Alchemy Software Development announced as finalist in BT InspireIT Awards
Alchemy Software Development is finalist in Technology and Innovation awards

Dublin, Ireland — October 20th, 2005 — Alchemy Layout Manager™ has been announced as a finalist in the British Telecom Inspire IT 2005 Awards. The BT Inspire IT awards are presented to companies that demonstrate the creation of sustained business value for their clients with inspired use of technology and innovation.

Alchemy Layout Manager™ is a new product technology, recently released by Alchemy Software Development that uses advanced mathematical analysis to automatically adjust the user interface layout of localized applications. In recent industry tests, one thousand dialogs boxes were automatically re-sized and re-positioned in less than 400 seconds, a task that would have taken several weeks using conventional manual localization engineering processes.

“Alchemy Layout Manager™ is one of a number of advanced translation automation technologies that we are releasing to the market”, said Tony O'Dowd, CEO and President of Alchemy Software Development, “It drives large increases in productivity and efficiency for our clients, especially those that release multiple international versions of their products simultaneously. ”

“Alchemy Layout Manager™ is a patented and unique technology for the localization industry”, said Robert Martin, International Sales Manager at Alchemy Software Development, “It fundamentally redefines the software localization process, reducing engineering workload by over 70%, creating significant cost savings for our clients and more importantly reduced product lead-time to international markets.”

BT Inspire IT Awards are presented to companies within the Irish IT and Software Development sector that create sustained business value for their clients using new technology innovations. Each finalist is appraised by a panel of independent judges and the awards will be presented on the 26th October 2005.

Alchemy CATALYST continues to be recognized as the market leader and innovator in visual localization solutions, having previously received a number of internationally recognized Golden Globe Awards for Best Localization Technology 2002, a Software Industry Award as Best Localization Solution 2003 and winning a ClientSide Excellence Award 2003, 2004 and 2005.

For more information on Alchemy Software Development Ltd., please go to www.alchemysoftware.net.

About Alchemy Software Development
Alchemy Software Development is the market leader and pioneer of visual localization solutions. Multinational enterprises developing applications for Java, Windows9x, NT, ME, 2000, XP, SymbianOS, .NET, and XML, use Alchemy technology to accelerate entry to international markets, improving revenue growth opportunities and reducing their costs.

Alchemy CATALYST is the world's most recognized visual localization technology. 80% of the world's largest software companies use Alchemy CATALYST to accelerate entry to international markets, improving revenue growth opportunities and reducing their costs.

With over 12,000 licenses worldwide, Alchemy CATALYST is the dominant choice among professional development companies, localization service providers and global technology leaders such as Siemens, Corel, Philips, Canon, JD Edwards, VistaTec, Bowne Global Solutions and SDL.

Alchemy Software Development has offices and facilities in Europe, Asia-Pacific and the United States.

For more information on the company and its products, please refer to http://www.alchemysoftware.ie/