PRESS RELEASE

General Motors ventures forth
with a global software solution

General Motors in Detroit, U.S.A., has signed a corporate agreement with Scala, a business management software solution, and will implement the system in many of their new overseas ventures. The financial modules have already been installed in GM´s new ventures in Poland and China.

GM-Detroit selected Scala as the most cost-effective way to standardize numerous ventures around the world. According to John Ostrowski, staff information manager for GM-Detroit´s controller´s staff, "Scala´s multi-language and multi-currency features made it easy for me to sit down with a new venture in a completely foreign country and implement the system almost immediately. This saved us significant time and costs, and got everyone up and running right away."

Standardized versions and local support
GM-Detroit´s decision is indicative of the growing trend for international companies to implement business management software which provides standardized versions and local support. Scala i "very robust", according to Ostrowski, and has "proven effective for GM´s new ventures, providing not only uniform accounting, but a guaranteed process, which is very important from a comptrolers´s point of view. We found that the system lives up to everything it was advertised to be."
Mr. Per-Olof Myrén, CEO and president of the Scala Group, is equally pleased with GM´s decisions: "For some years we have had a fruitful relationship with GM within the Pacific Rim. I see it as both a challenge and a recognition of the international capabilities of Scala and the group that we are now able to expand this to a global relationship."

Company information:
Scala is an integrated, international software solution for global business. The system supports more than thirty languages and unlimited currencies. The suite of integrated financial, inventory, manufacturing and service software has been recognized as one of the world´s most successful software systems for local and global business management. The company is represented in over 57 countries worlwide. There are approximately 14.000 installations across the globe, including companies as ABB, Alfa Laval, Electrolux, Nokia, Dell Computer, Canon inc, Ernst & Young, Nikon, Philip Morris, RJ Reynolds, and Pepsi Foods International, General Food and General Motors.

For further information please contact:
Alex DuBrow, Director of Marketing
Scala USA
Phone: +1 407 331 7493
or
Carl Daniel Norenberg, Director of Marketing and Public Relations
Scala Group Headoffice, Sweden
Phone: +46 8 601 08 00