Nation's Second Largest Low-Fare, Full Service Airline Selects SAQQARA to Create, Host and Manage Web-based Catalogs

SAN JOSE, Calif., June 25, 2003 - SAQQARA® Systems, Inc., a provider of product content and catalog management software and services with more than 80 customers worldwide, announced today that America West Airlines, the nation's second largest low-fare, full service airline, has selected SAQQARA Catalog Management Service(CMS) to create, host and manage private, customized Web-based catalogs for America West's Maintenance Repair and Overhaul (MRO) suppliers nationwide. CMS will help America West improve spend management and achieve maximum e-procurement ROI by increasing the amount of useable catalog content for e-procurement implementations, while lowering the cost of acquiring, transforming and managing that content.

Last year, America West began a search to find a solution that could quickly add more suppliers and better manage updates of the existing supplier catalogs. After reviewing half-dozen potential suppliers, America West chose SAQQARA Catalog Management Service (CMS) based on price, features and ease of use. In January 2003, America West began the implementation of CMS, and by the end of the second quarter of 2003, CMS will be used as a complete supplier enablement and catalog management solution: creating, hosting, and managing customized Web-based catalogs for each of America West's MRO suppliers company-wide.

"We chose to use CMS for our MRO suppliers because it was a truly global and affordable solution," said Shane Zimmerman, Manager, Purchasing Programs, America West. "It's easy-to-use and can quickly and accurately upload and manage supplier catalogs. CMS enables our suppliers to manage their own catalogs with automatic updates and changes available in "real-time". This saves us a tremendous amount of time, which in turn equates to increased productivity for America West employees."

SAQQARA manages America West's entire catalog management process for MRO suppliers including supplier engagement, content acquisition, content transformation, and publication for use through a supplier's e-procurement system. Through an exceptional management and filtering process, America West can now review and approve content changes and never lose control over what end-users see. By leveraging economies of scale, repeatable processes, reusable rules, and robust software automation, SAQQARA CMS offers the fastest supplier enablement in the industry. SAQQARA's customized content and intuitive environment maximizes user adoption delivering the speed, control and usability that are required for successful catalog management solutions.

"America West has unleashed its ability to obtain ROI from e-Business initiatives because with CMS, America West has the resources and time to ramp up new supplier catalogs, receive feature rich catalogs from their current suppliers with accurate products and prices, and the product content management process (transforming, managing, authoring and publishing of supplier data) is completely automated," said Rick Collison, vice president of marketing, SAQQARA Systems. "The fact that huge companies like America West are using CMS to connect their suppliers is a very big compliment to SAQQARA and further proof of how important e-business ROI is. We are very happy to be working with America West."

About America West Airlines
America West Airlines is the nation's second largest low-fare, full-service airline. Founded in 1983, it is the only carrier formed since deregulation to achieve major airline status. Today, America West is the nation's eighth-largest carrier and serves 94 destinations in the U.S., Canada and Mexico.

About SAQQARA CMS
SAQQARA Catalog Management Service for e-Procurement leverages the unique power of SAQQARA's CommerceSuite and ContentWorks technologies to generate highly customized catalog management applications that automate the entire product content management process. As a result, CMS is a cost-effective and scalable managed service solution that infuses SAQQARA's business process expertise for gathering and managing supplier data customized to a buyer's requirements. CMS reduces the source-to-publish timeline from months to weeks or even days, and the update process from days to minutes, delivering on otherwise unattainable e-procurement ROI quickly.

About SAQQARA Systems, Inc.
SAQQARA is a leading provider of comprehensive product content and catalog management software and managed services that enable suppliers, manufacturers, distributors, and buyers to create, manage, and leverage product content as a strategic asset. With more than 80 customers worldwide, SAQQARA solutions have been selected by global and diverse companies including Eastman Chemical, Memec, Molex, 3M, Honeywell, GE and Philips Semiconductors to play a strategic role in their e-business initiatives. SAQQARA is a privately held corporation with headquarters in San Jose, California. For further information about the company and its products, visit http://www.saqqara.com or call 408-325-8200 or toll free 877-964-0100.