$3 Billion QuikTrip Convenience Stores Signs for JDA Portfolio Solution; Growing Tier One Retailer to Reduce Costs, Increase Sales and Improve Customer Service with ODBMS.

Business Editors/High-Tech Writers

SCOTTSDALE, Ariz.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--July 19, 2001

JDA(R) Software Group Inc. (Nasdaq: JDAS) Thursday announced that QuikTrip, a $3 billion convenience store retailer operating 355 company-owned stores in nine states, licensed the JDA Portfolio(TM) Open DataBase Merchandising System(TM) (ODBMS(R)) in second quarter 2001.

After an extensive evaluation of 12 competing applications, the Oklahoma-based retailer selected ODBMS to reduce operational costs, increase sales and better serve customers by improving efficiencies and inventory control.

"QuikTrip was a key competitive win for us," commented JDA Chief Executive Officer Jim Armstrong.

"This significant agreement highlights our strength in the global convenience store industry with QuikTrip now joining other companies such as Shell Europe, Total Fina, Petro-Canada, Statoil and T&S Stores.

"This new deal also fuels our confidence that we are on target to achieve our five-year goal of reaching $500 million by more aggressively pursuing other revenue streams, including the food and convenience industry."

"ODBMS is the product that proved to have the functionality and technical scalability to meet our requirements for variety, quality and service," stated Rodney Loyd, corporate sales manager for QuikTrip.

"ODBMS will also enable us to achieve our growth plan over the next five years."

According to Loyd, QuikTrip stores average the highest transaction volumes in the industry.

"It's our goal to serve our customers as quickly and efficiently as possible. By automating our current processes with ODBMS' advanced capabilities such as price, promotion and vendor rebate management, we'll be able to operate more efficiently and pass our savings on to our customers."

"QuikTrip put ODBMS through rigorous paces during their evaluation and our market leading solution delivered as promised," stated Peter Charness, JDA's senior vice president, global marketing and chief product officer.

"This new license once again proves that our strategy of significant investment in product development and ongoing acquisition is paying the dividends as our best-in-class capabilities and scalability are clearly outdistancing the competition."

JDA's Consulting Services and Support Key to QuikTrip Decision

Loyd noted that JDA's comprehensive services offering significantly influenced QuikTrip's selection.

"With its consulting, training and support services, JDA offers a complete solution, which was very appealing to us. We've experienced some vendors that offer third party consultants and it just didn't work.

"We are confident that JDA's consultants have the product expertise and retail experience to understand our unique requirements and help us achieve our objectives and implementation schedule," stated Loyd.

Added Charness, "When you combine ODBMS, or any of our other proven JDA Portfolio applications, with our unique implementation engineering approach, the result is a low risk, cost-effective and successful project. There just isn't a better choice on the market today than JDA."

About JDA Software Group Inc.

With more than 1,000 retail and 2,500 manufacturing clients, JDA Software Group Inc. is the global leader in providing integrated software and professional services that address real-world issues to help multi-channel companies manage their mission critical operations.

By capitalizing on its market position and financial strength, JDA commits significant resources in furthering its next generation of retail intelligent solutions that exploit the power of the Internet to meet emerging business needs.

Founded in 1985, JDA is headquartered in Scottsdale and employs more than 1,100 associates operating from 32 offices in major cities throughout North America, South America, Europe, Asia and Australia. For more information, visit JDA at http://www.jda.com.

This press release contains forward-looking statements that are made in reliance upon the safe harbor provisions of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995.

Such forward-looking statements JDA Portfolio's ability to enable a retailer to reduce operational costs, increase sales, and improve efficiencies and inventory control, and the combination of our JDA Portfolio applications with our implementation approaches resulting in a low risk, cost-effective and successful project, as well as our confidence in meeting our five-year goal of $500 million.

Future events may involve risks and uncertainties, including, but not limited to, inability of a retailer to successfully use the Portfolio applications, and risks and increased costs to the retailer resulting from problems or challenges in the implementation process, as well as business downturns or other changes which may result in our failure to meet our five-year goal, and other risks detailed from time to time in the "Risk Factors" section of our filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission.

As a result of these and other risks, actual results may differ materially from those predicted. We undertake no obligation to update information in this release.

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