Global Outsource Leader Rolls Out A3 Modeling™ for Enterprise Budgeting, Executive Dashboards, and Performance Management

A3 Solutions, Inc. gets high praise for Modeling Flexibility, High Scalability, Low Total Cost compared to Traditional Packages

SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. — February 14, 2006 — A3 Solutions, Inc. today announced that a global IT outsource leader who recently purchased A3 Modeling for integrated Corporate Performance Management has successfully rolled out a solution enterprise-wide to over 500 users. The solution, in this case deployed for integrated enterprise budgeting, performance management, and executive dashboards, fully exploits state-of-the-art OLAP analytic database technologies from both Hyperion Solutions (Essbase) and Microsoft Corporation (SQL Server Analysis Services). The company chose A3 Modeling after an exhaustive evaluation of leading industry alternatives.

In comparisons with traditional packaged applications, A3 Modeling achieved high praise for its "no-limits" Excel spreadsheet modeling flexibility, its intuitive ease of use, and its true web architecture (A3 Modeling is available in both .NET 2.0 and J2EE frameworks).

In addition, A3 Modeling allows customers to capitalize on their existing infrastructure of spreadsheet models and processes, whereas traditional packaged applications force customers to discard their spreadsheets and reconstruct their business rules from scratch. The result: For enterprises deeply invested in spreadsheets, A3 Modeling offers the promise of significant cost savings and very fast deployments.

"Enterprises often discover too late that replacing their spreadsheets with a packaged application is not the panacea that the leading software vendors would have us all believe," says Robert Lautt, CEO of A3 Solutions. "Your spreadsheets are valuable assets with decades invested in them. They do a remarkable job of modeling the competitive nuances of your business. Before you throw the baby out with the bathwater, consider an approach that allows you to achieve all the benefits of enterprise applications without the high cost and painful compromises."
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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.