Aquent to Bring Europe's Leading Digital Asset Management Software to North America

Boston (November 16, 2006)—Aquent, the world’s largest marketing and creative staffing firm specializing in solutions for marketing organizations, today announced its partnership with celumsolutions to provide celumsolutions’ digital asset management (DAM) software within North America.

celumsolutions, headquartered in Linz, Austria, offers industry-leading digital asset management software to companies such as Adidas Eyewear, Silhouette, Carl Zeiss, MAGNA Group, Doc Martens, and Helios Clinics throughout Europe. Through this partnership, Aquent will be the exclusive distributor of celumsolutions’ DAM software in the United States, Canada, and Mexico.

“This partnership adds our world-class customer service to celumsolutions’s leading technology platform so that our clients get the best possible scenario: great software and great service,” said Chris Moody, president of Aquent Technologies. “Through our consulting offerings, we will continue to help our clients select the best software for their individual needs.   This partnership allows us to expand our clients’ technology options.”

“We are very excited to offer celum IMAGINE to the North American market and think that our unique technology will have an impact as significant as it has had in Europe, especially with a partner as capable as Aquent,” said Michael J. Kraeftner, CEO of celumsolutions.

For more information about celumsolutions in North America, e-mail Technologies@aquent.com.

About Aquent
For twenty years Aquent has led the way in transforming how companies find and utilize marketing and creative talent to execute their brand strategies. Aquent’s pioneering approach to staffing and services has helped thousands of companies—including two-thirds of the Fortune 500 and 90 of the Fortune 100—build their internal marketing and communication capabilities. Last year, we placed over 11,000 Aquent talent at more than 3,000 companies. Aquent, www.aquent.com, is headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts.

About celumsolutions
Celumsolutions, active on the market since 1999, is one of Central Europe’s most established manufacturers of JAVA Enterprise-based software and solutions for electronic communication. From its headquarters in Linz, Austria, in the heart of Europe, celumsolutions services customers from all over Europe with highly sophisticated digital asset management solutions. For more information on celum IMAGINE, log on to www.celumimagine.com.