SageMaker Appoints Don Williams, Vice President of Sales and Giles Hewson, Director of European Sales & Operations

Fairfield, Conn. (PROTEXT) - SageMaker Inc., the leadingprovider of Enterprise Information Portals (EIP), today announcedthe appointment of Don Williams as vice president of sales andGiles Hewson as director of European sales and operations. Donwas formerly vice president of sales and marketing at Standard &Poor's Platt's, while Giles comes to SageMaker from Reuters,where he worked as a sales manager in the international businessgroup for the UKI global sales and operations unit. Hewson willopen SageMaker's London office and is appointed director of salesand operations for Europe, the Middle East and Africa. "I'm very pleased to be joining the SageMaker team. It offersme the chance to work with great people in a high growth marketwhich is rapidly evolving. SageMaker offers the industry a newway to conduct business and control their information resources.Most of our competitors offer tool kits and promises, which meancustomers waste a lot of time and money. We deliver real andvaluable content from day one and I'm thrilled to be on board,"said Giles Hewson, director of European sales and operations. "SageMaker is an ambitious company and they offer a tremendousplatform for my skills. SageMaker continues to make the rightmoves in its quest to build world class information managementsolutions. Our approach to knowledge management is unique and thevalue created by our enterprise portal solution is tremendous asit far outweighs the costs," says Don Williams, vice president ofsales for SageMaker. "We are very happy to have Don and Giles join SageMaker. Theyboth bring enthusiasm and years of extensive experience andindustry knowledge to SageMaker. We continue to add strength tothe SageMaker team. We operate on the premise that in order to bethe best in the EIP industry, you have to employ the best. We'vedefinitely hired two of the best with Don and Giles," says RonBienvenu, president and CEO of SageMaker, Inc. About SageMaker SageMaker Inc., the market leading and only global EnterpriseInformation Portal (EIP) vendor, provides the tools and solutionsto turn companies' information assets into actionable knowledge.SageMaker currently supports the information needs of 450 bluechip customers and 300 partner companies in the US, Europe, Asia,Latin America and Africa. SageWave, a full service solution forbusiness information, is the only EIP that carries content fromthe world's established information providers and publications,and combines it with a company's own internal content (e.g.databases, research, e-mail, and unstructured documents).SageWave is available either as an outsourced Internet service oras a deployed publish/subscribe architecture, using Java/XML,depending on customer need and budget. Current verticalindustries, benefiting from the richness of its content andfunctionality, include the oil & gas, power & utilities,chemical, telecom, pharmaceutical, insurance and media sectors,with new sectors coming on board every month. Using SageWave,more than 250,000 subscribers are making better decisions fasterin a more productive browser-based environment. More information is available on the SageMaker Website:http://www.sagemaker.com. ots Original Text Service: SageMakerInc. Internet: http://www.newsaktuell.de Contact: Kevin Astleof Text 100 Public Relations Tel.: (USA) 617-723-1044, orkevina@text100.com, for SageMaker Web site:http://www.sagemaker.com

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