American Management Systems announces business partner agreement with Lotus Development Corporation; Agreement follows company's successes with Notes in health care, government and business consulting environments

Business Wire, August 21, 1995

FAIRFAX, Va.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--August 21, 1995--American Management Systems (AMS) today announced a business partner agreement with Lotus Development Corporation under which AMS will offer Lotus Notes(R) products and related application design and development services to large enterprises nationwide.

AMS has 50 full-time Notes developers, consultants, and administrators who will support projects for AMS clients in the company's health care, government, and commercial practices.

"This agreement will enable AMS to extend its range of advanced document management and work flow solutions for large organizations," said AMS vice president Peter Gretz. "AMS has successfully used Notes internally on a large scale, and we have worked with clients to implement Notes-based work flow applications. Now we can resell Notes, have access to pre-release versions of Notes and related Lotus products, and partner with Lotus in business development for large-scale applications."

As an early adopter of Notes technology, AMS used Notes to develop the AMS Knowledge Express(SM), the company's internal repository of best practices, methodologies, and technical knowledge. The AMS Knowledge Express gives over 2,500 AMS consultants and software developers worldwide immediate access to the company's key intellectual property.

Lotus Notes is a client/server-based, collaborative computing (or "groupware") tool that enables teams within or across enterprises to share knowledge bases and to work together using pre-defined forms and work flows. Notes includes a powerful replication mechanism for sharing data bases across multiple servers throughout an organization.

AMS will apply Notes immediately within its health care vertical market. "We are currently beginning a new project with a hospital system to apply Notes to streamline financial management practices," said Gretz, who manages AMS's health care practice.

AMS recently used Notes to develop XPEDITE(TM), a communication system to support rapid donor-recipient matching and movement of donated organs to medical transplant centers. According to the United Network for Organ Sharing (UNOS), this system reduces by several hours the average time required to place donor organs by allowing transplant centers to evaluate potential matches in parallel, thereby saving lives.

AMS has also created work flow applications for human resources and financial accounting processes at other organizations, using a variety of Notes add-on products including Lotus Notes: Document Imaging (LN:DI), Lotus Field Exchange (F/X), and Lotus Notes Visual Programmer (ViP). AMS created a document imaging system for storage and retrieval of engineering drawings for the Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA), using LN:DI, the best-integrated Notes imaging tool for medium-scale imaging databases.

AMS's business is to partner with clients to achieve breakthrough performance through the intelligent use of information technology. AMS is a business and information technology consulting firm that provides a full range of services: business reengineering, change management, systems integration, and systems development and implementation. AMS, which recently completed its 25th consecutive year of growth, is headquartered in Fairfax, with offices in 41 cities throughout North America and Europe. AMS's revenues for 1994 were $460 million. -0-

(TM) Xpedite is a trademark of UNOS

(R) Lotus Notes is a registered trademark of Lotus Development

Corporation

(SM) AMS Knowledge Express is a service mark of American Management

Systems Inc.

CONTACT: American Management Systems

Charlene Baldwin, 703/267-5035

or

John Piescik, 703/841-6861