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2007.04.20
Blue Sky Technologies Named Enterprise Supply Chain Visibility Provider by Staples

Blue Sky Technologies Provides Enterprise License Rights To Office Products Retailer

COPPELL, TX -- Blue Sky Technologies, Inc., a real-time supply chain visibility software company, has been named Enterprise Supply Chain Visibility Provider by Staples, Inc., the world's largest office products company. Under the terms of the perpetual agreement, Staples is granted enterprise license rights by Blue Sky Technologies to its supply chain visibility products across distribution transactions in their supply chain.

Central to these products is Insightâ„¢, Blue Sky's visibility dashboard that is designed to monitor critical decision information at all management levels. Insight is a web-native application that uses a company's real-time data to track and monitor key performance metrics and trends. Insight comes with a vast library of predefined supply chain instruments and alerts and is integrated with some of the top supply chain planning and execution systems on the market.

"Staples is focused on achieving supply chain excellence to make buying office products easy for our customers," said Ron Adams, Senior Manager of Distribution Systems for Staples. "We have been looking for a supply chain software solution to provide a managerial dashboard view of our operational metrics and statistics, and Blue Sky fits our requirements precisely. We intend to use Blue Sky for our proactive management, alerting and reporting across a number of disparate supply chain systems. "

About Staples

Staples, Inc. invented the office superstore concept in 1986 and today is the world's largest office products company. With 74,000 talented associates, the company is committed to making it easy to buy a wide range of office products, including supplies, technology, furniture, and business services. With 2006 sales of $18.2 billion, Staples serves consumers and businesses ranging from home-based businesses to Fortune 500 companies in 21 countries throughout North and South America, Europe and Asia. Headquartered outside of Boston, Staples operates approximately 1,900 office superstores and also serves its customers through mail order catalog, e-commerce and contract businesses. More information is available at www.staples.com.

About Blue Sky Technologies

Blue Sky Technologies, Inc. is a supply chain visibility software company that provides customers with targeted executive decision dashboards, such as its flagship product, Insightâ„¢. The company's solutions are real-time, web-based and configurable to serve the needs of multiple individuals within a company's various levels of supply chain responsibilities. Blue Sky Technologies offers integrated, prepackaged supply-chain software and quality service offerings to clients to enhance their customers' competitive advantage in the marketplace. For more information, visit www.blueskytech.com.

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