Clarus Selected as Electronic Procurement Solution for Microsoft and Cisco Hosted Application Initiative.

ATLANTA--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 26, 1999--

Cisco, Microsoft and Clarus collaborate to provide

end-to-end solution for deploying hosted applications and

services

Clarus Corporation (Nasdaq:CLRS), a leading business-to-business (B2B) electronic procurement solution provider, has been selected as the corporate purchasing vendor to participate in the collaborative hosted applications solutions initiative announced today by Microsoft and Cisco. Following on the heels of its third Applications Service Provider (ASP) partnership announcement, Clarus further strengthens its commitment to offering hosted e-commerce solutions, speeding the deployment of Clarus(TM) eProcurement to the many, not just the few.

In a tremendous showing of support for the hosted model, Microsoft Corp. and Cisco Systems Inc., will collaborate to provide Application Service Providers (ASPs) with an end-to-end solution for deploying outsourced applications and services. Hosted applications give customers an alternative to the resource-intensive process of deploying and managing complex applications internally, providing a cost-effective method to rapidly deploy scaleable solutions with a reduced initial investment.

"Clarus(TM) eProcurement is designed to be scaleable and distributed, making it an ideal hosted application," said Steve Hornyak, vice president of strategy and business development. "Clarus(TM) eProcurement is powered by the Microsoft commerce platform, so being selected as the first electronic procurement vendor in this ASP initiative is a natural progression of the partnership between our two organizations."

To ensure that customers receive the highest level of expertise and support, Microsoft and Cisco have formed alliances with best-in-class ASPs and Independent Software Vendors (ISVs), enabling them to rapidly and reliably deploy services and applications to customers. This joint venture will provide a comprehensive set of sales and implementation tools to the alliance partners, allowing for rapid deployment of eProcurement to end users. To date, Clarus is engaged in providing these hosted services to customers through ASPs including USinternetworking, Interliant and Data Return.

Clarus(TM) eProcurement was selected as the electronic procurement vendor largely because it is 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).

Come see a demo of Clarus(TM) eProcurement software running in the Microsoft Partner Pavilion at ISPCon October 26-28 in San Jose.

About Clarus

Atlanta-based Clarus Corporation (www.claruscorp.com) (NASDAQ: CLRS) a leader in providing B2B e-commerce applications that leverage the global, open marketplace of the Internet, enabling organizations to gain control of their operational resources, including non-production goods and services. The Clarus Commerce solution leverages Web technology 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 innovative "zero capital" pricing models to service very large to medium and small sized companies. The company's flagship product, Clarus eProcurement, is being used at more than 23 sites for customers including MasterCard International, MetLife, First Data Corporation and Parsons Brinckerhoff, with planned deployment to more than 130,000 employees.

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