DataLan Corporation named Microsoft Eastern Region Partner of the Year

White Plains, NY — 9/1/2005 — DataLan Corporation, Inc. today announced that Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ: MSFT) has honored DataLan as the Eastern Region Partner of the Year in the area of Customer Satisfaction and Experience. This award recognizes excellence in building solutions and providing services to businesses using Microsoft Software (such as Windows, Office, and SQL Server) and in enabling customers to get the most from their relationship with Microsoft Corporation.

“DataLan represents the very best in terms of using our products to help businesses address real world issues and highlighting how our software can really help organizations be more productive, more competitive and more agile,” said Microsoft General Manager Alejandra Calatayud.

John Arnold, president of DataLan adds, “We are particularly proud of this award, because it recognizes not only technical competence, but how well we take care of our customers and help them to use technology to address business issues and achieve their goals and objectives.”

DataLan Corporation is a Gold Certified Solution Provider with a recognized competency in Information Worker Solutions. The gold certified partner level is the highest designation Microsoft can give a partner organization and DataLan Corporation is one of fewer than one hundred partner organizations in the US to qualify for the Information Worker Competency, which recognizes DataLan’s unique ability to build collaboration and group productivity solutions using the Office System. DataLan was one of the first ten organizations in the country to achieve this designation (then known as “Collaborative Solutions”) in 2000.

About DataLan
DataLan Corporation provides solutions enabling the information worker. Information work is the act of creating, using, or sharing information as a part of a business process and in today’s economy; the great majority of workers are information workers. DataLan is focused on building solutions that deliver business impact by providing people with immediate, efficient, and meaningful information along with access to the tools and other resources they need to do their jobs, make decisions, take care of customers, and improve their organizations. DataLan (www.datalan.com) is headquartered in White Plains, NY, and maintains key alliances with Microsoft, Citrix, and Business Objects.