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YARDLEY, PA, November 14, 2007 -- Activant Solutions Inc. today announced the release of Activant Prophet 21™ Small Business Edition (SBE), a fully hosted enterprise software solution designed specifically for distributors with fewer than five employees.

"We saw the need for a distribution-specific product for small niche distributors, companies just starting out, or those looking to upgrade from products not geared towards wholesale distribution," said Steve McLaughlin, senior vice president and general manager of Activant®. "We took the technology platform that more than 1,200 successful distributors rely upon and scaled it to fit the needs of smaller distributors. In this way, Prophet 21 SBE provides small-scale distributors with the advantages of a leading distribution ERP solution and ERP provider at a fraction of the cost."

Becki Charchenko, owner of start-up company Team Packaging, sees the benefits of using Prophet 21 technology from the beginning: "Even though we started with nothing, we wanted to put a solution in place that could handle $25 million in revenue and beyond. We didn't want to start with one solution and have to change over a few years later."

Full Range of Features

Prophet 21 SBE includes the following core functionality:

• Order processing
• Accounts payable
• Accounts receivable
• Commissions
• Contact management
• General ledger
• Inventory
• Purchasing
• System setup and administration

In addition, distributors have access to management summaries to proactively keep their business running smoothly, and maintain high levels of profitability.

With Prophet 21 SBE, distributors can set alerts to notify them when margins drop below a point they specify or when a customer's days outstanding reaches a critical point. Other features allow for the reconciliation of bank statements, calculation of landed costs, acceptance of foreign currency, setting tasks, and much more.

Expand to Fit Individual Distributor's Needs

Distributors can expand the functionality of Prophet 21 SBE with the optional integrated forms and fax packages. The integrated forms package allows distributors to customize standard business forms, such as invoices and pick tickets, saving expensive printing costs. With the integrated fax package, distributors can fax invoices directly to customers to speed accounts receivable days.

Best of all, Prophet 21 SBE doesn't require vast in-house technical expertise, or expensive hardware investments, allowing distributors to maintain higher free cash flow levels to expand and grow their businesses. SBE is available as an on demand service; allowing distributors to focus on their core business as opposed to maintaining database and application servers.

Because it is built using Activant Prophet 21 technology, Prophet 21 SBE can grow with a distributor. When a company is ready for the next level of feature functionality, it can easily migrate to Prophet 21 Enterprise.

Pricing and Availability

Activant Prophet 21 Small Business Edition is now available. For more information, contact Activant at 1-800-776-7438, visit http://distribution.activant.com, or e-mail distribution@activant.com.

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