San Jose and Mountain View, Calif. – June 20 , 2006 – Selectica (NASDAQ: SLTC), a leading provider of sales execution and contract management applications, and Azul Systems, the pioneer of the industry’s first network attached processing solution, today announced a strategic partnership whereby Selectica’s applications are verified to run on the Azul compute platform. The partnership ensures that customers get greater performance, reliability and scalability from their Selectica applications. Through this partnership, Selectica’s on-premise and on-demand software for product configuration and contract management will be “Azul Verified” and deployed on the Azul Compute Appliance platform. Azul Compute Appliances provide Java™ based-applications with massive computing and memory resources that reside on the network and can be tapped dynamically by multiple applications on-demand. “The Azul-based solution provides our customers with a more robust and reliable service with consistent response times and greater control over costs,” said James Dias, vice president of marketing and sales at Selectica. “Selectica-Azul solutions raise the bar on performance with sales and contract business applications. They enable customers to reduce their hardware requirements, decrease their data center real estate, power and cooling costs while dramatically increasing their overall return on investment and potential for growth.” As part of the agreement, both companies have agreed to deploy each other’s solutions. Selectica will brand their on-demand solutions with the “Powered by Azul” logo. Azul will use Selectica’s Fastraq on-demand sales execution and on-demand contract performance management applications internally. This gives Azul real-time insight into its customer relationship management, increasing compliance, maximizing revenue and limiting risk exposure. “Selectica’s Java-based, scalable, on-demand software provides best-of-breed solutions for automating key business processes in the areas of sales execution and contract management,” said Matt McLaughlin, vice president worldwide field operations at Azul Systems. “The combination of Selectica and network attached processing technology validates the capability of this infrastructure model to deliver the functionality customers demand and the scalability, reliability and overall business value CIOs desire from their IT investments.” About Azul Systems About Selectica, Inc. Selectica customers represent leaders in manufacturing, technology, healthcare and telecommunications, including: ABB, Alcoa, Applied Bio Systems, Bell Canada, Cisco, Dell, General Electric, Fireman's Fund Insurance Company, Hitachi, International Paper, Juniper Networks, Rockwell Automation, Seton Hospital, Tellabs, Time Warner, Triad Hospitals and 7-Eleven. Selectica is headquartered in San Jose, CA. For more information, visit the company’s Web site at www.selectica.com. Investor Contact: Media Contacts: Karen Reynolds, Azul Systems ### Forward Looking Statements ### |