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Guardian Capital Advisors Inc. Selects Janna's eRM Solution

Janna Contact Enterprise to Provide Integrated View of All Customer Information

TORONTO, Aug. 8 /CNW-PRN/ - Janna Systems Inc. (TSE: JAN), a leading provider of enterprise e-business Relationship Management (eRM) solutions for the financial services industry, today announced that Guardian Capital Advisors Inc., the Private Client Subsidiary of Guardian Capital Group Limited, one of Canada's longest established financial services companies, recently deployed Janna Contact Enterprise. Sailient Systems Inc., a Janna Systems Partner, led the implementation.

``We chose Janna Contact Enterprise over competing products because of its robust customization capabilities and its ease of integration with our back office systems,'' said Mark Yamada, Managing Director, Guardian Capital Advisors. ``Integrating Janna Contact Enterprise with our portfolio management accounting system adds value for us because it allows our portfolio managers to be extremely efficient when dealing with clients. Janna Contact Enterprise puts key information at our advisors' fingertips quickly and allows them to do more in a focused period of time.''

Janna Contact Enterprise provides a solution for professionals who deal with clients by bringing together customer knowledge from all sources across the enterprise. An enterprise information portal for customer knowledge, Janna Contact Enterprise is a component of Janna Enterprise Suite 2001.

Bill Rourke, Principal, Sailient Systems commented, ``Our strategic partnership with Janna Systems enabled us to offer Guardian Capital Advisors superior technology designed to meet their needs.''

``We're pleased to be chosen as the Relationship Management solution for Guardian Capital Advisors Inc.'' said William M. Tatham, President and CEO Janna Systems Inc. ``Working with our strategic partner, Sailient Systems, our client has a solution tailored to their unique requirements. Janna Contact Enterprise continues to be the solution of choice for the financial services market.''

About Guardian Capital Advisors Inc.

Guardian Capital Advisors Inc. is committed to providing superior investment solutions based upon experienced investment management and disciplined analysis of risk for individuals, trusts, estates, foundations and endowments. Guardian Capital Advisors Inc. is the Private Client Subsidiary of Guardian Capital Group Limited, one of Canada's longest established independent investment counselors, managing over $10 billion in client assets. Its parent company, Guardian Capital Group Limited, is listed on the Toronto Stock Exchange (Symbol: GCG).

About Sailient Systems Inc.

Sailient Systems provides Knowledge Management solutions, tailored to the needs of firms providing managed products such as mutual funds, private managed and WRAP accounts. Headquartered in Toronto's financial district, Sailient integrates award winning software from Janna Systems for relationship management and Cognos Corporation for Business Intelligence to provide clients with a comprehensive relationship management and management reporting solution.

About Janna Systems

Janna Systems Inc. (TSE: JAN) is a leading provider of enterprise e- business Relationship Management (eRM) solutions that enable enterprises to synchronize customer interactions and transactions across multiple communication channels, and offers personalized Web ``self-service'' e-commerce solutions that help their customers sell more through better-managed relationships.

Janna's Web-centric approach to synchronizing customer relationships across multiple channels, business functions and audiences represents a significant advance from traditional CRM. As the Internet shifts power to consumers, enterprises implementing Janna's eRM solutions can exploit the capabilities of the Internet, allowing online collaboration, personalized e- commerce and sharing of information with customers.

Headquartered in Toronto, Canada, Janna has sales offices and partners worldwide. For more information about Janna and the Janna Enterprise Suite of applications, call 1-800-268-6107, e-mail info@janna.com , or visit the Janna web site at www.janna.com.

This press release may contain forward-looking statements relating to the future performance of Janna Systems Inc. Forward-looking statements, specifically those concerning future performance and the achievement of operating profitability, are subject to certain risks and uncertainties, and actual results may differ materially. These risks and uncertainties include the ability of the Company to identify, develop, manufacture and market new products or to enhance its existing products; the limited operating history of the Company; the fluctuation in operating results; the Company's ability to successfully integrate acquired businesses; intense competition in the relationship management software market; the early stage of development of some of the Company's products; rapidly changing technology; limits on the Company's ability to protect its proprietary rights and technology; the possibility of defects in the Company's software; the ability of the Company to manage its growth; dependence on key personnel; dependence on a few clients; dependence on distribution channels; risks associated with international sales; the potential for litigation of patent infringement claims; the uncertainty of obtaining financing for future capital needs; currency exchange risks and other risks and uncertainties described in the Company's prospectus and filings with the Ontario Securities Commission.

Editorial Contact:
Matthew Bogart
Janna Systems Inc.
416.483.7711 x5013
mbogart@janna.com

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