Aviointeriors Selects MatrixOne for Development of Collaborative Product and Processes Management.

Business/Technology Editors

CHELMSFORD, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 2, 2001

-- Implementing eMatrix Assists Leading European Manufacturer

with Ambitious Data Management Agenda --

MatrixOne, Inc. (NASDAQ: MONE), today announced that eMatrix(TM) is the solution of choice for Intelligent Collaborative Commerce(TM) at Aviointeriors S.p.A., Latina. Located near Rome, Aviointeriors is the European leader in the manufacture of interiors and seating for civil airplanes and train coaches. This agreement was facilitated by Adage Srl, a systems integrator specializing in the sale and support of eMatrix solutions.

The selection of MatrixOne's software by Aviointeriors' IT directors came after careful and exhaustive evaluation of competing products. eMatrix's flexibility and legacy data integration capabilities were winning advantages when held up against competing PDM/CPC products.

The eMatrix platform implementation, enabling 100 users to collaborate across the enterprise, began last October. The first application, supporting EDM/PDM at Aviointeriors, was deployed in the second half of December 2000. Other eMatrix modules for Engineering Change Order Management and Engineering Process Control are planned to follow.

Aviointeriors proposes to integrate the entire Value Chain Portfolio(TM) of applications from MatrixOne into its infrastructure by year's end. And with e-business in mind, the company will soon extend MatrixOne's Intelligent Collaborative Commerce solution to its own partners.

"For quite some time, we've felt the need to re-engineer our business, to reorganize the storage and retrieval system for our technical information and drawings and to help ourselves with a tool for integrated and collaborative projects management. We were able to benchmark many products before deciding on a solution, and we found that eMatrix fell right in line with our expectations," both Ingegner Biamonte, Engineering Director, and Mr. Attili, CAD/PDM & IT Manager, at Aviointeriors agreed. "Within six months we will be able to manage all of our product changes, development progress and final validation throughout the design cycle. After that, we will devote ourselves to integrating the company's other processes and procedures and optimising B2B through Web application."

"Aviointeriors is a company we have high regard for, both for the originality of its company style and for the prestige it has garnered internationally," added Ingegner Dario Marzoni, Amministratore Delegato at MatrixOne Italia. "We trust that the technological integration using the eMatrix platform will create the optimum conditions for accomplishing Aviointeriors' goals."

About Aviointeriors S.p.A.

Aviointeriors is a European leader in the design and manufacture of interior furnishings and seating for civil air and train transportation. In 30 years of operations the Company has acquired the top echelon customers in the industry, such as Boeing and Airbus, and many national airlines including: Alitalia, Swissair, Iberia, Singapore Airlines, Saudia, Egyptair and Thai Airlines. At present, Aviointeriors employs over 300 highly skilled workers, exports over 90% of its products and has a total Year 2000 revenue of Lit.110 billions. Due to a very large backlog of orders, the Company forecasts a 2001 revenue of Lit. 150 billions and sees passing the Lit. 200 billion level by 2005.

About Adage Srl.

Adage Srl has been an active solutions provider in the Italian marketplace since 1982. At first an importer of Matrix into Italy, the Company, now a MatrixOne Italia partner, is a certified distributor of enterprise management integrated solutions.

Founded and managed by Mr. Oscar Civitella, Adage is headquartered at Busto Arsizio, Varese, and features CAD/PDM installations all over Italy.

Among the most important customers who have purchased Matrix from Adage are: Gruppo G.D, Bologna (packaging lines for the tobacco's industry), Bertolaso, Zimella (Vicenza) (bottling plants and systems), Ferroli, S.Bonifacio (Verona) (HVAC manufacturer) and e Sab Wabco (Piossasco) (break systems for the train industry.) Further information: Web-site: [e-mail] Telephone: [phone]

About MatrixOne, Inc.

MatrixOne, Inc. (NASDAQ: MONE) is the first in Intelligent Collaborative Commerce. The Company's Internet software products provide an infrastructure for establishing business-to-business collaboration among trusted customers, suppliers and other business partners, while also enabling secure access to independent trading communities and applications within private and public net markets. The eMatrix platform and Value Chain Portfolio applications use the Internet to link people, processes and information to enable dramatic improvements in profitability and efficiency throughout the value chain.

MatrixOne has global customers in the high technology, aerospace/defense, automotive, communications, consumer, mechanical, machinery, medical equipment and process industries, including General Electric, John Deere, Procter & Gamble, Nokia, Toshiba, Philips, Siemens, Alcatel, JDS Uniphase and Honda. These companies are using MatrixOne solutions to enhance their competitive advantage in the burgeoning business-to-business economy.

Headquartered in Chelmsford, Massachusetts, MatrixOne (www.matrixone.com)

maintains offices in North America, Europe and Asia.

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