BOSTON, April 3, 2006 – TA Associates, a leading private equity and buyout firm, today announced the completion of a $200 million buyout of Global 360, Inc., a global software and services company providing business process management and optimization solutions. TA led the investment along with Technology Crossover Ventures (TCV), a leading provider of growth capital to technology companies, and JMI Equity, a private equity firm exclusively focused on investments in the software and business services industries.

Global 360 delivers a comprehensive Business Process Management Suite (BPMS) that helps many of the largest organizations around the world manage and optimize their critical business processes. Global 360’s product represents a strong market offering that helps organizations automate, measure and improve business processes, while enabling them to monitor and enhance process performance. The company’s core technologies are content management, process management, goal management, process modeling, forecasting, simulation, analysis, reporting and optimization. Global 360 was recently listed by a leading industry analyst firm as the only top-five vendor to achieve double-digit growth. The company boasts one of the most impressive customer lists in the industry with over 5,000 customer sites, deployed across multiple industries. Global 360 clients include seven of the world’s top ten insurance companies, 16 of the world’s top 20 banks, and numerous U.S. government agencies.

“Global 360 is a very good example of the type of profitable, growing company in which TA seeks to invest,” said Kurt Jaggers, a managing director at TA Associates who will join the company’s board of directors. “The company has become a recognized leader in business process management and optimization solutions, as evidenced by its truly impressive roster of blue-chip clients. As with all of our investments, we will work closely with Global 360’s management team to further build value in the company.”

“We are pleased to welcome our new investors as shareholders,” said Michael Crosno, CEO of Global 360, Inc. “We are extremely excited about this strategic union because it will give us access to the capital for growth and acquisitions and the industry expertise needed as we elevate Global 360 to the top-tier leader in this market. We are confident this will prove to be a very successful partnership.”

Industry analysts estimate worldwide license revenues for the business process management market at $700 million in 2005, up from $600 million in 2004. Fourteen percent annual growth is expected over the next five years.

“We are backing a great management team who has deep industry expertise and commitment to Global 360’s success,” said Vivian Wu, a vice president at TA Associates who will also join the company’s board of directors. “Working together, we intend to build upon the company’s momentum in one of the most rapidly growing segments within enterprise software so that Global 360 can expand its leadership position.”

“Global 360 has always had an unparalleled commitment to delivering outstanding customer service,” said Jake Reynolds, a general partner at TCV who will also join the company’s board of directors. “By building on its solid customer relationships and its strengths in new product development, Global 360 is uniquely positioned for accelerated growth.”

TA Associates has 38 years of investing experience, focusing on profitable growth companies. TA’s prior investments in the software sector include such companies as BMC Software, Cadence Design Systems, Hyperion Solutions, JDA Software, Kintana, McAfee Associates, Numara Software and Monotype Imaging.

Goodwin Procter LLP served as legal counsel for TA Associates.  Latham & Watkins LLP served as legal counsel for TCV and JMI. Gunderson Dettmer Stough Villeneuve Franklin & Hachigian LLP served as legal counsel for Global 360.

TA Associates
Founded in 1968, TA Associates is one of the largest and most experienced private equity firms.  With offices in Boston, Menlo Park and London, the firm manages $10 billion in capital and has invested in more than 360 companies.  TA Associates provides growth equity capital, leveraged recapitalization and management buyout financing primarily for technology, financial services, business services, consumer and healthcare businesses.  More information about TA Associates can be found at www.ta.com.

About TCV
Technology Crossover Ventures (TCV), founded in 1995, is a leading provider of growth capital to technology companies, providing funds to later-stage private and public companies. With $4.7 billion in capital under management, TCV has made growth equity and recapitalization investments in over 150 companies leading to 37 initial public offerings and 29 strategic sales or mergers. TCV employs a crossover investment model, which combines venture capital with public market investing and enables TCV to continue to invest in its portfolio companies at the IPO and beyond. Representative investments include Alteon Websystems, Altiris, CNET, eHarmony, Expedia, InPhonic, Liquidnet, Netflix, RealNetworks, Redback Networks, Solect Technology, Webroot and Xylan. TCV has ten partners and is headquartered in Palo Alto, California. For more information about TCV, visit www.tcv.com.

About JMI Equity
JMI Equity, based in Baltimore and San Diego, is a private equity firm exclusively focused on investments in the software and business services industries. Founded in 1992, JMI has invested in over 60 companies throughout North America and has approximately $700 million of capital under management. JMI invests in growing businesses. The firm's focus is on providing the first institutional capital to self-funded companies. JMI also invests in select recapitalization and management buyout financings. Representative investments include Blackbaud, Inc., DoubleClick, Inc., Jackson Hewitt, Inc., NEON Systems, Inc., Transaction Systems Architects, Inc. and Unica Corporation. For more information on JMI Equity, visit www.jmiequity.com.

About Global 360
Global 360, Inc. is a leading provider of Business Process Management and Optimization solutions for Global 2000 organizations. With over two decades of experience, Global 360 provides organizations with a competitive edge by automating, measuring and improving resource-intensive business processes across different communities, including customers, employees and partners. Building on its strength in financial services, government and insurance, Global 360 empowers sites for more than 2,000 customers in 134 countries. Global 360, Inc. is headquartered in Texas with operations in North America, Europe, and the Pacific Rim. For more information about Global 360's BPM solutions, please call 1-214-520-1660 or visit the company web site at www.global360.com.

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