APRISO APPOINTS SOFTWARE INDUSTRY VETERANS TO NEWLY CREATED EXECUTIVE POSTS

Company Gears Up for Sales Momentum in North America, EMEA and Asia-Pacific Region

(Long Beach, CA - January 9, 2006) - Apriso Corporation, a provider of adaptive solutions for manufacturing and supply chain operations, has appointed three software industry veterans to newly created operations executive posts. The new appointments reflect Apriso’s increasing growth in the North American, European and Asia-Pacific regions, and the company‘s renewed focus on attaining the highest possible level of customer satisfaction.

“We have always had the best manufacturing software offering on the market – now we have the talent on board to propel it to market leadership,” said Chris Brecher, executive vice president, worldwide operations. “We have recruited a team of very skilled senior executives, each with deep expertise and knowledge of international execution strategies. They were hand-picked for these positions based upon their ability to build world-class customer service and sales organizations.”

Chris Chung has been named vice president of field operations for the Asia-Pacific region. A veteran in the information technology industry, he has held executive positions with leading multinational software vendors in Taiwan, Singapore and South Korea. Chung has served as area manager of strategic alliances, Asia Pacific Region, with NCR; regional president, Asia Pacific region, of Baan; General Manager, North Asia of QAD Inc.

Mark Gonia has been hired as vice president of field operations, Americas, and will manage Apriso’s sales, presales and partner development efforts in the United States and Latin America. Gonia joins Apriso from Camstar Systems, Inc., where he served as managing director of that company’s semiconductor and electronics business worldwide. A 25-year software industry veteran, Gonia has also held sales management positions at PRI Automation, Promis Systems and Schlumberger, Ltd.

Yves Vergnolle has been promoted to vice president and managing director of EMEA operations, and will work out of Apriso’s Paris office. He will oversee sales, pre-sales, partner relations and implementation services activities in the region. Vergnolle served for six years as a consultant/manager with Andersen Consulting (now Accenture, NYSE:ACN), a global management consulting, technology services and outsourcing company. He joined Apriso in 2000 as manager of the implementation services team for EMEA. He worked for three years as director of product management in the company’s Long Beach, Calif. headquarters before being promoted to his current position in September.

Chung, Gonia and Vergnolle and have assumed their new roles with Apriso.

About Apriso Corporation
Apriso Corporation is a software company dedicated to providing competitive advantage for its customers. We do this by enabling organizations to adapt quickly and easily to market changes and unexpected events; providing end-to-end, real-time control of manufacturing operations across the entire enterprise; lending visibility across the entire supply network; tightly integrating planning, execution, and control; increasing operational efficiency; and eliminating errors in the production process.

Apriso operates in nine countries across the Americas, Europe and Asia-Pacific. The company has more than 140 customers and powers more than 400 installations worldwide. Its customer base includes such global companies as General Motors, Lear, Honeywell, Microsoft, L’Oréal, Lockheed Martin, Becton Dickinson, Baker Hughes, International Paper, Rubbermaid, Matsushita Avionics Systems, Saint-Gobain, Novelis and Essilor. For more information, visit the Apriso Web site at www.apriso.com.

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