Silvon Software Captures Product Excellence Award
for Sales/Marketing Business Intelligence Solution

Westmont, Il.--March. 7, 1998--During the Spring COMMON conference and exhibition held in San Francisco, CA, Silvon Software was presented the AS/400 SHOWCASE Product Excellence Award for its SalesTracker application.

Voted Best Product in the Sales & Marketing category, SalesTracker is a leading business intelligence solution driven by Silvon’s DataTracker application foundation. The DataTracker application foundation features state-of-the-art data warehousing technology to store and maintain large volumes of data in an efficient, highly scalable format for enterprise-wide access, navigation and OLAP analysis by business users and decision makers.

"Silvon is dedicated to providing the most robust and functionally rich data warehousing and business intelligence solutions possible to organizations that need to better assess and manage the performance of their business," said Mike Hennel, Silvon’s president and CEO. "It is with great honor that we accept this prestigious award as it reflects the opinions and judgments of the companies and customers we serve."

SalesTracker was one of 45 software and hardware products honored with the Product Excellence award based on an online voting process open to 50,000 registered subscribers of AS/400 Technology SHOWCASE magazine. This marks the third consecutive year in which SalesTracker has captured top honors in the awards program since it was launched in 1997.

About Silvon Software

Silvon Software is a global supply chain-focused business intelligence solutions provider headquartered in the western Chicago suburb of Westmont, Illinois. Since 1987, Silvon has focused on software-based business optimization solutions for Supply Chain manufacturing, wholesale distribution and retail organizations. Silvon solutions are predicated on the fact that better business understanding will empower the move toward an optimized Supply Chain organization. Silvon clients benefit from improving business practices and profitability by leveraging analytic information on customer, supplier, and operational profitability measurement. SalesTracker and other Silvon DataTracker applications are currently installed in more than 1,000 sites worldwide and supported by a network of OEMs, value-added resellers and independent distributors.