Clarus Announces Enterprise Integration Framework for Clarus Commerce.

ATLANTA--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 29, 1999--Clarus Corporation (NASDAQ: CLRS) today announced Clarus(TM) Fusion, an enterprise integration framework for the new Clarus(TM) Commerce suite of applications that allows advanced commerce solutions such as electronic procurement and expense management to be seamlessly integrated with (ERP) enterprise resource planning and supplier systems for the first time.

Clarus Fusion will deliver on every level of integration including:

-- ERP - Enables integration between heterogeneous back office

systems such as Clarus, Peoplesoft, Oracle and SAP, publishing

Extensive Markup Language (XML) documents adhering to Open

Application Group Integration Specification (OAGIS) and BizTalk

standards. Fusion also provides a toolkit for data transformation

and transactional workflow.

-- Operational Resource Applications - Utilizing the same approach

as Clarus' ERP integration, it provides real-time integration

between operational resource applications such as electronic

procurement, expense management, travel services and employee

self-service.

-- Supplier/Catalog Content - Provides proactive content/catalog

aggregation via Web crawling, pattern recognition and XML

tagging.

-- Supplier/Order and Payments - Provides secure purchase order and

payment communications to suppliers via Microsoft Commerce

Interchange Pipeline (CIP) or dynamically-published supplier

order Web sites.

"Companies typically underestimate the efforts needed for enterprise integration of commerce applications into their existing environment," said Steve Hornyak, Clarus vice president, strategy and business development. "Clarus understands the pain associated with such efforts and has created an integration framework with Clarus Fusion that allows our clients to integrate suppliers, orders and heterogeneous back office systems in a proactive, real-time manner!"

Clarus Fusion supports Microsoft's BizTalk, a framework based on XML schemas and industry standards, that will enable businesses to integrate their systems regardless of the platform, operating system or underlying technology. According to Microsoft, BizTalk will help businesses more easily exchange business data, such as purchasing documents, catalog content and accounting information.

The benefits Clarus Fusion provides are:

-- Application independence - allowing applications that were not

designed to work together to provide seamless integration

-- Version independence -- for ease and speed of upgrades and system

maintenance

-- Multiple, heterogeneous ERP connections - resulting in

integration support across the entire enterprise

-- Real-time update of supplier catalogs - for immediate access to

updates to supplier catalogs, inventories and promotions without

placing the burden on suppliers

-- Real-time integration - access to up-to-date business information

throughout the enterprise

Clarus Fusion is part of the recently announced Clarus Commerce suite, which manages operating resources by providing a continuous closed-loop process of planning, execution and analysis; real-time views; and real-time pinpoint controls.

In addition to Fusion, Clarus Commerce includes:

-- Clarus(TM) E-Procurement - a business-to-business e-commerce

procurement solution that connects buyers and suppliers in a

streamlined MRO (maintenance, repair and operational)

procure-to-pay process.

-- Clarus(TM) Expense - a new application from Clarus, is a

comprehensive Web commerce expense solution that connects

employees with improved expense reporting processes that reduce

reimbursement cycle time and improve control.

-- Clarus(TM) View - a new application from Clarus, is a portal

plug-in that connects decision makers with real-time key

performance indicators that facilitate proactive pinpoint action

from their desktops.

-- Clarus(TM) Budget - a Web-based budgeting and planning

application that connects the management of operating resources

with the strategic planning of the business on a real-time basis.

The Clarus Commerce suite will be expanded to include additional employee-centric functions such as employee benefits and services as well as travel.

More than 20 customers including MasterCard, First Data Corporation, and Hyatt Regency are implementing Clarus Commerce with planned deployment to more than 70,000 employees.

Atlanta-based Clarus Corporation (www.claruscorp.com; NASDAQ: CLRS) is a pioneer and a leader in providing Web-based Commerce applications that enable organizations to gain control of their operational resources -- the non-production goods and services vital to every company's operations. Clarus Commerce leverages Web technology to connect large populations of employees, management and suppliers with continuous planning, monitoring and control of resources, which can result in a dramatic impact on the bottom line. The Company's Financial, Human Resources and more recently -- Web-based Commerce solutions -- are deployed at more than 350 sites for customers including First Data Corporation, MasterCard International, Hyatt Regency Chicago, T. Rowe Price Associates, Inc., Investment Technology Group, Toronto Dominion Bank, The Container Store, Blue Cross and Blue Shield, H.D. Vest Financial Services, Lands' End and Chartwell Re Holdings Corp.

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