Pilot Software Announces Availability of PilotWorks for GovMax -- First Hosted Full-Featured Performance Management Solution for the Public Sector

Market Wire, February, 2005

Pilot® Software, the original provider of operational performance management solutions, today announced select availability of PilotWorks for GovMax, the first hosted full-featured performance management solution for the public sector. Initially available in Florida and surrounding states, PilotWorks for GovMax is the only full-featured performance management solution to integrate with Sarasota County's GovMax, a strategic planning, budgeting and performance management application. The resulting solution is the only integrated strategic planning, operating and capital budget, and full-featured performance management system available to help public sector organizations meet increasingly stringent performance and budgetary mandates.

Leveraging an innovative resource-sharing model -- in which organizations band together to reduce the individual costs of the solution -- the PilotWorks for GovMax solution provides smaller organizations access to the same advanced technologies that only larger organizations could previously afford.

"The GovMax/PilotWorks for GovMax solution is a prime example of how organizations can share resources to better serve their constituents," said Sarasota County CIO Bob Hanson. "With the GovMax system already in use at Sarasota, the ability to seamlessly add PilotWorks for GovMax to manage Sarasota's own advanced performance management needs is such a promising asset that we decided to work with Pilot to offer it to other counties and municipalities."

The GovMax/PilotWorks for GovMax solution is a comprehensive performance management solution that includes operational planning and budgeting along with interactive strategy plans and pathways; initiative management and prioritization; role-based scorecards and dashboards; and reporting and ad hoc analysis.

Benefits of the GovMax/PilotWorks for GovMax solution include:

--  Powerful and proven budgeting capabilities with full-featured
    performance management functionality to meet mandatory annual budgetary
    processes.
--  Enterprise-wide consistency for creating annual, performance-based
    strategic plans that are integrated with policy initiatives, from board
    policy all the way to the individual employee level.
--  Seamless integration of all the elements critical to meeting
    increasingly stringent performance and budgetary mandates.
--  Greater staff and technology efficiency, better accountability for the
    value of services delivered, and more effective means of communicating
    outcomes to the taxpaying public.
--  Immediate compliance with higher security mandates.
--  A ten-year horizon for capital and operating budgets, as well as
    related planning.
--  An integrated environment that automatically applies capital
    operations and maintenance impact to operating budget and related
    performance management initiatives.
--  Linkage between expenditures, performance measures, core services and
    operational activities.
--  A consistent reporting tool across the enterprise, from executive
    strategy to individual performance.
--  Reduction of overall staff time required for budget preparation and
    business case development.
--  Built-in printing, reporting and email capabilities, enabling non-
    technical users to easily disseminate critical information.
    

"We are very excited to extend Pilot's award-winning performance management solutions to both large and small public sector organizations," said Jonathan D. Becher, president and CEO of Pilot Software. "Pilot is delighted to be the first to offer a full-featured performance management solution which allows organizations to not only reap the benefits of advanced performance management, but also rapidly deploy the system at minimal cost."

Pricing and Availability

PilotWorks for GovMax is available in Q1 2005 in Florida and select states. Pricing for current GovMax customers starts at $20K per year. For more information about the GovMax or PilotWorks for GovMax solutions, email us at info@pilotsoftware.com or (650) 230-2858.

About GovMax

GovMax is a Web-based application designed by Sarasota County that integrates strategic planning, budgeting and performance management capabilities to help public sector agencies maximize performance, investments and results. The only integrated operating and capital budget system available for public sector organizations, GovMax provides greater staff and technology efficiency, better accountability for the value of services delivered, and more effective means of communicating outcomes to the taxpaying public. Sarasota County Government hosts GovMax for use by other local government and non-profit agencies through cost-sharing agreements. More information can be found at www.pilotsoftware.com/govmax.

About PilotWorks

PilotWorks is an operational performance management solution that communicates strategic goals and facilitates collaborative adoption of key priorities and decisions that drive success. Comprised of interactive strategy plans and pathways; initiative prioritization and management; role-based scorecards and dashboards; reports and ad hoc analysis components, PilotWorks helps organizations motivate stakeholders, manage internal resources and risks, monitor operational progress, and measure key performance indicators to rapidly align execution with strategy. For more information about PilotWorks, visit www.pilotsoftware.com/pilotworks.