Clarus Announces Web Commerce Expense Management.

ATLANTA--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 6, 1999--Clarus Corporation (Nasdaq:CLRS) today announced Clarus(TM) Expense, a comprehensive Web commerce expense solution. This application is designed to allow a company to gain control of expenses, decrease turnaround times for employee reimbursement, reduce the cost of processing expense reports and increase employee satisfaction.

Clarus Expense features an innovative "momentum-based" framework that minimizes delays in expense report processing. This expedites exception handling, policy management and reimbursement timetables. Policy administrators can directly create and maintain corporate travel and entertainment (T&E) policies and quickly roll out changes to employees. The Clarus Expense "situational routing" serves as the vehicle for ultimate flexibility in the way expense reports are distributed for required approvals. The routing rules are policy driven and are specified by organization.

Clarus Expense will include:

-- Integrated "best practices" for T&E -- Automated expense reporting/management from employee to back

office -- Direct import capabilities for corporate credit card charges -- Exception-based auditing -- Graphical analysis and drill-down -- Immediate user notification of policy exceptions with detailed

explanations -- Integrated expense planning -- Remote offline support

The Container Store and Mark Travel anticipate the benefits of Clarus Expense and have been working with Clarus to identify general market requirements for the Expense offering. These customers expect the solution to significantly streamline expense report processing, freeing up employees to focus on more strategic issues.

Keath Hance, CFO of The Container Store, said, "In addition to expediting the overall expense report process for our employees, the ability to go online to reconcile reports will make this sometimes daunting task virtually effortless. And with the detailed data we receive from credit card companies, our organization will be able to, in essence, go 'paperless.' The need to keep up with dozens of receipts and travel tickets collected while on the road will be eliminated."

Kristin Markus, program manager for Mark Travel agrees, "We've realized that incorporating the Clarus Expense solution will be a tremendous benefit to our company. Providing employees with a solution that allows them to go online will streamline the expense report process, saving a lot of time and costs in the long-term."

"Employee adoption is crucial to be able to manage these resources at a business level," said Steve Hornyak, Clarus vice president, product strategy and business development. Clarus Expense allows management to gain proactive control over employee expenditures while increasing their satisfaction with the reimbursement process. "Clarus Expense will deliver a dramatic return on investment that results in a significant impact on the bottom line," Hornyak added.

Clarus Expense is part of the recently announced Clarus(TM) 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. -0-

     In addition to Expense, 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) 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.
--   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) Fusion - a new offering from Clarus, is an integration
     tool that connects Clarus Commerce real-time to ERP and suppliers
     systems using open standards based technologies providing
     heterogeneous, version independent integration.

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.

NOTE TO EDITORS: This Press Release Contains Forward-looking Statements Within the Meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933 and Section 21E of the Exchange Act. Actual Results Could Differ Materially From Those Projected in the Forward-looking Statements as a Result of Certain Risks Including That the Benefits Expected by the Company as a Result of the Announcement May Not Occur.

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