SANTA CLARA, Calif., November 8, 2006—SigmaQuest ™ Inc., a leading provider of business intelligence software solutions that help global manufacturers build higher quality products, said its OnDemand software subscription business is taking off.  One hundred percent of the company’s new customers, over the last two quarters, have opted for the OnDemand approach.

SigmaQuest developed its OnDemand, Software as a Service model (SaaS) to make it easier for OEM customers to adopt its software solutions.  SigmaQuest’s approach is simple; the software is hosted on its website, where customers pay a fixed fee per user, per month or per use.  Customers no longer need to install software onto their own computers, pay for upgrades, patches or routine maintenance.  To access the software, they simply log onto their account and readily get the product intelligence data they are seeking in real time.  With this model, customers also get 24x7 support, better ease of use, high security and rapid deployment to globally-based employees.

Recent, partial customers who have chosen SigmaQuest’s OnDemand solution include Hi-tronics Designs, a manufacturer of medical devices; McDATA (Nasdaq: MCDTA/MCDT), the leading provider of data access solutions; Sycamore Networks, Inc. (NASDAQ: SCMR) a leading provider of intelligent networking solutions for fixed line and mobile network operators worldwide; MC Assembly, a national leader in the contract manufacturing industry and many others.  

“A great number of our customers desire to access our software from globally-disparate locations for the purpose of tracking and boosting the quality of their products,” noted Nader Fathi, CEO at SigmaQuest. “Their employees ranging from CXOs, manufacturing plant managers and return and material authorization managers require fast and easy access to SigmaSure so they can quickly find out how their products are performing, identify when there are issues and rapidly get to the root cause of any product performance problems so they can make appropriate changes. Customers keep telling us that they are more willing today to invest in SaaS licensing approaches as opposed to installing our software on computers in numerous employees’ offices worldwide.  Moreover, they are finding that the OnDemand model is much easier to use with lower overall cost of ownership.”

SigmaQuest’s entire SigmaSure product suite is available OnDemand.  This suite consists of Manufacturing and Test Insight software that enables users to continuously monitor their manufacturing chain’s product quality data anytime and anywhere; Supplier Quality Insight that enables OEMs to track the quality of their core suppliers’ components, before committing to the assembly of broader product offerings and RMA Insight that delivers instant knowledge about defects, trends and the root cause of failures on products returned by end customers. Users can leverage these tools and manage and track their product performance intelligence data by logging on to SigmaQuest secure web-hosted environment.

About SigmaQuest

SigmaQuest Inc. is an on-demand software company whose solutions provide unprecedented insight and actionable information to ensure product and process integrity, by collecting, aggregating, controlling and analyzing quality data during the entire product lifecycle. Its solutions enable global enterprises such as OEMs that design, manufacture, and service a broad array of products ranging from wireless devices to pacemakers to fuel cells, to optimize product time-to-market, cost and quality. This is accomplished through personalized views of product quality information, pro-active alerts and comprehensive traceability - all in real time.

The company is headquartered at 2901 Tasman Drive, Suite 109, Santa Clara, CA 95054. It can also be reached at 408-654-9401, www.SigmaQuest.com.