APRISO JOINS IBM'S ISV ADVANTAGE INITIATIVE TO BRING REAL-TIME OPERATIONAL FLEXIBILITY TO MANUFACTURING INDUSTRIES

Open, e-Business on Demand Solutions to be Offered

(Long Beach, CA - July 8, 2004) - Apriso Corporation, the pioneer in real-time, event-driven enterprise execution software, has joined IBM's ISV Advantage Initiative, a program designed to provide independent software vendors (ISVs) with technical and marketing support to help meet the specific real-time information technology needs of small and medium businesses (SMBs). Companies in this category are increasingly seeking solutions that allow them to quickly respond to changing market opportunities on demand.

Apriso has developed a new type of enterprise software that is focused entirely on the execution of supply, production and distribution processes. Apriso's software, marketed under the FlexNet® brand, uniquely provides a real-time, event-driven software applications suite that permits companies for the first time to institutionalize increasingly critical business initiatives such as lean supply, six-sigma quality, portable processes, in-line production sequencing, real-time inventory management, and demand pull. There are over 400 installations of Apriso's software running in plants and warehouses worldwide.

As a participant in the ISV Advantage Initiative, Apriso will offer its FlexNet applications suite on IBM WebSphere Internet infrastructure software and other relevant IBM technologies.

The FlexNet application suite can be used to define, optimize, and operate - in conjunction with existing enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems, or on a standalone basis - any or all of a business's internal and external manufacturing or supply execution processes. It is used in many vertical industries, particularly gaining widespread acceptance in the aerospace, apparel, automotive, consumer products, electronics, industrial machinery, medical devices, metals, pharmaceuticals, printing, and the pulp and paper sectors.

"Apriso is excited about becoming a key partner in IBM's ISV Advantage initiative," said Adam Bartkowski, president and CEO of Apriso. "The availability of FlexNet running on IBM WebSphere will provide manufacturers in the SMB space a turn-key means for achieving unparalleled performance in their supply, production and distribution processes. Additionally, from our perspective, the relationship with IBM will help launch Apriso into the SMB market space, where the benefits of a real-time, event-driven business model will create immediate and exciting opportunities for us, IBM and our mutual customers."

"We are pleased that Apriso has joined ISV Advantage and is dedicated to IBM as a partner of choice," said Buell Duncan, general manager, ISV & Developer Relations, IBM. "Medium sized business customers are seeking open solutions tailored to meet their needs, and IBM is committed to working with Apriso to deliver this."

Apriso will work closely with IBM to expand its visibility in target vertical industries through various co-marketing and sales activities.

The IBM WebSphere family includes products that are designed and priced specifically for small and medium businesses - easy to install and manage, scalable to grow with a business, rich in functionality, and based on open standards to allow integration with existing software and hardware platforms.

ISV Advantage is administered by PartnerWorld for Developers, the developer resource for IBM Business Partners. It is a worldwide program designed to help software developers reach broader markets, lower their costs of doing business, and take their products to market faster. Additional information is available at http://www.ibm.com/partnerworld, by calling 1-800-426-9990 in North America, or 1-770-863-2048 outside North America.

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.