Computas Announces Metis Capital Asset Planning & Business Case Actionable Knowledge Model for Use by Corporate Decision-Makers.

Business Editors

SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 23, 2004

Providing an important Business Intelligence tool, Metis' CAPBC

solution will enable executives, strategists and planners to easily

model their CPIC processes and perform analytics

Computas NA, Inc. today announced it will add an advanced Capital Asset Planning & Business Case (CAPBC) knowledge model to its popular Metis(R) Enterprise visual modeling toolset. Metis' CAPBC solution, slated for delivery to customers later this year, will enable companies of all sizes to more easily build Metis models of their Capital Asset Planning artifacts, including Capital Planning & Investment Control (CPIC) processes. Analytics can then be performed to assist in creating Business Case justifications for capital spending proposals.

"Our CAPBC solution gives companies an important Business Intelligence tool by providing the ability to see the business impact of changes in multiple initiatives linked to their Enterprise Architecture," said Bill Wright, Computas NA President and CEO. "With Metis, all of a company's assets and architecture elements can be inter-linked. From this, companies can start creating their own EA relationships and clear lines of sight. The analysis of this data with our CAPBC solution enables companies to easily create multiple integrated and aligned Business Cases for approval by financial officers."

The first phase of the CAPBC capabilities in Metis will be rolled out to customers in the coming months. Initially, Metis CAPBC will provide automated importing of baseline Capital Asset Planning artifacts in XML format into a Metis CAPBC "metamodel" template. Once a Metis model is populated with this data, it can be updated with the proposed changes, and analyzed to identify gaps, overlaps, and conflicts. The result should be more effective decision-making and reduced time and effort to create or update Business Cases. The Metis CAPBC actionable knowledge model will include a Search Criteria engine and other tools to facilitate these analyses. A subsequent release of CAPBC will enable business users to automatically export XML integrated and aligned information from a Metis model into a Business Case with simple button click functions.

Computas NA, Inc.

Computas NA, headquartered in Sammamish, Washington, is a subsidiary of Norway's Computas. Computas was established in 1985, and has a very active customer base in Europe and North America, as well as other worldwide regions. The company's core skills include knowledge engineering and management, intelligent systems for work support, and knowledge processes in the networked economy. Current customers include large industrial enterprises, government agencies and international organizations. Computas is on the web at www.computas.com.