Automated Year 2000 solution now available to BPCS® users in Asia/Pacific

Naperville, IL — August 7, 1997 — Two software and support organizations in the Asia/Pacific area will now be offering users of SSA's BPCS® manufacturing and distribution system a complete, cost-effective, and rapid year 2000 solution: the Focus/2000 automated conversion tool from Nexgen/2K, Inc. Christopher J. Herron, Managing Director of Nexgen Asia/Pacific Inc. (San Rafael, CA), today announced that CSSL Holdings Ltd. of Hong Kong, China and Sanwa Comtec K.K. of Tokyo, Japan have become Focus/2000 distributors.

"Over 20 percent of the BPCS® installed base is in Asia Pacific, and we are pleased that CSSL Holdings and Sanwa Comtec will be making their millennium transition painless," said Herron.

CSSL Holdings will offer Focus/2000 throughout the Pacific region, including Australia, China, Malaysia, Thailand, Indonesia and Singapore, according to Managing Director John Clough. "This is exactly the solution BPCS® users have been looking for," he remarked.

S. Kakizawa, Managing Director of Sanwa Comtec, is confident that BPCS® users throughout Japan want a total solution. "Focus/2000 combined with our professional services can reduce the project turnaround time significantly, and is ideal for companies who want to bring their legacy systems into the 21^st century quickly," he said.

Focus/2000 helps BPCS® users overcome a formidable challenge

Close to 8,000 sites worldwide rely on the BPCS® manufacturing and distribution software to run their businesses. Without Focus/2000, clients who are not already live on BPCS® Version 6 (which is year 2000 compliant) face a formidable challenge. Version 6 introduced a radically different set of architectures (client/server, partially object-oriented) which many clients cannot implement without considerable expenditures of time and money. Alternatively, clients who wish to stay on their current version of the software would have a significant undertaking to century-enable their systems manually or using a less robust tool solution. As an example, BPCS® Version 4.05 has approximately 2,000 database files; 1,200 CL programs; and 1,600 RPG programs in which dates must be fixed. Since most companies have modified BPCS® , the number of programs and files is even greater. Nexgen developed Focus/2000 to automate the task.

This high level of automation — combined with professional services from experienced BPCS® professionals at CSSL and Sanwa Comtec — reduces the project turnaround to weeks or months instead of the years many users have budgeted.

Nexgen Software Technologies, Inc. is headquartered in Naperville, Illinois, a Chicago suburb in the area"s High Technology Corridor. Since 1990, Nexgen has focused on providing implementation and custom modification services to BPCS® users. Nexgen/2K, Inc. and Nexgen Asia/Pacific, Inc. were founded in 1997 to market Focus/2000 as a millennium solution for the BPCS® market and Nexgen/2K as a millennium solution for other AS/400 software. For more information, contact Chris Herron at +1 (415) 453-1925, via fax at +1 (415) 453-0780, or via email at cjherron@msn.com. Information is also available on the World Wide Web at http://www.nexgeninfo.com.

Focus/2000 and Nexgen/2K are trademarks of Nexgen/2K, Inc.
BPCS® is a trademark of System Software Associates, Inc.