MELBOURNE, Australia – May 21, 2007 – The Active Network, Inc. (Active), a leading provider of application services technology and marketing solutions for community service and participatory sports organisations, announced today that it has opened an office in Melbourne, Australia.

With over 700 employees and 12 offices worldwide, Active serves organisations and participants in multiple markets throughout the United States, Canada, Australia, New Zealand and across Europe. Active provides a breadth of service offerings and is a trusted technology provider for over 55,000 worldwide sports events, leagues, tournaments, councils, universities, parks, recreation and aquatics facilities, and other leisure-based organisations. Through its range of software and technology solutions, Active has successfully raised awareness and participation for organisations of all sizes, increased efficiency, reduced the cost and complexity of managing daily administration and saved staff and consumers time by automating paper-based processes.

In response to a growing interest in Australia for Active’s technology, Active’s presence offers software to manage leisure centres, parks, recreation and aquatic facilities, real-time data management, on-line registration for participatory sports events and organisations, state-of-the-art on-line fundraising support and customer service.

“We are excited by the growing market opportunities in Australia and believe there is huge potential to expand Active’s role in servicing organisations with our technology,” explained Sejal Pietrzak, vice president for Active International. “As the established leader in the industry, we are excited to bring our expertise and trusted software and data management capabilities to Australia. Opening an office in Melbourne demonstrates Active’s commitment to the Australian market and to working with both existing and new Australian customers.”

Currently, Active provides online registration and database management to over 130 participatory sports events and tournaments in Australia and manages technology solutions for leisure, recreation and aquatics facilities and organisations.

The Active Network’s new office is located at:

Pacific Tower (suite 3.03)
737 Burwood Road
Hawthorn, VIC 3122

For more information, visit www.activenetwork.com.au or call 03 8862 6358.