PELION SYSTEMS INTEGRATION SERVER ACHIEVES CERTIFIED FOR SAP NETWEAVER STATUS

Through integration with SAP solutions, Pelion achieves greater market exposure, expanded business opportunities and access to a broad and growing customer base

Boulder, Colo. – September 28, 2005 – Pelion Systems, the market leader in Manufacturing Process Optimization (MPO) solutions, today announced that its Integration Server 1.0 has achieved “Certified for SAP NetWeaver®” status from the SAP Integration and Certification Center. The certification shows that Pelion’s Integration Server communicates with SAP® solutions via XML based on SAP-endorsed integration technologies, and enables integration of solutions from Pelion and SAP for existing and future customers that use the SAP NetWeaver platform.

Pelion MPO is an enterprise application suite designed to enable manufacturers to achieve demand-driven, synchronized operations that dramatically improve performance. MPO synchronizes operations and schedules within and outside the factory to implement demand-driven manufacturing strategies based on a unique combination of Lean, Six Sigma and Flow Manufacturing principles, algorithms and techniques. The software suite complements existing SAP applications to help manufacturers visualize, define, design, implement and sustain manufacturing operations best practices with powerful analytics, scheduling algorithms, and decision support. With Pelion MPO, manufacturers can enable and sustain programs to liberate capital, optimize operations and performance, enable rapid response to actual and dynamic customer demand, and increase revenue performance.

SAP NetWeaver fits on top of and around an organization’s existing business applications. SAP has taken the business application perspective and applied it from a technology perspective. Communicating with SAP solutions via XML, Pelion can integrate people, information and processes both within and outside the company to make it more efficient and cost effective. The benefits of pull-based production and a synchronized supply network are dramatic. With Pelion’s certified XML integration interface, users of SAP solutions can rapidly take full advantage of integrated supply chain and manufacturing operations at the execution level with direct interface to their enterprise resource planning suite of products.

The integration allows Pelion to flexibly and rapidly design, build, implement and execute new business strategies and processes for its customers. By leveraging both SAP solutions and partners, Pelion will reduce the time, costs and risks associated with ERP lifecycle events. Pelion’s customers will benefit from the team concept developed through the integration with SAP solutions.

“Pelion Systems offers a complete enterprise wide supply chain solution,” said Dave Alcala, CEO and Chairman of Pelion. “By achieving ‘Certified for SAP NetWeaver’ integration, we can more fully offer a complete end-to-end solution for our customers from the enterprise to the factory floor level, further increasing the value of their SAP applications.”

About Pelion Systems
Pelion Systems provides lean operations management solutions for executives, plant and material managers, change agents and operators to power and sustain world-class business performance. Pelion integrates easily with existing systems and delivers rapid business value through exceptional operational and customer service performance. Teams using Pelion solutions make better and faster strategic, tactical, and operational decisions with a smart operations model that represents the value stream. Pelion Systems is headquartered in Boulder, Colorado, with sales offices in Detroit and Chicago. For more information about Pelion’s product and service offerings visit www.pelionsystems.com or call 877-669-4324.