eBreviate Expands eSourcing Suite with Release of Three New Products

Supplier Search Tool, Supply Market Solutions and eBreviate Academy Provide Knowledge to Purchasing Teams

WALNUT CREEK, California (March 13, 2001) eBreviate, an EDS company offering the market-leading suite of eSourcing tools, technologies and services, today announced the release of three new products designed to help purchasing team members become more skilled and productive by enhancing their knowledge base. The new products significantly expand the already strong eSourcing suite offered by eBreviate.

Supply Market Solutions is a new offering that facilitates and speeds the process of gaining knowledge to help develop sourcing strategies for both product and service categories, through the use of Category Analyses and category specific RFI, RFP and Auction templates.

Supplier Search is a unique supplier identification tool that accelerates the corporate eSourcing process of finding and negotiating with suppliers over the Internet.

eBreviate Academy offers both web-based and live training for purchasing professionals, with modules for self-directed learning as well as on-site auction building.

"eBreviate's new products deliver results for procurement professionals by helping them sustain and reuse content over time", said Sarah Pfaff, executive vice president of sales, marketing and strategy at eBreviate. "We're providing experts with the productivity tools they tell us they need."

Each new product is further described in respective press releases.

Supplier Search, Supply Market Solutions and eBreviate Academy are the newest additions to eBreviate's full suite of eSourcing tools and technologies that include Internet Negotiations (downward and upward auctions), RFPs and Sourcing Surveys, Sourcing Management Technologies, and Value Added Services.

About eBreviate
eBreviate, an EDS company, combines leading-edge technology with market-driven content and in-field services to deliver the best eSourcing solutions to global businesses, governments and net markets. Located in Walnut Creek, California, with regional offices in Plano, Texas and London,
England, eBreviate enables purchasing organizations to become razor sharp and rigorous in what they buy, from whom they buy and under what commercial terms. eBreviate's integrated and automated eSourcing tools take out time, cost, and inefficiency from the procurement cycle. This automation brings greater productivity and accountability to purchasing, while optimizing the way buyers and suppliers qualify, negotiate, and evaluate their business relationships. eBreviate can be
found online at www.ebreviate.com.

About EDS
EDS, the leading global services company, provides strategy, implementation and hosting for clients managing the business and technology complexities of the digital economy. EDS brings together the world's best technologies to address critical client business imperatives. It helps clients eliminate boundaries, collaborate in new ways, establish their customers' trust and continuously seek improvement. EDS, with its management consulting subsidiary, A.T. Kearney, serves the world's leading companies and governments in 55 countries. EDS reported revenues of $19.2 billion in 2000. The company's stock is traded on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE: EDS) and the London
Stock Exchange. EDS can be found online at www.eds.com.

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