HOUSTON, April 17 /PRNewswire/ --

- Acorn Systems launches new pre-packaged cost and profitability
management solutions designed for new clients in Financial Services, Retail,
Manufacturing, Consumer Products, Distribution and Logistics

Acorn Systems, Inc. today announced the launch of several new, highly
targeted applications in the form of Acorn Industry Value Accelerators. The
solutions enable new Acorn clients to leverage pre-packaged, best practices
to realize bottom line profit improvements in an accelerated timeframe.
Acorn's suite of Industry Value Accelerators is available for its core
industries: Financial Services, Retail, Manufacturing, Consumer Products,
Distribution and Logistics.

Each Acorn Industry Value Accelerator (Acorn IVA) incorporates Acorn's
wealth of knowledge and best practices in enterprise performance measurement,
costing, and profitability modeling and optimization. The Acorn IVAs feature:

-- Pre-defined data fields and data dictionaries for required
       source-system data
    -- Pre-defined costing and profitability models, including business
       processes, activities, dimensions and object structures, and modeling
       logic
    -- Pre-defined reporting and analytics
    -- Pre-defined profit improvement roadmaps and blueprints

"For a company in one of these industry verticals who is interested in
implementing a costing or profitability solution, the 'silver bullet' of
accelerated profit and performance improvement is here," said Chris Fraga,
Chief Strategy Officer of Acorn Systems. "With any of our traditional
software competitors, you are essentially buying software that requires
quarters to man-years of internal resources, consulting services and brute
force to build, customize and implement a system for your specific needs.
Imagine the advantage of investing in software that is pre-populated with
proven best practices from the start. Pre-defined data dictionaries, a
pre-configured business process model and pre-built reporting and analytics
greatly reduce the time to implement so the solution can be used for its
intended purpose -- meaningful analysis and making profitable business
decisions."

"The impact of marrying Acorn's proven best of breed platform
applications, Performance Analyzer or Cost Analyzer, with an Industry Value
Accelerator is profound. Companies will benefit from shortened implementation
and time to value, leveraging proven best practices to mitigate risk, and a
lowered total cost of implementation and ownership," commented Mr. Fraga.
"Acorn's mission from the start has been to improve the bottom line profit
and performance of our customers. Now we are making that promise better,
cheaper and faster for net new clients. One new Acorn IVA customer in
distribution was installed and utilizing the solution in 30 days from start
to finish. The proof is in the pudding, and we have the proof."

John E. Van Decker, Research VP, Gartner, states, "Profitability
management is a key component of corporate performance management (CPM),
enabling a firm to understand its costs/profit by product and customer,
leading to better business decisions. Packaged solutions for vertical
industries can provide quicker paths to value and should be a key
consideration for a firm scoping a profitability management solution."

About Acorn Systems, Inc.

Acorn Systems provides profit improvement solutions that enable clients
to maximize revenue, minimize cost, and improve operational efficiencies.
Acorn reveals profit improvement opportunities across the enterprise --
customers, channels, segments, products, vendors and processes -- enabling
clients to make continuous, fact-based decisions to improve their bottom line
and Earnings per Share (EPS). Acorn's unique and proven approach to profit
improvement is used by leaders in Financial Services, Retail, Consumer
Products, Manufacturing, Distribution and Logistics, who have realized over
US$1B in annual profit improvements and created over US$9B in new shareholder
value. For more information, visit http://www.acornsys.com or contact
sales@acornsys.com.

Contact:
    Kimberly Box
    Vice President, Marketing
    Acorn Systems, Inc.
    Phone: +1-713-963-9000
    kbox@acornsys.com

Web site: http://www.acornsys.com