Business Engine Software to Build PeopleSoft Product Interface; Business Engine Software Joins Alliances@PeopleSoft Program As Key Project Portfolio and Resource Management Partner.

SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 8, 1999--

Business Engine Software, a leading provider of project portfolio and resource management solutions for IT and R&D organizations, today announced a partnership with PeopleSoft(R) Inc., a leading enterprise application software provider, to build a comprehensive interface between the two products.

The Business Engine to PeopleSoft interface will integrate four main components: time-collection; budgeting and planning; cost management and human resource (HR) management.

The interface will enable corporations to consolidate critical HR, project, and resource data in a single, multi-dimensional repository, thereby streamlining project and resource forecasting, analysis, budgeting, reporting and time tracking.

"The Business Engine interface to Peoplesoft will allow our mutual customers to better manage their information technology and research and development project portfolio," said Robert Eve, vice president, Alliances@PeopleSoft.

"A result of this partnership will be eased sharing of critical data across desktops throughout an organization for improved resource management and better alignment of projects with corporate goals."

"As a Business Engine and PeopleSoft user, we are currently using a custom-developed interface between the two solutions," said Jim Park, project management, systems analyst, ALZA Corp.

"We look forward to the newly-announced interface, which we believe will potentially improve our cost management and budgeting process by allowing us to better track and analyze costs associated with our portfolio of projects."

As part of this announcement, Business Engine Software Corp. officially joins the Alliances@PeopleSoft program, a select group of leading companies whose solutions extend PeopleSoft's products and services portfolio.

Announcement in Line with Industry Trend

According to a recent GIGA Information Group research note entitled, Workforce Management Applications Focus on Key HR Capabilities, by Jim Holincheck, "New enterprise workforce management products are providing tools to allow line organizations and HR to work together more synergistically to hire, staff, develop and retain their people."

According to John O'Neil, CEO of Business Engine Software, this trend is being fueled by customers who want to better leverage HR and financial data, particularly in their IT and R&D departments.

"Business Engine is the ideal companion to PeopleSoft because not only do we easily integrate PeopleSoft data with our project portfolio repository, we also bring superior manpower-planning, resource management and analytical capabilities to the table."

Being able to forecast the skill sets needed across hundreds of projects, for example, can help an organization save time and money with internal hiring as well as outsourcing, contracting and training plans.

The New Business Engine/PeopleSoft interface will enable customers to: -0-

--   Assess the impact of actuals on the total resource pool

--   Capture time (labor costs) both on a project summary and detailed
     level

--   Use a multi-dimensional, spreadsheet-like grid to ensure proper
     rates, fiscal calendars and corporate nomenclature are deployed
     and enforced throughout an enterprise

--   Consolidate detailed expense-tracking information in a central
     repository to manage the total cost of a project

--   Integrate information regarding employee or contractor names,
     skills, availability, etc. for enterprise-wide resource
     management

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The Business Engine/PeopleSoft interface will be available in the third quarter of 1999 and can be purchased directly from Business Engine Software Corp. For more information, please contact 415/616-4000, 800/235-4142, or [e-mail].

About Business Engine Software Corp.

Founded in 1984 as Micro-Frame Technologies, Business Engine Software Corp. is a developer of project portfolio and resource management applications for project-driven, Fortune 1000 companies. With offices in North America and Europe, the company's products set the standard for program management and performance measurement, and are used by 32 of the top 35 aerospace and defense contractors.

Today, organizations across industries -- including financial services, pharmaceutical, insurance, and health-care -- are using Business Engine Software products to flexibly control and align their resources to attain corporate goals.

For more information on Business Engine Software Corp. or the company's products, please call 415/616-4000 or visit the company's Web site at http://www.businessengine.com.

Note to Editors: Business Engine is a registered trademark of Business Engine Software Corp. All other products and services referenced herein are trademarks of their respective companies.