MDTVISION, AN IBM COMPANY, AND APRISO ANNOUNCE STRATEGIC ALLIANCE

Alliance Targets Demand for Global Specification Management

(Long Beach, CA and Les Ulis Cedex, France - June 20, 2005) – Apriso Corporation, the global leader in providing real-time solutions for Supply Network Operations (SNO), and MDTVISION, the leading Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) integrator in Europe and an IBM Company, today jointly announced the formation of a strategic alliance. MDTVISION will provide implementation, consulting, maintenance, and training services in support of Apriso’s FlexNet® manufacturing and logistics management software. The companies will actively joint market integrated global specification management solutions. This partnership contract formalizes an existing business relationship that has already delivered significant value to a number of high profile customers.

“Excellence in operations execution has always been a key goal of PLM,” said Dominique Guinet, French PLM Practices Director for MDTVISION. “The missing link in typical global product strategies has been a mechanism to bring product specifications and flows all the way to the plant floor and actual execution within a unified PLM environmental. Apriso complements our current offerings by managing the ‘execution side’ of the product lifecycle. Apriso’s FlexNet product globally manages production flows and controls manufacturing and logistics operations. Together, we offer an industry-leading global specification management environment that manages the centralized creation and distributed execution of product specifications and process plans from idea to shipment.”

The global specification management solution targets companies with multiple production sites across the globe seeking to deploy and institutionalize their “Best Manufacturing Practices” across this extended supply chain. The alliance goal is to offer a collaborative, global approach to major manufacturers in the automotive, aerospace & defense, consumer goods/durables, and the life sciences verticals. MDTVISION and Apriso target a better integration of PLM and MES-LES systems to enable manufacturers to more quickly bring new products to market, accelerate time-to-volume production and manage a complex portfolio of products overall.

“MDTVISION brings a leadership position in PLM, and proven skills in systems integration, project methodology, project organization, and information systems to the challenge of global specification management”, said Adam Bartkowski, VP and Managing Director of Apriso Europe. “Apriso’s FlexNet product uniquely provides an integrated execution platform across manufacturing, quality, logistics, and warehouse operations. With such a strong product component, MDTVISION is definitely capable of partnering with Europe’s largest manufacturers to help them achieve the benefits of major operational excellence initiatives such as Lean, Six Sigma, TQM, and Demand-Driven Supply Network Operations (DDSN).”

About MDTVISION
MDTVISION, Europe’s leading PLM (Product Lifecycle Management) provider, supports industrial companies throughout the product lifecycle. Its consultants and engineers are experts in a variety of fields: consulting, development, integration, roll-out, training and maintenance. They are involved with the technology selection process, including software packages, collaborative architecture and secure networks, and manage the implementation and operation of these systems. Architects, project managers and specialists in CAD/CAM, PDM, Digital Factory, Logistics Support and EDM work with companies of all sizes and coming from a wide range of major business sectors: automotive, aerospace and defense, electronics, engineering, consumer products goods.

About Apriso Corporation
Apriso is the leader in delivering real-time solutions for Supply Network Operations. This new class of enterprise software enables global operations to define, operate, and monitor supply, production and distribution processes in real time, globally. Apriso’s software, known as FlexNet®, is a dynamic, Web-services-based suite of applications that synchronizes the execution of real time manufacturing and supply chain operations across supply networks.

Apriso operates in nine countries across the Americas, Europe and Asia-Pacific. The company has more than 140 customers and over 350 installations worldwide. Its rapidly-growing customer base 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. For more information, visit the Apriso Web site at www.apriso.com.

Apriso is a registered trademark of Apriso Corporation. FlexNet is a trademark of Apriso Corporation. All other trademarks and registered trademarks are the property of their respective owners.