Adexa Forms Strategic Alliance with Selectica.

Business Editors

LOS ANGELES--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 12, 2000

Partnership Enables Manufacturers To Improve

e-Business Customer Service Levels

Through Real-time Order Promising of Configured Products

Adexa, Inc. (formerly Paragon Management Systems), the leading provider of collaborative planning solutions critical to e-business, today announced the formation of a strategic alliance with Selectica, Inc., the leading provider of Internet Selling Systems for e-business. The alliance will combine the advanced, real-time order promising functionality of Adexa's iCollaboration solution with the needs analysis, complex configuration and order capture capabilities of Selectica's award-winning Internet Selling Systems (ISS). The partnership will enable manufacturers to improve customer satisfaction by providing real-time Available-to-Promise (ATP) and Capable-to-Promise (CTP) information for configured products and services via the Internet. Under the terms of the agreement, Adexa and Selectica will jointly market and sell their best-of-breed solutions and create a standards-based integration between their applications.

The growth of business-to-business and business-to-consumer e-commerce, and the global shift from mass production to mass customization present unique challenges to manufacturers of complex products. While e-business makes it easier for manufacturers to sell products via the Internet, it also increases customer expectations for service and responsiveness. At the same time, customer demands for configured products make it difficult for manufacturers to provide accurate order promising information.

The Adexa/Selectica partnership addresses these needs and will deliver significant benefits to manufacturers, including:

- Accurate, real-time order commitments for configured products.

- "What-if" analysis to determine pricing and availability for

alternate configurations.

- Comprehensive, self-service order lifecycle management where a

customer can place an order and monitor its status on a

continual basis via the Internet.

"Our partnership with Selectica provides manufacturers of complex products with an end-to-end e-business solution that delivers exceptional customer service and increases their bottom-line performance," said Dr. K. Cyrus Hadavi, President and CEO of Adexa, Inc. "Both of our solutions are based on similar technologies that are well suited to the requirements of e-business, such as scalability. Selectica's Internet Selling System enables high-performance customized selling on the Internet, Intranet and Extranet. This alliance with Selectica is a critical step forward in our strategy to provide companies around the world with the most comprehensive e-business solutions possible."

"Leading manufacturers today are moving to a mass customization strategy to meet their customers' unique requirements and increase profitability," said Raj Jaswa, President and CEO of Selectica Inc. "Selectica's Internet Selling Systems combined with Adexa's iCollaboration solution, allows customers to configure and place orders for the products they want, get real time information on product availability and pricing prior to placing the order, increasing customer confidence and loyalty."

Adexa and Selectica will initially target high-tech/manufacturing and electronics companies given their accelerated adoption of e-commerce, complex Bill of Materials and requirement for customized products. Future targets for the integrated solution include automotive, aerospace and other industries with complex product structures that provide customers with a set of mutually exclusive choices.

About Adexa

Headquartered in Los Angeles with sales and support offices worldwide, Adexa, Inc. (formerly Paragon Management Systems) the leading vendor in collaborative commerce, develops and markets collaborative planning solutions critical to e-business. Adexa's solutions enable customers, trading partners, portals and application service providers to collaborate intelligently and deliver value-added services to customers and suppliers more quickly and profitably. Adexa's software and professional services enhance the value of complementary enterprise applications and reflect the company's unmatched understanding of and experience in solving unique business needs. Customers include General Motors, Hitachi, UMC Group, Malden Mills, Rowe Furniture, Lucent Technologies and Toshiba. To learn more about Adexa and its solutions, please visit www.adexa.com.

About Selectica

Selectica, Inc. (NASDAQ; SLTC) develops, markets and supports a packaged Internet Selling System (ISS) solution that enables companies to sell and buyers to purchase complex products and services over the Internet. Selectica's ISS solution enables businesses to easily develop and rapidly deploy an Internet sales channel that interactively assists their customers through the selection, configuration, pricing, quoting and fulfillment processes. Selectica's customers include industry leader such as 3Com, Aspect Communications, BMW, Centigram, Cisco Systems, Fireman's Fund, Fujitsu, Hewlett-Packard, Juniper Networks, LoanMarket Resources, Redback Networks, Samsung Electronics, Siemens and Watlow Electric. Selectica is headquartered in San Jose, California. The company's Web site is located at www.selectica.com.