Already a player in the e-commerce marketplace with over $300 million in sales last year from its online business, a recent acquisition has made this retail giant the largest single provider of apparel via the World Wide Web. Last month, they began selling their entire catalog of clothing and home decorating offerings on their web site, including new lines of clothing not yet available in all their retail stores.

Dart Warehouse, the company responsible for processing the new orders, uses Integrated Warehousing Solutions' IRMS Warehouse Management System to handle everything from receiving and order processing, through returns and quality assurance. Long responsible for processing customer orders for various business lines, including high volume seasonal Christmas orders, the Dart Warehouse facility in Naperville, Illinois is a multi-channel supply chain, fulfillment and distribution center.

To accommodate the new apparel business requirements, Integrated Warehousing Solutions in partnership with Progress Software (Nasdaq: PRGS) and Sonic Software Corporation (www.sonicsoftware.com) set out to convert the existing IRMS integration paradigm, an essential element to Dart's winning the additional business.

For the web site roll-out, Integrated Warehousing Solutions used the strength and adaptability of Sonic ESB to translate orders from the client's Host systems into the existing IRMS Warehouse Management System formats for processing. Sonic ESB, the leading enterprise service bus from Sonic Software, enables enterprise-wide integration of diverse applications to create an event-driven, server-oriented architecture that is centrally managed, globally deployable, fundamentally secure, and inherently flexible.

Once Dart has processed the company's web site orders through IRMS, Sonic translates the associated information so that the retailer can provide their online customers with information regarding the status of their orders, including tracking numbers.

While all of this critical back end processing is invisible to the online consumer and seamless to IRMS Warehouse Management System users at Dart, the impact on the client is undeniable: Getting the right product, to the right place, on time, every time, and providing verifiable assurance to shoppers that their merchandise is on the way.

About Integrated Warehousing Solutions
Integrated Warehousing Solutions is a global supplier of industry-leading supply chain execution, distribution and inventory control solutions. Their award-winning IRMS Warehouse Management System delivers the lowest cost-of-ownership application that is rapidly implemented and easily integrated with all industry-leading enterprise applications.

With the expertise of more than 150 industry and systems experts, Integrated Warehousing Solutions supports a worldwide account base in more than 20 countries with supply chain solutions deployed in four different languages. Integrated Warehousing Solutions, an operating unit of UPP Business Holdings, Inc., is headquartered in Downers Grove, Illinois, and can be reached at 800-682-2910 or on the web at www.irmswms.com.

About Sonic Software Corporation
Sonic Software is the inventor and leading provider of the enterprise service bus (ESB). Sonic enterprise integration and messaging products deliver flexibility, scalability, and continuous availability through patent-pending innovations. Sonic Software enables over 700 customers to integrate their organizations from the department to the extended enterprise with a standards-based, service-oriented architecture (SOA).

Sonic Software is an independent operating company of Progress Software Corporation (Nasdaq: PRGS), a $300+ million global software industry leader. Headquartered in Bedford, Mass., Sonic Software can be reached on the Web at www.sonicsoftware.com, or by phone at +1-781-999-7000 or 1-866-GET-SONIC.

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