2001 Press Releases

Aquire grows more than 2000 percent, named in Top 300 of North America's fastest growing technology companies by Deloitte & Touche

Aquire Inc., the market leader in providing Internet/intranet-based organizational charting software, today announced that it ranked number 280 on the 2001 Deloitte & Touche Technology Fast 500, a ranking of the 500 fastest-growing technology companies in North America. Rankings are based on five-year percentage revenue growth from 1996-2000. Aquire grew 2,010 percent during this period.

"Our success during this period culminates from our ability to identify and solve a problem: how a large company with hundreds and thousands of employees spread across cities and continents can know, manage, communicate, plan and analyze its most value resources: its people," said Lois Melbourne, president and chief executive officer at Aquire. "With OrgPublisher for Intranets, these companies use intranets and the Internet can accomplish that."

"With its ranking on the prestigious Deloitte & Touch Technology Fast 500, Aquire's leaders have proven that they have the vision and the fortitude to excel in the highly competitive technology industry," said Mark A. Evans, managing director of Deloitte & Touche's Technology & Communications Group. "We congratulate them on becoming one of the 500 fastest growing technology companies in the U.S. and Canada."

In addition to ranking on the Deloitte & Touch Technology Fast 500, Aquire ranked 15 on the Texas Crescent Technology Fast 50, which is a ranking of the 50 fastest-growing technology firms in Texas.

Overall, companies that ranked on the 2001 Technology Fast 500 had five-year growth rates ranging from 115,874 to 824 percent, with an average growth rate of 6,184 percent.

Fast 500 Selection and Qualifications
The Fast 500 list is compiled from three sources: winners of Deloitte & Touche's 22 regional North American Fast 50 programs, nominations submitted directly to the Fast 500, and public company database research. To qualify for the Fast 500, entrants must have had 1996 revenues of at least $50,000 USD and $75,000 CD for the United States and Canada, respectively. Entrants are public or private companies headquartered in North America and must be a "technology company," defined as a company that develops proprietary technology which contributes to a significant portion of the company's operating revenues, manufactures a technology-related product, or devotes a high percentage of effort to research and development of technology.

Technology Fast 500 winners are invited to an exclusive CEO Summit that will be held from May 8-10, 2002 at The Breakers Resort, Palm Beach, Florida. The CEO Summit, now in its fourth year, is designed to address the unique business challenges facing these super-charged technology companies.

About Aquire Inc.
Aquire Inc., based in Irving, Texas, is the leading global provider of Internet/intranet-based, resource-management software used by more than 1,500 companies and organizations in nearly 50 countries. Customers include American Airlines, the Bank of Montreal, Colgate-Palmolive, Compaq Computers, Heinz North America, the Internal Revenue Service, Metropolitan Life Insurance Co., Reliant Energy and Yale University, among others. OrgPublisher for Intranets continues to be the only proven, interactive org-charting software with the largest installed base of users worldwide with more than 2.5 million individuals charted on customers' intranets. Aquire, founded in 1994, was named one of the top 500 software and services companies by Software Magazine in 2000 and one of the 50 fastest-growing, high-tech companies in Dallas-Fort Worth for three consecutive years - 1999, 2000 and 2001 - by the Dallas Business Journal.

To receive a free evaluation copy of OrgPublisher for Intranets, visit http://www.Aquire.com, or for more information, contact Kay Pinkerton at (214) 521-8596 or kpinkerton@mbapr.com.

About Deloitte & Touche
Deloitte & Touche LLP, one of the nation's leading professional services firms, provides assurance and advisory, tax and management consulting services through nearly 30,000 people in more than 100 U.S. cities. The firm is dedicated to helping our clients and our people excel. Known as an employer of choice for innovative human resources program, Deloitte & Touche has been recognized as one of the "100 Best Companies to Work for in America" by Fortune magazine for four consecutive years. Deloitte & Touche is the U.S. national practice of Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu. Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu is a Swiss Verein, and each of its national practices is a separate and independent legal entity. For more information, please visit Deloitte & Touche's web site at www.us.deloitte.com.

About Deloitte & Touche's Technology & Communications Group
The Technology & Communications Group is composed of service professionals who have a wealth of experience serving technology and communications companies throughout the world in areas including Internet, software, semiconductors, cable, media and publishing, communication utilities, networking, wireless, computers and peripherals, and related industries. These specialists understand the challenges that technology and communications companies face throughout all stages of their business growth cycle and are committed to helping them succeed. Deloitte & Touche is a leader in providing strategic, financial, operational, and information technology assistance to its technology and communications clients.