Future Electronics Delivers Industry Leading i2 Content to Delight the Customer.

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DALLAS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 20, 2002

Combination of Content Management Software, Custom Catalog 

and Extensive Database Go-Live at Future

i2 Technologies, Inc. (Nasdaq:ITWO), the leading provider of dynamic value chain management solutions, today announced that Future Electronics, an innovator in the marketing and distribution of semiconductors and passive, interconnect and electro-mechanical components, has implemented i2's Discovery Knowledge Manager and subscribed to i2's Electronics Content Database.

Future and i2 successfully executed a three-month plan to deploy the i2 products to Future's Sales and Marketing groups, focusing initially on expediting customer quoting. The on-time, on-budget delivery of i2 Content solutions demonstrated i2's ongoing commitment to customer success, as well as Future's ability to generate accelerated value for its customers.

Discovery Knowledge Manager is designed to enable companies to publish and syndicate product information, enhance it with data from reference catalogs, and upload this information in a standardized format so buyers can search and access it. In combination with i2's industry-specific electronics reference catalog, i2 Discovery Manager is designed to allow Future to quickly and accurately service customers with a one-stop source for all electronic component needs.

By standardizing product information with i2 content management solutions, Future can improve collaboration with its customers by providing them with access to the critical information needed to make better purchasing and inventory decisions. Together, i2 and Future broaden the scope of Future's common philosophy known as, Delight the Customer(R). Future is the only electronic components distribution company to provide 24-hour Product Marketing capability and expertise to its worldwide customer base.

"i2's leadership in both content and the high-tech space made i2 the obvious solution to meet our content needs," said Brad Hudon, Future Electronics director of IT Development. "We found that many of our customers and suppliers were i2 customers, and that speaks well of i2's expertise and reputation. Our belief in i2's ability to execute was a key differentiator in the selection process, and has been confirmed during implementation."

Hudon also noted, "Future had done an extensive evaluation of an ERP solution and decided to adopt a 'best of breed' strategy." We believe in maintaining our agility and competitive edge by partnering with market leaders like i2 to assemble interoperable systems, better enabling us to contribute to the success of our suppliers and customers."

"Before a distributor's customers make a purchasing decision, they must be able to locate items and validate that the selections achieve both their technology and business needs," said i2 vice president of High Tech, Kevin Burn. "i2 content management solutions can improve the velocity of this process by reducing the complexity of information with standardization. Standardized product and supplier information made visible to both sellers and buyers ensures that all parties are speaking the same language about products being sold. i2 is committed to driving efficiencies in each customer's dynamic value chain and is the only company today that offers an expanding range of content including catalogs, services and management software."

i2 Market Leadership in High Tech Industry

i2 has over 120 computer/electronics customers, including 100% of the top 25 high tech OEMs. In addition, according to a March 2001 Gartner Group study of the semiconductor industry, eleven of the world's top fifteen largest semiconductor integrated device manufacturers are i2 customers.

About Future Electronics

Future Electronics is uniquely positioned as the only vertically integrated industrial distributor of electronic components supporting customers of all sizes worldwide. The company employs more than 5,000 employees in 220 offices in 35 countries in The Americas, Europe and Asia and has served the electronics industry for more than 32 years. With a mission to Delight the Customer(R), Future Electronics is the only electronic components distribution company to provide 24-hour Product Marketing capability and expertise to a worldwide customer base. Future's web site can be accessed at www.FutureElectronics.com

(R)Delight the Customer is a registered trademark of Future Electronics

About i2

For more than a decade, i2 has been the leader in supply chain management. i2 has extended its technology and expertise to Dynamic Value Chain Management -- solutions to help companies collaborate on decision-making processes not only across functions within a single company, but across multiple companies. i2 solutions span the value chain interactions, including customer relationship management, supply chain management and supplier relationship management. Established in 1988, i2 is the only software solutions provider that measures, audits, and reports total value provided to its customers, with a mission to

deliver $75 billion in value by 2005. Learn more at www.i2.com.

i2 is a registered trademark of i2 Technologies, Inc. and its subsidiaries.

i2 Cautionary Language

This press release contains forward-looking statements regarding the customer's ability to implement the i2 solutions successfully, in a timely fashion, or to achieve expected benefits. These forward-looking statements involve risks and uncertainties, and actual results may be much different. For a discussion of factors identified by i2 that could cause actual results to differ materially from those forward-looking statements, please refer to i2's recent filings with the SEC, particularly the Form 10-K/A filed August 7, 2001 and Form 10-Q filed November 14, 2001. Additionally, i2 assumes no obligation to update the forward-looking statement contained in this news release.