Comshare Announces Availability of Comshare Planning for Purchase Over the Web.

Business Editors, High-Tech Writers

ANN ARBOR, Mich.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 23, 2000

Excellence in Strategic and Top-down Planning Now Offered From

the Leading Provider of e-business Applications for Management

Planning and Control

Comshare(R) Inc. (Nasdaq:CSRE) announced today that it has officially released Comshare Planning 6.0, the company's next-generation solution for strategic and top-down planning and financial modeling.

Comshare Planning(TM) joins Comshare's market-leading suite of e-business applications for management planning and control (MPC), which includes planning, budgeting, financial consolidation, management reporting and analysis. Comshare Planning is now available on Comshare's secure Web site, www.comshare.com/order/planning, and can be purchased there with a valid credit card.

"We're excited about this release of Comshare Planning on two very important levels," said Dennis Ganster, Comshare president and CEO. "First, with this product, Comshare offers customers what we believe is the best solution for strategic, top-down planning and modeling available in the market. Comshare Planning overcomes the limitations of spreadsheets and offers more robust functionality than competitive products. Second, top-down planning is a critical part of the management planning and control process, and Comshare software now supports this part of the business process."

The Power of Planning

Comshare Planning is an extremely powerful solution for strategic and top-down planning. Planning delivers powerful multidimensional planning and modeling. Users can analyze resource investments across business units, divisions, departments, time and other business perspectives. Comshare Planning delivers powerful and flexible analysis -- including multiple scenarios, "what-if" analyses, top-down target setting, and goal-seeking capabilities -- while eliminating the inherent difficulties commonly found in spreadsheets. Planning also handles cross-dimensional calculations, opening and closing balances, and allocations with ease. Easy to learn and use, Comshare Planning does not require IT support.

"One of Planning's greatest strengths is its ability to solve simultaneous equations, also called `circular relationships,' which are critical in planning," explains Ganster. "Simultaneous equations reflect mutually dependent calculations, like profitability and cash flow. That is, as profit increases cash, cash pays down debt, lower debt reduces interest, and lower interest increases profits. Comshare Planning is an `intelligent' application that figures out the proper order for performing any calculations, including simultaneous equations used in allocations that must be solved across multiple dimensions."

Product Release Plans

The release of Comshare Planning 6.0 includes a number of special things to highlight the product. The product release includes:

-- "Starter" models for planning and for budgeting so that users can begin
their work right away with a sound approach.

-- An application guide to Planning that includes a comprehensive walk-through
of the planning and budgeting models.

-- A "guided tour" on Comshare's Web site that takes a visitor through Comshare
Planning and its value.

-- A secure place on Comshare's Web site from which customers can download or
order Comshare Planning using a valid a credit card.

-- A Web customer support area specific to Planning, so users can have their
questions about the product answered by knowledgeable Comshare Helpline staff.

Customers can download Comshare Planning or order a CD-ROM of it from the Web site for licensed use or for a 30-day free trial. The product will also be available through Comshare's direct sales staff and its worldwide network of distributors and resellers.

About Comshare Inc.

Comshare Inc. is the leading provider of e-business software applications for management planning and control (MPC), which includes planning, budgeting, financial consolidation, management reporting and analysis. Comshare's MPC applications deliver business-critical information over the Web that can be used to make sound planning and management decisions. In business for nearly 35 years, Comshare is one of the top independent software companies, with customers around the world, many of which are Fortune 500 and Financial Times Top 1000 companies. Comshare is an Hyperion Alliance Partner, an IBM Business Partner, a Microsoft Certified Solutions Provider, and an Oracle Business Alliance Partner. For more information on Comshare, call 1-800-922-7979, send e-mail to [e-mail] or visit Comshare's Web site at www.comshare.com.

Comshare is a registered trademark of Comshare Inc. Planning is a trade mark of Comshare Inc. All other trademarks are the property of their respective holders.