Symphony Metreo Introduces First Ever Applications Dedicated to Connecting Top-Down Price Planning with Bottom-up Price Execution.

Company Delivers on Promise to Enable Executives to Manage the Trade-Offs between Strategic and Financial Objectives Using Price as a Lever to Shape Demand

PALO ALTO, Calif. -- Symphony Metreo, Inc., a leading provider of enterprise pricing and operations management solutions, today announced the availability of two new products--Metreo Price Planner(TM) and Metreo Guideline Manager(TM)--aimed at connecting top-down price planning with bottom-up price execution and delivery. These two new products compliment the company's very successful Enterprise Pricing Suite (EPS), which will further increase Symphony Metreo's place as both a leader and innovator in the market for pricing and operations management solutions.

"The supply planning world is rapidly moving to demand-driven point of view, be it predicted from myriad sources of input data streaming from customers and/or through collaborative and iterative forecast sharing," said John Hagerty in the March 2007 AMR Research Report, "Symphony Metreo: At the Intersection of Price, Supply, and Financial Performance." "Apply the same method to priceOSymphony Metreo is introducing Price Planner and Guideline Manager, to enable this process."

Metreo Price Planner[TM] connects the organization by transforming price into a valuable operational lever that companies can use to drive toward their strategic and financial goals--before and during the quarter. Price Planner accomplishes this through the creation of a Price Plan of Record (PPOR) by leveraging forward-looking demand plans, historical information (price, volume and mix), and current market demand. The PPOR becomes the objective that the business must manage toward to achieve the financial goals for the period.

Price Planner enables 4 standard best practices for the organization:

* Plan price like you plan volume - expose and align the assumptions used to drive the business by defining the contribution of each product to the plan and the business strategy

* Understand the current and projected forward gaps - what parts of the business are "off plan" based on performance to date and in future periods resulting from unanticipated changes from price realization, mix or volume at various levels of the business

* Continuously re-plan as results reveal themselves - make many small adjustments instead of taking major actions at the end of the quarter, and continuously model tradeoffs at various levels to hit the plan in the aggregate

* Propagate adjustments to the field - connect the price plan to price execution by ensuring that adjustments are delivered to the field in the form of price, discount or guideline updates

Metreo Guideline Manager(TM) is an application that enables companies to better set price in the short term by linking top down price planning to execution in the field. This link enables organization to use price as a lever in executing business strategies. Specifically, Guideline Manager does three things:

* Validate Price Plan Objectives - understand current performance relative to price objectives articulated in the price plan

* Set Appropriate Field Guidelines - optimize by segment and/or manage the boundary conditions with the field based on your current business environment to achieve the current price plan

* Eliminate Costly Errors - eliminate errors between guideline setting and execution through tight integration with the leading order execution engines

"There continues to be a disconnect in the enterprise pricing market between top-down price management and bottom-up price execution. Symphony Metreo brings it all together by providing the only suite of pricing applications on the market capable of bridging this gap," said Koichi Kiyohara, vice president of products, Symphony Metreo, Inc. "Price Planner and Guideline Manager provide business executives, financial managers and pricing analysts with the tools they need to ensure that the strategic and financial goals of the organization are aligned with the field-level execution required to meet them."

Shipping and Availability

Both Metreo Price Planner(TM) and Metreo Guideline Manager(TM) will be generally available in early Q2 of 2007. For more information and pricing, contact Bennett Indart, vice president of marketing and business development, at [e-mail] or [phone].

About Symphony Metreo

Symphony Metreo helps organizations meet their financial goals of Revenue and Margin with innovative solutions that align and synchronize top-down planning with bottom-up execution by focusing on the strategic levers of Price, Volume and Cost. Symphony Metreo serves global enterprises with innovative award winning applications in the areas of Enterprise Pricing, Operations Management and Performance Management. Headquartered in Palo Alto, CA, Symphony-Metreo is a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Symphony Technology Group, a $1.2 billion strategic holding company. For additional information, visit http://www.symphony-metreo.com.

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