database to the destination database without development or prior knowledge of them source database.

What kind of operating system will I need to use DataPortal™?
Similar to the document-centric Web, DataPortal can be used to publish a complete database residing in any supported, standards-compliant Database system. The published Database can be transferred, by an authorized client, to any other supported, standards-compliant target Database. The user requires only a DataPortal web URL;

No development effort or explicit software installation on the client is needed, if the DataPortal applet client is used. DataPortal provides the kind of effortless business data transfer that is required to reduce or even eliminate barriers to the integration and automation of business systems and processes.

Please contact DataPortal@con2inc.com for information on the latest version of DataPortal™ and complimentary white paper.

DataPortal “ A web tool for agile business”