GM Recognizes Assentive for Contributions To 'Virtual Factory' Project

       Assentive's Solution Helps GM Group Achieve Award for Creativity
                        In Meeting Business Objectives

    SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 17 Assentive Solutions, Inc., a
provider of solutions for Global 2000 businesses to securely and
cost-effectively move mission-critical data within the enterprise and beyond,
has been recognized by General Motors Corporation's Virtual Factory Group
for its contributions to the company's "Virtual Factory"
Project.  GM's, Manufacturing Engineering, General Assembly Engineering,
Virtual Factory Group was recently presented with a Chairman's Honor award for
superior originality and creativity in meeting company objectives.

    Assentive is the world's first company to deliver reliable, always-on
hosted solutions for safely and securely moving mission-critical data files
across the enterprise, among global employees, business partners and
customers.  The GM Virtual Factory Group is using the Assentive solution to
transfer and share large, 3-dimensional CAD files among GM, General Assembly
design engineers worldwide/nationwide.

    "The ability to share complex manufacturing system layout files quickly
and securely is key to accelerating the manufacturing systems design process,"
said Nick Andreou, manager of GM's, General Assembly, Virtual Factory Group.
"Assentive's innovative technology has helped us create a 'virtual factory'
environment where GM's, General Assembly engineers can collaborate in real
time."

    With Assentive, content owners achieve full control of critical data files
by assigning permissions and privileges to data, and to the users of data.

    "We are thrilled to be recognized by GM for our contribution to the
success of the Virtual Factory Group and look forward to working with the
company as this ground-breaking program continues to develop," said Chett
Paulsen, Assentive president and chief operating officer.

    The purpose of the GM Virtual Factory group is to synthesize and validate
manufacturing processes using math-based technologies.  The Manufacturing Math
Modeling group is performing Virtual Factory engineering for GM, General
Assembly Engineering.