Metabula Ltd has acquired the IPR and distribution rights to DataBridge from Quillion Ltd.

Specialising in developing Enterprise Information Integration (EII) software solutions, Metabula will meet the needs for on-demand non-intrusive unified views of information across the organisation. This dramatically reduces the time and cost of information integration and allows for enhanced business decision making as well as easier consolidation and cleansing of an organisation's information.

Metabula's founder shareholders Roger Eatwell, CEO of Metabula, and Dr. Nigel Ball, CTO of Metabula, were closely involved with the development of DataBridge whilst at Quillion.

Information integration and presentation in the required views have become fundamental business issues for everyone thanks to the spiralling rate of change in numbers of data and information sources, operational requirements, data formats and software applications - DataBridge was created to address these issues. The first product under the Metabula banner will be launched immediately.

'Following the management and staff buy out of Quillion we decided to focus on our core strengths, which are the provision of data management solutions to companies operating in technical engineering environments. The DataBridge technology is highly innovative but its wide applicability did not match our aspirations of becoming the leading specialist in the provision of technical information. The commercialisation of DataBridge is best achieved by another organization such as Metabula' said Matthew Griffin, Managing Director of Quillion.

Roger Eatwell, CEO of Metabula, said 'Our software can help companies obtain unified views of their information without disrupting any of their systems, effectively like "virtual databases". These views are created on-the-fly and are therefore always up to date. As well as presenting a unified view of disparate sources, the "virtual database" can also be used to identify inconsistencies and to supply consolidated information to other systems. It can even reduce the likelihood of future problems by insulating end users from large amounts of rework when changes occur in the underlying systems.'

'Metabula's technology utilises the capabilities of best-of-breed components to provide a wide variety of standards-compliant capabilities out of the box. In particular Metabula is able to offer highly flexible metadata management facilities which allow our products to be configured to meet the ongoing needs of our customers and the market using industry standard techniques.'

About Quillion
Quillion is a leading specialist provider of collaborative information management solutions for engineering companies and asset owners managing large amounts of technical engineering data.

With world-leading technology and deep industry knowledge, Quillion focuses on the critical factor for success in engineering asset management, that is, the ability for engineers to have rapid access to good quality technical engineering data.

Customers report that by using DataManager to control, share and maintain accurate technical data, they significantly reduce engineering costs, increase plant availability and reduce risks.

Headquartered in Cambridge, UK, Quillion has the capability to support projects worldwide as it has a network of global partners and supports customers in Brunei, Japan, and the Netherlands as well as in the UK.

Quillion was acquired by its management in October 2003 and has a new Board of Directors, is launching new products into the market and aims to build on its legacy of customers and contracts from its predecessor company.

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For further Information

For further information visit http://www.metabula.com or contact the following directly.

Roger Eatwell
CEO
Metabula Ltd
E: roger.eatwell@metabula.com
T. +44 (0) 1223 420252

Edna Murphy
Marketing Manager
Quillion Ltd
E: edna.murphy@quillion.com
T. +44 (0) 1223 716500

10th August 2004