Conformia Software Announces WinePRO 3.0
'Global Enterprise Edition' of WinePRO to Debut at ASEV in San Diego, CA in June and at AWITC in Melbourne, Australia in July

REDWOOD CITY, CA -- (MARKET WIRE) -- 06/17/2004 -- Conformia Software Inc. today announced the release of WinePRO 3.0, the Global Enterprise Edition of its flagship product, which is the first true web-based, multi-site production and compliance solution designed for and built with the global wine industry.

"WinePRO has established itself as the only modern and web-based system for the entire wine industry ranging from large, multi-site wine corporations to single site wineries," said Joe Prang, Chairman and CEO of Conformia. "With our Global Enterprise Edition, we've delivered on requirements to manage business models ranging from custom crush, to distributed production, to global brand management."

WinePRO 3.0 is based on over 50 person years of extensive research and development into winemaking, production and regulatory best practices. Wine product planning, real-time workflow management, and reporting are all completely integrated and accessible across multiple sites, geographies, and organizational structures. At every step, from vine-to-bottle, WinePRO enables full traceability and cost driven winemaking that provides improved risk management and increased visibility into winery operations.

"Conformia continues to raise the bar on Enterprise software for winery operations management," said Bert Silk, Chairman of the Wine Institute and Conformia Beverage Alcohol Advisor. "WinePRO 3.0 is the first global solution that takes into account winery needs in the United States, Australia, New Zealand, and Europe. One of the many perks to WinePRO is how it really delivers on costing. By utilizing WinePRO, a winemaker can immediately know what their blends will cost and this, in addition to so many other reasons, is why the wine industry will continue to see WinePRO's role and impact on the industry intensify on a global scale."

WinePRO 3.0 enhancements are focused on all segments of its customer base: small and midsize wineries, multi-site global wine corporations, and custom crush facilities. All WinePRO customers currently utilizing version 2.0 will be fully migrated to 3.0.

Highlights of enhanced features in WinePRO 3.0 include:

• Integrated multi-site management and reporting:
  • Inter-winery bulk wine transfer -- Cost, blend composition, analysis, transactions, etc., are transferred seamlessly in real-time.
  • Reporting and consolidated views at multiple levels including products, locations and organizations.
  • Multi-dimensional blend, cost, barrel, and inventory queries across multiple wineries.
• Global blend traceability -- Possible to trace the history of a blend across multiple wineries, regardless of site or country.
• Capability to locate global materials, equipment and inventory across multiple wineries.
• Multi-variable blend planning -- Can now create trial blends which target cost, analytics and composition across multiple wineries.
• Full product cost management -- Capture all blend cost components utilizing configurable and flexible costing models.
• Support for metric and non-metric units of measure throughout.
• Enhanced support for custom crush facilities -- Support for multiple bonds within the same winery, and bond specific US TTB 702 generation.
• Support for other beverage processes -- Amelioration, chapitalization, etc.
• Global regulation support -- US (TTB, Bioterrorism Act, etc), Australia (LIP reporting, Allergen reporting, etc.), Europe (Code of Traceability, etc.).

"Conformia continues to prove its dedication to the wine industry by providing innovative solutions," said Richard Gahagan, Conformia Beverage Alcohol Advisor and former Chief Regulator for the Trade & Tax Bureau, formerly the Federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms (BATF). "The wine industry has experienced increased complexity and traceability requirements, making production planning and near real-time monitoring of the production process of increasing importance. WinePRO delivers on these features and many more."

WinePRO covers the complete winemaking process from harvest through bottling, with solution modules for: work order planning & management, blend management, tank management, barrel management, lab and quality management, cellar management, compliance reporting, bottle-to-vine traceability and costing management. It also covers the full product life cycle from blend planning, through production, and product history management. WinePRO automatically generates real-time business performance reports for a user-defined period based on the activities in the period. These capabilities are just some of the primary appeal to the entire winemaking team and production managers.

"Wineries, regardless of size or location, continuously tell us they would like to see a solution that provides improved risk management, improved productivity, and real-time planning and execution of work orders," said Kam Desai, Product Manager, Beverage Alcohol Solutions for Conformia. "We have taken this valuable feedback and fully integrated the concepts into version 3.0. One instance of WinePRO is now capable of supporting wineries globally with localized terminology and measurements while still providing the ability to consolidate data across the enterprise to evaluate various business drivers."

WinePRO 3.0 will make its debut in the United States at the 55th Annual Meeting for American Society for Enology and Viticulture (ASEV) in San Diego, CA, June 30 - July 2, 2004. It will make its Australia debut at the Australian Wine Industry Trade Exhibition (AWITC) in Melbourne, Australia, July 25 - 28, 2004.

For more information, please visit www.conformia.com or email winepro@conformia.com.

About Conformia Software
Conformia develops and markets Product Conformance Management software solutions, which enable businesses to simultaneously monitor and meet business performance, product composition, and compliance goals. Conformia's web-based enterprise software products enable regulated, process industries to improve product quality and integrity; enhance operational visibility and traceability; and decrease costs and risks associated with non-compliance. The company's initial focus is in the two verticals: beverages (wine, spirits, beer, and juice) and life sciences (biotechnology and pharmaceuticals). The company was founded in July 2000, and is headquartered in Redwood City, CA.

For more information, please visit www.conformia.com.

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Carrie Shields
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Contact: Conformia, 1001 Marshall Street, Suite 550, Redwood City, CA 94063-2000