Under this agreement, Palo Alto Software provides Intuit's Quicken and Quicken.com customers with access to a suite of powerful analytical tools to better plan and analyze their business operations. Palo Alto Software now offers a selection of business planning tools to Quicken.com's growing online services focusing on adding efficiency and content-rich planning resources. These tools can be accessed from the "Start a Business" section of the Quicken.com Small Business Channel. Users of Quicken 2001 Home & Business for Windows who regularly perform the "One Step Update" can access these online tools from within the "Business" section of the Quicken Services Directory. Users of Quicken 2001 Basic and Deluxe for Windows can access the Palo Alto Business Planning content under the Planning Section of the Quicken Services Directory.

This alliance allows Quicken users to have easy access to one of the most respected and extensive collections of online business planning resources available, including: interactive planning tools, a library of articles, and the Mini Plan. The Mini Plan tool allows the emerging entrepreneur to take the initial steps to define and explore the viability of their business concept. The business owner can also purchase Business Plan Pro for further development of the business idea into a complete business plan-a professional-looking document that is respected in the investment, financial and business planning communities.

"Through their Quicken Home & Business software offering, and the Small Business Channel on Quicken.com, Intuit has been providing content and services to help people learn about and run their SOHO businesses. This is a great match with our focus to provide valuable efficiency-oriented resources for entrepreneurs and the small business," said Tim Berry, President of Palo Alto Software. "The combination of Quicken.com and Palo Alto Software creates a dynamic solution to easily access vital planning resources. It is a privilege to offer Palo Alto Software's business planning expertise in conjunction with Quicken's impressive range of products and services for the SOHO market," says Berry. "Palo Alto Software's planning resources have proven invaluable to enable thousands of entrepreneurs to realize their business planning goals. This exciting alliance will now allow us to further add to the value we offer the business community."

"Intuit is very excited about this alliance with Palo Alto Software," said Ron Dawson, Business Marketing Manager for Quicken. "We're committed to making the financial lives of small business owners easier by providing products and services that help them run their business more efficiently. This is yet another way that Intuit can better serve the small business community."

About Palo Alto Software
Palo Alto Software, founded by President Tim Berry in 1988, develops, publishes and markets software products for use with personal computers. Business Plan Pro is the best-selling business plan software in the U.S. retail market, outselling its competitors by more than two-to-one, according to PC Data. Palo Alto Software's other products include Web Strategy Pro™, Marketing Plan Pro™, Cash Plan Pro™, and Business Plan Toolkit™ for Mac. Palo Alto Software's product line offers "know how" solutions that has made it the market leader it its category. Palo Alto Software's award winning site www.bplans.com continues to be one of the highest traffic sites in the small business arena offering numerous business planning resources. Palo Alto Software is a privately owned corporation now based in Eugene, Oregon. More information about Palo Alto's products is available on the company website, www.paloaltosoftware.com.