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A3 (A-Cubed) Announces Release of A3 Profit Center XP

A3 Solutions Incorporated (A-Cubed) announced the release of A3 Profit Center XP. This software suite represents a significant upgrade to the company's analytic platform, already proven in production at some of the world's largest enterprises. This enhanced technology facilitates greater input into Financial Planning processes from the Operational, Functional, and Divisional perspectives.

A3 Profit Center XP will ship with an upgraded version of A3 Vision, enriching existing modeling capabilities for diverse Operational viewpoints. This offering will also include a reengineered version of A3 Legend, giving Financial System Administrators increased flexibility and control over the models in their planning and forecasting systems. In combination, this software release represents a significant advance that is consistent with the trend among enterprises toward fully distributed processing environments.

Regarding this product announcement, A3 CEO Robert Lautt said, "More and more companies in the Global 10,000 are expanding levels of participation in their Financial Planning processes. As a result, a wide range of operational, functional, and divisional viewpoints are now involved, which in turn is driving the demand for more flexible planning methods. By delivering a familiar spreadsheet-based technology, A3 Solutions addresses the needs of both the financial and the business perspectives within the enterprise."

The "Missing Link"

Now, for the first time, operational experts have complete freedom to build and store their models within a Financial Planning process. Model-by-model and user-by-user, spreadsheet formulas can be captured within the A3 application and employed in later sessions. With this formula-preservation technology, Financial Planning input templates no longer appear flat and inflexible. Instead, such templates become robust and usable for operational planning purposes.

The enhanced software platform for analytic applications to be released as A3 Profit Center XP allows A3 Solutions to focus its efforts on specific and diverse perspectives within large enterprises. Already the company is scheduling the release of a series of functional applications, each developed on the A3 software platform. The initial offerings will be A3 Capital Modeling, A3 Compensation Modeling, and A3 Project Modeling.

About A3 Solutions Incorporated

Headquartered in San Francisco, A3 Solutions Incorporated develops and markets A3 Profit Center, a software platform that allows Global 10,000 companies to quickly and easily generate analytic applications enterprise-wide. Spreadsheet-based, A3 Profit Center combines the power and flexibility of desktop modeling with the convenient analytic power of OLAP (On-Line Analytic Processing) technology.

Customers

Modeling-rich analytic applications built on the A3 Profit Center platform are in production in Global 10,000 companies world-wide. Representative customers include Alza Corporation, American Airlines, Avon Products, Bellsouth International, The Clorox Company, Consolidated Edison, Cox Communications, Del Monte Foods, Deloitte & Touche, McDonald's of Canada, Sabre, Safeway, Staples, Sun Life of Canada (U.S.), T. Rowe Price, and Toyota Motors.

Partners

A3 Profit Center software is co-marketed with a number of partner firms, including Hyperion Solutions, IBM, and ShowCase, a division of SPSS. In addition, A3 Solutions partners with system integrators, consulting partners, and resellers worldwide.

Contact A3 Solutions, Lorne Evje, 415-356-2350, levje@a3si.com.