Zilliant Adds Pricing and Enterprise Applications Veterans to Team

Solutions and Marketing groups expand director leadership

Austin, TX - January 18, 2006 - Zilliant, the leading provider of pricing applications, today announced three strategic, senior-level hires in its Solutions and Marketing organizations. Mary Beth Lyle and David Salomon join Zilliant's Solutions team as director of solutions sales and director of professional services respectively. Lyle will be responsible for reviewing all prospect and customer opportunities and ensuring implementations are delivered with maximum value to Zilliant customers. Salomon will manage Zilliant's rapidly growing customer base by overseeing all Solutions team members on the East Coast. Greg Madianos joins Zilliant as director of product marketing. Madianos will be responsible for product and competitive positioning as well as strategic alliances.

Lyle and Salomon, both key contributors to the growth and development of the pricing and revenue management discipline, bring more than twenty-five years of experience to Zilliant. Most recently Lyle served as vice president of professional services at Revenue Technologies. Prior to that, she spent more than ten years as vice president of pricing global consulting services at Manugistics supporting the hospitality, travel, consumer electronics and high tech manufacturing industries. Lyle is credited with overseeing at least 20 pricing projects and developing implementation methodologies that contributed millions of dollars in professional services revenue and profits.

Most recently, Salomon was an independent pricing and revenue management consultant, providing services to several clients, including a Fortune 1000 company. Prior to that Salomon spent eight years at Manugistics where he served as director of product development overseeing pricing and business intelligence products. Salomon was responsible for engineering the re-architecture of Manugistic's products' client-server technology to the J2EE platform. Prior to his stint at Manugistics, Salomon was vice president of product development at Talus Solutions.

Madianos joins Zilliant from Oracle Corporation, where he directed all product marketing and development for the company's eService and knowledge management product lines. Prior to Oracle, he held senior product and business development positions at Siebel Systems across a wide range of customer relationship management applications. Madianos holds an MBA in Analytic Finance and Economics from the University of

Chicago's Graduate School of Business and a BA in Economics from Georgetown University.

Zilliant's success in the market is attracting the industry's top talent, accelerating and multiplying the value transfer to our customers," said Greg Peters CEO. "With more than 300 person-years of pricing experience and 800 plus years in enterprise software, the Zilliant team continues to set the industry standard."

About Zilliant
Zilliant, a leader in strategic pricing applications, provides software and services that aid companies in defining and managing their pricing for improved financial results. The Zilliant Pricing Suite delivers a full solution for Price Analytics, Price Execution and Price Modeling. By utilizing the Zilliant suite of pricing applications, companies are able to maximize revenue and margins through optimized segmentation, precision price setting, effective discount guidelines, successful price promotions and effective price policy enforcement. Headquartered in Austin, Texas, Zilliant is a privately held company. Investors include Cardinal Venture Capital, JP Morgan Partners, Austin Ventures and Trellis Partners. Zilliant is a registered trademark of Zilliant, Inc. For more information contact the company toll free at 877.893.1085 or visit www.zilliant.com.