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LOS GATOS, Calif., January 19, 2005 - Intacct Corporation, the leading provider of ERP On Demand, today announced that its industry-leading solution, ERP On Demand, was named a finalist in the 2005 Codie Awards for Best Financial Product or Service. This is the third consecutive year Intacct made the elite five, following the 2003 and 2004 finalist spots in Best Software Service.

The Codie Awards showcase the finest companies, products and services in the software and information industry. In the Best Financial Product or Service category, Intacct’s Web-based ERP solution stood out among 19 submissions, judged by software and information industry trade press, mainstream technology writers, analysts and consultants. The Codie Awards is the only peer-recognition program in the software and information industry, a unique opportunity for companies to compete for the praise of their competitors.

“The 20th annual Codie Awards continue the tradition of honoring the best of the software, content and education technology industries,” said Ken Wasch, SIIA President. “When one considers the number of outstanding companies that competed this year, being named a Codie Awards finalist is a significant achievement.”

“Our intense efforts to provide ISVs, outsourcers and multi-entity enterprises with the best ERP On Demand platform are again rewarded by industry experts,” said Robert J. Jurkowski, CEO of Intacct. “As the back-office building block, we pride ourselves on our strengths in integration, customization and business enablement.”

Intacct provides four ERP On Demand solution suites:

ERP On Demand — Multi-Entity Edition
The first on-demand business solution with multi-unit management applications to run distributed enterprises, such as restaurant franchises, retail chains and global corporations.

ERP On Demand — Enterprise Edition
Powerful ERP applications delivered as a service for small and mid-size businesses to customize workflow and manage business operations anywhere, anytime.

ERP On Demand — Outsourcer Edition
Accounting and business service outsourcers use ERP On Demand to manage financial and operational processes for clients worldwide. No need to leave the office, maintain on-premise hardware and software, hire and train client-site staff.

ERP On Demand — ISV Edition
ISVs integrate vertical applications into Intacct’s ERP platform, providing clients with comprehensive solutions by fusing back-end and front-end applications.

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LOS GATOS, Calif., February 28, 2005 ­ Intacct Corporation, the leading provider of ERP On Demand, today announced that more accounting firms have switched to ERP On Demand — Outsourcer Edition as the platform for delivering outsourced accounting services over the Internet. Powered by IBM e-business Hosting services, ERP On Demand helps accounting firms increase revenues, enter new markets, provide higher profit margin consulting services and boost clients’ operational productivity. Among the companies migrating to ERP On Demand — Outsourcer Edition are Top 100 accounting firm SS&G Financial Services (Cleveland), Langan Associates, PC (Arlington, Virginia), Haney Accountants, Inc. (Roseville, California) and CMA Outsourcing, LLC (Bloomington, Minnesota).

Intacct delivers ERP software — financial, supply chain, professional services automation and business analytics — as services over the Internet for a monthly, usage-based subscription fee. In addition to eliminating the heavy costs and complex management of premise-based systems, companies turn to Intacct for deep financial management functionalities, ease of use and seamless integration with best-of-breed applications, including CRM, payroll and e-commerce.

“Intacct enables accounting firms to overcome the obstacles of distance and move up the revenue value chain from bookkeepers to virtual CFOs,” said Robert J. Jurkowski, CEO of Intacct. “To date, we have helped over 200 accounting firms grow their market share through innovative service offerings, increased profit margins and reduced overhead.”

ERP On Demand — Outsourcer Edition is a unique platform for accounting firms to serve customers anywhere in the world by managing their financial operations from a centralized location. Once data is entered into the system, firms can adjust numbers, generate customized reports and provide financial consultation based on real-time information. Source documents are attached to each transaction for online approval and audits. Private-branding, multi-entity and multi-currency capabilities are additional features.

Below are a few examples of the business benefits Intacct’s clients have reaped from using ERP On Demand. For more information on how accounting outsourcers leverage Intacct, please visit: http://www.intacct.com/clients_outsourcers.html

SS&G Financial Services — Outsource business grows 75%.
Accounting firm reported 75% growth in its outsourcing business when back-end operations could be managed remotely for multi-unit restaurant franchises, such as Papa John’s Pizza, Damon’s Grill, Qdoba Mexican Grill and Romano’s Macaroni Grill. With real-time visibility into each restaurant, SS&G also acts as a virtual CFO, providing the franchisees with valuable consulting services.

“The restaurant business is starving for accounting outsource services,” said Brad Saltz, Director at SS&G Financial Services. “Intacct ERP On Demand gives us the platform to satisfy the market’s appetite, using a secure, reliable and profitable solution.”

Langan Associates — New accounts are set up in days.
Rather than months of installing and configuring hardware and software, the country’s largest accounting firm to exclusively serve the not-for-profit industry can set up new clients in a few days. Boasting a client list of over 350 organizations, Langan simply clones charts of accounts, migrates data and provides online access when national associations add regional chapters.

“The CFOs have told us the migration to Intacct is the smoothest financial systems migration they have ever experienced,” said Nat Bartholomew, partner at Langan Associates. “Switching accounting systems is always dangerous. But with no new hardware or software to configure, we quickly upload the files to Intacct’s open platform without any data loss.”

Haney Accountants — Customer base expected to double.
Originally limited to acquiring customers based in Northern California, Haney Accountants this year expects to double the number of homeowner association clients. The firm can now deliver accounting, budgeting and human resource services to housing complexes throughout the West Coast.

“We have built the business around the Intacct application because it is the only solution out there that allows us to be a paperless, virtual controller,” said Donald Haney, CPA, president of Haney Accountants.

CMA Outsourcing, LLC — 25% productivity boost for customers.
Handing off back office accounting tasks to CMA Outsourcing allows customers to turn their attention to core front office business tasks. On average, a customer can expect productivity — time spent in the front office — to increase by 20% to 30% when CMA manages the back office.

“Outsourcing is a great complement to our portfolio of services, such as tax and advisory services,” said Michael Robb, principal at CMA Outsourcing. “Being able to provide Web-based outsourced accounting services across a variety of industries give us an attractive advantage over our competition.”

Intacct provides four ERP On Demand solution suites:
ERP On Demand — Multi-Entity Edition
The first on-demand business solution with multi-unit management applications to run distributed enterprises, such as restaurant franchises, retail chains and global corporations.

ERP On Demand — Enterprise Edition
Powerful ERP applications delivered as a service for small and mid-size businesses to customize workflow and manage business operations anywhere, anytime.

ERP On Demand — Outsourcer Edition
Accounting and business services outsourcers use ERP On Demand to manage financial and operational processes for clients worldwide. No need to leave the office, maintain on-premise hardware and software, hire and train client-site staff.

ERP On Demand — ISV Edition
ISVs integrate vertical applications into Intacct’s ERP platform, providing clients with comprehensive solutions by fusing back-end and front-end applications.

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LOS GATOS, Calif., March 22, 2005 – Intacct Corporation, the leading provider of ERP On Demand, and IBM today announced that Accounting Outsource, Inc., a provider of business process outsourcing services, has selected the joint Intacct and IBM Web-based ERP solution to manage the financial operations of its multi-entity franchise customers, including IHOP and Panera Bread.

Delivered over the Web for a monthly fee, Intacct’s ERP On Demand — Outsourcer Edition has helped AOi’s franchise clients improve their back-office productivity by more than 30 percent. Powered by IBM’s e-business Hosting Services, Intacct’s patent-pending multi-entity functionality gives franchisees a unified, real-time view of all their stores’ sales figures, budget projections and invoices, which AOi posts with support documents attached for easy online approval. Consolidating multiple business operations in a centralized Web interface enables business owners to redeploy staff, adjust inventory and restructure finances in response to dynamic market changes.
“Intacct is the perfect solution for managing complex franchise networks,” said Richard E. Beil, president of Accounting Outsource. “When we approached several IHOP franchisees about managing their business processes, we knew Intacct’s multi-entity ERP platform would give us an edge over the competition.”

Intacct ERP On Demand — Outsourcer Edition is the first Web-based platform for accounting firms and business process outsourcers to remotely manage customers’ back-office processes anywhere in the world. The product comprises financial, supply chain, professional services and business analytics applications. Once data is entered, AOi can provide IHOP, Panera Bread and other franchise clients with highly customized performance reports and strategic financial advice, effectively acting as a virtual CFO. The software-as-a-service model lets AOi implement new customers in days, rather than months, without heavy capital expenditures and consuming IT maintenance.

In contrast to traditional software, which is sold for an upfront license fee, software as a service allows customers to purchase applications on a monthly subscription basis, with users accessing the software over the Web as needed. This approach appeals to small and midsize companies, which often lack the financial and technical resources required to buy and manage complex software systems.

“software as a service is how enterprises, outsourcers and ISVs want to buy and deploy software today,” said Robert J. Jurkowski, CEO of Intacct. “It’s the model that catapults AOi and other outsourcers into a league where they can win major brand accounts, such as IHOP.”

As a graduate of IBM’s Application Enablement Program, Intacct has worked extensively with IBM to take advantage of the growing market opportunity for new application deployment models and deliver its software as a service.

Through the program, IBM works with leading independent software vendors to assess, transform and deploy their software in on demand environments. By adopting alternative software deployment methods, ISVs can meet customer demand for subscription-based and hosted applications while experiencing faster application deployment times, shorter sales cycles and increased market reach.

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LOS GATOS, Calif., March 28, 2005 – Intacct Corporation, a leading provider of ERP On Demand, and RealPage, a leading provider of on-demand software and services to the multifamily industry, today announced a multi-year agreement valued at a minimum of $3 million to embed Intacct’s ERP On Demand™ solution into RealPage’s OneSite® property management system, which is used by more than 20,000 apartment communities.

Under the agreement, RealPage will include Intacct as a financial component of OneSite, an integrated suite of property management tools that helps property owners and managers streamline business processes.
“When we decided to extend the OneSite product line, we were faced with a build-or-buy decision in regards to a back-office accounting application,” said Steve Winn, CEO of RealPage. “We chose to team with Intacct because it is a software-as-a-service technology leader, one that we can work closely with over the coming years to ensure that the best quality products are available for the multifamily industry.”

By adding the financial application to OneSite, RealPage now offers the only end-to-end solution for the multifamily industry. All financial transactions from the other OneSite components — leasing, rents, screening and purchasing — now flow automatically into accounting, where the data is used for multiple-budgets comparison and customized reporting. With centralized control of cash flow and vendor relations, OneSite users can simultaneously manage multiple sites.

“RealPage’s decision to standardize on ERP On Demand for its back-end functions is a strong endorsement of Intacct’s position as a leading back-office building block,” said Robert J. Jurkowski, CEO of Intacct. “RealPage is a leader in multifamily technology and OneSite is receiving a tremendous response. We are excited to be part of the company’s continued success.”

Intacct delivers financial, supply chain, professional services automation, business analytics and multi-entity management software as a service over the Internet for a monthly subscription fee. Intacct’s ERP On Demand – ISV Edition, one of four solutions Intacct provides midsize businesses, ISVs and accounting outsourcers, lets software companies seamlessly embed ERP applications into packaged, hosted or Web-based applications. In addition to a full suite of integration tools and professional services, Intacct helps ISVs successfully go to market with their new extended offerings through business enablement services, such as solutions training, market strategies and joint business planning.

RealPage’s OneSite is an integrated, Web-based suite that automates the entire process of leasing, renting and managing apartments, including fast and easy applicant screening, comprehensive facilities maintenance, simplified purchasing and expense controls, professional accounting and convenient online rent payment.

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LOS GATOS, Calif., April 5, 2005 – Intacct Corporation, the leading provider of ERP On Demand, today announced its Spring 2005 product features roundup, introducing the software industry’s first-ever on-demand business application with multi-entity ready supply chain management and on-the-fly business analytics. Intacct delivers an integrated suite of financial, supply chain, professional services automation and business analytics software as a service over the Internet for a monthly subscription fee.

One of several groundbreaking functions added to Intacct’s ERP On Demand application suite, the multi-entity supply chain management is built on the company’s patent-pending multi-entity technology and gives midsize businesses unheralded control of order entry, inventory and purchasing, allowing companies to set up, operate and merge business units with separate tax IDs, charts of accounts and workflows. On-the-fly business analytics and multiple budgets computation, also new in Spring 2005, enhance performance management and the decision-making process by letting users capture and evaluate real-time business intelligence from individual divisions or the entire enterprise.

“The on-demand business applications available today are designed on the premise that small and midsize companies operate as stand-alone silos,” said Robert J. Jurkowski, CEO of Intacct. “From regional restaurant franchises and retail chains to international distribution and manufacturing companies, there is an immediate need for Web-based ERP services that can handle complex back-end processes for distributed organizations. To understand how each business unit performs, it is no longer sufficient to periodically consolidate disparate financial data. Executives require up-to-the-minute information from all facets of the business to boost sales, productivity and shareholder value.”

Platinum Hospitality Management, a Nashville, Tenn.-based hotel developer and operator representing mid-market, select-service brands for Marriott, Hilton and Intercontinental, is leveraging a spectrum of new product features to control its rapidly growing hotel portfolio in Tennessee and Texas. Platinum Hospitality evaluated a range of accounting and ERP applications, including Microsoft Great Plains and Best Software MAS 90, before selecting Intacct for its multi-entity capabilities.

“We can compare all or a specific group of our hotels side-by-side, drill-down to the transactional level, and still keep our unique entity structure,” said Mitch Patel, CEO and president of Platinum Hospitality. “We are planning to use Intacct’s multi-entity inventory, order entry and purchasing modules to track various departmental hotel functions, including food and beverage, housekeeping, and administration and general. I know of no other on-demand service that gives us this level of freedom to run our business.”

Rather than releasing all product features at once, Intacct’s open source, multi-tenant infrastructure periodically streams the benefits of Spring 2005 to the entire customer base at no additional cost or interruption to clients’ business operations. The integrity of existing applications, integrations and customizations is preserved for every customer. More than 100 new features are now available in Intacct’s four ERP On Demand solutions: Multi-Entity Edition (for distributed corporations), Enterprise Edition (for single-entity organizations), Outsourcer Edition (for accounting firms and BPOs) and ISV Edition (for software vendors). Intacct hosts its applications and databases at IBM e-business Hosting Centers™ to ensure clients enjoy the same security, reliability and performance as Fortune 100 companies.

Highlights of the Spring 2005 product features roundup include:

Multi-Entity Supply Chain Management
Beyond running multiple warehouses, Intacct gives local business managers the autonomy to control their units’ order entry, purchasing and inventory without viewing or affecting other entities. This unique feature, unavailable in any other mid-market ERP solution, ensures companies maintain separate divisions that merge at the corporate level. As purchase and sales transactions are entered, users can select the warehouses to receive or fulfill the requests. Completed orders are automatically registered at both the unit and corporate level. Reports provide real-time views of order volumes and inventory levels at specific locations or across the company.

On-the-Fly Business Analytics
Unlike generic Web-based reporting tools, which only calculate income and spending for the whole company, Intacct enables complex business analytics, which can be tailored for specific industries. Healthcare providers, for example, now can gauge per-patient-per-bed profitability. Retail chains can calculate monthly revenue contribution by store as dollars and percentage. Hotel management companies can compare various locations on a per-occupied-room-cost, per-available-room and percentage-of-room-revenue basis.

Multiple Budgets
Intacct lets users compare multiple budgets in a single report, without importing or exporting data from Microsoft® Excel. Real-time reports can be generated to compare spending and sales between any locations or time periods. Intacct’s budgeting capabilities also let users capture business objectives for future financial periods.

Advanced ERP Reports
In addition to cash and accrual reporting, users can group multiple reports, save the customizations for future runs and automatically deliver the reports to various recipients in different formats, according to a schedule or with a single click. Report grouping gives corporate executives a 360 degree view of operations, while restricting local managers to relevant data.

Multi-Entity Allocations
Amounts can be allocated on a dollar or percent-basis to multiple entities and departments. A vendor bill relating to several business units, such as an insurance premium covering regional service centers, are distributed equally or at predetermined levels. In addition to allocating entire transactions, users can allot individual line items.

Kitting and Assembly
Compress the supply chain, reduce cycles and consolidate operations by building kits from products stored at multiple warehouses. Plus, with Intacct’s multi-entity order entry, purchasing and inventory services, users gain greater flexibility in product line utilization and accelerated response to order changes.

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LOS GATOS, Calif., April 13, 2005 — Intacct Corporation, the leading provider of ERP On Demand, today announced three channel programs, including the Trusted Advisor Reseller Program, ISV-in-a-box and Accounting Outsourcer-in-a-box. Intacct expects two-thirds of its annual revenue to come through channel partners, which include traditional value-add resellers (VARs) and System Integrators (SIs), independent software vendors (ISVs), accounting firms and business process outsourcers (BPOs).

Intacct delivers financial, supply chain, professional services automation, multi-entity management and business analytics software as a service over the Internet for a monthly subscription fee. According to analyst firm IDC, sales of subscription-based software will grow at 17 percent through 2007. By delivering ERP software as a service, resellers can tap into the growing market for subscription-based applications while profiting from faster deployment time and shorter overall sales cycles.

“Midsize companies have vastly different requirements for managing their business processes,” said Robert J. Jurkowski, CEO of Intacct. “We surround the market with Trusted Advisors to give customers the freedom to either buy Intacct’s ERP On Demand solution from a certified VAR, or from an ISV that has embedded our applications suite in its industry-specific solution. Other companies might decide to contract out back-office tasks to an accounting firm or BPO that uses Intacct as a platform to deliver outsourced services over the Web.”

Intacct will launch the three channel programs on April 15.

Trusted Advisor Reseller Program
Intacct’s Trusted Advisor program is based on a revenue-sharing model where VARs, SIs and accounting firms resell or refer Intacct’s ERP On Demand application suite to mid-market customers. Intacct will train and certify all resellers. Partners provide clients with pre-sales services, implementation support and solutions training while Intacct serves as the first line of support for all product-related issues.

ISV-in-a-box
ISV-in-a-box is a step-by-step program to help independent software vendors embed core ERP functionalities and offer customers a complete, pre-configured business application suite. From ISV integration to customer implementation, Intacct provides professional services, solutions training, custom development, marketing strategies and joint business planning to ensure software companies successfully break into new markets and build additional revenue streams.

Accounting Outsourcer-in-a-box
Accounting Outsourcer-in-a-box is an 11-step program to help accounting firms set up successful outsourcing practices with Intacct’s ERP On Demand applications, professional services, quick-start training, marketing strategies and joint business planning. Derived from helping hundreds of accounting outsourcers succeed, Intacct’s industry expertise is customized for each firm’s business requirements.

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LOS GATOS, Calif., May 10, 2005 — Companies with strong go-forward strategies, solid management teams, and most importantly, technology to make customers sit up and take notice are being honored as “Emerging Stars” at TiEcon 2005, the world’s largest and most successful conference for entrepreneurs. This year, Intacct Corporation, the leading provider of ERP On Demand, was named an emerging star in the software industry.

“We are ushering in a new era in the software industry, where customer service and technology innovation will determine tomorrow’s market leaders,” said Robert J. Jurkowski, CEO of Intacct. “As the leading on-demand back-office platform, we are excited that our patent-pending, open source applications and unique business strategies are again recognized by entrepreneurs and industry experts.”

“We salute Intacct as an ‘Emerging Star’ for the impact it has made in the rapidly growing apps-on-demand landscape,” said Ramneek Bhasin, moderator for the Software Emerging Stars panel as well as TiEcon 2005 Marketing Chair. “Intacct’s strong technology, vision and management team, coupled with a growing customer list, makes for a great case study about a team of entrepreneurs poised for sustained success.”

Representing the software-as-a-service sector, Intacct is one of five software companies recognized for their outstanding management teams, competitive advantages, industry recognition, business models, corporate development and revenues.

On the Software Emerging Stars panel, Mr. Jurkowski joins executives from Wily Technology, Scalix Corporation, Netscaler and StorePerform Technologies to discuss the tremendous changes taking place in today’s software industry.

What: Software Emerging Stars Panel
When: May 14, 12:00 p.m. – 1:00 p.m.
Where: The Westin Hotel and Convention Center, 5101 Great America Pkwy, Santa Clara, California.

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LOS GATOS, Calif., June 15, 2005 — Intacct Corporation, the leading provider of ERP On Demand, today announced three revolutionary platform services, including CustomERP™ — the first software-as-a-service customization product for creating and delivering cross-application business processes over the Internet. Companies no longer require programming resources for their ERP system to talk to external legacy and Web-native applications. When a sales order is entered, for example, Intacct automatically updates the customer record in the CRM and the inventory list in the warehouse management system — even if those applications are hosted outside Intacct’s infrastructure.

Until today, no other on-demand solution has demonstrated the capability to automatically share real-time information between disparate applications.

As large and midsize companies struggle to integrate and manage diverse, stand-alone systems, Intacct also unveils ConnectERP™, a powerful Web services integration platform, and ManageERP™, an easy-to-use Web portal for deploying and managing applications, customizations and integrations across multiple sites and users.

CustomERP, ConnectERP and ManageERP elevate Intacct’s ERP application suite to a strategic platform for enterprise users and software developers to build industry-specific business solutions with data, application and business process integration and customization. As a result, companies can expect reduced operating costs, higher productivity and increased revenues.

CORESense, a leading provider of on-demand retail management software, projects sales to increase more than 20% within 12 months of embedding Intacct’s ERP On Demand suite. CORESense uses CustomERP, ConnectERP and ManageERP to mesh Intacct’s financial applications with its order, inventory, suppliers and shipping applications, offering customers a comprehensive retail management solution.

“As a leader in Web-based ERP systems and a fellow software-as-a-service company, Intacct was the clear choice for us to integrate with,” said Jason Jacobs, CEO and president of CORESense. “The combination of Intacct’s on-demand platform services and ERP functionality gives CORESense an unmatched, end-to-end retail management software for small and midsize retailers.”

“A major challenge facing companies today is addressing the complexities of integrating and delivering best-of-breed applications to employees and customers,” said Robert J. Jurkowski, CEO and president of Intacct. “Abandoning the outdated system-of-record model, Intacct is ushering in the era of the Federated Ecosystem, where vendors, partners and customers work together to build the most productive, cost-effective and flexible solutions for the rapidly growing on-demand software market.”

Research firm IDC believes worldwide spending on software as a service, which reached $4.2 billion in 2004, will grow at an average rate of 21 percent a year to $10.7 billion in 2009.

Intacct’s CustomERP features never-before-seen customization capabilities for building complete enterprise applications that meet unique business and industry requirements:

Smart Events™
Smart Events integrate and streamline workflows between Intacct’s ERP On Demand application suite and third-party applications, such as CRM, e-commerce and manufacturing. Intacct’s patent-pending event subscription technology automatically notify third-party systems about actions executed in Intacct, enabling users to set up cross-application business processes, such as cash-to-order and order-canceling. When a user terminates a customer order, for example, Intacct removes the order from the production plan, releases material allocated to the order, notifies the invoicing department and deletes the order from various systems.

Smart Links™
Smart Links let users access real-time data from any application or database directly through Intacct’s ERP On Demand suite. Users create links in Intacct records that point to data in external systems. With a click, a new window opens into the external system and displays the requested information. Users can also fetch third-party application data and display it in Intacct custom tabs. A link in an invoice, for example, can show live shipping data from the FedEx tracking system.

Smart Rules™
Smart Rules help users manage events by establishing conditions and exceptions to be met before a transaction is completed. Administrators can prevent employees from entering expenses in excess of $10,000, for example. A purchase transaction is stopped if the vendor’s insurance has expired. Smart Rules allow users to set up workflows in accordance with corporate governance.

Smart Packages™
Customized fields, events, links and rules are packaged and stored in open libraries for easy reuse and deployment. Developers no longer have to write new applications from scratch each time business rules change. Smart Packages customize existing applications with a few clicks. An integration with FedEx or UPS to enable label printing, for example, is simply a collection of custom fields and links. Packages can be installed and removed as needed. Intacct also works with leading software companies to develop industry-specific packages, called Smart Verticals™, for a wide range of sectors, including healthcare, property management and construction.

As part of the Summer 2005 product rollout, CustomERP, ConnectERP and ManageERP enhance Intacct’s suite of subscription-based, Web-native financial, supply chain, professional services automation and business analytics software.

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CustomERP — First Customization Service with Real-Time Data Synchronization
A full set of tools to create workflows across multiple, diverse applications and deliver cross-functional business processes as a service. Users can set up rules to automatically exchange real-time data with third-party applications every time a task is executed in Intacct’s ERP On Demand suite. When a sales order is entered, for example, Intacct automatically updates the customer record in the CRM and inventory list in the warehouse management system. Users can also link to any database in the world, retrieve information and populate custom tabs in Intacct. The ability to synchronize actions and information between multiple software makes Intacct the first mid-market business application that “talk” to external systems in real time.

CustomERP features include:

Smart Fields™
Smart Links™
Smart Rules™
Smart Events™
Smart Workflow™
Smart Packages™
Smart Verticals™
Smart Layout™
Smart Branding™
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ConnectERP — A Powerful Application Integration Platform
A Web services-based integration platform to extend Intacct’s ERP On Demand suite across a wide range of applications, including CRM, HR and e-commerce. Whether you are a software company enhancing your solution with ERP functionality, or an enterprise customer running your entire operation with one system, ConnectERP provides the tools to add multiple, diverse applications and build a complete business solution with the products and vendors of your choice.

ConnectERP features include:

Web Services
Microsoft® .NET Software Developer Kit
Developer Portal
Developer Sandbox
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ManageERP — Easy-to-Use Management Portal
A Web-native management portal for business process outsourcers, solution providers and corporate executives to manage clients and staff in real time. Set up, modify and slide in and out of multiple accounts and employee records with a single sign-on. Import data from any CSV-enabled program, clone company structures and application customizations as you grow, and manage user access with a few clicks.

ManageERP features include:

Management Console
Secure Slide-In™
Company Cloning
Data Migration
Report Delivery
User Management
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Endorsements
Dozens of customers, partners and trade organizations endorse Intacct’s CustomERP, ConnectERP and ManageERP as the leading on-demand platform services.

Customers

RealPage, a leading provider of on-demand software and services to the multifamily industry, recently signed a $3 million, three-year agreement to embed Intacct’s ERP On Demand solution in its OneSite® property management system, which is deployed at more than 20,000 apartment communities. Using ConnectERP and CustomERP and ManageERP to add financial applications to OneSite, RealPage now offers the only end-to-end solution for the multifamily industry.

“Enterprise customers want to eliminate the complexity associated with developing and managing increasingly intricate process workflows,” said Steve Winn, CEO of RealPage. “Intacct’s on-demand platform services uniquely enable us to evolve our products in pursuit of a competitive advantage, while providing full control over costs, security and performance.”

Achieve Healthcare Technologies, a leading provider of comprehensive technology solutions to the long-term care industry, uses Intacct’s customization and integration services to add ERP functionality to its Web-based application, which offers customers a fully integrated clinical and financial software solution. Since transactions are immediately posted, users can view real-time financials and drill down from financial statements to source transactions. General ledger and patient day statistical data is automatically exported to Intacct, allowing long-term care facilities to create customized per patient day statistical reports.

“With the addition of Intacct’s on-demand platform services, we can more tightly integrate AP and GL with our offering,” said Rich Giddings, president and COO of Achieve Healthcare Technologies. “Further, we can now customize our offering for our vertical ensuring that our customers get what they want, when they want it.”

Partners

To ensure customers enjoy the same operational environment as Fortune 50 companies, Intacct hosts its servers and databases in IBM e-business Hosting Centers™.

“IBM shares Intacct’s vision of a Federated Ecosystem that enables companies to build and deploy the business processes and infrastructure they need, when they need it,” said Buell Duncan, general manager, ISV & Developer Relations, IBM. “Intacct’s on-demand platform services are among the most innovative and strategic customization and integration solutions in the software as a service sector.”

“Salesforce.com redefined enterprise application integration and customization with the Sforce integration platform and Customforce customization tool,” said Tien Tzuo, senior vice-president, product marketing of Salesforce.com. “Intacct is leveraging its on-demand platform services and Sforce to tightly integrate its back-office suite with salesforce.com’s on-demand CRM solutions. This initiative has benefited our joint customers through tight process integration, lower operational costs and better customer service.”

“The Nsite Web services-enabled business process automation solution gives customers seamless bidirectional data flow and real time integration between their CRM system, Nsite sales operations processes and Intacct’s ERP suite,” said Bob Jandro, CEO of Nsite, which streamlines quote-to-cash processes to extend the value of on-demand and traditional ERP solutions. “Companies that are looking to improve their revenue-to-cash cycle time and increase sales productivity now have a cost effective alternative to traditional approaches.”

“Integration of PLM and ERP has always been a valuable business proposition,” said Michael Topolovac, CEO of Arena Solutions, the leading provider of on-demand product lifecycle management solutions. “With on-demand software, the ability to do this quickly, easily and affordably is a significant differentiator. Arena is pleased to partner with Intacct and enable the promise of integrated PLM and ERP applications delivered 100 percent as a service.”

“PayMaxx has worked with Intacct for the past two years and each year the relationship continues to grow and flourish,” said Farsheed Ferdowsi, president and CEO of PayMaxx, a national leader in payroll processing and an Internet payroll pioneer. “We provide outsourced payroll services to Intacct customers and their clients with 1–10,000 employees. Just recently, we completed our XML integration with Intacct to provide a more seamless data feed from payroll to the general ledger, using PayMaxx’s PowerPayroll Internet product and Intacct’s ERP On Demand.”

“Customers can now select custom capabilities from different sources to fit their business needs through the power of Web services-based integration,” said Robert Hull, CEO of Adaptive Planning. “Adaptive Planning is pleased to be joining Intacct’s network of partners by integrating our powerful On Demand solution for budgeting, forecasting, and reporting with Intacct’s ERP On Demand suite to provide this flexibility for customers.”

Trade Organizations

The Software & Information Industry Association (SIIA) is the principal trade association for the software and digital content industry. SIIA provides global services in government relations, business development, corporate education, and intellectual property protection to more than 750 leading software and information companies.

“Intacct’s new platform services are precisely the approach needed in the software-as-a-service arena to help solution providers and enterprise customers add new revenue streams and higher business value,” said David C. Thomas, vice president and general manager, Software Division, The Software & Information Industry Association (SIIA). “As the growth of on-demand applications outstrips traditional software, Intacct is making the right moves to become a market leader.”

Availability, Pricing and Training
CustomERP, ConnectERP and ManageERP are available to all customers at no additional cost on June 30, 2005. Intacct offers Web-based and on-site training on all three products.

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LOS GATOS, Calif., June 20, 2005 — Intacct Corporation, the leading provider of on-demand ERP, today announced the appointment of its CEO and president, Robert J. Jurkowski, to the Software Division board of The Software & Information Industry Association (SIIA).

“We are very excited to have Intacct join our Software Board of Directors — Intacct is an established leader in the burgeoning software-as-a-service market, which is expected to reach $10.7 billion in 2009,” said David C. Thomas, vice president and general manager, Software Division, SIIA. “We know our members and programs will benefit from the expertise Mr. Jurkowski’s 20 years of enterprise-software industry experience brings to the board.”

Intacct recently launched revolutionary on-demand platform services for customizing, integrating and managing the company’s suite of Web-native financial, supply chain, professional services automation and business analytics software. CustomERP, ConnectERP and ManageERP elevate Intacct’s ERP On Demand suite to a strategic platform for corporate users and software developers to build industry-specific enterprise solutions with data, application and business process integration and customization. Companies no longer require programming resources for their ERP system to “talk” to external legacy and Web-based applications. When a sales order is entered, for example, Intacct automatically updates the customer record in the CRM and the inventory list in the warehouse management system — even if those applications are hosted outside Intacct’s infrastructure.

Consisting of 19 executives from SIIA’s 750-company membership, the SIIA Software Division Board manages the strategic direction, work and activities of SIIA software programs. Board members take an active role in setting the course of the work the Division undertakes on behalf on the industry.

“SIIA is a well established organization, whose mission of addressing software and content industry issues provides an excellent forum for continued dialog on software as a service,” said Mr. Jurkowski. “I am excited to be part of the association leadership, and plan to help drive pragmatic discussions and solutions with fellow members.”

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LOS GATOS, Calif., June 28, 2005 — Intacct Corporation, the leading provider of on-demand ERP, today announced close collaboration with IBM to develop a new integration service to connect applications using IBM WebSphere Business Integration infrastructure to Intacct’s ERP On Demand suite. The WebSphere-based software adapter, which both IBM and Intacct will promote, automates real-time workflows between Intacct’s Web-based ERP suite and standalone systems, such as e-commerce, manufacturing and workforce optimization.

This powerful integration service benefits from IBM industry leading strength in helping customers use WebSphere software as the foundation of service-oriented architecture, a standard-based approach to transform to On Demand businesses that integrate data across the enterprise, and externally with customers, partners and suppliers as well as link business and IT to drive down cost and create new opportunities for growth.

Intacct delivers financial, supply chain, professional services automation and business analytics software as a service to midsize and large corporations for a monthly subscription fee. Dozens of software companies partner with Intacct to enhance ERP On Demand with best-of-breed functionalities, such as PLM, CRM, HR and payroll. The WebSphere-based software adapter lets users quickly, easily and securely create integrated processes that exchange information between both Web-native and premise-based enterprise software.

Intacct recently launched revolutionary customization and integration services to elevate its ERP suite to a strategic platform for customers to build end-to-end business applications. With CustomERP and ConnectERP, companies no longer require programming resources for the ERP system to “talk” to external legacy and Web-based applications. The software adapter, available in the fourth quarter of 2005, will be a component of Intacct’s ConnectERP integration service.

“IBM is focused on enabling our customers to become On Demand businesses — able to integrate business processes and quickly react to market opportunities,” said Buell Duncan, general manager, ISV and Developer Relations, IBM. “The power and flexibility of WebSphere Business Integration combined with Intacct’s comprehensive ERP functionality provide customers with the flexible IT infrastructure required to transform themselves into On Demand businesses.”

“Customers are frustrated with the limitations of one-size-fit-all solutions, which require industry-specific business processes to be tailored around generic software systems,” said Robert J. Jurkowski, CEO and president of Intacct. “Working closely with IBM, Intacct enables the Federated Ecosystem, where companies can bundle the enterprise applications they need to run successful businesses. Bridging the gap between our Web-native applications and traditional software expands Intacct’s partner network into larger markets.”

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