Adexa Launches iCollaboration v5.0.

Business Editors/Technology Writers

SAN DIEGO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 13, 2001

Features Buy-Side, Enterprise and Sell-Side Solutions

Built on an Internet-Based Collaboration Platform Designed

To Help Companies Energize Growth While Driving Efficiencies

Through Extended Supply Chains

Adexa(TM), Inc., a provider of collaborative commerce solutions critical to e-business, today announced the latest version of the iCollaboration suite, v5.0, at the company's Vista 2001 user conference. Built on an Internet-based collaboration platform, this next generation product includes expanded buy-side, enterprise and sell-side solutions for order management and procurement designed to help companies drive efficiencies throughout their extended supply chains and energize growth through heightened customer responsiveness. In addition, iCollaboration v5.0 extends its integration solution to include workflow and business-to-business connectivity.

By facilitating the sharing of information between supply chain partners via the Internet, iCollaboration v5.0 enables the extended enterprise to synchronize previously isolated planning cycles and intelligently automate business processes. iCollaboration v5.0 also enhances existing order management and procurement systems by providing tight integration with Adexa's advanced optimization technology.

"In a business environment that is rapidly shifting from enterprise-to-enterprise competition to supply chain-to-supply chain competition, the ability to coordinate supply chain activities across multiple enterprises is vital to success," said Dr. K. Cyrus Hadavi, president and chief executive officer of Adexa, Inc. "iCollaboration v5.0 enables enterprises, their customers and suppliers to share critical information and collaborate through the Internet so they can synchronize their planning and execution cycles and create an extended supply chain that is more flexible, responsive and efficient.

"Our goal is to help our customers maximize growth opportunities while also dramatically reducing costs," Hadavi added. "No other supply chain management product to date has been able to achieve both objectives so effectively."

iCollaboration v5.0 enhances the current product offering with expanded focus on the following solutions:

-- Collaborative Order Manager

-- Collaborative Procurement Manager

-- Collaborative Supply Chain Manager

-- Supply Chain Integrator

For these solutions, iCollaboration v5.0 provides key features such as:

100% Internet-based Collaboration Environment -- Built on a pure

Internet architecture, iCollaboration v5.0 enables multiple

enterprises to collaborate on supply chain activities using only a

standard Web browser. Users are able to share, view and modify

information through the Internet. To ensure openness and data

security, iCollaboration v5.0 makes extensive use of industry

standard Internet technologies, such as XML and Secure Socket

Layer (SSL) technologies.

Intelligent Event Management -- To improve responsiveness and

increase overall business velocity, iCollaboration v5.0 has

configurable Active Agents that can continually monitor supply

chain data, notify users to potential problems as well as

automatically execute business processes.

Personalization and Security -- To enhance productivity,

iCollaboration v5.0 allows each user to create and store

customized, multi-dimensional views of supply chain data. To

prevent sensitive supply chain data from getting in the wrong

hands, iCollaboration v5.0 enables users to restrict data access

and visibility.

Collaborative Order Manager, Collaborative Procurement Manager, Collaborative Supply Chain Manager and Supply Chain Integrator are currently in beta and will be generally available in the second quarter of this year.

About Adexa

Adexa is a leading provider of collaborative commerce solutions critical to e-Business. Adexa's iCollaboration suite helps enterprises and trading exchange participants make faster, more informed business decisions by automating, synchronizing and optimizing complex, interdependent supply chain operations. Built with next-generation technology, Adexa's iCollaboration suite is an open, scalable and adaptable solution that helps increase customer responsiveness, coordination with trading partners and enhance overall supply chain efficiency.

Headquartered in Los Angeles, Adexa has licensed its iCollaboration suite to leading companies and trading exchanges around the world, including Advanced Micro Devices, Inc., Conexant Systems, Inc., Lucent Technologies, Inc., Framatome Connectors International, Fujitsu Quantum Devices, Ltd., Matsushita Electronics Corporation, Philips Semiconductors B.V., Sanyo Electric Co. Ltd., Sumitomo Metal Industries, Ltd. Sitix Division and Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company. To learn more about Adexa and its solutions, please visit www.adexa.com.

The statements contained in this release that are not purely historical are forward-looking statements within the meaning of Section 21E of the Securities and Exchange Act of 1934, including statements regarding Adexa's expectations, beliefs, hopes, intentions or strategies regarding the future. All forwarded-looking statements included in this document are based upon information available to Adexa of the date hereof, and Adexa assumes no obligation to update any such forward-looking statements. Actual results could differ materially from current expectations. Factors that could cause or contribute to such differences include, but are not limited to, the factors and risks discussed in the Registration Statement Form S-1 filed on August 28, 2000 with the Securities and Exchange Commission.