LOCKHEED MARTIN USES APRISO SOFTWARE

(Long Beach, CA - May 22, 2003) - Apriso Corporation today announced that Lockheed Martin selected Apriso's software to track the time and attendance of employees at four of its manufacturing locations. Apriso offers a unique real-time, event-driven suite of software that provides the necessary level of granularity and immediacy to satisfy Department of Defense (DOD) and customer requirements for traceability, particularly for progress billing.

"The world as we have known it for the last few decades has changed," said Adam Bartkowski, president and CEO of Apriso. "While major defense contractors used to be able to provide general reports on project status, today they must supply a much greater level of accurate and detailed information, almost in real time, to contractually satisfy partners, customers, and regulatory bodies. Our software can be quickly installed to gather the data on who works on what project, for what amount of time, and with what results. This data is critical for defense and security related projects, but is a common scenario for almost every manufacturing company today."

Apriso sells a comprehensive, integrated suite of process driven and workflow management applications that are designed to go into the "value chain" of enterprises, integrate with existing processes, people, programs, machines and material, and provide real-time, event-driven synchronization, control, and reporting of these processes to any authorized community of interest in the enterprise. An important feature of Apriso's approach is that its applications can be installed exactly where needed, typically in less than 90 days, and then "grown" outwards in a bottom-out fashion until the enterprise has attained the level of process and workflow control that it desires.

In Lockheed Martin Missiles and Fire Control's case, the company needed to track labor statistics in plants in Texas and Arkansas, and then feed the resulting data into their Enterprise Rnstallation was completed and up and running in less than 90 days.

"We have pioneered a bottom-out software model that, for the first time, brings the full power of information technology to the value chain, rather than the 'top' of the corporation where most enterprise software has gone, essentially since its invention," said Bartkowski. "Our goal is to enable any enterprise to quickly and easily 'institutionalize' its strategic business objectives and best practices, such as lean supply, six-sigma quality, or regulatory compliance, and to systematically build out a foundation for a competitive, lean real-time enterprise."

Apriso's bottom-out enterprise software paradigm is so named because it focuses on providing real-time, global observation, synchronization and control of the so-called "bottom-level" processes of an enterprise, where materials are actually transformed into products by people and machines. Unlike classical, top-down enterprise software applications that use high-level plans and forecasts to drive "calls to action" down into an enterprise, the bottom-out model is focused on an event-driven enterprise where actions in real time—throughout the entire manufacturing and supply network—continually beget other actions. This is the model required to implement such diverse business imperatives as lean manufacturing, "lots of one," the "real-time enterprise," demand pull, kaizen (successive improvement) or product genealogy.

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 exte

esource Planning (ERP) system, for generation of reports for DOD compliance and invoicing. The multi-plant inded 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.

About Lockheed Martin Missiles and Fire Control
Lockheed Martin Missiles and Fire Control develops, manufactures and integrates world-class air defense, fire support, strike weapon, naval munition, combat vision, anti-armor and advanced product solutions and systems for U.S. and international armed forces. Headquartered in Bethesda, Md., Lockheed Martin is a global enterprise principally engaged in the research, design, development, manufacture and integration of advanced technology systems products and services.

Apriso and FlexNet are trademarks of Apriso, Inc. and may be registered in certain jurisdictions. All other product and company names mentioned are the property of their respective owners and are mentioned for identification purposes only.