A3 Solutions, Consultores de Integracion de Sistemas, S.A. de C.V. - CIS - Ink Pact, Take High-Response Planning To Latin America

Business Wire, Feb 22, 2000

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SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 22, 2000

A3 Solutions Incorporated (A-cubed) and Consultores de Integracion de Sistemas, S.A. de C.V. today announced an all-inclusive International Distribution Agreement under which CIS becomes a Value-Added Reseller (VAR) for A3 Enterprise Profit Planning (EPP) products throughout Latin America.

The VAR relationship provides extended availability of A3 EPP products and customer support -- and grants Latin American customers, previously restricted to costly custom approaches or limited, traditional software packages, sweeping access to sophisticated, flexible planning solutions.

"Many North American companies are using A3 Profit Center to integrate, automate, and centralize corporate profit planning. They've been able to escape Spreadsheet Hell, without eliminating their established spreadsheet base," said Robert Lautt, President & CEO of A3 Solutions. "Within the past year, we've opened new markets in Europe and Australia. Now customers in Latin America will have the same access to our software solutions as American Airlines, Avon, Del Monte, Deloitte & Touche, and other corporations."

"We're pleased and excited to introduce A3 Solutions and its Enterprise Planning to our clients in finance, manufacturing, and telecommunications," said Christopher May, Director General of CIS. "By exploiting the most recent advances in Web, Excel, and OLAP technologies, A3 Profit Center will bring new planning solutions to the Latin American markets -- and enable our clients to continue to realize a high Return On Investment in their profit planning efforts."

Consultores de Integracion de Sistemas, S.A. de C.V. headquarters in Mexico City is located at Rio Panuco 55, 5to. Piso, Col. Cuauhtemoc, C.P. 06500, Mexico, D.F. The telephone number is 52 (5) 592 5300. The eMail address is mvillasenor@cis.com.mx.

About CIS

Consultores de Integracion de Sistemas, S.A. de C.V. (CIS) was founded in 1990 to provide superior financial and analytical software solutions to satisfy the rapidly changing needs of large enterprises in Mexico and Latin America. Through rapid national and international expansion, the company has experienced an increase in sales of 250% in the last two years -- and now serves over 100 clients from its offices in Mexico (Mexico City, Monterrey, Queretaro); Sao Paolo, Brazil; Bogota, Colombia; and Caracas, Venezuela.

About A3 Solutions

A3 Solutions Incorporated, headquartered in San Francisco, develops and markets A3 Profit Center(TM), the Enterprise Modeling software suite that deploys Advanced Analytic Applications (A3) for Enterprise Profit Planning.

Enterprise Profit Planning (EPP): A3 Profit Center empowers Global 2000 companies to leverage state-of-the-art Online Analytical Processing (OLAP) technology, Excel, and the Web 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 captured 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.

Customers: 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 partner firms, including Hyperion Solutions Corporation (Nasdaq: HYSL), IBM (NYSE: IBM), and ShowCase Corporation (Nasdaq: SHWC). A3 Solutions is a Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT) Certified Solution Provider. A3 partners with system integrators, internet consultancies, and resellers worldwide.

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