Clarus Presenting at Microsoft's 'Titans of Technology' Event.

ATLANTA--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dec. 7, 1999--

Clarus presents MetLife case study in support of Microsoft's

E-Commerce technologies

Clarus Corporation (Nasdaq: CLRS), a leading business-to-business (B2B) e-commerce solution provider, today will be addressing the Microsoft Eastern Technology Council in Philadelphia, PA. Steve Hornyak, vice president of strategy and business development for Clarus, will be speaking along with Mark Lowenthal, director of information technology services for MetLife, about the benefits of electronic procurement.

The event, "Titans of Technology" is meant to give a `behind the scenes' glimpse of how organizations are eliminating paper-based business-to-business transactions by leveraging the Microsoft E-Commerce platform. In October, Microsoft selected Clarus(TM) eProcurement as the preferred application for the Microsoft/Cisco Hosted Application Initiative, largely because it was designed to fully leverage the Microsoft Commerce platform, including Microsoft BizTalk, Microsoft SQL Server, Internet Information Server (IIS), Site Server CIP, Windows Terminal Server (WTS), and Microsoft Transaction Server (MTS).

On October 1, MetLife completed phase one of its enterprise-wide deployment of the Clarus(TM) eProcurement solution in five months. This deployment process beat the anticipated timeline and came in under budget. MetLife will share the details of their selection of Clarus(TM) eProcurement and the deployment process. Clarus Corporation is both a speaker and a partner in this one-day educational event.

About Clarus

Atlanta-based Clarus Corporation (www.claruscorp.com; NASDAQ: CLRS) a leader of the Free Trade model, provides B2B e-commerce applications that leverage the global marketplace of the Internet, enabling organizations to gain control of their operational resources and conduct business directly with their suppliers. The Clarus Commerce solutions are based upon an open Internet model, leveraging industry standards, Microsoft technologies and channel partners 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. Clarus delivers its e-commerce solutions via direct and indirect channels and offers its innovative "Zero Capital" model to service very large to medium and small sized companies. The company's flagship product, Clarus(TM) eProcurement, is being deployed at customer sites including AirTouch, MasterCard International, MetLife, Perot Systems, First Data Corporation and Parsons Brinckerhoff.

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