VIANT ANNOUNCES DIGITAL GROWTH SERVICES Submitted By: MHP Communications (Mandate, Hogarth & Penrose) Thursday, 24 August 2000

VIANT ANNOUNCES DIGITAL GROWTH SERVICES Submitted by: MHP Communications (Mandate, Hogarth & Penrose) Thursday, 24 August 2000

To Address Needs of Growing Digital Businesses Viant, a leading builder of digital businesses, announced the availability of Digital Growth Services, a new integrated service offering that extends Viant's commitment to helping its clients grow, evolve and achieve market leadership after the launch of their digital businesses. Over the past four years, Viant has helped many start up and Global 2000 companies design, build, and launch the next generation of digital businesses. From Compaq and Kinko's to Sears, Polaroid and Schwab Institutional, Viant has helped a number of companies realise value in the digital economy. With its new Digital Growth Services, Viant, along with its partners Cognizant and Loudcloud, can now offer an integrated set of services intended to help clients increase their capacity to grow and compete in their perspective markets. "Merely getting to market isn't enough," said Bob Gett, CEO of Viant. "The maturing of the digital marketplace has resulted in an increased focus on longer-term business results. Our Digital Growth Services positions us to help our clients meet the challenges of managing their site, improving the customer experience, managing day-to-day operations and planning strategic changes. We can bring to bear the complete solution through our own expertise and our partners. With this capability, Viant is extremely well positioned to help a company traverse the digital landscape long after a new business is born." Viant will leverage its four-year track record of building digital businesses to offer a single platform of integrated services from ongoing business management services to application management and infrastructure services. Leveraging the existing partnership with Cognizant Technology Solutions, Viant will now offer integrated application management services to help customers quickly respond to any programming needs and help clients launch incremental site releases. Viant also announced today a partnership with Loudcloud to provide joint clients with infrastructure services including hosting, maintaining, monitoring, and scaling digital businesses. Committed to the highest levels of client satisfaction, Viant will provide companies with a relationship manager who will provide a single point of contact and accountability for all Digital Growth Services. About Viant Corporation Viant builds digital businesses for the world's leading corporations. As an integrated strategy and solutions partner, Viant has pioneered powerful approaches for successfully incubating and launching e-commerce enterprises. In addition to being named one of the Top 100 Information Technology companies in the world by Business

Page 1 Week's annual "Info Tech 100" report, a recent Forbes ASAP survey named Viant one of the Top 20 Best-Managed, fastest growing tech companies in the world. In a recent independent client satisfaction survey 100 percent of clients surveyed said that Viant made a significant contribution in helping them achieve their digital business goals. With an emphasis on building a dynamic culture that attracts and excites the preeminent talent in the industry, Viant has grown organically with offices located in Atlanta, Boston, Chicago, Dallas, Houston, London, Los Angeles, Munich, New York, San Francisco and Silicon Valley. More information about Viant can be found at http://www.viant.com/ Viant is a trademark of Viant Corporation. All other company names and products are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective companies. For further information, please contact Silke Lohmann on 020 7379 5000, ext. 224 or [email protected]

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