PRIMAVERA SYSTEMS ANNOUNCES PRIMAVERA PROJECT PLANNER FOR WINDOWS

BALA CYNWYD, Penn., May 17, 1993 -- Primavera Systems, Inc. today announced
Primavera Project Planner for Windows, a comprehensive project management
software package. The product is now in beta testing and will be available
in the third quarter of 1993. Beta test sites include Abbott Labs, AT&T,
Boeing, General Electric, Motorola, SmithKline Beecham, United Airlines,
Walt Disney, Westinghouse, Bechtel, Fluor Daniel and others.

Primavera Project Planner for Windows, optimized for Windows, includes all
of the features in Primavera's high-end DOS project management package,
Primavera Project Planner 5.1, plus the hourly scheduling features of
Primavera's Finest Hour 5.1. The product supports multi-user operations on
the project database with record locking that enables simultaneous
planning, analysis, updating, reporting and graphics. The DOS and Windows
versions of Primavera Project Planner are interoperable providing full
record locking for simultaneous access to the same project data. Primavera
Project Planner for Windows supplies new perspectives on project data to
make it easier for users to understand project performance and to do
what-if analysis.

"Primavera Project Planner for Windows' graphics make it easy for project
managers to explain to clients, managers and customers the status of any
project and what needs to be done," said Joel M. Koppelman, president of
Primavera Systems. "This ability to communicate is facilitated in Windows
without sacrificing any of the analytical and what-if power found in our
DOS products. Very simply, it changes the way you think about managing
projects as well as how you go about planning and controlling them."

Optimization for the Windows Environment: Primavera Project Planner for
Windows allows users to organize project information using work breakdown
structures, collapsible outlining, multi-level indentation using activity
codes, resources and even dates as the structural framework. By switching
quickly among saved layouts, Primavera Project Planner for Windows gives
users the ability to create views of the project from many perspectives.
The product's object orientation lets users attach graphic objects to any
activity so that as the layout is reorganized, the objects move
automatically with the activity.

In each layout, the user can tilter activities and show data simultaneously
in tables, bar charts, histograms and logic diagrams. Activity details of
resources, predecessors and budgets can he modified within any layout.
Multiple schedules can be compared simultaneously to show progress,
targets and slippage. Display parameters are controlled by the user.
Primavera Project Planner for Windows supports matchlined, multi-page
output to all devices including pen plotters using its own high speed
drivers.

Primavera Project Planner for Windows supports data exchange with
cooperating Windows applications. Primavera publishes an exchange format
for this private data type. The product also integrates with other
Primavera products such as Parade, performance measurement; Monte Carlo,
risk analysis; SureTrak Project Scheduler; and Expedition, contract
administration; for expanded project management and control.

Multiproject Scheduling: Primavera Project Planner for Windows also
supports multiproject control, allowing multiple projects to be displayed
on screen simultaneously. This facilitates copy-and-paste among projects
reducing data entry time. Master projects can also contain subprojects.
The product supports unlimited relationships across subprojects for
supporting multi-disciplinary teams. Scheduling, resource leveling and
smoothing can he performed within individual subprojects, or across the
master project. Priority coding helps resolve resource conflicts and
staffing limits.

Reporting: Primavera Project Planner for Windows provides WYSIWYG graphic
output of activity, resource and cost data. Layouts may be customized,
saved and shared among projects. In addition, the product's custom report
writer requires no programming. More than 200 standard reports and
graphics are delivered with the product, which may he run individually or
in user-definable series to expedite production. All reports and graphics
can be saved, stored and previewed in Primavera Project Planner for
Windows' drawing canvas. The Draw feature is a full blown colorful tool
set and canvas for drawing symbols, applying text using fonts, shapes, and
colors, and even applying and attaching clipart to graphics.

Help and Tutorials: Animated tutorials guide users through common sequences
for drawing relationships, adding activities and other fundamentals. The
context sensitive help offered contains colorful examples of reports,
layouts and calculations. Help contains a glossary and the documentation
contains a project management handbook as a ready reference to underlying
concepts.

The product requires a Windows-capable PC with 486 processor, 8MB of RAM,
MS-DOS 5.0 (or greater). LAN support for the product includes Netware,
Vines, Lantastic, LAN Manager, Pathworks, Token Ring and PC-NFS. Primavera
Project Planner for Windows supports Btrieve NLM for client-server
environments. Primavera Project Planner for Windows also supports direct
links to Oracle.

Primavera Project Planner for Windows is priced at $4,000. The price
includes a full year of technical hotline support, Primavera's technical
newsletter, updates and enhancements, as well as full documentation.
Primavera Project Planner and Finest Hour users under current maintenance
contract will automatically receive Primavera Project Planner for Windows
free of charge.

Primavera Systems, Inc. is the leading high-end project management software
vendor and provides a complete range of software for planning, organizing,
controlling, and coordinating projects. Other project management software
products include Primavera Project Planner for DOS, Finest Hour, Monte
Carlo, Expedition, Parade, SureTrak Project Scheduler and Executive
Summary Presentation. Primavera was listed 40th on the 1993 listing of the
Soft*Letter 100.

Primavera, Two Bala Plaza, Bala Cynwyd, PA 19004
(215) 667-8600;   FAX: (215) 667-7894

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