iXmatch and ActionPoint Team to Deliver Mission Critical Matching Solutions for Global 2000 Companies

Minneapolis, Minnesota - Tuesday, December 11, 2001 - iXmatch Inc., the leading provider of matching software, and ActionPoint, Inc. (NASDAQ: ACTP), premier developer of cutting-edge information capture solutions, today announced a strategic alliance. The complementary technologies will create an end-to-end system to intuitively collect, manage, and use content to create transactions by efficiently matching buyers and sellers.

Buyers today are having a hard time finding the products they want. Keyword search and hierarchical catalogs are not adequate tools for buyers to find the products they really need. Distributors, manufacturers, and marketplaces realize they need to provide their customers with a better way to find their products.

iXmatch’s Dynamic Catalog Navigator (DCN) provides buyers with a powerful tool to describe and find exactly what they want, especially when the product data is structured. ActionPoint’s automated InputAccel® capture solution validates and formats information, delivering eBusiness-ready content to enterprise systems. “ActionPoint provides the ideal technology relationship for us,” stated Kamala Puram, iXmatch Co-founder and Vice President of Sales and Marketing. “By combining ActionPoint’s attribute-rich data and the power of iXmatch’s DCN, you can eliminate the inherent problems with search engines and increase transactions by effectively matching products to a buyer’s needs.”

ActionPoint's award-winning information capture solution, InputAccel, is recognized as the leader in high volume production capture. “We are pleased to announce our relationship with iXmatch,” said John Stetak, ActionPoint Vice President of Marketing. “By implementing iXmatch, ActionPoint customers can really put the content they are capturing with InputAccel to use. iXmatch provides an added incentive beyond basic matching and lets customers structure their data. That can make all the difference when it comes to providing usable access to content.”

“Our customers will see an immediate benefit from this partnership,” stated Andrew Simpson, iXmatch Director of Sales. "With ActionPoint’s ability to capture and deliver customers’ product data to the right place, we can offer our customers a comprehensive solution which will enable them to implement their eCommerce solutions quickly and deliver a high return on their technology investment.”

About ActionPoint, Inc.
ActionPoint, Inc. (NASDAQ: ACTP), develops and markets software products and solutions that transform traditional business documents - such as paper, fax, and microfiche - into an accurate and timely flow of content, compatible with enterprise systems and the Internet. Its award-winning product, InputAccel is the most comprehensive capture solution available today, incorporating XML and advanced forms processing technology. ActionPoint’s Pixel Translation Division and ISIS standard provide application developers full control of scanners and images - unleashing the power of even the most sophisticated devices. Today, over 1000 Global 2000 companies, government organizations, and application software developers use ActionPoint technology to cut costs, improve customer service, and increase productivity. For more information, visit the company’s Web site at http://www.actionpoint.com.

About iXmatch Inc.
iXmatch is the leading provider of matching software. It provides the best possible match between supply and demand using proven realtime technologies and patented methodologies. iXmatch is a dynamic matching engine that allows suppliers to accurately describe the features of their products and services and buyers to accurately describe and prioritize their requirements. It adds significant business value to CRM, eProcurement, Portal, and Human Capital Management applications by matching buyers to suppliers, products, or services or candidates to job openings.