A3 Solutions Supports IBM Enterprise Information Portal; EIP Hailed For Access To Unrivaled Number of Information Stores

Business Wire, Nov 2, 1999

SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 2, 1999--

A3 Solutions Incorporated (A-cubed) today announced support for IBM's Enterprise Information Portal, which will allow A3 to more effectively deploy A3 Profit Center for e-business solutions combining Profitability Analysis, Allocations, Budgeting, Costing, Forecasting, Planning, and Management Reporting.

"The Global 2000 know that success demands creation, broadcast, and management of information about customers, competitors, and suppliers, regardless of the location of that information," said Robert Lautt, President & CEO of A3 Solutions. "IBM's Enterprise Information Portal will help our customers leverage their investment in business intelligence and web technologies, and to integrate, automate, and centralize e-business solutions for planning, analysis, and management."

"Managing an e-business requires planning, discipline, and access to information across a wide range of systems and in a broad spectrum of formats," said Jim Kelly, Vice President of Marketing, IBM Data Management Solutions. "A3 Solutions coupled with the extensive search capabilities of the IBM Enterprise Information Portal enable customers to leverage the vast amount information supporting today's e-business applications."

About IBM's Enterprise Information Portal

IBM's Enterprise Information Portal is the first step of a company-wide software strategy designed to help corporations leverage the vast and growing amount of information supporting today's e-business applications. The IBM Enterprise Information Portal will allow users to access, search, integrate, and manage a wide range of information sources.

About A3 Solutions Incorporated

A3 Solutions, headquartered in San Francisco, develops and markets A3 Profit Center, the Web-Ready Enterprise Modeling Software Suite that deploys Advanced Analytic Applications (A3) for Enterprise Profit Planning (EPP). Corporations use A3 Profit Center to speed planning, increase collaboration, and make more informed decisions regarding enterprise profitability. EPP solutions configured with A3 Profit Center unify all Profitability Analysis, Allocations, Budgeting, Costing, Forecasting, Planning, and Management Reporting functionality under a common end-user application umbrella.

Enterprise Profit Planning (EPP): A3 Profit Center empowers Global 2000 companies to leverage state-of-the-art Online Analytical Processing (OLAP) technology and Excel to integrate mission-critical analytic models, remove their limitations, enhance their functionality, and elevate them to dynamic, realtime, collaborative, Internet-enabled Enterprise Models. Leveraging the domain expertise from generalized versions of real-world implementations, A3 Profit Center deploys Advanced Analytic Applications that exceed the flexibility and functionality of single-purpose, pre-packaged or time-consuming, custom-developed offerings.

Success Stories: A3 Profit Center customers include Abbott Laboratories, American Airlines, Avon Products, Bear Stearns & Co., The Clorox Company, Consolidated Edison, Cox Communications, Del Monte Foods, Deloitte & Touche, Fidelity Federal Bank, Staples, Sun Life of Canada (U.S.), T. Rowe Price, and Toyota Motors.

Partners: A3 Profit Center software is co-marketed with partners firms, including Hyperion Solutions (Nasdaq: HYSL), IBM (NYSE: IBM), and ShowCase Corporation (Nasdaq: SHWC). In addition, A3 Solutions partners with system integrators, consulting partners, and resellers worldwide.

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