QuEST Forum Selects Sente Group CEO To Speak
Presentation to focus on Sente Group's success in helping customers drive cost, cycle time productivity in new product development testing

ATLANTA – August 1, 2004 – The Sente Group Inc., a national provider of services that help high-tech electronics companies improve business performance related to product testing, announced today that CEO Paul McNamara will speak at the 5th annual QuEST Forum Best Practices Conference in September.

Lucent Technologies' Lynn Mercer, Performance Excellence Officer and Vice Chair of the QuEST Forum, said, "Sente's presentation was chosen because of the significant, measurable results their solutions have delivered in several environments."

As part of the Emerging Technology Management session, McNamara will present "Producing World Class Cost and Cycle Time Productivity in Test." The presentation derives from successful implementation of Sente's Test Resource Management (TRM) solutions, which help companies achieve optimal business performance in functions related to testing high-tech products during the product development cycle. Sente helps companies integrate and streamline the web of practices, people, tools and equipment that drive product testing, a mission-critical function.

Other companies presenting at the conference will include Boeing, Lockheed-Martin, Fujitsu, Cisco Systems, Motorola, Nortel Networks, Adtran and Lucent Technologies.

About The Sente Group - Since 1997, The Sente Group has helped a variety of market leaders in defense electronics and telecommunications equipment bring new profitability, speed and engineering productivity to their test-related functions. Headquartered in Atlanta with teams of professionals working with customers across North America, Sente is the only national provider focused exclusively on helping companies integrate and streamline the interdependence of people, practices and tools that drives all test-related activities in engineering cultures. Learn more at www.sentegroup.com.

About QuEST Forum
The QuEST Forum was formed in1998 to pursue a goal of global telecommunications quality and industry-wide performance excellence. It is a collaborative organization led jointly by service providers and equipment providers. Board members include executives from SBC, Verizon, Bell Canada, Sprint North Supply, Bellsouth, Belgacom, Motorola, Cisco Systems, Corning Cable Systems, Fujitsu, Lucent and Alcatel.

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