Comshare to offer finanical decision support seminars; to be offered in nine cities across the U.S

Business Wire, August 26, 1996

ANN ARBOR, Mich.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aug. 26, 1996--Comshare, Inc.(R) (NASDAQ-NM: CSRE), The Decision Support Company(TM), has launched a series of decision support seminars that address the major problems facing finance executives. Titled, "Gaining Business Advantage from Your Financial Data," the half-day seminars are targeted at financial executives responsible for budgeting, planning, reporting, forecasting and analysis. The seminars will be offered in Boston, Portland, Toronto, Houston, Pittsburgh, San Francisco, New York, Chicago, and Los Angeles between now and the end of October.

"Financial Decision Support (FDS) is concerned with providing information to executives within the finance function to support tactical and strategic decision making," said Michael Coveney, Comshare's director of enterprise business solutions marketing. "Key to FDS are an organization's planning and reporting processes which include strategic planning, medium term planning, detailed budgeting, actual vs. budget variance reporting and forecasting.

"These stages represent a continuous process with results from each stage feeding the next," continued Coveney. "What happens in many organizations, however, is that discreet systems are used for each stage. The result is a loss of integrity between systems, manual transfer of data and maintenance of multiple applications."

Comshare provides a complete range of Decision Support Applications for financial executives responsible for planning, budgeting, reporting, forecasting and analysis. The seminars will highlight the advantages of integrating these processes into a single system. Among the benefits are shorter closing and budgeting cycles, elimination of rekeying, more accurate budgets and forecasts, faster detection and response to changing business conditions, and the ability to test alternatives and monitor the results of business decisions.

For more information about seminar dates and locations, contact Comshare at 1-800-922-7979.

About Comshare

Comshare, The Decision Support Company, develops, markets and supports complete client/server decision support applications designed to improve business analysis, planning, reporting and decision making. Comshare decision support applications result in better decisions, improved profits, and enhanced competitiveness for its more than 3,000 customers in over 40 countries worldwide. Comshare, Inc. is a Microsoft Solution Provider.

For more information about Comshare products and services, call 1-800-922-7979 or see our home page on the world wide web at http://www.comshare.com -0-

Comshare is a registered trademark; The Decision Support Company is a trademark of Comshare, Inc. All other trademarks are the property of their respective holders.

CONTACT: Comshare, Inc.

Dan Jankowski, 313/769-8742

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Eiler Communications

Larry T. Eiler, 313/761-3399