Comshare and Informix Partner to Resell Ardent DataStage and Comshare Products Companies to deliver greater market appeal for ERP customers Phoenix, Arizona, September 13, 2000 -- Comshare® Inc. (Nasdaq: CSRE), the leader in Web-based software applications for management planning and control (MPC), announced today at its 18th Annual Users Conference in Phoenix, Ariz., that it has entered into a partnership with Informix Software, the technology leader in software infrastructure for the i.Economy. Comshare is the leader in Web-based solutions for management planning and control (MPC), which comprises planning, budgeting, financial data consolidation, reporting and analysis. Under terms of the agreement, Comshare will resell Informix’s Ardent DataStage, a data transformation and integration solution supporting e-business, data warehousing, enterprise portal, and business intelligence applications. Comshare will offer DataStage when selling Comshare MPC™ for relational databases, Comshare Decision™, Comshare FDC™, or as an add-on sale into the customer base. Comshare customers can use DataStage to compress the application development cycle, so they can be up and running in less time and minimize the impact on other critical projects. We selected DataStage primarily because it would provide Comshare customers with direct data access to SAP R/3 and PeopleSoft enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems using meta data and native application programming interfaces,” said David King, Comshare senior vice president of product development and chief technology officer. “We did an evaluation of many possible partners and decided that Informix provided the best combination of strategic relationship and product function.” By combining Ardent DataStage with Comshare’s MPC solutions, customers have a comprehensive solution that enables them to easily access data and make more informed business decisions,” said Pete Fiore, senior vice president, Business Solutions Operations, Informix. “Our partnership with Comshare will provide customers with the kind of leading-edge ERP integration and analysis they want to fully leverage their business intelligence infrastructures.” About Ardent DataStage Ardent DataStage provides the enterprise business intelligence infrastructure for more than 1,200 of the world’s leading companies—enabling them to turn corporate data into competitive advantage. Companies such as Choice Hotels rely on Ardent DataStage’s powerful data integration capabilities to extract, transform and integrate enterprise data into their data warehouses, analytical applications, and eBusiness solutions. Ardent DataStage uniquely addresses enterprise-level business intelligence requirements, including: native support for Web-based, mainframe, relational and ERP data; enterprise-wide business intelligence meta data management; integrated data quality assessment and cleansing; and enterprise-class performance and scalability. About Informix Informix Software is the technology leader in software infrastructure and solutions for the Internet. Informix brings a focused set of products and services that integrate e-business and business intelligence on an Internet infrastructure. The Company’s highly scalable database engines, in addition to its business intelligence, content management and e-commerce solutions, enable customers to succeed in the new economy. For more information, contact the nearest sales office or visit the Web site at www.informix.com. About Comshare Comshare Inc. is the leading provider of e-business software applications for management planning and control (MPC), which comprises planning, budgeting, financial consolidation, management reporting and analysis. Comshare’s MPC applications deliver business-critical information over the Web that can be used to make sound planning and management decisions. In business for nearly 35 years, Comshare is one of the top independent software companies, with customers around the world, many of which are Fortune 500 and Financial Times Top 1000 companies. Comshare is a Microsoft Data Warehousing Alliance Partner, an IBM Business Partner, an Oracle Business Alliance Partner, a mySAP.com Software Partner, and a Hyperion Alliance Partner. For more information on Comshare, call 1-800-922-7979, send e-mail to info@comshare.com or visit Comshare’s Web site at www.comshare.com. CONTACTS: Pete Smudde Comshare 734-769-8742 psmudde@comshare.com Paul Collins Informix Software 508-366-3888 paul.collins@informix.com Comshare® is a registered trademark of Comshare Inc. Comshare MPC™, Comshare Decision™and Comshare FDC™ are trademarks of Comshare Inc. All other trademarks are the property of their respective holders.