Comshare Participates In IBM Fast Start Program for Business Intelligence Solutions, Including E-Business.

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     ANN ARBOR, Mich.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 19, 2000--

Comshare Provides e-Business Applications for Management Planning and
     Control that Complement IBM Business Intelligence Solutions

     Comshare(R) Inc. (Nasdaq:CSRE) announced today that it is part
of IBM's (NYSE:IBM) FastStart program for business intelligence (BI),
which provides entire IBM Business Intelligence solutions to small and
midsize companies. Comshare is an IBM Business Partner, and its
solutions for management planning and control complement IBM data
management technologies, like DB2 Universal Database, DB2 OLAP Server,
and Visual Warehouse. Comshare 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.
     The FastStart program gives IBM software and consulting partners
opportunities to work closely with each other and IBM. As an IBM
Business Partner, Comshare will be at the following IBM partner-only
events:

     --   IBM Partner World - January 23-26 - San Diego

     --   IBM e-Business University - January 29-February 2 - Orlando

     "We are proud to be a partner with IBM and in its FastStart
program that offers exceptional business intelligence solutions,
especially for e-business," said Dennis Ganster, Comshare president
and chief executive officer. "Comshare's Web architecture is a perfect
fit for IBM e-business and BI solutions, because our companies'
technologies are very compatible. The result is an end-to-end,
world-class BI solution for management planning and control that is
Web-ready, fast and cost-effective to implement, and easy to use."
     "The FastStart program allows partners like Comshare to
demonstrate how well their products support IBM's e-business
infrastructure," said Dan Russell, Director, Worldwide ISV Software
Sales & Marketing, IBM Software Group. "Comshare's e-business
applications for management planning and control sit on top of that
infrastructure to give CFOs and their staffs online access to
information that improves overall communication, management
effectiveness and decision-making."

     About Comshare

     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 IBM Business Partner for software
development. 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. All other
trademarks are the property of their respective holders.

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     CONTACT:  Comshare, Inc.
               Pete Smudde, 734/769-8742
               [e-mail]

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