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Increase Employee Productivity & Business Results with Activant Portal Designer Solution

"Activant developed the Activant Portal Designer product to help distributors keep on top of the daily changes that can affect key performance indicators," said Kevin Roach, executive vice president and general manager of Activant's wholesale distribution business. "The Activant Portal Designer software gives Prophet 21 system users the extensibility to design the specific, real-time views of data that the user considers most relevant to his or her role within the business.

"Beyond access to the data within the system, the Activant Portal Designer software also allows users to incorporate third party applications, further expanding their portal views and system capability," added Roach. "All of this gives users actionable information, readily viewed on their computer screen for quicker business responses and more streamlined processes."

Portals for access to business information can be assigned to users and inserted into the existing Prophet 21 infrastructure. For example, wholesale distributors can provide sales managers with insight into the opportunities set to close in the next 60 days or purchasing agents with a view into all open purchase orders where they are the buyer. The options are as numerous as the data and tables within the Prophet 21 database.

"The Activant Portal Designer software adds a new level of flexibility to our processes," said Tom Silva, sales manager at EA Buschmann, Inc., a distributor in Lewiston, ME. "We created views for our users that give them access to data that allows them to be more efficient and productive."

With our Activant Portal Designer solution, users can do such things as: drill down through portal views into individual transactions, gain quick access to ancillary documents, applications, and Web sites, select an option to obtain tracking information for shipments, and much more. Users can set up as many portal views as needed to constantly monitor important elements of their business and measure key performance indicators (KPIs).

In addition to immediate access to key data, the Activant Portal Designer solution allows users to augment portal reports and views by adding options that are not typically standard using a report writer. Among its many extended capabilities, the Activant Portal Designer solution can also provide access to external applications from within the Prophet 21 system. Additionally, users can access information to do such things as allowing a sales manager to indicate that a sales rep is out sick for the day in order to view and reassign his required daily tasks to another rep for follow up. Users can also conditionally set buttons to appear next to their production orders if a drawing or document is attached to the transaction so they can quickly access that pertinent detail.

"Our Activant Portal Designer solution is part of Activant's continuing effort to offer extensibility to distributors," concluded Roach. "The more access distributors have to the data that's most important to them, the more effective they can be in today's economy where every competitive advantage puts that much closer to success."

About Activant Solutions Inc.

Activant Solutions Inc. ("Activant") is a leading technology provider of business management solutions serving retail and wholesale distribution businesses in three primary vertical markets: hardlines and lumber; wholesale distribution; and the automotive parts aftermarket. Founded in 1972, Activant provides customers with tailored proprietary software, professional services, content, supply chain connectivity, and analytics. More than 30,000 customer locations use an Activant solution to manage their day-to-day operations. Activant has operations throughout the United States and Canada, Ireland, and the United Kingdom.

For more information, please visit distribution.activant.com.

This announcement relating to Activant may contain statements that are forward looking within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995, as amended, such as statements concerning trends, future technology or products, or Activant's execution. These statements are based on current expectations and are subject to risks and uncertainties which could materially affect the company's results, including, without limitation, market demand for products and technology, the company's ability to meet that market demand, the integration of Activant's technology and products with technology and products supplied by others, the integration of Activant's products into the businesses of its customers, customer acceptance of Activant's products, and the retention and deployment of skilled Activant service providers. Except to the extent required by applicable securities laws, we undertake no obligation to update or publicly revise any of the forward-looking statements. Please refer to our most recently filed Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the fiscal quarter ended December 31, 2009, filed with the Securities Exchange Commission ("SEC" ) on February 12, 2010, and our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the period ended September 30, 2009, both of which can be found through the Activant investor relations website at www.activant.com/company/investors for a full discussion of the risks and other factors.

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