Monday April 1, 5:00 pm Eastern Time Press Release SOURCE: Chordiant Chordiant Acquires OnDemand, Inc

CUPERTINO, CA--(INTERNET WIRE)--Apr 1, 2002 -- Chordiant Software, Inc. (NASDAQ:CHRD) , the leader in delivering Dynamically Driven Customer Relationship Management(TM) (CRM), today announced that it has acquired OnDemand, Inc. a privately held company. Under the terms of the acquisition, the stockholders of OnDemand will receive approximately $12,000,000 in cash, subject to certain indemnities and escrow provisions. OnDemand comes with approximately $5,000,000 in net working capital and a modest revenue stream and expense base.

OnDemand provides relationship management software that enables organizations and their branch and independent channels to increase sales and reduce costs by maximizing customer relationships. The OnDemand domain expertise and J2EE-based software environment will complement the current Chordiant 5 application suite and integrate with the J2EE-based Chordiant 5 Enterprise Platform.

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