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Onyx and Kryptiq Join Forces to Improve Healthcare Provider Management
Integration Of Systems Increases Efficiencies And Improves Healthcare Provider Life Cycle Management

Bellevue, WA - March 2, 2006 - Onyx® Software Corporation (NASDAQ: ONXS), a worldwide leader in customer management solutions for the enterprise, and Kryptiq Corporation, a leading provider of contract management solutions for health plans, today announced that Kryptiq has joined the Onyx Global Alliance program.

The two companies joined forces to deliver an integrated solution that enables health plan administrators to automatically generate and update provider contracts, leveraging health provider demographics stored in Onyx Customer Management. This functionality will help health plans deliver higher quality service, shrink costs, reduce inefficiencies, and better control their legal risk through improved management of the healthcare provider life cycle.

"Kryptiq's Guardian Contract Manager's integration with Onyx's CRM solution enables health plans to use information managed in Onyx to automatically populate provider demographics information in contracts managed by Guardian Contract Manager," said Malcolm Costello, vice president of marketing for Kryptiq. "At the same time Guardian Contract Manager informs Onyx CRM of all changes in contract status. By integrating these core workflows health plans will be able to easily and seamlessly transition between the two applications for managing their provider network."

"Onyx is delighted to welcome Kryptiq as a member of the Onyx Global Alliance program," said Todd Chambers, chief marketing officer at Onyx Software. "We view our relationship with Kryptiq as essential to extending the Onyx value proposition deeper into the burgeoning healthcare industry. By working together the two companies will enable our joint customers to develop a more complete perspective on the complex relationships between healthcare organizations and the contracts they have with their various providers."

About Kryptiq Corporation
Kryptiq is the leading provider of interoperability and workflow connectivity solutions for healthcare. Kryptiq streamlines healthcare communications among patients, providers, pharmacies and payers with secure messaging, electronic prescribing, disease management, and contract management technologies. By integrating these solutions with existing systems and applications, Kryptiq enables the trusted transport of health information where and when it is needed. Kryptiq's fast growing customer base includes many of the nations top 100 integrated health networks, spans 48 states plus Washington, D.C., and includes well-known providers and payers such as Providence Health System, Capital Region Healthcare, MeritCare Health System, Eastern Maine Healthcare, BlueCross and BlueShield of Minnesota, and Northwest Permanente. For more information on the company, visit www.kryptiq.com

About Kryptiq's Guardian Contract ManagerTM
Guardian Contract Manager is a web-based end-to-end contract management application designed specifically for health plans. Guardian Contract Manager provides plans with an auditable enterprise-wide provider contracting application. Guardian Contract Manager creates, maintains, tracks, logs, manages, audits and archives all provider contracts. The application was built specifically to meet the needs of health plans and supports both standard and custom contracting.

About Onyx Software
Onyx Software Corporation (NASDAQ: ONXS) is a worldwide leader in customer management and process software for mid and large size enterprises. Onyx provides flexible solutions that enable organizations to automate, manage, and evolve their customer processes quickly and cost-effectively for strategic advantage. By providing an integrated suite of customer process automation applications encompassing customer management, process management, and analytics capabilities, Onyx enables enterprises to reduce costs, increase productivity and grow revenue. Major companies are aligning their customer-facing departments and managing their customer processes with Onyx software - companies such as Amway Corporation, Mellon Financial Corporation, The Regence Group and State Street Corporation. More information can be found at (888) ASK-ONYX or info@onyx.com

Forward-Looking Statement
This press release contains forward-looking statements, including statements about the potential benefits of Onyx products. Forward-looking statements are based on the opinions and estimates of management at the time the statements are made and are subject to risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from those anticipated in the forward-looking statements. The words "predict," "believe," "expect," "intend," "anticipate," variations of such words, and similar expressions identify forward-looking statements, but their absence does not mean that the statement is not forward-looking. These statements are not guarantees of future performance and are subject to risks, uncertainties and assumptions that are difficult to predict. Factors that could affect Onyx's actual results include, but are not limited to the "Important Factors That May Affect Our Business, Our Results of Operations and Our Stock Price" described in our annual report on form 10-K, our quarterly reports on form 10-Q and other filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission which are available on our investor relations home page at www.onyx.com/investors. Readers are cautioned not to place undue reliance upon these forward-looking statements that speak only as to the date of this release. Onyx undertakes no obligation to update publicly any forward-looking statements to reflect new information, events or circumstances after the date of this release or to reflect the occurrence of unanticipated events.

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Onyx is a registered trademark of Onyx Software Corporation in the United States and other countries. Kryptiq is a trademark and the Kryptiq logo is a service mark of Kryptiq Corp. Other product or service names mentioned herein are the trademarks of their respective owners.

Contact: Bob Craig
Onyx Software
617-314-6846

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