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Canvas Powers Mobile Application Store with Aria Billing and Subscription Management Platform

Unique Multi-platform Application Store Designed for Businesses Attacks $6B Market Powered by Leading SaaS Billing Platform.

Media, PA - Jan. 21, 2010 - Aria Systems, Inc., (http://www.AriaSystems.com) the leading provider of on demand billing and subscription management solutions, today announced that Canvas (www.gocanvas.com), creators of the industry’s first Mobile Application Store focused on business users,  have deployed the Aria Billing and Subscription Management Platform. Canvas chose Aria because Aria provided Canvas with maximum flexibility to strategically address the mobile application market, recently estimated by Gartner to reach $6.2B USD in 2010⁽¹⁾.

Canvas provides its subscribers a cost effective, rapid, and easy to use environment to create mobile connections between businesses and their employees or businesses and their clients eliminating the need for paper based forms and surveys. As part of their offering, Canvas offers the first Mobile Application Store focused on business users, providing off-the-shelf mobile data collection applications as well as the ability for users to create their own mobile apps. Canvas is also unique in supporting multiple devices including Blackberry, Windows Mobile, Windows Netbooks/PC/Tablets, with support for Android and iPhone under development.

“Canvas is in a fantastic position to address a massive market opportunity given their multi-platform support, high-value applications, and experienced executive team,” said Ed Sullivan, CEO at Aria Systems. “Aria’s platform is a great choice for companies like Canvas who need to grow quickly while avoiding the time and expense of traditional or home-grown billing systems.”

Canvas needed a platform that would allow them to acquire and manage trial users while easily transitioning those users to paid clients. Aria also gave Canvas the flexibility to bill customers with both flat-rate and usage-based subscription plans. Aria’s integrated reporting and analytics give business users at Canvas visibility into adoption, usage, plan popularity, and more. Canvas evaluated native billing capabilities from traditional payment processors, but they didn’t support the entire subscriber lifecycle, or offer the plan flexibility or integrated analytics that Aria provided.

“We needed a billing and subscription management solution that could fully enable our business model and support the next phase of our growth,” said James Quigley, CEO at Canvas. “Aria gave us an absolutely unique flexibility in pricing our products and services with integrated reporting and analytics that traditional payment processors couldn’t provide.”

(1) “Gartner Says Consumers Will Spend $6.2 Billion in Mobile Application Stores in 2010,” Gartner Press Release, Jan. 18, 2010 http://www.gartner.com/it/page.jsp?id=1282413

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 Canvas

Canvas provides its subscribers a cost effective, rapid, and easy to use environment to create mobile connections between businesses and their employees or businesses and their clients eliminating the need for paper based forms and surveys. Canvas, a Delaware corporation, is headquartered in Herndon, VA and is led by a team of award winning executives who have managed and deployed many of the largest mobile and wireless deployments in North America and Europe. Canvas has active associates in North America, Europe and Australia. (http://www.gocanvas.com)

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