REMEDI eCommerce Group Will Sell ACOM's EZConnect, Use It as ASP EDI Platform, Under New Business Partnership Agreement.

Business Editors/High-Tech Writers

LONG BEACH, Calif. and COLUMBUS, Ohio--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 10, 2003

ACOM Solutions, Inc., developer and marketer of software solutions for optimizing back office processes, and the REMEDI Electronic Commerce Group(R) have established a multi-dimensional business partnership under which REMEDI acts as a reseller and integrator of ACOM's EZConnect(TM) EDI-XML B2B eCommerce translation and connectivity solution and also employs EZConnect as the enabling software for its new e-commerce application service provider (ASP) offering.

REMEDI, a 10-year-old B2B eCommerce consulting organization with clients that range from $40 million to $60 billion in annual revenues, operates nationally from headquarters in Columbus, utilizing both its own staff of consultants and a network of independent affiliates and integrator partners. According to Managing Director Bradley C. Loetz, the new ACOM relationship provides the company with a powerful tool for satisfying the burgeoning requirements of the mid-size business market -- companies with $40 million to $200 million in annual revenues.

"This is an enormous market with extensive needs," Loetz said. "Many of these companies are being pressured by their large customers to do business electronically using EDI and/or XML as a condition of continuing their relationship. Historically, the technology costs and complexities associated with conversion to B2B electronic commerce have been seen by many as prohibitive, creating a major business dilemma. ACOM's EZConnect is an affordable, feasible answer, since it can satisfy most EDI-XML requirements at extremely modest costs -- as little as 40-50 percent of the cost of solutions with comparable features."

REMEDI has integrated B2B eCommerce solutions with a variety of financial management and enterprise resource planning systems, including J.D. Edwards, SAP, PeopleSoft, Oracle, and others. Under the new agreement, the company not only will sell the ACOM solution within its consulting activities, but will implement and support it as well, according to Sam Mikhail, vice president of sales, ACOM eBusiness Division.

"REMEDI offers ACOM immediate access to an extremely broad market through its own consultants and its affiliates and partners," said Mikhail. "In addition, it offers many opportunities for REMEDI's existing clients to retrofit to EZConnect from earlier, less functional and versatile solutions without incurring enormous migration and ERP implementation expense. We envision EZConnect becoming the translator-of-choice in REMEDI's new mid-size business B2B eCommerce initiative."

ABOUT REMEDI

REMEDI Electronic Commerce Group specializes in the development, integration and implementation of business-to-business EDI solutions for businesses of all sizes and all business sectors. From its headquarters in Columbus, Ohio, the company operates nationally, utilizing its own skilled business process analysts and consultants as well as a network of associated independents and business partners. In addition to its extensive consulting services, REMEDI also offers EDI services on a service bureau basis through an ASP that it maintains at its Columbus location. For more information, visit www.remedi.net, tel [phone], or email [e-mail].

ABOUT ACOM

ACOM Solutions, Inc. is a leading provider of B2B eCommerce management, document management, payment management and purchasing management solutions integrated with enterprise applications such as ERP and CRM, to enhance back-office and B2B processes for electronic, internet and paper-based commerce. Now in its 20th year of business, ACOM is a leading software organization with offices and solution partners worldwide. ACOM maintains corporate headquarters in Long Beach, CA and iSeries (AS/400) division headquarters in Duluth, GA. ACOM also has regional offices located in several major U.S. cities. For more information, visit www.acom.com.