Decade Systems and Ellie Mae Form Strategic Partnership

Decade Systems Will Serve as Ellie Mae's Preferred Integration Provider and a Reseller of ClickLoan Technology

Jacksonville, FL-APRIL 14, 2004-Decade Systems Corp., a prominent integration and business connectivity solutions provider in the mortgage industry, today announced a strategic partnership with Ellie Mae, Inc., the leading provider of desktop and Web-enabled productivity technology for the mortgage industry. The new alliance designates Decade as Ellie Mae's preferred integration provider and a reseller of Ellie Mae's ClickLoan technology.

As the preferred integration provider, Decade will provide integration solutions to Ellie Mae's clients that desire to seamlessly integrate Ellie Mae's Encompassä and ePASS® to disparate mortgage technology systems, such as loan origination, core banking, secondary marketing and servicing systems. Additionally, Decade's Total Enterprise Data Integration (TEDI) solution has been integrated directly into Ellie Mae's universal LOS -connector, ClickLoan, enhancing users' required data uploading, translation, data mapping and data editing capabilities for purposes of providing seamless delivery of loan origination data into lender's back-office systems.

"We value the relationship with Decade as they have an excellent service that will enable us to deliver our products to more lenders," said Richard Roof, senior vice president of Lender Services for Ellie Mae. "Partnering with Decade enables us to take our Encompass, ClickLoan and ePASS technologies one step further by greatly reducing the time and effort required to provide tight integration with many lender's internal systems. Decade helps us streamline the entire integration development process and enables complete connectivity between internal technology applications used by our lender customers."

Ellie Mae's ClickLoan technology rounds out Decade's TEDIä LoanSync offering, which enables the display of identifying loan information and selection of loans for transmitting loan data from various LOS systems to wholesale and correspondent lenders by enabling seamless transmission of loan files from Ellie Mae's products (Contour™, Genesis 2000™ and Encompass) as well as Calyx and Byte.

"Together, Ellie Mae and Decade Systems can provide the mortgage industry with a complete solution to efficiently transport loan data from a correspondent and wholesale origination channels, providing them with a quicker and more efficient solution for fulfillment of loans," said Brian K. Fitzpatrick, CEO of Decade Systems. "As part of Decade's preferred integrator program, Decade also certifies that Ellie Mae's technology is TEDI compliant, enabling their products to be part of Decade's industry library of certified adaptors. Decade continues to add to our growing library of certified integration adapters, increasing the value of our solution to our customers by providing highly effective connectivity to the mortgage industry that stays current as software vendors technology is updated."

About Decade Systems Corp.

Jacksonville, Fla.-based Decade Systems is a leading provider of systems integration solutions for the mortgage industry, providing businesses with efficient alternatives in financial systems integration. Decade's solutions include TEDI, an enterprise data integration software solution that speeds the development of interfaces and transfers information consistently, rapidly and seamlessly across multiple systems and platforms. The company has a reusable industry library of integration objects to more than 50 of the most popular mortgage technology software platforms in the industry and provides integration system consulting services on a strategic and technical level, assisting in the design and implementation of solutions for companies' integration challenges. For more information about Decade Systems, visit the company Web site at www.decadesystems.com .

About Ellie Mae, Inc.

Dublin, California-based Ellie Mae, Inc., is the leading provider of desktop and Web-enabled mortgage-industry productivity technology. In October 2003, Ellie Mae introduced Encompass, the first enterprise-level mortgage management system, with individual loan officer, processor and broker workspaces in a single, secure, scalable system. Ellie Mae's ePASS Web-transaction platform is the industry standard, connecting more than 30,000 third-party mortgage origination companies to more than 250 wholesale lenders and 90,000 settlement service providers-enabling them to eliminate redundant work, close loans faster, and reduce loan-origination costs. Ellie Mae products also include Executive Web Sites for automated lead generation and marketing, Contour and Genesis 2000 loan origination software, and Ellie Mae Docs for speedy, error-free electronic closing documentation. To learn more about Ellie Mae, call 888.955.9100 or visit www.elliemae.com .

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