Perfect Commerce expands relationship with existing strategic partners to deliver improved customer service [July 5, 2006]

SGT Announces Investment by Allied Capital [July 3, 2006]

Perfect Commerce expands relationship with existing strategic partners to deliver improved customer service.

KANSAS CITY, MO, July 5, 2006

Perfect® Commerce, Inc., the largest provider of On-Demand Supplier Relationship Management (SRM) Services and The Open Supplier NetworkSM(The OSNSM), today announced plans to expand its partnerships with BayanTrade and SGT. For the past year, these two companies have worked closely with Perfect Commerce to supplement its customer support and supplier enablement services and delivered great results. Based on this performance, Perfect Commerce will be leveraging BayanTrade’s and SGT’s experience to further enhance its customer support and supplier enablement capability.

“This is exciting news for our customers,” said John Sharman, president and CEO of Perfect Commerce. “BayanTrade is a recognized leader in ERP implementation and support. With BayanTrade’s emphasis on On-Demand Sourcing and Procurement, we expect our customers will see an immediate benefit through our expanding help desk operation.”

Perfect Commerce’s customer base has been growing quickly throughout North America, Europe, and Asia, and this move allows the company to meet the needs of its clients throughout the world.

“As our client base grows, the number of suppliers on our network grows exponentially,” said Sharman. “With SGT, Perfect Commerce is able to address the increased demands for supplier enablement. SGT provides us a great answer to our increasing supplier enablement needs with its B2B e-Commerce offering. We are not only able to increase capacity, but because SGT leverages offshore resources, we are able to offer our customers even greater value.” Sharman added, “Our goal is to find the best resources available to support our customers and we have done so with BayanTrade and SGT.”

“We are very proud to have established a long-term and enduring partnership with Perfect Commerce, said Kumar Bashyam, CEO and founder of SGT. “As the leader in the Supplier Relationship Management (SRM) space, high expectations are placed on Perfect Commerce by its prolific customer base. SGT wholeheartedly welcomes the challenge, each and every day, to provide world class product development and implementation support services to Perfect Commerce and its customers.”

These changes are a part of an overall restructuring of Perfect Commerce’s service organization that have been implemented under the leadership of John Sharman. They include the appointment of Kent Reese as Perfect Commerce’s new vice president of services. As vice president of services, Reese is directly responsible for the company’s customers’ experience and he oversees delivery, supplier enablement, customer support, and ongoing client relationship management.

“I have worked closely with Kent for the past six years and am pleased to have him join me at Perfect Commerce,” said John Sharman. “Kent is a veteran of the spend management space and I look forward to his leadership in delivering great service to our customers.” Reese comes to Perfect Commerce with more than 15 years of e-Procurement and energy industry experience. He spent the past six years as member of the IBM Procurement Services team, leading procurement transformations and e-Procurement implementations for many Fortune 100 companies in various industries. Before joining IBM, Reese worked in various leadership positions in Asea Brown Boveri AG, the most recent as the North America Director of Supply Chain for ABB Power Generation, Inc.

About BayanTrade

BayanTrade has established itself as Asia’s premier on-demand sourcing and procurement services provider having served more than 3,000 clients, buyers and suppliers alike, from diverse industries. Fortune 100 US-based companies are using BayanTrade to do buyer and supplier adoption and support on a global basis, catering to more than 25 countries and 9 languages in Asia Pacific, Europe and the Americas. These companies have leveraged BayanTrade’s domain expertise in sourcing and procurement and on the country’s well-developed industry infrastructure for BPO that allowed BayanTrade BPO services a highly scalable one.

About SGT

SGT is a leading global provider of Information Technology, Business Process Outsourcing, Call Center and Engineering services. SGT singularly focuses on helping companies improve speed, quality and cost effectiveness in key knowledge processes. Today, over 350 professionals service clients across diverse industries. SGT is a US-based company with headquarters in Houston, Texas and additional offices in Boston, Massachusetts; Detroit, Michigan; and multiple offices in Bangalore and Chennai, India.

About Perfect Commerce, Inc.

Providing connectivity to trading partners via The Open Supplier NetworkSM (The OSNSM), Perfect Commerce is the largest provider of On-Demand Supplier Relationship Management (SRM) Services with more than 500 clients (over 100 of which are in the Fortune 500), 200,000 users and 11,500 suppliers. Headquartered in the metropolitan Kansas City area; with offices in Texas, California, Nevada and France; Perfect Commerce can be reached at 877.8713788 or http://www.perfect.com.

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SGT Announces Investment by Allied Capital

Houston, Texas July 3, 2006 – SGT, a Knowledge Process Innovation and Management (KPIM) services provider has announced that Allied Capital Corporation (NYSE: ALD) has made an investment in the company. SGT's KPIM Services are designed to maximize revenue, and profitability, and align operational business processes with the goals of the enterprise.

“We reviewed a number of investment opportunities in Indian companies before selecting SGT,” said Britt Thomas, Principal, Allied Capital. “We felt SGT provided a strong value proposition and the opportunity to help our other portfolio companies succeed by leveraging SGT’s expertise in IT, Business Process Outsourcing, Engineering, and Sales and Marketing. The company has built a unique platform with a loyal customer base. We believe the company is well positioned to become a sought after organization serving the middle market business sector.”

“We are delighted to have Allied Capital as our financial partner. Their investment in SGT validates, from an external investor perspective, our unique Global Excellence Inside business model and the tangible value proposition to our customers,” said SGT Founder and CEO Kumar Bashyam. “This investment, coupled with our strong management team, and unique value proposition will help the company achieve continued rapid growth in the industry.”

About SGT

SGT is a leading Knowledge Process Innovation & Management (KPIM) service provider, delivering Global Excellence (GE) to Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs). Our global clients achieve profit with speed, innovation, optimized cost and reliability. Our unique KPIM service framework is the key to helping our customers optimize operating costs and maximize revenue and profitability. SGT's KPIM service framework includes, Information Technology Service, Business Process Service, Engineering Process Service and Sales & Marketing Service.

For more information, please contact www.sgtglobal.com or call 1.713.9793975

About Allied Capital:

Allied Capital Corporation is a leading business development company (BDC) in the U.S. that invests private debt and equity capital in middle market businesses nationwide. Founded in 1958 and operating as a public company since 1960, Allied Capital has paid consistent or increasing regular, quarterly cash dividends annually to shareholders since 1963.

Allied Capital provides long-term debt and equity capital for management and sponsor-led buyouts, and for recapitalizations, acquisitions and growth of middle market companies. Allied Capital is headquartered in Washington D.C., with additional offices in New York, Chicago, and Los Angeles. For more information, please visit www.alliedcapital.com

Media Contact:
Usha Dasari
Director of Marketing & Communications
Symcon Global Technologies Inc. (SGT)
Ph: 630.922.6995
media@sgtglobal.com

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