Joint Partnership Proposal & Benefits

1. Joint Partnership Proposal & Benefits

2. Hitachi Consulting’s Goals • Capture new market segment • Realize new services opportunity • Land and expand within client base with additional solution offering

3. About Ascend Founded in 1997 Privately Held Ascend’s solutions are internationally distributed in 14 countries Based in Brea, California, with offices in Tennessee, North Carolina, Oregon and Maine High-value complementary Business Automation Solutions Lawson Lawson ECM solution All Lawson Verticals (Healthcare, Retail, Financial Services, etc.) First Partner to Integrate with LBI First Partner to Integrate with Smart Office SmartTouch Solution Integration Customer can do more with fewer touches with our Lawson Integration SAP Ascend ECM solution

4. What Does Ascend Do? > Imaging & Electronic Capture > Business Process Automation > Enterprise Content Management

5. Enterprise Business Process Automation SMARTOUCH Suites SMARTOUCH People™ SMARTOUCH Money™ SMARTOUCH Goods™ • SMARTOUCH HR • Tuition Buddy • FSA • Performance Appraisals • ItemGuru Order Point • ItemGuru Contracts • License & Permits • SMARTOUCH AP • SMARTOUCH Capital • SMARTOUCH T&E Business AutomationSolutions Business Automation Platform Enterprise Foundation Enterprise Information Management Solution Do More with Fewer and Smarter Touches

6. Domestic Customers Domestic Customers International Customers

7. Partnership Direction • Quickly capture new business opportunities by leveraging the existing Strategic Alliance Partnership between Ascend Software and Hitachi Consulting • Create an integrated Hitachi solution offering utilizing Ascend’s ECM & Business Automation solutions and Microsoft Dynamics AX ERP software • NDA & MSA in place

8. Proposal • Ascend & Hitachi enter into an exclusive software and services agreement. • Both companies will invest mutually into this venture. Ascend Software will provide their SmartTouch Solution Suite, ECM, and Workflow to Hitachi Consulting. • Hitachi Consulting will provide all Onshore and Offshore resources to integrate the Ascend Software products into Microsoft Dynamics AX ERP solutions. • Ascend will provide additional product training to Hitachi’s Development team if needed.

9. Proposal (CONT.) • Sales and Marketing to be Hitachi Consulting, Microsoft & Ascend Software • Integration to be provided by Hitachi Consulting • Microsoft Relationship to be managed by Hitachi • Professional Services to be provided by Hitachi Consulting • Help Desk and Maintenance Issues (Bugs, Patches, Errors) Hitachi Consulting • Exclusive Microsoft Dynamics reseller or OEM of Ascend Software to Hitachi Consulting (performance metrics to maintain exclusivity to be determined) • Ascend Software must remain the brand identity.

10. Revenue Breakdown Hitachi Consulting to be exclusive MSD Reseller of Ascend Software. Hitachi will receive 30% of all license revenue sales. Hitachi Consulting will receive 98% of all service & Integration fees Hitachi Consulting will receive 50% of all annual maintenance fees for clients they provide the support (maintaining a support desk for the new initiative). ----------------------------------------------------------------- Ascend Software will receive 70% of all license revenue sales. Ascend Software will receive 2% of allservice & Integration fees Ascend Software will receive 50% of all annual maintenance fees Note: These numbers are preliminary and subject to change

11. Where do we go from here?