Mercator Launches New Support for SAP R/3 Enterprise at Americas SAP User Group -ASUG- Conference.

Business Editors/High-Tech Writers

ASUG Conference

booth #425

WILTON, Conn. & NEW ORLEANS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 20, 2003

Demonstrating its ongoing focus on delivering integration solutions for the SAP marketplace, Mercator Software, Inc. (Nasdaq: MCTR) announced today the general availability of the Mercator Inside Integration Package v7.2 for SAP at the Americas SAP User Group (ASUG) Conference.

This event, which runs from May 18-21, 2003 at the Ernest N. Morial Convention Center Convention Center in New Orleans, Louisiana, provides interactive learning opportunities for SAP customers, partners, and prospects. Mercator is exhibiting at the conference in booth #425.

Mercator Inside Integration Package v7.2 for SAP provides powerful application integration technology that enables SAP systems to collaborate with applications, people and processes both inside an organization and across its enterprise with partners and customers.

Mercator has long been recognized as an industry leader in providing integration solutions for SAP technology. More than (400) SAP customers, such as Bank One, Hershey Foods, Home Depot, Nestle, Panasonic, Rich Products, and Vattenfall, have deployed Mercator's integration technology. Mercator removes the complexity, time and expense associated with virtually every type of technical integration supported by R/3, including BAPI (synchronous and asynchronous), ALE/IDOC, EDI/IDOC, RFC, and BDC as well as integration with SAP Business Warehouse. Automated, wizard-driven modeling and support is provided for integrating R/3 applications with files of any format, relational databases, application programs via an API, and message queuing systems.

Steve Adamo, general manager of business systems development at Panasonic Management Information Technology Services Company, said: "Mercator is integrated, easy to use and fits very well with our existing technology strategies. With leveragable experience in-house, we can build on what we had rather than replace it."

Lloyd Adams, Mercator's vice president for manufacturing, distribution and retail said, "ASUG provides an excellent opportunity for our mutual customers to gain insight about the latest offerings from Mercator and SAP. Customers select Mercator to improve their ROI, speed SAP deployment cycles, and reduce the complexity of their SAP integration initiatives through our innovative integration solutions."

About Mercator Software, Inc.

Mercator delivers its customers and partners The Advantage Inside Integration(TM), providing Industry-Ready Integration Solutions(TM) that solve critical business problems in real-time, while leveraging current technology investments and maximizing ROI. Mercator's core integration technology, Mercator Inside Integrator(TM) 6.7, features a Solutions-Oriented Architecture(TM), which easily and seamlessly automates high-volume, complex transactions. Over 1,100 enterprise customers leverage the power, speed and flexibility of Mercator's proven integration technology and industry expertise to build better business value and faster ROI. To hear why our customers and partners believe Mercator is the advantage inside integration, visit our Web site at www.mercator.com.

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