St. James Winery Chooses Conformia WinePRO System
Winery Implements WinePRO for 2003 Harvest

REDWOOD CITY, Calif. --(MARKET WIRE)-- 09/04/2003 Conformia Software Inc., a leading provider of enterprise software solutions to regulated, process-oriented industries, today announced that St. James Winery has installed and implemented its WinePRO solution for this year's harvest.

"After scouring the market for a software solution, we came across Conformia's WinePRO and knew our search was over…we had found the best!" said John Hofherr, Vice President for St. James Winery. "It is incredibly user-friendly and has an amazing ease of operation. As we prepare to double our production and add more sites over the next five years, we knew we needed a system that would support our growth and utilize our winemaking staff's time."

WinePRO covers the complete wine production process from crush through bottling with solution modules and has powerful forward and reverse traceability for single click "vine-to-bottle" blend analysis and 702 form reporting. WinePRO's advanced tank maps provide winemakers with a near real-time overview into their wineries.

WinePRO assists the art of wine production with a managed, user-friendly solution, which can be standardized across multiple wineries of a corporation. Winemakers can drive all wine production activities from receiving grapes to creating blends for bottling through WinePRO. They can plan production by targeting blends to products and optimizing the availability of all required resources like equipment, additives and people. Cellar and Lab personnel have clear visibility of upcoming activities, allowing them to plan and execute their tasks accordingly. WinePRO automatically generates the TTB Form 702 for a user-defined period based on the activities in the period.

"The traceability and costing analysis that WinePRO offers will assist in our efficiency and in the long run, cut the time we spend on data gathering and chasing in half," said Gary Penner, Winemaker for St. James Winery. "The implementation of WinePRO has been painless and the professionalism of Conformia's deployment staff has been top-notch. We are so thrilled to have found their product."

Conformia has developed the web-based WinePRO in both an enterprise form for large, multi-site wineries and a hosted version for small to medium size wineries. St. James Winery will implement the web-based, enterprise version of WinePRO and take advantage of the visibility into the production process from any location and in near real-time. St. James, like all of Conformia customers, is given access to Conformia's configurability, training programs, and multi-shift support services.

"As St. James Winery enters into their first harvest using WinePRO, and as they expand production in the coming years, they will enjoy the flexibility and optimization that WinePRO offers," said Neil Kataria, Co-Founder and Director of Beverage Alcohol Solutions for Conformia.

The Conformia Beverage Alcohol Solutions Team spent over 22 months working onsite with wineries -- ranging from small (10,000 case producing wineries) to large (10,000,000 case producing wineries) -- to drive product requirements for WinePRO. WinePRO is based on over 30 person years of extensive research and development into winemaking, production, and regulatory best practices. The web-based WinePRO is developed completely on up to date components and a scalable technology base. It is written in Java, running on industry standard relational databases, and conforms to J2EE standards.

"St. James is a terrific partner for us and we are extremely excited to see their winemaking team drive production in near real-time. St. James is the fourth winery in the past month that we have announced will adopt the WinePRO solution in time for the 2003 Harvest," said Joe Prang, CEO of Conformia.

About Conformia Software
Conformia develops Enterprise Conformance Management (ECM) Solutions for heavily regulated, process-oriented industries which enable companies to simultaneously meet production performance and compliance goals. For the wine industry vertical, Conformia's WinePRO solution improves product quality and integrity; enhances blend visibility and traceability; decreases costs; and reduces non-compliance risks. The company was founded in July 2000, and is headquartered in Redwood City, CA.

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

Contact:
Conformia Software Inc.
Neil Kataria
(650) 780-5854
nkataria@conformia.com
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Benson Marketing Group
Carrie Shields
(707) 254-1114
shields@bensonmarketing.com