Blue Agave Helps Software Vendors and Consultants Tap the Real-Time Enterprise Market

Strategic Alliance Initiative Extends Real-Time Performance Management Capabilities Across Industries, Enabling Demand-Driven Enterprises

CAMBRIDGE , Mass. (July 13, 2004) — Blue Agave Software, Inc. today introduced its strategic alliance initiative, designed to help software vendors and consultants meet their customers' growing requirements for real-time solutions that enable the adaptive enterprise through time-based, contextual decision-making capabilities that dramatically improve business performance. Companies in many industries are faced with increasing pressure to improve operating performance, reduce cycle times, and transform a colossal amount of time-sensitive data into actionable information. As a result, this pressure is being extended to solutions providers – software vendors and consultants – who are working hard and fast to expand their solution sets, to satisfy their customers' real-time requirements.

Blue Agave alleviates this pressure for both solutions providers and their customers with its robust Active Performance Management™ (APM) solution. New enhancements to the APM platform, delivered with the recent release of version 2.0, enable solution providers to develop and deliver powerful, end-to-end real-time performance management solutions as extensions of their core offerings. The comprehensive platform proactively identifies potential operating problems, recommends resolution strategies and provides real-time insight into how well operational performance stacks up to current plans, forecasts and expectations.

APM's proactive “sense and respond” capabilities go beyond conventional business activity monitoring (BAM) approaches, providing Blue Agave's partners with a complete solution to help customers realize the competitive advantages of transforming their supply chains into demand-driven supply networks (DDSN).

“As the real-time enterprise becomes a business necessity, companies are turning to their solutions providers for best-of-breed solutions that keep them ahead of the competition,” said Jim Morganstern, vice president of business development for Blue Agave. “APM is ideal for tapping this immense market opportunity, giving partners the first, proven resource for helping customers realize the benefits of the demand-driven enterprise.”

Strategic Alliances Extend Proven Solution Across Industries

Blue Agave's patent-pending APM platform enables organizations to build and deploy powerful, real-time operational intelligence applications across many different industries, including consumer-packaged goods, financial services, defense and health care. APM dramatically improves operating performance, by:

• proactively identifying operational breakdowns, and providing actionable recommendations for fast and effective resolution
• leveraging relevant data from internal and external sources – including RFID data and retailer-provided sales and inventory information – to provide real-time insight into operational performance
• providing tools for continuous process improvement, using the capabilities of the software for identifying, quantifying and analyzing the causes of these exceptions

This combination of capabilities allows technology companies to quickly extend their core solution set to provide industrial-strength, real-time functionality that can be adopted by customers worldwide.

The APM platform is highly configurable, enabling rapid deployment of solutions to seemingly different industries, functions, and business processes. APM complements and leverages existing IT assets, and requires only a minimal amount of IT support to implement.

For more information on partnering with Blue Agave, please contact us directly at 617.621.3400.

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About Blue Agave Software

Blue Agave Software helps consumer goods suppliers raise operational performance and maximize revenue opportunities by improving response to sudden and often unexpected shifts in supply, demand and logistics. Its Active Performance Management suite delivers millions of dollars in incremental revenue and cost savings, and helps companies meet service requirements by proactively resolving the most common operating challenges, such as stock-outs, late orders, excess inventory and material shortages. The software identifies and recommends actions for operational anomalies, monitors key aspects of business performance against company targets and provides root-cause analysis to successfully drive continuous improvement. Blue Agave is a privately held company headquartered in Cambridge , Mass. and can be reached at www.blueagavesoft.com or (617) 621-3400 .

Company Contact:
Susan Barr
(617) 621-3400 x210
sbarr@blueagavesoft.com

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