Suite of Products Offers Performance Management by Streamlining Forecasting, Enhancing Collaboration –

Exceeds Scope of Original Project

NEWARK, N.J. (June 27, 2002) – MIS AG North America, a leading provider of business intelligence and performance management solutions, today discussed details of the successful results 3Com Corporation has had with its MIS DecisionWare product suite. 3Com (NASDAQ:COMS) is a global leader in functionally rich, easy-to-use networking products that connect businesses to their employees, customers and suppliers anytime, anywhere, and is also a leader in Internet protocol (IP) service platforms and access infrastructure for the network service provider.

The division of the 3Com organization that focused on OEM, serving customers such as Dell, IBM, and HP, implemented MIS DecisionWare three years ago in order to streamline the process of tracking and disseminating its forecasting data and to make that data universally accessible. Prior to deploying MIS DecisionWare, the forecasts were being tracked in an Excel spreadsheet. “That was a cumbersome and time-consuming solution,” said Dustin Spangler, business systems analyst at 3Com, “and it also presented another hurdle. In order to drive demand for the product, we needed to go through all the information and put it into SAP for planning purposes. We needed a solution that would automate data extraction. MIS DecisionWare met all of our requirements.”

Spangler says MIS DecisionWare has more than lived up to 3Com’s expectations and that the system has exceeded the original scope of the project – with about 350 users accessing it on a regular basis. “Channel marketing picked up on MIS DecisionWare, as well as the supply chain group and the finance group,” said Spangler. “We have accomplished goals in addition to our original ones, such as using MIS DecisionWare, to drive our long term financial plan and set revenue targets for the next three to five years.” Since implementation, 3Com has added other functionality when calculating cost, and now has a breakdown of its costing data as well as its gross margin data. All of this has been automated through Import Master, which is part of the MIS DecisionWare product suite.

“We are extremely gratified that 3Com has and will continue to maximize the decision support capabilities that DecisionWare has provided,” commented Tony Politano, CEO of MIS AG North America. “With MIS DecisionWare, companies gain a greater ability to analyze and to collaborate. That generates sound business strategies.”

About 3Com Corporation 3Com is a global leader in functionally rich, easy-to-use networking products that connect businesses to their employees, customers and suppliers anytime, anywhere. 3Com is also a leader in Internet protocol (IP) service platforms and access infrastructure for the network service provider market. In 1979, the company was founded by one of the inventors of Ethernet technology on which virtually all local area networks are based. Since then, 3Com has sold more than 360,000,000 Ethernet connections. 3Com has headquarters Santa Clara, California and offices around the world. For further information, please visit www.3com.com , or the press site www.3com.com/pressbox .

About MIS AG North America

MIS AG North America is a leading provider of business intelligence solutions. Through the MIS DecisionWare suite of products, companies are able to utilize their business data to move from reacting to what is happening in their business to understanding why.