Comshare Releases Upgrade to Its E-business Solution for Management Planning and Control; Comshare BudgetPLUS is Fully Web-architected and Now Supports the World's Top Databases.

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ANN ARBOR, Mich.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 10, 2000

Comshare(R) Inc. announced today that, as of December 31, 1999, version 3.2 of its e-business solution for management planning and control, Comshare BudgetPLUS(TM), is available. With this release of BudgetPLUS, which is fully Web-architected, Comshare met its goal for the product to work on the world's top relational and multidimensional databases by adding support for IBM DB2 Universal Database (UDB) version 6.1. BudgetPLUS also runs on Microsoft SQL Server 7.0, Oracle 7 and 8, Hyperion Essbase, and IBM DB2 OLAP Server supporting an NT environment. 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.

"Comshare was an early adopter of Web technology for software development," said Dennis Ganster, Comshare president and chief executive officer. "The Web architecture of our MPC solutions, especially BudgetPLUS, makes them a natural fit with companies' Internet strategies and places us as the leader in e-business applications for management planning and control. So as an e-business solution for MPC, BudgetPLUS users have real-time access over the Web to collaborate on one version of `the truth' for their organizations. The result is organizations plan better, link budgets to strategy, and improve the effectiveness of management decision-making."

BudgetPLUS 3.2 Enhancements

BudgetPLUS is a fully Web-architected solution for planning and budgeting that runs on mainstream relational and multidimensional databases, and comes "Ready-to-Go" with built-in best practices for planning, budgeting, management reporting and analysis. BudgetPLUS is highly scalable and can be implemented using Web, client/server, or an optimal mix of both technologies.

Among the improvements made for version 3.2 of BudgetPLUS, major enhancements include:

- Support for IBM's DB2 Universal Database 6.1 relational database,

which is fully Web-enabled to deploy e-business solutions quickly

and cost-effectively. - Added capabilities for Detail Planning to define custom event

types, easily generate multiple events across employees based on

selection criteria, and simpler data entry with intuitive

end-user navigation through the various views. - Support for Production Reporting that gives administrators

financial templates to create, schedule, and distribute reports

over the Web or via e-mail to users anywhere in the world.

Comshare BudgetPLUS is an integrated e-business planning, budgeting, reporting and analysis application that improves productivity, shortens the budgeting cycle, and enhances the quality and usability of planning information. BudgetPLUS features built-in software agents that automatically monitor trends and changes in data to detect anomalies and alert users to take action. Users can then immediately spot exceptions, test "what-if" scenarios, link budgets to strategy, and improve the ease and integrity of management reporting and analysis. Unlike spreadsheets, BudgetPLUS handles hundreds of concurrent users with ease and manages and controls the entire MPC system, cutting the time and effort needed to complete individual planning, budgeting, reporting and analysis cycles.

"BudgetPLUS provides unbeatable power, flexibility, and ease of use and administration to organizations wanting a more effective enterprise-wide MPC system that exploits the advantages of the Web," added Ganster. "And making this goal a reality is critical to organizations trying to link strategic and operational plans and budgets."

About Comshare

Comshare Inc. (Nasdaq:CSRE) 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 a Hyperion Alliance Partner, IBM Business Partner, Microsoft Certified Solution Provider, and 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(R) is a registered trademark of Comshare Inc. Comshare BudgetPLUS(TM) is a trademark of Comshare Inc. All other trademarks are the property of their respective holders.