MAS Consulting Adds WTTW to Existing Media and Entertainment Client Portfolio

CHICAGO, IL, May 15, 2002 - MAS Consulting, a Microsoft Certified Solutions Provider and the largest Microsoft Business Solutions reseller in the Midwest welcomes Chicago’s Window to the World Communication (WTTW) into the MAS Consulting family. Headquartered in Chicago, MAS has provided information technology integration services to well known Chicago media and entertainment organizations including Harpo Studios, Ravinia Festival, Jam TV, and The Chicago Reader.

WTTW is a local television station in Chicago that needed a reliable, flexible, easy to maintain, and intricate accounting system. WTTW selected MAS Consulting to implement a Microsoft Business Solution using Microsoft Great Plains Solomon. The new system will seamlessly integrate general ledger and reporting functionality into WTTW’s legacy back end systems.

MAS Consulting has a longstanding, 15-year relationship with Great Plains and has successfully deployed over 200 Great Plains Business Solutions. Some of the vertical markets they have served include manufacturing, distribution, food service, financial and transportation. They have committed their marketing and consulting staff to provide and support Computer Telephony and Microsoft Business Solutions including Great Plains eEnterprise, Dynamics, Solomon IV, and coming soon Microsoft CRM.

About MAS Consulting
Founded in 1987, MAS Consulting is an established, single-source Technology and eBusiness Consulting firm that partners with companies that are clear leaders in providing Front Office and Back Office solutions for emerging mid-market businesses. MAS Consulting has performed consulting services for over five hundred mid-market companies throughout the Midwest. Based in downtown Chicago, MAS Consulting has cultivated an exceptionally strong client base, including Fortune 1000 clients, by providing unique leading edge solutions. In addition, MAS Consulting is recognized as the leading Great Plains Solomon Partner and Professional Services Consulting Firm in the Midwest over the last decade. For more information, visit www.mcas.com.

About Microsoft Great Plains Solomon
Microsoft Great Plains Solomon offers e-business solutions that interconnect business communities. These e-business solutions automate processes among financials, distribution, enterprise reporting, project accounting, electronic commerce, human resource management, manufacturing, sales and marketing management and customer service and support functions. Great Plains’ solutions are sold and implemented by a unique worldwide network of independent partner organizations that share the company’s commitment to lasting customer relationships. Named four times to the "Top 100 Companies to Work for in America" list, Great Plains has more than 2,000 team members worldwide. More information about Great Plains can be found at www.greatplains.com. In addition, in May of 2000, Great Plains strengthened their e-business solutions offerings with the acquisition of Solomon Software. Solomon Software is the developer of the award-winning Solomon IV product family for small and mid-sized organizations and includes e-business applications for financials, project accounting, distribution, service management and manufacturing. Solomon applications are optimized exclusively for small and mid-sized businesses leveraging Microsoft technologies and platforms including Microsoft Windows 2000, SQL Server 2000 and Visual Basic. Solomon currently operates as a Great Plains Business Unit with future product collaboration well underway.

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