A3 INTEGRATING AND RESELLING HYPERION ESSBASE

A3 Solutions Incorporated (Note: Throughout this article, the "3" in A3 Solutions Inc is meant to be superscripted), developer of A3 Profit Center -- an Internet-enabled software solution available for Enterprise Profit Planning (EPP), announced it has signed an application partner agreement with Hyperion, a global leader in analytic application software.

Under the terms of the new agreement, A3 will resell Hyperion Essbase OLAP Server, a market-leading open, cross-platform, enterprise OLAP server. This reseller agreement expands an existing cooperative marketing agreement between Hyperion and A3.

Hyperion Essbase provides an enterprise-class OLAP platform for business analysis applications in a variety of areas including e-business and customer service centers, in addition to enabling core business analysis applications for financial management, manufacturing, sales and marketing.

A3 Profit Center and Hyperion Essbase deliver performance, scalability and analytical power to empower Global 2000 companies to integrate missioncritical analytic models, optimize the underlying business practices and elevate them to dynamic, real-time, collaborative, decision making solutions.

Proven in production with a wide variety of Global 2000 companies, A3 Profit Center deploys Advanced Analytic Applications that exceed the flexibility and functionality of single-purpose, pre-packaged or time-consuming, custom-developed offerings. In doing so, A3 Profit Center allows large and extended enterprises to leverage the benefits of their existing spreadsheet models without incurring the high administrative costs associated with custom solutions.

The expanded partnership with Hyperion enables A3 to be a one-stop shop for organizations looking to implement A completely integrated Enterprise Profit Planning solution that includes profitability analysis, planning, forecasting, budgeting, costing, allocations, modeling, and management reporting. The combined solution enables customers and partners to quickly realize the benefits of Web-based OLAP applications that can be broadly deployed to users across corporate intranets, extranets and the Internet.

"This partnership will continue to leverage the power of OLAP to reach beyond the corporate controller's office out to the corporate front lines," said Rob Lautt, CEO of A3. "The combination of Hyperion and A3 will continue to open new markets beyond traditional high level analysis and will drive competitive advantage for our customers through greater command of their business."

"Best-in-class application providers such as A3 dramatically expand the breath of business analysis applications customers can deploy on Hyperion Essbase," said Steve Fioretti, vice president of marketing at Hyperion. "The expansion of our strategic partnership with A3 addresses a growing need among businesses to deploy robust, planning solutions across all areas of an organization."

A3 Profit Center

Customers employ A3 Profit Center to create a strategic, integrated Advanced Analytic Application, based on existing, in-house spreadsheet, mainframe, and custom-built solutions with a high Return On Investment that exceeds the breadth, flexibility, and functionality of single-purpose, pre-packaged or time-consuming, custom-developed solutions.

Enterprise Planning solutions in A3 Profit Center integrate, automate and centralize Profitability Analysis, Allocations, Budgeting, Costing, Forecasting, Planning, and Management Reporting across Finance, Manufacturing, Marketing, Operations, and Sales.

A3 Profit Center combines the power of Online Analytical Processing (OLAP), Excel, and Web technology to eliminate spreadsheet chaos. Global 2000 corporations use A3 Profit Center to speed planning, increase collaboration, and make more informed decisions regarding enterprise profitability. Learn more about A3 Profit Center at www.a3si.com.

About Hyperion Essbase OLAP Server

In use today by more than 3,000 companies, Hyperion Essbase OLAP Server is a strategic analytical platform optimized for enterprise management reporting, analysis and planning applications.

It supports multi-user read/write access, large-scale data capacity, robust analytical calculations, rich attribute analyses, and sophisticated OLAP queries and delivers it all in a Web-centric architecture across multiple open hardware platforms.

Hyperion Essbase provides intuitive multidimensional data navigation and consistent, rapid response times in network-centric computing environments. More than 350 Hyperion alliance partners leverage Hyperion Essbase as a strategic enterprise OLAP platform for analytic applications. Additional information about Hyperion Essbase is available at www.hyperion.com/essbaseolap.cfm.

About A3 Solutions

A3 Solutions Incorporated, headquartered in San Francisco, develops and markets A3 Profit Center, the Enterprise Modeling software suite that deploys Advanced Analytic Applications (A3) for Enterprise Profit Planning.

Customers: A3Profit Center customers include Abbott Laboratories, American Airlines, Avon Products, Bear Stearns & Co, The Clorox Company, Consolidated Edison, Cox Communications, Del Monte Foods, Deloitte & Touche, Fidelity Federal Bank, Staples, Sun Life of Canada (U.S.), T. Rowe Price, and Toyota Motors.

Partners: A3Profit Center software is co-marketed with partner firms, including Hyperion Solutions Corporation, IBM, and ShowCase Corporation. A3Solutions is a Microsoft Certified Solution Provider. A3partners with system integrators, Internet consultancies, and resellers worldwide. Information on A3products and services is available at www.a3si.com, or 1-800-666- 2823.

About Hyperion

A worldwide analytic application software leader, Hyperion Solutions Corporation gives today's knowledge workers the "freedom to succeed" with software, services and partner offerings that help them understand and optimize their businesses. More than 6,000 organizations worldwide use Hyperion's analytic application software products, which include marketleading packaged analytic applications, and OLAP server technology and tools. Hyperion's customers include more than 60 of the Fortune 100 and more than 40 of the Financial Times European Top 100 companies. In addition, more than 350 leading e-Business, data warehousing, OLAP tools, services, ERP, CRM, packaged application, and platform alliance partners extend the value of Hyperion's products and services to deliver maximum flexibility and choice to customers. Headquartered in Sunnyvale, California, the company has offices in 26 countries. Information on Hyperion's products and services is available at www.hyperion.com, info@hyperion.com, or 1-800-286-8000.

Contact A3 Solutions Incorporated, Brad Margolis 415-356-2322 bmargolis@a3si.com.