Released on: September 10, 2008, 10:45 am

Press Release Author: Joan Muschamp/Applied Knowledge Group

Industry: Consumer Services

Press Release Summary: Applied Knowledge Group Inc. (AKG) has been selected as a
vendor for Microsoft’s SharePoint Deployment Planning Services (SDPS)

Press Release Body: Reston, Va., [September 10, 2008] Applied Knowledge Group Inc.
(AKG) has been selected as a vendor for Microsoft’s SharePoint Deployment Planning
Services (SDPS). SDPS is a program that provides SharePoint technical and consulting
services to eligible Microsoft customers. All participating partners go through a
thorough evaluation process to ensure they have the qualifications to expertly
handle SharePoint customer needs.

As a pre-qualified SDPS program partner AKG has demonstrated the proven knowledge,
experience and depth of expertise needed to successfully implement SharePoint to
best meet each customer’s unique needs. Under the program, AKG can offer its full
range of SharePoint implementation services, including its unique approach that
ensures user adoption and improves knowledge sharing and collaboration. These
services can provide the client with a roadmap of their current collaborative
abilities and help them learn how to use SharePoint to best benefit their business.


Rance Hitt, AKG’s Director of Technical Services commented “We are proud to be one
of the SDPS certified companies. This designation reaffirms AKG’s deep level of
expertise in SharePoint implementation, and publicly demonstrates this to Microsoft
customers and partners.”

About Applied Knowledge Group, Inc.

Applied Knowledge Group Inc. (AKG) is a Microsoft Certified Partner focused on
helping government and commercial organizations connect employee knowledge via
collaboration strategies, tools and best practice user adoption methods primarily
based on a Microsoft SharePoint platform. Headquartered in Reston, Virginia, AKG was
founded in 1996 as an early innovator in collaboration technology.

Our goal is to support the vision of a Virtual Work Environment (VWE) to facilitate
collaboration, knowledge transfer and enable more informed business decisions. To
achieve this goal, we focus on four key pillars: People, Process, Technology and
Learning. Our services align with these four pillars and include collaboration
strategy support, change management and training services, SharePoint implementation
and other technology services, geospatial data visualization, and software
application development.

Current engagements include a 38,000 seat Microsoft SharePoint implementation for
the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) as well as current and prior engagements
including FedExKinkos, Weidemann Associates, Curtiss Wright Embedded Computing, the
Institute for Defense Analyses, TV Guide, Weyerhaeuser Corp., Learning Tree
International and the United States Marine Corps. For more information, please

Web Site: http://akgroup.com

Contact Details: Applied Knowledge Group, Inc.
2100 Reston Parkway, Suite 400
Reston, Virginia 20191
voice: 703.860.1145 fax: 703.860.2753