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27 July 2001, Hampton, NH (USA) - Lilly Software today announced its spot on the Software 500, Software Magazine's list of the world's foremost software and services providers, featured in the publication's June/July 2001 issue. Lilly Software was ranked 258 with software revenue of 40 million dollars.

"Despite all the dot-com casualties, the Internet continues to change the way we do business and software plays a critical role," says John Desmond, Software Magazine's editorial director. "The CIOs, senior IT, and e-business managers who read Software Magazine value this yearly benchmark of the standing of their product and service partners. Each year as suppliers consolidate and new markets emerge, the composition of the Software 500 ranking reflects those changes."

Software Magazine's annual compendium of software and services suppliers catalogs the ranking, financial performance and growth, and primary business sector for each company, as well as trend information for the Software 500 as a whole. The Software 500 is a comprehensive look at the enterprise software landscape, encompassing both public and private companies that develop business software and services. The ranking is based on a total worldwide software and services revenue for 2000. Suppliers are not ranked on their total corporate revenue, since many have other lines of business. Software revenue includes license fees, as well as maintenance and support revenue, professional services/consulting, and custom programming. The financial information is based on the calendar year and was gathered from Software Magazine's vendor survey, public documents, and industry analysts.

"Lilly Software offers integrated business systems designed to address the needs of manufacturers and distributors," says Scott Rich, Vice President, Marketing, Lilly Software Associates. "As business trends emerge and evolve, Lilly Software creates and incorporates applications into the VISUAL product line, such as e-business and CRM applications, that ensure our customers have the tools to meet the demands of their marketplace. Our presence in the Software 500 honors Lilly's continued growth and recognizes our success at delivering effective VISUAL solutions to more and more customers."

A complete list of their year's Software 500 financial ranking and alphabetical list can be found at www.softwaremag.com. This year, registered users can search and sort the entire list by primary business category.

About Lilly Software Associates

Lilly Software Associates, Inc. provides a complete line of enterprise and supply chain solutions for manufacturers and distributors. The VISUAL Enterprise™ suite of products helps companies capture and analyze real-time data about all their business processes using ERP, Project Management, Business Performance Management, Quality Management, Customer Relationship Management, and Warehouse Management System capabilities. From award-winning software to strategies in Lean Manufacturing and TOC, Lilly Software offers companies the tools they need for higher productivity and profitability.

Most VISUAL^® applications run on Windows^® 98, Windows NT, Windows 2000, Windows XP, UNIX^®, LINUX, Novell^®, using SQLBase^®, Microsoft SQL Server^®, or ORACLE^® relational databases.

Lilly Software has received many industry awards for its products, service, and financial growth since its inception. Most recently, the company has been voted one of the Top 10 Best of Breed solutions for manufacturing by readers of Consumer Goods Technology, listed in Software Magazine's Top 500, selected as a Top 100 Logistics Information Technology Provider in Inbound Logistics, listed in the Top 100 Application Vendors in Supply Chain e-Business, included in MSI's Top 100 for its eighth year, and ranked as one of Start magazine's Hottest Companies.