Ecquaria brings creativity, puts forward thinking SISTIC on the forefront of innovation and service-oriented culture

Singapore (29 Apr 2004) - Ecquaria Limited (www.ecquaria.com), leader in enterprise business platform, today announced the official launch of STiX (SISTIC Ticketing System), an innovative ticketing infrastructure that employs cutting-edge technologies to help SISTIC bridge the gap between floor operations and enterprise infrastructure systems. Specifically, Ecquaria has helped SISTIC to develop a comprehensive ticketing system that will help SISTIC to simplify ticket purchase by promoters and customers, gain greater visibility into SISTIC’s ticketing business, make informed, real-time business decisions and enhance service delivery. STiX will play a central role in SISTIC’s goal to increase operational efficiencies, optimize resources, overhaul its ticketing infrastructure and operations. Additionally, it will help SISTIC to meld its information technology systems with their core business, streamline SISTIC’s operations efficiently while growing revenues, and eventually helping SISTIC to become a leader in technology-enabled cultural dissemination.

Modelled on the best of global practices of successful businesses, STiX will deliver information, interaction and transaction by leveraging advanced technologies for online ticket booking services, customer relationship management, content management, online merchandise purchase and payment. When fully completed, the system will be capable of integrating and selling tickets to a wide range of lifestyle products, from theatre, movies and sporting events, and other leisure attractions in Singapore, as such, creating an additional channel for increased revenues for SISTIC.

A web-based, self-service means will be available through STiX for SISTIC’s promoters and customers to interact and transact with SISTIC in real-time. These services will be linked to automated workflows that introduce new operational efficiencies to SISTIC, dramatically simplify ticket-booking transactions and improve response time while lowering operational cost for SISTIC.

STiX leverages on the Ecquaria Service-Oriented Platform™ (Ecquaria SOP™) to streamline SISTIC’s ticketing, events, customer relationship management processes, bringing SISTIC to the forefront of service-oriented enterprise infrastructures among ticketing agencies.

“The development of STiX is a significant step toward making SISTIC a leading ticketing agency in ticketing infrastructures but more importantly, turning SISTIC into a value-added ticketing agency that is capable of providing a diverse suite of ticket sales to entertainment events and tourist attractions in Singapore,” said Dr Foong Wai Keong, President and Chief Executive Officer of Ecquaria Technologies. “Ecquaria has the right blend of resources, experience with developing large scale service-oriented infrastructures, and a proven track record of innovation. We are delighted to help SISTIC break new ground in delivering a world-class ticketing solution, pursue excellence and innovative business strategies.”

About Ecquaria Technologies
Ecquaria is a leading enterprise business platform provider and an associate company of Frontline Technologies Corporation Limited. Unique in the industry, Ecquaria has pioneered a simple and effective way to provide software integration and new application development all in one single, integrated enterprise business platform. Based on a service-oriented model and Business Performance Management capabilities, the Ecquaria Service-Oriented Platform™ (Ecquaria SOP™) offers a comprehensive business platform to deliver a secure, scalable and reliable process-driven infrastructure for all the enterprise’s applications. Ecquaria strives to help customers to put in place business processes that are integrated end-to-end across the enterprise and with key partners, vendors and customers. These processes can be reviewed easily by managers, who can respond with flexibility and speed. Offering enterprise-class capabilities, Ecquaria SOP™ enables the enterprise to automate its business processes and provide an efficiently integrated information flow throughout the organization. While providing critical and complete information across the enterprise, Ecquaria SOP™ supports key business objectives to help the enterprise to manage all aspects of its business. Ecquaria is established with offices in Singapore, China, Mexico and U.S. with an expanding network of global partners to support the activities of customers worldwide. More information is available at http://www.ecquaria.com.

About Frontline Technologies Corporation Ltd
Frontline Technologies Corporation Ltd is an end-to-end Information Technology (‘IT’) services provider specializing in Consulting, Infrastructure, Applications Development, Outsourcing, Support and Education. Our mission is to provide “Best Business Results Through Ideas, People and Technology”. We offer a strategic spectrum of information technology solutions that helps organizations gain a competitive edge in their business. Listed on the Main board of the Stock Exchange of Singapore, we are headquartered in Singapore and have operations in China (Shanghai, Beijing, Chengdu, Tianjin, Suzhou and Guangzhou), Hong Kong, Malaysia, Thailand and the Philippines. More information is available at http://www.frontline.com.sg, http://www.mdcl.com.cn, http://.logic.co.th, http://www.cdg.co.th, http://www.sun.com.ph.