Performance Management Suite incorporates ABC/M costs.

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Oros® Analytics 5.3 features ABC/M and value chain
integration, sequenced drivers for ABC/M analysis, scorecard strategy map designer, and object model capability. Oros Scorecard includes changes to meter definitions to provide either step score or continuous score calculations, and also measures, analyzes and provides a graphic representation of performance against strategic objectives.



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ABC Technologies Unveils Enhancements for Oros Analytics Performance Management Suite


BEAVERTON, Ore. - Nov. 12, 2001 - ABC Technologies, the global leader of performance management solutions, announced today the availability of Oros® Analytics 5.3, which contains significant new features and enhancements for their world-class activity-based costing/management (ABC/M), scorecarding and value chain analysis software solutions.

New features included in version 5.3 are ABC/M and value chain
integration, sequenced drivers for ABC/M analysis, a scorecard
strategy map designer, as well as scorecard meter enhancements and an object model capability, which provides programming access to ABC/M, scorecarding and planning data. When combined with ABC Technologies' complete range of services and e-services, Oros customers can expand their already comprehensive business simulation tools.

"The release of Oros Analytics 5.3 demonstrates our on-going commitment to our ABC/M, Oros Scorecard and value chain customers to provide well integrated solutions for a variety of business issues," said Chris Pieper, chairman and chief executive officer of ABC Technologies. "The enhancements are exciting to our customers and will help maintain Oros' position as the market-leading performance management solution."

NEW FEATURES IN OROS ANALYTICS 5.3

Oros Analytics now seamlessly integrates with Oros Value Chain Analyzer to incorporate ABC/M costs into the activity rates used by the value chain analyzer. Additionally, results from the value chain analyzer can be sent to the ABC/M model, thereby completing a round-trip of activity information and value chain results for more accurate costing of products.

The Oros Scorecard enhancements include a strategy map designer and changes to the meter definitions to provide either "step score" or "continuous score" calculations. The strategy map designer provides a graphic representation of the strategic objectives and their relationship to perspectives and other objectives. The enhancement to the meter definitions expand the user's ability to specify exactly how measures will be mapped to a score. The mapping can be based upon a "step score" which allows a range of measures to be given a specific score or to a "continuous score" which maps a measure to a linear value between two scores.

Through Oros Scorecard, organizations measure, analyze and communicate their performance against strategic objectives. These measurements aid in identifying performance problems before they have a financial impact on the organization, and enables refinements in strategy. The strategy map designer presents a graphic representation of the cause and effect relationships between strategic objectives as well as how those objectives are grouped into specific perspectives.

Oros Analytics 5.3 also introduces sequenced drivers and a powerful object model capability. Sequenced drivers provide a user-controlled order for calculating the ABC/M model. This allows users to specify driver quantity values predicated upon properties calculated in prior calculation "passes". The object model provides a programming interface to the Oros ABC/M, scorecard and planning databases, thereby facilitating custom development of front-end and/or back-end (analytical) applications specific to a customer's modeling requirements. Using the object model, customers and application specialists can develop such applications as survey tools for collecting empirical data, import tools for interfacing with legacy databases, and cost flow diagrams to graphically represent how cost data moves through and ABC/M model.

The Oros family of software is the market leader in activity-based costing and performance management software. Oros provides integrated activity-based cost modeling, value chain analysis,
scorecarding/performance measurement, and planning capabilities
enabling organizations to increase profits, seek growth opportunities, reduce costs and streamline operations.

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