TECHNOLOGY SOLUTIONS COMPANY PARTNERS WITH APRISO TO BRING REAL-TIME BEST BUSINESS PRACTICES TO MAJOR INDUSTRIAL COMPANIES

Collaboration Positions System Integrator at Leading Edge of Critical New Area

(Chicago and Long Beach, CA - December 3, 2003) - Technology Solutions Company (TSC) [Nasdaq:TSCC] and Apriso Corporation have today announced that the two companies have joined forces to bring previously unavailable, real-time business solutions to some of the world's largest corporations. TSC is a systems integrator focused on meeting its customers' business needs by marrying the most advanced technology with business process expertise. Apriso is the inventor of bottom-out enterprise software, the first off-the-shelf, event-driven, real-time applications software for collaborative supply, manufacturing and distribution processes.

"In today's global economy, companies face intense competitive pressures requiring them to rethink their bottom-level business processes, and adopt 'best practices' such as lean supply or six-sigma quality initiatives," said David S. Wasson, CPIM, and senior vice president of TSC. "TSC specializes in helping companies align their business processes to better support corporate objectives and improve performance. Today, there exists a significant opportunity to help these companies become more efficient, adaptive businesses. When you combine our business process and technology expertise with Apriso's suite of event-driven, bottom-out enterprise software applications we are in an ideal position to provide valuable solutions in this important new area."

Wasson explained that systems integrators have historically focused on integrating top-down enterprise software, such as enterprise resource planning (ERP) or supply chain management (SCM), into companies operating with the traditional forecast-based business model. However, as the market realities shift to a customer-driven business model, some companies are finding that they must re-align their business processes at a fundamental level to become demand-based, adaptive enterprises that operate with greater efficiency. To reach these objectives, they not only need specific process expertise, but also a configurable type of enterprise software that will support these processes. "Apriso is in the forefront of this much-needed enterprise application marketplace, and our companies' combined expertise can provide significant and growing benefits for many of our clients," said Wasson.

These "best practices", Wasson noted, go by names such as 'pull', 'lean supply,' and 'six sigma', and form the strategic underpinnings of such leading companies as Dell, Toyota, or Wal-Mart. "Pull" refers to a strategy where products or their constituent components, even highly-customized ones, are not built until ordered, but then are manufactured and shipped nearly immediately. "Six sigma" refers to a focus on quality at every step of a process such that defects appear only one for every 3.4 million products. "Lean supply" focuses on minimizing process steps, inventory, waste, movement, and rework so that a product is built as efficiently and as quickly as is theoretically possible. Companies that focus on such best practices usually do them in combination.

According to Wasson, because of its breakthrough event-driven, real-time, processes-based architecture, Apriso's FlexNet® software can understand, manage and monitor the entire gamut of real-time business processes that define an enterprise's supply, manufacturing, and distribution infrastructure.

To date, collaboration between TSC and Apriso in the aerospace and defense industry has generated positive early returns, Wasson reported.

"Our corporate customers and the systems integrators that support them are all looking to evolve their businesses to the demands of the new 'execution' economy," said Adam Bartkowski, president and CEO of Apriso. "TSC is clearly one of the most forward thinking firms in today's market, as it recognized that a huge opportunity exists in assisting enterprises in their move to lean, adaptive, and real-time business processes."

Bartkowski added that a unique aspect of Apriso's software is that it can also be applied in small, tightly focused areas. This allows a firm like TSC to work with their client to find the areas with the greatest need for immediate relief, and solve those business problems first. Then, as priorities dictate, more processes can be added to the project, until a corporation has fully achieved "operational excellence" throughout its entire, worldwide operation including suppliers. "This fits TSC's focus on rapid results very nicely," said Bartkowski.

About Technology Solutions Company
Delivering business benefits to companies worldwide through process and technology expertise, Technology Solutions Company (TSC) is a leading systems integration and business consulting firm that focuses on rapid results. TSC's core competencies include: enterprise resource management, supply chain management, customer relationship management, support services, and change management and training. Its services span the entire technology lifecycle — from strategy definition and planning; through implementation and integration; to extended support. Headquartered in Chicago, TSC has worked with more than 800 clients worldwide, including 59 of the Fortune 100. For more information, please visit www.techsol.com.

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.