Anheuser-Busch, Pharmacia & Upjohn, Fujitsu, and Ontario Ministry choose Portable Software's XMS for T&E Expense Automation.

REDMOND, Wash.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 12, 1997--Portable Software Corporation, the makers of the Xpense Management Solution(TM) (XMS), the leading client/server travel and entertainment (T&E) expense management software, today announced its XMS(TM) solution has been selected by Anheuser-Busch Companies, Pharmacia & Upjohn, Fujitsu Computer Products of America, and Ontario Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs -- as well as other large multi-national companies -- to streamline and automate T&E expense management across the enterprise. Each company will reengineer its expense management process with XMS, reducing T&E costs as a result, which is the third largest corporate controllable cost today.

Portable Software's Xpense Management Solution is an integrated client/server solution that streamlines and automates the entire travel and entertxpense reports are complete, accurate, approventegrates with a company's existing and future ctware Corporation's XMS to streamline its expe of well-known consumer healthcare products such as Nicorette and Rogaine, chose the Xpense Management Solution to replace its U.S. expense management process in hopes of significantly improving the use of T&E data and easing the expense reporting process for 4,000 business travelers. Dan Chapo, Pharmacia & Upjohn's Payroll Manager, said, "Portable Software's Xpense Management Solution will give us the ability to easily analyze our T&E data to provide us with the information we need to save money throughout the travel expense process, especially with our travel vendors." Pharmacia & Upjohn chose XMS over other solution offerings because it provides a complete, integrated, enterprise-wide solution, "We were especially impressed with the extensive functionality of the XMS back-office products," said Chapo.

In an effort to create internal efficiencies to manage rapid company growth, California-based Fujitsu Computer Products of America identified the automation of T&E expense management as a best practice that would streamline business processes and eliminate activities that do not add value. "Last year alone we experienced a growth rate of 65%, which results in a lot of pressure to improve processes rather than hire people," explained Ron Davis, the Director of Information Systems at Fujitsu Computer Products. "T&E expense management was an entirely manual process for us, and the implementation of XMS will create efficiencies to allow more money to go to the bottom line." Davis added, "We chose the Portable Software Corporation solution primarily because of its very logical and easy-to-use interface, as well as its open systems structure which will integrate well with our technological architecture."

The Canadian governmental organization, Ontario Ministry of Agriculture, Food, and Rural Affairs (OMAFRA) wanted to automate its T&E expense management process to speed the time travelers are reimbursed. "At first we thought we'd build our own solution," said Art Lawson, Project Manager for OMAFRA. "But there was no need for that once we learned that XMS was a near perfect fit and addressed our objectives quite well." Lawson expects the implementation of XMS to reduce the cycle time of the expense reporting and reimbursement process from five weeks to three days. "This solution will pay for itself in less than a year, just due to the resources that will be focused on delivering business value rather than shuffling paper," he asserted.

"In a crusade for best practices in business, leading companies today are choosing to re-engineer T&E expense management to save time and money," said Steve Singh, the President and CEO of Portable Software Corporation. "Portable Software Corporation has provided T&E expense management solutions and services to more leading global companies than any other T&E solution provider, and the addition of our recent customers further exemplifies how XMS is quickly taking the industry standard position."

Portable Software Corporation develops and markets travel and entertainment (T&E) automation software and services. Its products are designed to serve the entire enterprise, from business travelers to corporate accounting departments. The company's flagship product, the Xpense Management Solution (XMS), is the most complete T&E expense software available on the market, and has been adopted by more Fortune 2000 companies than any other automated T&E expense management solution. Portable Software is headquartered in Redmond, WA, USA with offices in Boston, New York, Philadelphia, Washington DC, Atlanta, Chicago, Minneapolis, Dallas, Los Angeles, Seattle, and London, England.

For more information, contact Portable Software Corporation at 14715 N.E. 95th Street, Redmond, WA 98052. Or call: 425/702-8808; or the toll-free number: 800/478-7411; or fax: [phone]; or reach Portable Software Corporation via the World Wide Web at http://www.xpense.com . -0-

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