Applicast Launches Professional Services Alliance; Extends Domain Expertise and Geographic Reach

Business Wire, Sept 11, 2000

Business Editors, High-Tech Writers

MENLO PARK, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 11, 2000

Applicast's Professional Services Alliance Charter Members

Include RWD Technologies, Idea Integration, Bay Street Solutions,

Endymion Systems, and Sierra Atlantic

Applicast, Inc., the premier total-solution application service provider (ASP) for aggressive-growth companies, today announced the Applicast Professional Services Alliance.

Through this partner program, a select group of consulting firms will be accredited to implement Applicast's portfolio of business solutions over the Applicast Business Application Network(TM).

By joining the Alliance, each partner will be certified on Applicast's Fast-Fit(TM) implementation methodology and FastPack(TM) templated solutions, ensuring rapid configuration and deployment of first-tier business solutions from SAP, Siebel Systems, Agile Software and others. These top-tier solutions are delivered on an outsourced, fixed- time and fixed-price arrangement.

"Applicast's Professional Services Alliance is a strategic initiative that expands our position as a national ASP by leveraging our robust infrastructure, domain expertise, and geographic reach," said John McGrory, President and CEO of Applicast. "We are enrolling a select group of really great consulting firms that have proven experience in discrete manufacturing and Internet services, and are committed to serving rapidly growing and changing companies. Essentially, our Alliance partners are an extention of our business, having worked with several of them, side by side, on Applicast projects for over a year now. Together, we are committed to seamlessly delivering repeatable, differentiated business solutions, while ensuring a highly satisfactory customer experience."

"We joined Applicant's Alliance because of our complementary services and mutual focus on customer success," said Jeff Wendel, senior vice president of eBusiness Solutions at Latitude360(TM), a division of RWD Technologies. "We excel at deploying world-class business applications such as Siebel and SAP. Applicast has certified our implementation methodologies allowing us to partner with them to deliver high-impact solutions for an under-served market. Through this synergy, we also look to Applicast to deliver ASP services to our mid-market customers."

Applicast's Professional Services Alliance

Participation in the Professional Services Alliance is limited to an all-star cast of consulting services firms who have proven domain expertise and requisite skills to efficiently and effectively configure and implement robust business applications. Additionally, all members of this program are required to meet Applicast's high level of commitment to total quality and user satisfaction.

Key benefits to Alliance partners include new market channel and revenue opportunities, complementary solutions deployment, training and accreditation. The Charter Partners of our Professional Services Alliance announced today include:

RWD Technologies (Nasdaq:RWDT) -- With years of knowledge and experience, RWD develops solutions that help end users achieve optimal performance from today's complex front office and back office systems including Siebel eBusiness solutions and SAP. RWD provides management consulting and systems integration services to transform its clients into fully integrated eBusinesses. RWD has offices in 18 cities across the United States and in the U.K. and Germany. RWD Technologies is headquartered in Columbia, MD. For more information, please visit www.rwd.com.

Idea Integration -- Idea Integration, the e-business solutions unit of Modis, Inc., the $1 billion IT subsidiary of Modis Professional Services (NYSE:MPS), is a leading Internet solutions provider. Idea specializes in solution areas including e-business strategy, creative design, CRM, e-application development, business intelligence, B2B solutions, EAI, and enterprise solutions to deliver innovative, end-to-end e-business solutions to Fortune 1000 companies and global businesses. Idea has a presence in 19 markets throughout the United States and the United Kingdom, with 1,300 technology, strategy, and creative professionals. Idea Integration is headquartered in Jacksonville, FL. For more information, please visit www.idea.com.

Bay Street Solutions -- Bay Street Solutions integrates eBusiness applications that maximize sales, customer service and marketing effectiveness. Bay Street is partnered with Siebel Systems to deliver eBusiness solutions that enable clients to mine customer data, communicate personalized selling messages and provide differentiated service to a diverse customer base. Bay Street Solutions is headquartered in San Francisco, CA. For more information, please visit www.baystreetsolutions.com.

Endymion Systems, Inc. -- ESI has been working with companies to leverage information technology for competitive advantage. With deep roots in ERP systems integration, legacy databases, data warehousing and network engineering, ESI is uniquely positioned to assist its customers in the development of industrial strength e-Commerce solutions; solutions that are engineered to scale with volume and integrate accurately with complex, back-end systems of records. ESI has four locations in the United States and is headquartered in Oakland, CA. For more information, please visit www.esicom.com.