Corporate Renaissance Group Announces Connector for Budget Maestro

Ottawa, Canada - March 22, 2004 - Corporate Renaissance Group, a leading provider of innovative solutions and services that drive better business management and performance, today announced the release of the latest integration tool within the CRG Connect product line, Connector for Budget Maestro®. The new software is a seamless interface for data from the Microsoft Business Solutions Great Plains ERP system and Centage Corporation’s Budget Maestro business performance management solution.

Recognizing the need to facilitate and automate routine processes, Corporate Renaissance Group added Connector for Budget Maestro to its proven list of solutions that integrate into various ERP solutions including Microsoft Business Solutions Great Plains.

Users of Connector for Budget Maestro can make better management decisions while eliminating manual, multi-step processes. The product automatically facilitates the transfer of the Chart of Accounts and trial balances from Great Plains into Budget Maestro and allows users to generate accurate variance reports more quickly to better measure performance against plan.

"As a value added reseller of two great mid-market products, Budget Maestro and Great Plains, we saw a need to create an interface to eliminate duplicate entry between the budgeting and financial systems. We believe that the Connector for Budget Maestro will save users painful data entry hours and minimize the chance for errors by allowing the two applications talk to each other," said Dr. Vijay Jog, president of Corporate Renaissance Group.

"Budget Maestro integrated with Great Plains provides a powerful tool for mid-market organizations to plan future activity with more confidence and measure actual performance with greater accuracy and agility. Management can act upon this data in a timely way to seize opportunities or take corrective action as appropriate," said Kamran Sassoon, president and CEO of Centage Corporation.

Visit Corporate Renaissance Group’s Web site at www.crgroup.com or Centage Corporation’s Web site at www.centage.com for more information and to purchase Connector for Budget Maestro.

About Centage Corporation

Centage Corporation provides sophisticated yet easy-to use Business Performance Management (BPM) solutions that enable organizations of all sizes to improve their budgeting, budget forecasting and reporting capabilities. Since 1995, thousands of licenses of the company’s premier financial solution, Budget Maestro®, have been sold worldwide, enabling managers at all levels to dramatically simplify their budgeting process and improve the accuracy and efficiency of their overall business planning process. Budget Maestro by Centage delivers superior ROI through a combination of best price, easiest implementation and use, and a fiscally sound methodology that enables confident decision-making. Centage Corporation is headquartered in Houston, TX. For more information visit www.centage.com

About Corporate Renaissance Group

Established in 1989, Corporate Renaissance Group is a global provider of innovative solutions that drive better business management and performance. With expertise in business management applications, CRG has established itself as a leading provider of solutions that drive operational effectiveness. Headquartered in Ottawa, Canada, with offices throughout North America, South Africa and India, CRG provides global solutions to global challenges. Our sophisticated, high performance software products and services, together with our unparalleled management expertise enable our clients to become value-based, performance-focused organizations. Our products are sold through a global network of more than 500 strategic partners as well as our direct sales team. For more information please visit www.crgroup.com.