KIRKLAND, WASH. and INDIANAPOLIS, November 16, 2006—Intuitive Manufacturing Systems (Intuitive), a leading provider of enterprise resource planning (ERP) software for discrete mid-market manufacturers and a business unit of M2M Holdings Inc., today announced the achievement of several milestones since being acquired in July, including an increase in the quantity and size of new system sales.

According to Scott Malia, general manager of the Made2Manage-Intuitive business unit, Intuitive’s May 2006 release of Intuitive ERP 8.0—the first and only full-function, integrated, discrete ERP solution built with pure Microsoft .NET-managed technology—is the catalyst for the recent uptick in sales. “Version 8.0 (v8.0) is the culmination of a complete redesign of the Intuitive ERP product using .NET-managed technology,” he said. “With the v8.0 product, all major manufacturing and distribution processes have been converted to Intuitive’s exclusive .NET-managed architecture. This value proposition is attracting larger, technology-driven companies and minimizing pricing issues.”

Indeed, after v8.0 hit the market, Intuitive’s second-quarter software sales were more than 50 percent larger than first-quarter sales, and third-quarter software sales were nearly 20 percent higher than second-quarter sales. Intuitive’s sales executives report their success is due in part to an overall higher average number of seats per deal compared to historical data.

“By using .NET-managed code, Intuitive is able to offer its customers advantages that other ERP packages using .NET wrappers around legacy code cannot,” said Malia. “Although these vendors are able to expose their customers to .NET tools, they are still burdened with spending resources and dollars on developing and supporting their third-party legacy code. With a .NET-managed system in place, we are now a more efficient vendor, which translates into value for our customers. Our customers see better performance and faster, higher-quality development.”

While Intuitive enjoys the inflow of new business, existing customers are already seeing the fruits of the recent Made2Manage-Intuitive merger. On November 1, Intuitive rolled out a new Web site for all customers called Intuitive Expert. Intuitive Expert features user resources and training/support tools modeled after M2M Expert, M2M Holdings’ premier customer portal and three-time winner of the Association of Support Professional’s “Top Ten Best Web Support Sites” award.

“Intuitive is moving forward at full speed as a sister product line to Made2Manage. We review on a daily basis how to implement best practices from both businesses in order to improve the value we offer to our customers,” said Malia.

Thomas Duff, president of Granite Power and one of several new customers to go live on v8.0 since the acquisition, said, “We’ve had a great experience working with Intuitive. Our transition to live operations was very smooth, and our parent company is pleased that we are getting the expected results from the project. They’re already planning to implement Intuitive ERP in five other divisions of the business.”

Intuitive ERP Version 8.0 Availability and Demonstrations

Live demonstrations of the Intuitive ERP 8.0 product are available at bi-monthly webcasts. Event registration is available on the Intuitive Web site at www.intuitivemfg.com.