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OpenSpan Selected as MIT Sloan CIO Symposium Innovation Showcase Finalist

"MIT is all about innovation and leadership, and we developed the Innovation Showcase to highlight companies that embody these traits. OpenSpan is one these companies," said David L. Verrill, executive director of the MIT Center for Digital Business and the co-chair of the Innovation Showcase. "The Symposium provides these early stage companies with a platform to demonstrate their new thinking and approaches to vital challenges facing CIOs in today's changing economy."

"OpenSpan is honored to be selected as a MIT Sloan CIO Symposium Innovation Showcase finalist," said Eric Musser, CEO, OpenSpan. "Our unique, award-winning technology improves personal workflow management on more than 120,000 desktops. By allowing enterprises to monitor, analyze and automate user processes which span multiple applications on a user's desktop, OpenSpan drives productivity improvements across entire organizations."

The annual event offers a day of interactive learning and thought-provoking discourse on the future of technology, best practices and business. The portfolio of speakers includes more than 50 presenters from a wide range of industries, as well as leading academics from the MIT Sloan School of Management.

More than 600 CIOs and senior IT executives will be attending the 2010 MIT Sloan CIO Symposium, which will take place Wednesday, May 19, 2010 from 7:30 a.m. to 7 p.m. at Kresge Auditorium, MIT (77 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, Mass.). The full agenda is available at www.mitcio.com/agenda.

About the MIT Sloan CIO Symposium

The MIT Sloan CIO Symposium is the premier global event for CIOs and senior IT executives to become better business leaders. In one day, CIOs and senior IT executives receive actionable information that enables them to meet the challenges of today's changing global economy. The annual event offers a day of interactive learning and thought-provoking discourse on the future of technology, best practices and business that is not available anywhere else. The MIT Sloan CIO Symposium is organized and developed by a team from the MIT Sloan Alumni Club of Boston, the MIT Center for Digital Business and the Boston Chapter of the Society for Information Management. Visit www.mitcio.com for more information and registration.

To stay connected to the community developing around the Symposium, please join The Global CIO & Executive IT Group (An MIT Sloan CIO Group), which can be found on Linkedin.com: http://www.linkedin.com/groupInvitation?groupID=1719457. Follow Symposium updates on Twitter: http://twitter.com/mitciosymposium.

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About OpenSpan, Inc.

OpenSpan products enhance personal workflow management and the end-user experience by enabling all the applications required for daily tasks to work together seamlessly. Global 2000 enterprises have improved end-user performance, customer service, sales and business visibility by deploying OpenSpan on more than 120,000 desktops. A venture-backed company, OpenSpan is headquartered in Alpharetta, GA. Learn more on how OpenSpan is revolutionizing personal workflow management at www.openspan.com.

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