ISH CONTINUES TO LEAD INDUSTRY WITH FIVE LAWSON™ 8.0
FULL-SUITE IMPLEMENTATIONS

Professional Services Firm with more than 500 Clients Adds Five
Lawson™ 8.0 Deployments in Healthcare Industry

WEST ORANGE, N.J., APRIL 22, 2002 - ISH, Inc., a professional services and business operations improvement company, announced it has recently completed the company's fifth successful implementation of Lawson™ Insight 8.0 within the healthcare industry. The five ISH clients using the full suite of Lawson™ 8.0 are: Rockingham Memorial Hospital, Aultman Healthcare, Community Memorial Hospital, Greater Baltimore Medical Center and Forrest General Hospital. ISH has performed more than 90 Lawson™ software implementations in the healthcare industry and currently is working with 11 clients using Lawson™ 8.0.

"ISH helped us recognize the value in approaching the Lawson™ ERP System and the iPath ORIS System as one integrated project," said Mike Hebrank, CIO of Greater Baltimore Medical Center. "ISH's experience in operations and expertise with the software products helped us show a measurable return on our investments in Lawson™ and iPath."

With fully Web-deployable solutions, each of the ISH Lawson™ 8.0 clients implemented the software as a proactive effort to reduce operating costs and improve efficiencies. The newest version of Lawson™ software provides healthcare organizations with expanded modules and applications to support workforce performance analysis, online procurement and Web-based recruiting and hiring capabilities.

"Not only does ISH have a team of certified Lawson™ 8.0 specialists that intimately know the software, but their people are completely familiar with problem areas and challenges in the healthcare industry," said Pitt Calkin, CFO of Forrest General Hospital. "We were pleased with our selection of ISH because their long history in working with Lawson™ and Siemens proved valuable to our success in realizing the benefits we anticipated when we bought the software."

By maintaining a broad skill-set across the leading software providers and having consultants with industry-specific expertise, ISH approaches a client's needs and opportunities from a unique perspective and is able to provide tailored solutions that fit each client's particular situation.

"As one of Lawson's oldest healthcare partners and the largest implementer of Lawson™ Software in healthcare, we have a firm grasp on the technology as well as specialized expertise to provide services that improve our clients overall business," said Jeffrey J. Uliano, President and CEO of ISH. "Our approach of 'Thinking Business Enabled by IT' keeps the focus on achieving business improvements without delaying the Go-Live date."

ISH views technology and software as enablers for: improving financial performance, creating effective workflow, re-engineering processes and providing better patient healthcare.

ISH recently re-launched its Web site (www.ishinc.com) to reflect the company's expanded services and to provide more information on the company's strengths in the practice areas of higher education and hospitality.

About ISH:
Headquartered in West Orange, N.J., ISH is a business operations improvement company. In 1989, ISH was established as a hands-on professional services firm with a unique business proposition: to deliver exponentially greater value and measurable return on IT investments and software applications implementation.

ISH was founded on the premise that most businesses waste significant funds, executive time and effort re-engineering new software packages to conform to their current business processes, rather than re-designing new processes and work flows to fully capitalize on the power of their technologies and the abilities of their people.

The marketplace has enthusiastically confirmed this premise, and ISH has now helped more than 500 clients nationwide. ISH leverages insights and best practices to improve clients' finance and operations performance in the Healthcare, Higher Education and Hospitality industries.

For further information about ISH or its services, send e-mail to Info@ishinc.com or call 800-284-8018.