Cincom Announces CONTROL:Acquire

CINCINNATI -- January 8, 1996 -- Cincom Systems, Inc. today officially
unveiled CONTROL:Acquire, the latest addition to its comprehensive array
of enterprise management products. CONTROL:Acquire is a suite of software
products that supports the activities associated with bidding for and
winning profitable business. It is the only package on the market designed
specifically to manage the entire sales cycle, including prospecting,
product configuration, estimating, and proposal development. By automating
this normally labor-intensive process, CONTROL:Acquire can help cut sales
overhead and consistently meet deadlines. CONTROL:Acquire includes the
following components: Configurator Workbench, Estimating, Proposal
Management, and a work breakdown structure tool, Work Breakdown Structure
(WBS) Planner.

Configurator Workbench

Configurator Workbench captures and stores companies' product and
configuration rules. It then leads users (salespeople or customers)
through each step of the configuration process, prompting them to choose
product parts and features. Next, it compares the selected configuration
to its "knowledge bank" of product information, ensuring that the user has
requested a valid and buildable product. Benefits include avoiding
expensive rework and reducing order-to- shipment cycle times.

Estimating

Estimating automates the development and maintenance of product cost
estimates, and can help improve the timeliness, quality and accuracy of
proposals. Estimating draws upon all sources of historical and current
cost and product data to aid in the development of an accurate estimate.
Product structures can be imported from Configurator Workbench or from
your company's manufacturing applications.

Proposal Management

Proposal Management automates your company's process of responding to RFPs
and inquiries. It provides the capabilities to maintain prospect and
contact information, log inquiries and their requirements and can pull in
supporting data from Estimating and WBS Planner, as well as produce the
proposal. Proposals can also send sales orders to your order entry system
and produce quotations.

WBS Planner

WBS Planner creates and maintains projects, project elements and project
schedules. Projects can be tied to specific proposals and allow for
multiple revisions. WBS Planner creates a graphical work breakdown
structure from which the user can update project details and summarize
information.

CONTROL:Acquire is a segment of Cincom's CONTROL&#153; product line.
CONTROL is a portfolio of applications that addresses the complete
business cycle of companies that build highly engineered products.
CONTROL:Acquire is fully integrated with the other components of the
CONTROL portfolio. CONTROL:Acquire can also be used with other
manufacturing, order entry and financial systems as a comprehensive tool
to manage all aspects of manufacturing operations.

Platforms/Availability

CONTROL:Acquire is currently available on Windows 3.1 and Windows for
Workgroups 3.11, with server components available on IBM, VAX OpenVMS,
Alpha OpenVMS, HP/UX, AIX and Digital UNIX.

Pricing

Pricing starts at $56,000.

Cincinnati-based Cincom Systems has been developing and marketing quality
business software to leading organizations worldwide for more than a
quarter of a century, and is now among the world's largest software
companies. The company is one of the few in the industry that offers
business applications for manufacturing companies, as well as complete
solutions for object-oriented and fourth-generation language application
development, client/server and object-relational database, workflow
automation, and document solutions. For more information about Cincom and
its products, contact the company by E-mail at info@cincom.com, by phone
at 800/543-3010, or visit Cincom's World Wide Web site at
http://www.cincom.com.
 
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