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LOGISPRING AND SAP INCREASE THEIR HOLDINGS IN APRISO

Company Momentum and Market Sweet Spot Makes it a Very Attractive Investment

(Long Beach, CA - November 13, 2003) - Apriso Corporation, the leading provider of bottom-out enterprise software, today announced that two of its existing investors, LogiSpring Investment Fund and SAP Ventures, the venture arm of SAP AG (NYSE:SAP), have increased their holdings in Apriso.

This announcement follows closely Apriso's recent launch of FlexNet® 2003 Suite, the world's first end-to-end, real-time, bottom-out enterprise software suite for supply, production and distribution in the adaptive enterprise.

"Apriso is creating value for its customers and partners through an innovative product and end-to-end support. The company is gaining momentum at all levels and is positioned well in the market, so the opportunity to increase our position is something we jumped at," said Jeffrey Nolan of SAP Ventures.

Commenting for LogiSpring, managing partner Frans Th. van Schaik said, "Apriso's continued success during a difficult economic climate has come from delivering clear, measurable value to its customers. We remain convinced that Apriso is uniquely positioned to revolutionize lean manufacturing and logistics and harness the power of leading-edge technologies such as industrial RFID. We are very pleased to have been able to increase our holding in the company."

Since the initial investments by SAP and LogiSpring, Apriso has grown its customer base dramatically and significantly increased its penetration into global 500-class accounts. Among deals that have recently been signed: Apriso has closed a multi-million dollar deal to deploy the FlexNet Suite with Radio Frequency ID (RFID) technology into one of the largest companies in the world; it is working with one of the world's largest auto parts manufacturers on a real-time "in line sequencing" application; and has fully automated the warehouse and factory systems of one of the world's leading mattress and pillow makers. Apriso has over 350 installations at over 140 companies around the world.

"We are very pleased with the support we have received from all of our existing investors and the vote of confidence this investment represents," commented Adam Bartkowski, Apriso's president and CEO. "Our goal is to bring new, highly competitive solutions to the leading companies in the world and we are pleased to be making progress."

About LogiSpring
LogiSpring Investment Fund NV/SA (www.logispring.com) is a venture capital fund with a primary focus on early through late stage companies with technologies and/or business propositions that are expected to have a significant impact on global supply chains. The Fund's scope of activities covers the whole supply chain, from sourcing through conversion and assembly to distribution, and includes the planning, optimization and execution management of manufacturing, transportation, logistics, mail and express delivery services.

About SAP Ventures
SAP Ventures is the venture capital affiliate of SAP AG (NYSE: SAP), the world's leading provider of e-business solutions. SAP Ventures manages a portfolio of financial investments in the enterprise applications and infrastructure market spaces.

About Apriso
Apriso is the pioneer of a significant, new class of enterprise software that for the first time enables corporations to define, operate, and monitor supply, production and distribution processes in real time, without limits. Using an event-driven, distributed services model, Apriso's software provides such fine-grained visibility and control of both execution processes and key performance indicators that it is an ideal platform for accomplishing the most pressing business initiatives of today: compliance, product genealogy, in-line production sequencing, real-time, RFID-based asset management, lean supply, successive refinement (kaizen), six-sigma quality levels, demand-driven supply (the "Dell" model), and the adaptive enterprise.

Apriso's software, known as FlexNet®, integrates quickly, easily and naturally into an enterprise's existing software infrastructure, and effectively extends the scope of systems such as enterprise resource planning (ERP) into the furthest reaches of the extended production and supply network, as required. But unlike these systems, that are based upon a top-down, plan-driven operations orientation, Apriso's event-driven, process-based architecture accommodates any operational model that is based upon real-time collaboration between execution processes, real-time visibility into performance, or the requirement to define, refine, or immediately control workflows throughout the enterprise, and across borders.

Apriso was founded in 1992, and now operates in 11 countries across the Americas, Europe and Asia-Pacific. World headquarters are in Long Beach, California. Apriso's rapidly-growing customer base of more than 140 customers and over 400 installations worldwide includes such high-profile, global companies as General Motors, Lear, Honeywell, Microsoft, Merck, Lockheed Martin, ITT, Baker Hughes, Halliburton, International Paper, Rubbermaid, Matsushita Avionics Systems, Saint-Gobain, Pechiney, and British American Tobacco.

The company has received a total of $20.9 million in two rounds of venture funding. Investors include Wall Street Technology Partners LP, CMEA Ventures, LogiSpring Investment Fund, SAP Ventures, and Brentwood Venture Capital.