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Open Solutions Expands Corporate Financial Product Offerings

03:59:45 - 08 June 2006

Hartford - Open Solutions Inc. (NASDAQ: OPEN), a provider of integrated enabling technologies for financial services organizations throughout the United States and Canada, announced the expansion of its product mix to include Health Savings Accounts (HSAs), Corporate Money Management Accounts (CMMAs), and Customer Asset Accounts (CAAs). In March 2006, Open Solutions acquired the Information Services Group of New Jersey-based The BISYS Group, Inc., and as a result, has expanded its overall product offering into healthcare banking, asset retention, insured deposit services for insurance companies and the corporate financial banking markets.

"Open Solutions focuses on providing superior technology and exceptional service solutions to our clients," said Mike Nicastro, SVP and chief marketing officer, Open Solutions. "Our strategy has always been to offer products and services our clients need and options they can add quickly and efficiently to their platform. Consistently, the result has been a positive and immediate impact on growth and diversity of revenue streams."

With Consumer-Driven Health Plans (CDHPs) gaining momentum among employers and consumers as cost-effective alternatives to traditional health strategies, HSAs paired with High Deductible Health Plans (HDHPs) continue to increase. HSAs are quickly being adopted much like previous benefits innovations such as Flexible Spending Accounts (FSAs), HMOs and 401(k)s.

Open Solutions provides clients in the marketplace with a comprehensive business process outsourced HSA solution offering education and marketing, investment and payer and multi-purse integration. Outsourcing this function gives financial institutions a solution that is flexible and rich in functionality, with an experienced partner that has a keen understanding of how banking relates to the healthcare business. Open Solutions' HSA product also offers transaction processing, recordkeeping, call center and regulatory support - enabling large financial institutions to focus on their core competencies.

The CMMA program features account processing, back-office services and customer care. As an alternative funding source, a CMMA allows investors to raise capital through investments in corporations. Those corporations then issue corporate debt as insurance for the funding, which typically yields a higher interest rate. Open Solutions' CMMA program was designed so corporations could raise capital while building brand loyalty and extending into new market segments. Open Solutions supports 150,000 CMMAs totaling more than $7 billion in assets.

Open Solutions' turnkey CAA solution benefits life and property/casualty insurers who can retain significant assets by establishing ongoing customer relationships with beneficiaries and claimants respectively. Open Solutions helps insurers offer bank-type services -- such as interest bearing draft accounts and debit/stored value cards -- as alternatives to one-time and recurring settlements. Open Solutions provides CAAs that give insurers the opportunity to maximize profitability through increased investment income, cross-selling opportunities, and a stable customer base.

Open Solutions Chairman and CEO Louis Hernandez, Jr. said, "With the integration of these three proven solutions into our expanding product mix, we believe we are poised to provide an even broader offering to the various financial services markets we serve. Our innovative technological approach and financial services expertise has laid the foundation to provide these additional markets with a strong list of new solutions and top of market products and services. These expanded offerings, combined with Open Solutions' extensive suite of products and services, further emphasizes our commitment to providing clients with the broadest range of tools to help them better compete and serve their markets."

About Open Solutions Inc.
Open Solutions Inc. offers a fully featured strategic product platform that integrates core data processing applications built on a single centralized Oracle relational database, with Internet banking, cash management, CRM/business intelligence, financial accounting tools, imaging, Check 21, interactive voice response, network services, Web hosting and design, and payment and loan origination solutions. Open Solutions' full suite of products and services allows banks, thrifts, credit unions and financial services providers in the United States and Canada to better compete in today's aggressive financial services marketplace, and expand and tap their trusted financial relationships, client affinity, community presence and personalized service.

For more information about Open Solutions or its financial product line, contact Mickey Goldwasser by email at mgoldwasser@opensolutions.com by phone at 860.652.3153 or via fax at 860.652.3156. Visit Open Solutions' Internet site at www.opensolutions.com.

Open Solutions Inc. is a registered trademark of Open Solutions Inc. All other company and product names may be trademarks of their respective owners. Copyright 2006 Open Solutions Inc. All rights reserved.

Safe Harbor Statement
Statements made in this press release that state Open Solutions Inc.'s or management's intentions, beliefs, expectations, or predictions for the future are forward-looking statements within the meaning of The Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Readers are cautioned that these statements are only predictions and may differ materially from actual future events or results. All forward looking-statements are only as of the date of this press release and Open Solutions Inc. undertakes no obligation to update or revise them. Such forward-looking statements are subject to a number of risks, assumptions and uncertainties that could cause Open Solutions Inc.'s actual results to differ materially from those projected in such forward-looking statements. For example, if we fail to adapt our products and services to changes in technology or in the marketplace, we could lose existing clients and be unable to attract new business. Factors which could cause our actual results to differ materially from those projected in forward-looking statements include, without limitation, economic, competitive, governmental and technological factors affecting the banking and credit union industry and/or Open Solutions Inc.'s operations, markets, products, services, prices and other factors set forth under the heading "Factors Affecting Future Operating Results" in Open Solutions' Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the three months ended March 31, 2006, as filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission.

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