COMSHARE RELEASES NEW "FINANCIAL DATA MART FOR DECISION SUPPORT"

DYNAMIC NEW VIEWING AND FINANCIAL MODELING CAPABILITIES

ANN ARBOR, MI, APRIL 10, 1996 -- Comshare, Inc., (NASDAQ: CSRE) The
Decision Support Company today announced the immediate availability of a
dynamic new version of Commander FDC/Budget, the financial consolidation,
reporting and budgeting application software used for financial reporting
and analysis by more than 650 medium-to-large organizations world-wide.

New features enhance the ability of Commander FDC/Budget to provide one
central financial data mart of information for reporting, analysis and
planning -- in short, enabling it to become an organization's single
source for financial decision support.

Among its many enhancements, the new version of Commander FDC/Budget adds
three major new multidimensional (OLAP) functions:

1. Viewing and financial modeling facilities to allow scenario testing,
"What-ifs?" and Goal-seeking.

2. DSS and EIS analysis through Comshare's Commander Decision Desktop
software.

3. Complex Group or 'Latin' accounting: providing facilities for companies
in accounting areas where group accounting rules allow sophisticated group
ownership calculations.

Other new features include:

 Full support, including data entry, for Lotus 1-2-3 and Excel
 Consolidation site and reporting site spreadsheet interfaces for
 Excel/Lotus 1-2-3
 Enhanced adjustments
 Notes on Journals
 Immediate posting of journal entries
 Balanced set journal entry validation
 Account detail data entry
 Enhanced exchange rate data entry
 Complex group consolidations

"Many Comshare customers have been using Commander FDC/Budget for
consolidation and reporting for nearly six years now," said Steve
Tonissen, senior vice president, marketing, Comshare. "The new features
allow them to reap maximum benefit from their financial information
database for all their financial reporting and decision support needs.
With the new Commander FDC/Budget, Comshare customers can operate all the
functions of consolidation, currency-conversion, reporting, analysis,
modeling, EIS and Detect and Alert on a single database."

The new Commander FDC/Budget can access data from existing financial
sources including General Ledgers, etc. It also contains "Metadata" --
data about data (schedules, line-item financial relationships, currency
rates etc.) The addition of a powerful new data entry module further
enhances its capabilities.

The new Commander FDC/Budget also incorporates Comshare's innovative Detect
and Alert software. It allows a user to establish personalized monitors
based on custom performance criteria. Software agents - - called "robots"
-- inform the user when conditions occur that meet the pre-specified
criteria. This allows an executive's time and effort to be directed at
ANALYZING problems, rather than searching for them.

Comshare is The Decision Support Company. One of the top 50 software
companies in the world, Comshare develops, markets and supports complete
decision support applications designed to improve business analysis,
planning, reporting and decision making. Comshare decision support
applications result in better decisions, improved profits, and enhanced
competitiveness for its more than 3,000 customers in over 40 countries
worldwide.

For more information about Comshare products and services, call
1-800-922-7979 or see our home page on the world wide web at
http://www.comshare.com
 
 =========================================================
 From the 'New Product News' Electronic News Service on...
 AOL (Keyword = New Products) and Delphi (GO COMP PROD)
 =========================================================
 This information was processed from data provided by the
 company/author mentioned. For additional details, please
 contact them directly at the address/phone# indicated.
 Trademarks are the property of their respective owners!
 =========================================================
 All submissions for this service should be addressed to:
 BAKER ENTERPRISES,  20 Ferro Dr,  Sewell, NJ  08080  USA
 Email:   rbakerpc@aol.com   --or--   rbakerpc@delphi.com
 =========================================================
