Comshare Becomes mySAP.com Software Partner; Comshare Decision Complements SAP Customers' Investments, Extending the Value and Power of Those Systems.

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PHOENIX--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 12, 2000

Comshare(R) Inc. (Nasdaq:CSRE) announced today at its 18th Annual Users Conference held this year in Phoenix, Ariz., that it has received certification as a mySAP.com(TM) Software Partner. Comshare is the leader in Web-based solutions for management planning and control (MPC), which comprises planning, budgeting, financial data consolidation, reporting and analysis. Comshare offers SAP customers Comshare Decision(TM), with a SAP-certified interface as an OLAP reporting application applied to the SAP(TM) Business Information Warehouse(TM) (SAP BW(TM)). Interface certification means SAP customers get a technically verified and ready-to-use interface of Comshare Decision with the SAP BW solution.

"We are proud to be a mySAP.com Software Partner by providing solutions that complement and add value to customers' SAP business transformation systems, like SAP Business Information Warehouse," said David King, Comshare senior vice president and chief technology officer. "With our SAP-certified interface, Comshare software employs the Microsoft OLE DB standard for OLAP to query data from an OLAP server. Comshare Decision allows front-end access to multidimensional data structures warehoused in SAP solutions. This new certification and commitment to supporting SAP solutions is good for our customers, since many of them have a SAP solutions on the backend."

Comshare Decision is a dynamic Web-architected or client/server BI solution for the unique, specialized OLAP solutions required by analysts, managers, and executives -- anyone whose strategic and tactical decisions affect the success of an organization. End users can easily access a variety of business information for ad hoc reporting, multidimensional analysis, visualization of data across large hierarchies, and advanced exception alerting that proactively notifies users of problem areas.

"Comshare Decision accesses both internal and external sources of information, including the SAP R/3(R) solutions running with SAP BW, that can help decision-makers be more effective and reveal future opportunities," added King. "Through Decision, this information can be viewed and analyzed from multiple business perspectives -- by strategic initiative, geography, line of business, market, and so on. End users of SAP and Comshare solutions can make sense of the business and be more effective by quickly accessing both ad hoc and formal reports. So Comshare can extend the value and power of SAP systems as complete, technically verified, turnkey solutions for our mutual customers."

About Comshare

Comshare Inc. is the leading provider of e-business software applications for management planning and control (MPC), which comprises 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 a Microsoft Data Warehousing Alliance Partner, an IBM Business Partner, a mySAP.com Software Partner, an Oracle Business Alliance Partner, and a Hyperion 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(R) is a registered trademark of Comshare Inc. Comshare Decision is a trademark of Comshare Inc. All other trademarks or registered trademarks are the property of their respective holders.