Marcam's Enterprise Asset Management Solution Helps Philadelphia School District Reduce Operating Costs While Maximizing Productivity

Business Wire, Oct 23, 1998

NEWTON, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 23, 1998--

The Fifth Largest School District in the United States Successfully

Implements Marcam's Avantis.Pro

Marcam Solutions, Inc. (NASDAQ:MRCM) today announced that Philadelphia School District, the fifth largest school district in the United States, successfully implemented its object-oriented enterprise asset management solution, Avantis.Pro. The Philadelphia School District, which oversees 262 schools, 25,000 educators and more than 210,000 students, is utilizing Marcam's Avantis.Pro solution to help maximize productivity of its educational facilities and optimize its maintenance resources.

"Avantis.Pro provides all of the technological functionality and flexibility needed in an asset management solution," said Tom McGlinchy, executive director for facilities management services for the Philadelphia School District. "Along with this superior value, Marcam is the clear leader in service support. As we apply an industrial solution to an educational situation, Marcam is with us every step of the way to partner in our success."

Avantis.Pro will bring many welcome changes to the district's facilities management processes. With point and click for ease-of-use, on-site workers will be able to initiate work and parts orders, provide status reports and inform the system of tasks completed without endless, inefficient paper trails. Rather than contracting out many repairs, maintenance staff will also be given the authority and training needed to carry out a much wider range of maintenance tasks.

Philadelphia School District is also evaluating possible future applications of Marcam's Avantis solution, including food service and transportation management. "We hope to make the Philadelphia School District the standard in educational facilities maintenance management," said Eric Shapiro, administrator of field services for the School District of Philadelphia.

Avantis.Pro is Marcam's object-oriented, client/server asset management application offering robust, enterprise-enabled maintenance management and procurement functionality. In addition to facilities management, the solution is widely used in capital intensive industries such as chemical, mining, metals, and pulp and paper. Its flexible architecture enables customers to rapidly and easily reflect business changes within the software. Avantis.Pro also supports seamless integration to industry-leading solutions for workflow, document management, process control and imaging, enabling customers to readily implement an enterprise asset management solution.

About Marcam Solutions, Inc.

Marcam Solutions, Inc. (NASDAQ:MRCM) is a global provider of business applications and services to process manufacturers. Marcam's PRISM, Protean and Avantis product lines and components offer comprehensive business planning and control solutions to customers' production, logistics, asset management and financial business requirements. Marcam Solutions' more than 1,200 customers worldwide include Arco Chemical, BASF, Bausch & Lomb, Engelhard Corporation, Gerber Products, Heineken, H. J. Heinz, Molson Breweries, New Zealand Dairy Foods, Ralston Purina, Rohm and Haas, The Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company and Warner-Lambert.

Headquartered in Newton, Massachusetts, the company markets its products throughout the world. Marcam Solutions maintains partnerships with industry-leading vendors including Digital, Hewlett-Packard, IBM, Informix, Microsoft, NEC Corporation and PeopleSoft. Represented in more than 40 countries, Marcam Solutions has 16 offices throughout North America, Europe, the Middle East, Asia Pacific and Latin America, complemented by a worldwide affiliate organization. For more information, visit Marcam's home page on the World Wide Web at http://www.marcam.com.

(c) 1998 Marcam Solutions, Inc., all rights reserved. Marcam, PRISM and Protean are registered trademarks, and Avantis is a trademark, of Marcam Solutions, Inc. Portions of PRISM and Protean are the subject of U.S. Patent Nos. 4,864,507, 5,493,671 and 5,737,609. Other patents pending. Other product, company and service names mentioned herein may be trademarks, registered trademarks or service marks of their respective holders.