Marcam unifies process industry product groups; Protean and PRISM merger provides customers with unified solutions, services.

NEWTON, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 6, 1996--Marcam Corporation (NASDAQ:MCAM) is merging its Protean and PRISM product groups into a single, unified organization structured to meet the current and future needs of process manufacturing companies worldwide, President and Chief Executive Officer Michael Quinlan told the company's Massachusetts-based employees at a meeting today.

The new Process ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) Business Group, headed by vice president and general manager Robert Cramer, will provide Marcam customers in process manufacturing markets like the food processing, chemical and pharmaceutical industries with a single organization to service all of their needs from product development to customer service and consulting.

"Marcam virtually created the process-specific ERP market with our PRISM solutions, which we believe are still the best process offerings on the market, and we are now replicating that success with our Protean products," said Quinlan. "Our customers expect us to seamlessly provide new products and platforms while protecting the investments they have made with Marcam. That is the mission of this new organization.

"This unified structure capitalizes on the in-depth knowledge and experience contained in the process manufacturing teams we have developed," noted Quinlan. "Susan Connor, Olin Thompson and Tom Ebling, the developers of PRISM, including the patented production model concept, and widely acknowledged process manufacturing experts, have key roles in the new unit; Susan leading customer service and PRISM development, Olin responsible for market development and Tom in charge of Protean development."

"We have one customer - the process manufacturer," said Cramer, who led the Protean Business Group prior to today's announcement. "That customer now has a single point of contact within Marcam as we leverage joint efforts across development, marketing, sales, customer service and consulting to give our customers precise solutions that add value to their businesses based on their evolving needs. Our new process group will aggressively drive solution sales across our markets.

"We designed the Process ERP organization to meet customer needs today while preparing for the requirements of the future," Cramer stressed. "Today that means distinct development, service and support groups for both the Protean and PRISM products. As the products evolve and we increasingly work with customers who are using both process solutions, these groups will interact as needed."

Within the new organization, Cramer is responsible for all process ERP operations including development, sales, marketing, service and support, education and consulting functions.

"With today's announcement, Marcam's strategy for serving the needs of process manufacturing companies becomes clear," Quinlan stated. "We have the good fortune of having a complete host-based ERP solution (PRISM) as well as our NT and UNIX server solution (Protean) and our sales force and affiliates will propose the solution that best fits our customers' environments."

PRISM is the leading enterprise application solution for process companies. PRISM has more than 37 applications that help customers improve their production, logistics, maintenance management and financial operations. PRISM applications incorporate advanced, patented resource management and production model concepts and are designed to help increase operational efficiency, shorten delivery cycles, roll-out new products quickly, integrate the plant floor, and control and document quality assurance. They also improve inventory control, maintenance planning and scheduling, measure performance and streamline warehouse operations.

Marcam's Protean is widely regarded by industry experts and early customers as the "next wave" ERP solution, characterized by rapid implementation, ease-of-use and total agility in ongoing changes to applications to meet changing business requirements as needed. The Protean enterprise application suite provides advanced functions for managing logistics, production, financials and maintenance.

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Founded in 1980, Marcam Corporation is a leading supplier of open enterprise applications and services for process and discrete manufacturing companies worldwide. The company's Protean, PRISM, MAPICS XA, and Maintenance Management products have been installed in more than 15,000 customer locations worldwide and operate on platforms including IBM's AS/400 Advanced Series and RISC System/6000, Hewlett-Packard Company's HP 9000, Digital Equipment Corporation's AlphaServer Systems and Intel-based personal computers. Represented in more than 50 countries, Marcam has 28 offices throughout North America, Europe, the Middle East, Asia Pacific, and Latin America, complemented by a worldwide affiliate organization. Marcam customers include such multinational companies as Coca-Cola USA, Emerson Electric, Kraft Foods, Engelhard Corporation, Ralston Purina, Rohm and Haas, Rhone Poulenc and Westinghouse.

For more information, visit Marcam's home page on the World-Wide Web at URL http://www.marcam.com.

Note to Editors: Marcam and PRISM are registered trademarks and Protean is a trademark of Marcam Corporation. (U.S. patent pending) MAPICS is a registered trademark of Mapics, Inc. and Marcam Corporation.

AS/400 Advanced Series and RISC System/6000 are registered trademarks of IBM.

HP-9000 is a trademark of Hewlett Packard Company.

Digital, the Digital logo and AlphaServer are trademarks of Digital Equipment Corporation.

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CONTACT: Marcam Corp.

Joe Gavaghan, 617/928-5895