ADERANT Delivers Business Intelligence Enhancements; ADERANT Expert Executive Office Release 7.0 Leverages Microsoft SQL Server 2005 to Deliver Powerful New Analysis and Performance Management Capabilities.

ATLANTA -- ADERANT, a global provider of business and financial management software for professional services organizations, today announced the general availability (GA) of the company's leading business intelligence solution, ADERANT Expert Executive Office Release 7.0. Expert Executive Office includes new analysis and performance management capabilities that leverage Microsoft SQL Server 2005 and enable firms to closely monitor profitability and employee performance.

Expert Executive Office Release 7.0 includes two new modules: Expert Performance Dashboard and Expert Analytics. Expert Performance Dashboard provides firms with comprehensive OLAP-based business scorecarding functionality that helps them define their business objectives and communicate them to their professionals via interactive dashboards. The solution helps firms motivate and empower their professionals while ensuring that their overall business objectives will be met. Expert Performance Dashboard is built on Microsoft Office Business Scorecard Manager 2005, which provides firms with a robust, customizable framework for business scorecarding and performance management.

Expert Analytics is a powerful business intelligence data warehouse and on-line analytical processing (OLAP) solution designed specifically for the core analysis needs of professional services firms. The solution provides CFOs, financial analysts, and other power-users with the analytical tools and unified data they need to accurately evaluate the financial performance of their business and help firm management make more informed business decisions.

Both Expert Performance Dashboard and Expert Analytics are powered by Microsoft SQL Server 2005, Microsoft's next-generation data management and analysis solution that was released earlier today.

"ADERANT Expert Executive Office Release 7.0 represents a tremendous expansion of our ability to meet the growing information needs of professional services firms," said Michael J. Simmons, Chief Executive Officer of ADERANT. "In today's competitive business environment, a firm's success or failure can often be traced to the quality and timeliness of the information its executives use to make strategic decisions. Expert Executive Office provides firms with powerful new business intelligence tools that improve information visibility, boost performance, and increase accountability."

Leveraging Microsoft Technologies

Both Expert Performance Dashboard and Expert Analytics natively support the new business intelligence capabilities of Microsoft SQL Server 2005, including SQL Server Integration Services, Analysis Services, and Reporting Services. "Microsoft SQL Server 2005 helps firms increase the performance of their ADERANT Expert applications and reduce the complexity -- and cost -- of their technology environments," continued Simmons.

Expert Analytics takes advantage of SQL Server Integration Services to make it easier for professional services firms to build, deploy, and update centralized data warehouses that deliver the "one version of the truth" executives need to make rapid, informed decisions. The solution utilizes Microsoft's integration capabilities to perform complex data integration, transformation, and synthesis activities more rapidly, making it easier for firms to integrate data from multiple, heterogeneous sources.

Expert Analytics also leverages new features of Microsoft's Analysis Services 2005 that allow firms to create, modify, filter, and merge OLAP cubes easily to meet their changing business needs. ADERANT's new analytical solution works with all leading OLAP reporting tools, enabling firms to use their existing technology investments while gaining additional analysis capabilities.

Expert Performance Dashboard also takes advantage of Microsoft's Analysis Services' improved OLAP capabilities to develop, measure, and communicate key performance indicators (KPIs) to the desktops of firm professionals. Both new ADERANT Expert solutions take advantage of SQL Server 2005's improved scalability and simplified management, including support for 64-bit processors, standard data access protocols, and native web services.

Comprehensive Business Intelligence for Firms

Expert Executive Office is a suite of powerful business intelligence solutions that gives partners and professionals a complete view of their firm's operations. Built on Microsoft's latest technologies including Microsoft .NET, Microsoft SQL Server 2005, and Microsoft Office Business Scorecard Manager, the integrated solutions help firms set strategy, optimize profitability, measure performance and execute to plan.

Expert Executive Office consists of the following modules:

--Expert Budgeting: Automates and streamlines the business planning and budgeting process, helping firms accurately set their profitability objectives while eliminating the need for spreadsheets.

--Expert Performance Dashboard: Delivers personalized performance information, such as scorecards and key performance indicators, directly to the desktops of professionals using Microsoft Office Business Scorecard Manager 2005.

--Expert Opportunity Calculator: Enables partners to quickly and accurately price new business opportunities and ensures that their firm will meet its profitability goals.

--Expert Analytics: Leverages the capabilities of Microsoft SQL Server 2005 to delivers powerful OLAP and reporting tools that help firms analyze the performance of their business in detail.

--Expert Profitability: Provides detailed profitability information to help firm managers understand which areas of their business are performing according to target and which need improvement.

About ADERANT

ADERANT, headquartered in Atlanta, GA, is a leading provider of software for services organizations. The global software company offers a comprehensive suite of solutions, consisting of financial, resource and practice management software that enables services organizations of all sizes to maximize operational efficiencies. ADERANT provides solutions to the world's largest and most prominent service organizations - including Computer Sciences Corporation, KPMG LLP, Manugistics, Deloitte Consulting, Macleod Dixon LLP, Mayer Brown Rowe & Maw LLP, Skadden Arps and Winston & Strawn. ADERANT also has offices in Asia Pacific and Europe. More information about ADERANT is available at www.aderant.com.

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