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Aria Adds Sylien Entertainment to its Growing Roster of Gaming Clients

Sylien Entertainment is the latest organization to choose Aria for its comprehensive billing and customer management solution.

Media, PA — June 28, 2006 — Today Aria Systems — the leading provider of on-demand billing for the gaming industry announced that Sylien Entertainment is the latest organization to choose Aria for its comprehensive billing and customer management solution.

Sylien Entertainment, based in Ottawa, Canada, is currently developing several “total” virtual game experiences including “Trade Wars” and “Paradise Project”. Sylien chose to integrate Aria’s on-demand billing and customer management software as key components of their new products and service offerings. This approach enables both companies to leverage Aria’s extensive functionality, “pay as you grow” subscription-based pricing, and rapid deployment model.

Sylvain Rochon, CEO of Sylien Entertainment, said, “We’ve had the experience of evaluating traditional billing software and find the breadth and depth of Aria Billing & Customer Management well beyond anything else on the market. Our games require seamless back office integration to provide an exceptional total customer experience. Aria provides a platform that can support multiple games with a single infrastructure. We can rely on Aria to support Sylien as our customer base and game portfolio grows.”

“Sylien recognized that Aria has the best billing and customer management solution for the gaming market” commented Ed Sullivan, CEO/Founder of Aria. “Our scalability, configuration options, and on-demand model are perfect for developers that want to deliver a world-class customer experience from the point of game launch.”

Aria is the only complete solution for billing and customer management that truly supports online gaming. Unlike traditional billing software that constrains the business model and ignores the customer relationship, Aria features a flexible on-demand delivery model configurable business process rules, and significant cost advantages. And the Aria solution is architected for ease of implementation and quicker time-to-market. Implementations are complete in days to weeks vs. months to years for traditional back office software.

About Aria Systems

Aria is the market leader in subscription and recurring billing solutions. Since 2003, Aria has managed over one million accounts in more than 195 countries. Aria’s Billing Platform is the billing industry’s most reliable, flexible and scalable on demand tool for accelerating revenue capture while significantly reducing operating costs. Additionally, having achieved end-to-end Level 1 PCI Compliance and SAS70 Certification, Aria Systems leads the market in security and compliance. Backed by Hummer Winblad Venture Partners, Venrock Associates and Dave Labuda, Founder and former CEO of Portal Software, Aria’s team of SaaS and billing experts are part of a company that billed over 2.5 million customers for $1 billion a year in transactions. Aria Systems is headquartered in Media, PA (metropolitan Philadelphia) and has offices in the San Francisco Bay Area (San Mateo, CA). Aria Systems has been ranked as the 5th fastest growing, privately held company in the Philadelphia region by the Philadelphia 100. For more information about Aria Systems, visit http://www.AriaSystems.com or call 1-877-755-2370.

About Sylien Entertainment

Sylien Entertainment is an Ottawa-based company that has the long-term goal of not only innovating entertainment, but also creating new experiences. Their first planned product, Trade Wars: Tournament is certain to attract a nostalgic player base that remembers the old classic from the good old BBS days. “Trade Wars” is a 22-year-old brand name centered on an online social environment that fosters fun competition amongst peer players. The classic game will be updated and re-launched in 2006. For more information on Sylien Entertainment and their other products, see http://www.sylien.com.

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