Archer Technologies Named One of the Fastest Growing Companies in the United States on the Inc. 5000 List

With three-year sales growth of 196 percent, Archer continues its tradition of technology innovation, customer satisfaction and industry leadership.

NEW YORK, Aug. 26, 2008 – Archer Technologies, a provider of enterprise governance, risk and compliance (GRC) solutions, today announced that it has been named for a second year on the Inc. 5000 list of fastest-growing private companies in the country. The list is the most comprehensive look at the most important segment of the economy—America’s independent-minded entrepreneurs. Taken as a whole, these companies represent the backbone of the U.S. economy.

“As our business grows, the Archer team remains focused on delivering industry-leading solutions that empower our customers to manage risk, demonstrate compliance and build a culture of corporate governance,” says Jon Darbyshire, Archer president and CEO. “It is a significant achievement for our employees to be recognized again on the Inc. 5000 list for our success in providing the innovation, quality and service that our customers—and the industry as a whole—have come to expect from us.”

With more than six million licensed users, Archer delivers out-of-the-box software solutions that allow companies to implement a best-in-class enterprise governance, risk and compliance program. To fuel client success as well as Archer’s rapid growth, Archer delivers to market an ecosystem of supporting tools and services, including an online social network that fosters collaboration among clients, partners and product experts, and an online marketplace of applications, content, service providers and integration packages.

The 5000 companies that made the list reported aggregate revenue of $185 billion and median three-year growth of 147 percent. Most important, the 2008 Inc. 5000 companies were engines of job growth, having created more than 826,033 jobs since those companies were founded.

“Our second annual Inc. 5000 continues the most ambitious project in business journalism,” said Inc. 5000 Project Manager Jim Melloan. “The Inc. 5000 gives an unrivalled portrait of young, underreported companies across all industries doing fascinating things with cutting-edge business models, as well as older companies that are still showing impressive growth.”

Complete results of the Inc. 5000, including company profiles and a list of the fastest-growing companies that can be sorted by industry and region can be found at http://www.inc.com.

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About Archer Technologies

Archer Technologies delivers enterprise governance, risk and compliance (GRC) solutions. With more than six million licensed users and a client list that includes one in four of the Fortune 100, Archer enables companies to manage enterprise risks, demonstrate compliance, automate business processes, and gain visibility into corporate risk and security controls.

Archer’s out-of-the-box solutions, including Policy, Risk, Compliance, Enterprise, Incident, Vendor, Threat, Business Continuity, and Audit Management, are built on the flexible Archer SmartSuite Framework™, allowing clients to tailor the solutions according to their unique requirements. Whether deployed on-premise or via Archer’s SaaS model, the Framework has become a go-to GRC platform for many global organizations.

Archer is the only vendor that delivers the Archer GRC Ecosystem™ comprised of out-of-the-box solutions, a flexible Framework, a robust user community, and an application and partner exchange, which provides clients the tools they need to build a best-in-class enterprise GRC program. For more information, visit www.archer.com or call 1-888-539-EGRC.