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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE AccountMate announces push into manufacturing sectorSoftline subsidiary inks deal with Everest Software, emphasizes niche strength of Visual AccountMate business management software Novato, Calif. – March 28, 2002 – AccountMate Software, a subsidiary of Softline Software, today announced a strategic marketing push into the mid-market manufacturing sector, bolstered by AccountMate’s new marketing alliance with Everest Manufacturing Software. The alliance gives mid-market customers, estimated to be several hundred thousand in number in the U.S. alone, an all-inclusive, fully customizable, and seamlessly integrated business management and manufacturing solution. Everest Manufacturing Software enables customers to track and manage the manufacturing production cycle from the receipt of raw materials, through the production process to finished goods. These processes normally require the tracking and managing of inventory, labor, work centers, and in many situations, outside services. Responding to Customer Needs“Recent survey research into AccountMate’s extensive customer base shows that greater than 40% of our users are in the manufacturing sector,” said Ben Tse, president of AccountMate Software. “AccountMate has for some time been evaluating manufacturing software packages that fit the mid-market profile. We are very pleased to announce the immediate and seamless integration between Everest Software and Visual AccountMate. This integration is based on Everest’s flexibility, ease of use, proven reliability, and glove fit with AccountMate’s customer profiles.” Everest Manufacturing Software handles Discreet, Make to Order, Make to Stock, Light Assembler, and Process manufacturing needs. Smart, “Copycat” IntegrationUpon installation, Everest Manufacturing functions as if it were a Visual AccountMate application, giving the user a single, familiar environment in which to work. The user sees the Everest Manufacturing option displayed on the AccountMate main menu, and the AccountMate system manager can be used to define process (or option level), as well as security for the Everest system. In addition, the Visual AccountMate system manager has access to the tables, indexes, and fields defined within the Everest system. Data generated from Everest Manufacturing automatically flows into and out of the AccountMate modules, without modifying AccountMate programming code. Customers can confidently update AccountMate modules or Everest Manufacturing. Significantly, customer can update new builds of Everest Manufacturing without changing any programs in AccountMate, and vice-versa. Solid Technology Story“We’re receiving excellent feedback from members of the AccountMate Business Partner channel who are interested in selling Everest,” said David Bilbrey, president of Everest Manufacturing Software. “Both Visual AccountMate and Everest Manufacturing Software are technologically at ‘career highs’. This next logical step is to offer mid-market customers to combined strength of AccountMate and Everest in a highly integrated environment, via authorized AccountMate Business Partners. Companies that have been looking for a fully-integrated back office accounting solution with software that can track and monitor the manufacturing process need look no further.” About AccountMateFounded in 1984, AccountMate, a subsidiary of Softline Software, is an award-winning developer of integrated financial information solutions. AccountMate product lines offer financial management solutions, plus programs designed for manufacturing, distribution, retail, wholesale and other vertical markets. Visual AccountMate offers true 32-bit, object-oriented source code, and all Visual AccountMate products are available in multilingual versions. AccountMate currently has over 120,000 installations serving over 200 industries worldwide, and is designed for businesses from start-ups to divisions of Fortune 1000 corporations. All AccountMate products are sold through a worldwide channel of more than 3,000 authorized Business Partners. Visit AccountMate at www.accountmate.com. About Everest Manufacturing SoftwareEverest offers a manufacturing software package that works as a stand alone application or integrated seamlessly with Visual AccountMate software. Planned and designed with your manufacturing environment in mind, Everest Manufacturing offers all the features, functions and processes found within other mid-range/mainframe software packages designed to run on a PC. Typical accounting software can address the sales, purchasing, and inventory issues needed for a company that buys a product and sells it without changing its characteristics or combining it with other products to add value to the finished good. The complex demands of a manufacturing environment cannot be adequately handled by a typical accounting software package. The most complete system would incorporate the accounting software with software that can track and monitor the manufacturing process. Visit Everest at www.everestmfg.com.
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