SEATTLE, WA -- (MARKET WIRE) -- 08/25/06 -- QL2 Software, the leading provider of data extraction and integration tools and solutions, today announces that WebQL 3.0 has been recognized by KMWorld as a "Trend-Setting Product of 2006." This award continues recent recognition momentum for the technical excellence of WebQL and the business performance of QL2 Software.

"Assembling the list of 'Trend-Setting Products of 2006' is a year-long collaborative effort with editorial colleagues and analysts and, especially, users," says Hugh McKellar, KMWorld editor in chief. "Roughly 1,500 products from some 300 vendors were considered, and the ones listed here demonstrate exquisite execution designed for, and with input from, the most important constituency of them all -- their customers."

WebQL 3.0 extracts unstructured data from virtually any source -- the Web, Office documents, email archives, disparate data repositories -- for use by business and competitive intelligence and analytics applications in financial services, life sciences, travel, telecommunications and other regulated industries. WebQL can even read text represented as images in Web pages and PDF documents using Optical Character Recognition (OCR).

"QL2 is having a tremendous year and we're honored to be named a trendsetter by KMWorld," said Chris Buckingham, President and CEO of QL2 Software. "This award reinforces QL2's leadership in the data extraction and integration space as we continue to provide innovative tools and solutions for our customers."

About QL2 Software, Inc.

QL2 Software's data extraction and integration tools and solutions empower business intelligence, enterprise search, and text analysis applications for large companies and institutions throughout the world. With more than 30 customers in the Fortune 1000, QL2 provides the data that drives the enterprise. In 2005, QL2 joined IBM's Unstructured Information Management Architecture (UIMA) open source initiative, was named to KMWorld's Top 100 Companies and placed high on the list of Fastest Growing Private Companies in Washington by the Puget Sound Business Journal.

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