MERANT Delivers PVCS Professional Suite With WebDAV Support And Workflow Automation

MERANT (London Stock Exchange: MRN; Nasdaq: MRNT), a leading provider of solutions for software configuration and enterprise content management, today announced the release of PVCS Professional 3.8 with WebDAV support. Enabling teams of any size to protect software assets, automate development tasks and manage the changes and issues involved in team development, the PVCS Professional suite combines PVCS Version Manager, PVCS Tracker and PVCS Configuration Builder into a single bundle, offering an industry-leading software configuration management (SCM) solution. WebDAV extends PVCS Version Manager~{!/~}s ease-of-use, and team collaboration to every desktop.

SINGAPORE ~ March 22, 2002 ~ MERANT (London Stock Exchange (LSE): MRN; Nasdaq National Market (NNM): MRNT), a leading provider of solutions for software configuration and enterprise content management, today announced the release of PVCS Professional 3.8.

PVCS Professional 3.8 underscores MERANT~s commitment to promoting collaboration among distributed team members over the Internet. Enabling teams of any size to protect software assets, automate development tasks and manage the changes and issues involved in team development, the PVCS Professional suite combines PVCS Version Manager, PVCS Tracker and PVCS Configuration Builder into a single bundle, offering an industry-leading software configuration management (SCM) solution.

A member of the WebDAV committee, MERANT has differentiated itself from its competitors, making its commitment to WebDAV a reality, with WebDAV support generally available in PVCS Dimensions, PVCS Content Manager and now PVCS Version Manager.

~WebDAV support in PVCS Professional is not an option, rather an expected base product deliverable,~ said David Parker, regional vice president of MERANT Asia. ~With collaborative authoring and Web Services a reality today, you~re either on-board, or behind everyone else in the marketplace. MERANT plans to continue in its role as a technology and solutions innovator in response to our customers~ needs.~

In addition to a number of other enhancements, team members can create project documentation via tools they are familiar with (Adobe Acrobat, Macromedia Dreamweaver, Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Windows Explorer), while still accessing and collaborating with the rest of the development team – all within a PVCS Version Manager project. As a team member updates documentation, changes are automatically tracked inside PVCS Version Manager. WebDAV extends PVCS Version Manager~s ease-of-use, and team collaboration to every desktop.

In addition to WebDAV support, PVCS Professional 3.8 offers dependent and transition fields in PVCS Tracker. Using dependent fields, administrators can ensure better accuracy of data entry and data integrity. Transition fields give administrators the flexibility to create a simple workflow for application development.

~For us, the Tracker component of the PVCS Professional Suite is not just a tool, it is a complete R&D solution in
itself,~ said Janet Kaufman, senior unit supervisor in the Product Integration & Release (PIR) department of R&D
engineering at ABB Inc. ~Now with Transition fields we can enable a simple workflow for the 100 business-critical
applications, across 50 of our projects that depend on Tracker each day.~

~PVCS Professional is an essential ingredient throughout our software development process, from the onset of an idea to shipping a final product,~ said Jason Nash, QA Manager for WellMed, Inc. ~Managing these projects has become easier now that PVCS Professional~s Tracker component can streamline data entry with dependent fields.~

MERANT is not only distinguishing itself as a thought- leader by announcing its support for WebDAV, but is
reinforcing its continuous commitment to provide the best products and services to customers, evident by the
performance improvements delivered in the PVCS Professional suite.

About MERANT

With over 25 years of experience, MERANT helps customers at over 30,000 sites worldwide, including 98 of the Fortune 100 and the majority of the Global 2000; improve their ability to manage enterprise software configuration and content management assets ~ applications, code and content. Delivering the broadest coverage of digital assets, unsurpassed scalability and end-to-end software configuration and content management, MERANT provides a comprehensive enterprise content management platform. For additional information, visit www.merant.com.