DM2 SOFTWARE’S NEW ‘EQUIPMENT MANAGER’ MODULE MONITORS CUSTOMER AGREEMENTS ON LOANED EQUIPMENT

VANCOUVER WA, September 18, 2003: DM2 Software’s new Equipment Manager module automatically monitors and reports on customer agreements for loaned equipment, enabling petroleum distributors to quickly gauge the profitability of individual pieces of equipment and assess whether customer agreements are being fulfilled.

Equipment Manager uses contracted volumes and other measures to evaluate profitability of equipment (i.e., tanks, pumps, meters, etc.) and performance of the individual agreements that cover them. The user can create performance reports immediately after setting up serialized equipment and individual customer agreements in Equipment Manager.

Equipment Manager automatically updates customer agreements—with quantities and dollar amounts—as sales order information is entered into the distributor’s Sales Order software. The user can view historical transaction history, including date, agreement number, customer, type of transaction (equipment installation or removal, product sales, etc.) and other variables. It also provides a list of agreements that will expire within a given date range.

Equipment Manager is completely integrated with and offers the popular, easy-to-use use features of MAS 90 and MAS 200 Sales Order, Inventory Management and Accounts Receivable modules from BEST Software of Irvine CA. Equipment Manager runs on Microsoft’s Windows 98, ME, XP and 2000 operating systems.

“Timely, accurate monitoring of loaned equipment is a key to profitability of customer agreements,” said Carl Dalton, DM2’s vice president of sales. “Equipment Manager helps petroleum distributors obtain the information they need to help ensure that profitability.”

For more information about DM2 Software’s Equipment Manager module, contact DM2 Software at 800-866-5151, info@dm2.com.

ABOUT SAGE SOFTWARE
Sage Software offers leading business management products and services that give more than 2.3 million small and mid-sized customers in North America the insight for success throughout the lives of their businesses. Its parent company, The Sage Group plc (London: SGE.L), supports 4.3 million customers worldwide. For more than 25 years, Sage Software has delivered easy-to-use, scalable and customizable applications through its portfolio of leading brands, including Abra, ACCPAC, ACT!, BusinessVision, CPASoftware, FAS, MAS 90, MAS 200, MAS 500, MIP, Peachtree, SalesLogix, Timberline, among many others. For more information, please visit the Web site at http://www.sagesoftware.com/company/

ABOUT DM2 SOFTWARE
Founded in 1989, DM2 Software provides accounting, tax, automated fuel billing and other business management software for more than 300 petroleum, fuel oil, propane and lubricant distributors throughout the United States. DM2's petroleum industry-specific modules include Rack-plus Pricing, Excise Tax Reporting, CardLock Billing, Bill of Lading Processing, and Blending and Repackaging. The company is an authorized reseller of the MAS 90 and MAS 200 accounting software programs from BEST Software Inc., Irvine CA.

DM2's customers enjoy the power of Windows, choices of popular operating systems, and access to "best of breed" reporting tools like Crystal Reports. By focusing its extensive petroleum development knowledge around MAS 90 and MAS 200, DM2 gives its customers a strong petroleum-specific solution within a world-class accounting system.

For more information about DM2 Software and its products, contact:
DM2 Software, Inc.
7700 NE Greenwood Drive
Suite 200
Vancouver, WA 98662
800-866-5151
contactdm2@dm2.com