Effigent Announces the PowerEasy ERP Enterprise Solution for Mac OS X Tiger

SAN JOSE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 29, 2005--Effigent Inc., a leading
Enterprise Resource Planning solutions company, today announced the
availability of its POWEREASY ERP ENTERPRISE product for Mac OS X v10.4
Tiger. The PowerEasy solution enables small and medium sized companies to
manage all key business operations in a single, integrated system which
includes accounting, sales order management and fulfillment, inventory
management, purchase order management and e-commerce. The solution is built
on the secure and reliable foundation of Mac OS X and supports the
heterogeneous IT environments of small and medium businesses.

"Effigent continues to remain at the forefront of providing leading
enterprise class business solutions on the Mac platform for small to medium
size businesses," said Obul Kambham, CEO of Effigent, Inc. "Mac OS X Tiger
allows us to provide the powerful functionality of high end systems while
keeping it easy to use and easy to maintain."

"Breakthrough Mac OS X Tiger features like Spotlight, Automator and
Dashboard will change the way people use their computers," said Ron
Okomoto, Apple's Vice President of Worldwide Developer Relations. "We're
excited to see Effigent utilize Tiger innovation to provide a powerful
accounting and business solution for the enterprise market."

Some of the new features in the PowerEasy solution, that will be available
with the Tiger release, are:

-- Dashboard with customized widgets. With a single click, key decision
makers in a company will have instant access to real-time information. For
instance, managers will be able to quickly get key sales, financial,
inventory and other relevant data quickly without running complex queries
and reports.

-- Using Spotlight, fast searching of business documents and reports (sales
orders, purchase orders, invoices, customer reports etc.)

-- Provide powerful and seamless remote application monitoring capabilities
using Automator technologies.

Pricing and Availability

The new features in PowerEasy will be available in June 2005. For all
pricing information, please Effigent

Effigent Inc. is a privately held software company with its principal
offices in San Jose, California. It specializes in delivering powerful,
easy-to-use, enterprise-class applications leveraging Apple technologies to
small and medium size businesses. Additional information on Effigent Inc.
can be obtained from the website, http://www.effigent.com/.