A3 SOLUTIONS ADVANCES PARTNERSHIP WITH HYPERION

Partnership Focuses on Revenue-Oriented Analytic Application

SAN FRANCISCO , Calif. — May 2, 2003 — A3 Solutions, Inc., a pioneer in spreadsheet-centric software technology, announced today an amended agreement with its longstanding partner, Hyperion, the global leader in business performance management software. With this announcement, Hyperion awards ISV Silver Status to A3 Solutions effective immediately, which provides for extended co-marketing benefits, such as sales training and tools. At the same time, A3 Solutions is leveraging Hyperion Essbase as their business intelligence technology of choice for A3 Solutions' revenue-oriented analytic applications such as A3 Modeling™.

The amended partnership agreement enables A3 Solutions to leverage the robust business intelligence technology provided by Hyperion Essbase to address growing demand for revenue-oriented analytic applications such as sales forecasting, store planning, and campaign planning. This is especially true considering the requirements of the industry verticals that demand these applications. Vertical markets including telecommunications, retail/distribution, and consumer packaged goods require more support than other industries for extremely high volumes of data, ever changing data environments and complex driver-based modeling.

"This expanded relationship validates the fact that Hyperion Essbase is the open business intelligence technology of choice for partners building tailored applications," said John Pierson, Hyperion vice president, global channels. "We're pleased to work with A3 Solutions to extend our robust technology to customers."

"For the enterprise demanding detailed views to revenue in their forecasting environment, A3 Modeling running on Hyperion Essbase analytic services is a key software innovation serving the specialized needs of several growing vertical markets," said A3 Solutions vice president of sales, Stuart Ratner. "The combined solution radically reduces the effort and cost of delivering detailed financial data over the Web--a requirement for all revenue-oriented analytic applications."

About A3 Solutions

A3 Solutions is an innovator in the Corporate Performance Management market (CPM, BPM, EPM). Leveraging its advanced analytic application technology, A3 Solutions competes successfully with market leaders by delivering more powerful budgeting, forecasting, management reporting and executive dashboard solutions that deploy more quickly and at lower total cost. Come to our website (www.a3solutions.com) and see how American Airlines, Avon, Cox Communications, Johnson & Johnson, McDonald's, Safeway, Toyota, Williams Sonoma, and Verizon use software from A3 to reduce the time and labor associated with spreadsheets, increase confidence in reporting and analysis, enjoy more timely and detailed visibility into operational performance, and make decisions more quickly and confidently. A3 Solutions' partners include leading enterprise technology providers such as Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT, News), IBM (NYSE: IBM, News), and Hyperion Solutions (Nasdaq: HYSL, News). A3 Solutions is headquartered in San Francisco, California. To learn more about the company or its flagship product, A3 Modeling, visit www.a3solutions.com, send an email to sales@a3solutions.com, or call (800) 666-CUBE (2823) or 415-356-2300.