SOFTWARE AG and ERTL Win DB/EXPO `95 RealWare Award

RESTON, Va., May 16, 1995 -- Software AG, a leading provider of data
warehouse solutions, announced it recently won a DB/EXPO `95 RealWare
Award in collaboration with The ERTL Company, Inc. The RealWare Awards
recognize excellence in IT solutions for innovative use of technology,
efficient use of resources, and delivery of measurable results to the
user. Software AG and ERTL won for their entry in the category, "Data
Warehousing to Provide New Business Opportunities."

A data warehouse enabled the ERTL Company, an international toy
manufacturer with worldwide sales of over $220 million, to improve their
competitive position by providing users with easy access to the up-to-date
market information needed to make informed business decisions. This
information has opened up new markets for the company by enabling it to
make decisions based on timely, detailed market data, critical to success
in any business, but especially in the dynamic toy industry.

"This award won by ERTL and Software AG, clearly recognizes that Software
AG is one of the market leaders in implementing highly successful data
warehouse solutions that improve a company's competitive position," said
Michele Perry, general manager of the Data Warehousing Division at
Software AG. "Software AG has a long history of partnering with customers
for mutual benefit, and we are very proud to be a part of ERTL's continued
success."

ERTL needed an IT infrastructure that would allow the company to respond
quickly to the demands of the marketplace. They wanted a worldwide
client/server environment to access market data tracked by corporate
headquarters. ERTL built a full production data warehouse using Software
AG's ADABAS database and NATURAL application development tools. PC users
gain access to the database through Software AG's ADABAS SQL Server. Users
are able to query the database with Software AG's ESPERANT SQL Query and
Reporting Tool and NATURAL-based applications.

"By reengineering our approach to information we can ensure that ERTL
delivers new products the customers want, when they want them, while still
keeping a keen eye on the bottomline," said Bill Bruttaniti, director of
information systems technology at The ERTL Company.

Software AG is the first major software vendor to offer an open,
comprehensive data warehouse program that includes a complete set of
integrated products and services. The Open Data Warehouse Program offers
developers a choice of off-the-shelf, custom, and semi-custom integrated
products and service components to build a high quality data warehouse at
a lower cost and with less risk than if the developer were to purchase the
products separately and do the integration in-house.

Today, Software AG's Open Data Warehouse Program products include: NATURAL
Engineering Workbench for data modeling; Passport for data extraction;
ENTIRE for data transfer; SourcePoint for administration and maintenance
of the data warehouse; ESPERANT, for end-user queries; ESPERANT MetaLinc
for Carleton for meta-data access; NETMAP for data mining; DSS Agent for
easy access to multidimensional analysis of information stored in data
warehouses, and a complete range of services, training and coaching for
end-users and implementors.

Software AG, with primary locations in Reston, Virginia and Darmstadt,
Germany, is one of the largest independent software firms in the world.
The company develops and markets open, multi-platform product solutions
and programs including: ENTIRE for developing and deploying distributed
computing solutions, NATURAL for application engineering, ESPERANT, a
state-of-the-art SQL query and reporting tool, ADABAS for database
management, and the Open Data Warehouse Program.

Founded in 1969, Software AG has customers in over 80 countries, and
reported revenues of $510 million (U.S.) dollars in 1993.

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