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GE Capital Fleet Services Wins the Data Warehousing Institute's Award

22 June 2000

Company Recognizes Customers for Its Award-Winning Success

    
    EDEN PRAIRIE, Minn. - GE Capital Fleet Services announced today that it has 
won The Data Warehousing Institute's 2000 Best Practices in Data Warehousing 
Award in the category of "The Warehouse and the Web."

    TDWI's 2000 Best Practices in Data Warehousing Awards are presented to
practitioners and solution providers that demonstrate innovative, best
practice solutions that provide measurable impact on the business success of
their organizations.

    In partnership with MicroStrategy, GE Capital Fleet Services developed a
web-based fleet management system that allows its customers the ability to tap
into a central data warehouse of fleet vehicle information. Using the system,
customers can view/export bills; retrieve personalized, pre-defined reports;
create customized queries; receive broadcast reminders and more.

    The award-winning application will eliminate more than 600,000 pages of
mailed invoices and reports to customers each month, thereby providing
customers with added productivity to effectively manage their fleets.

    "We are delighted to have been selected a winner of the prestigious Best
Practices in Data Warehousing Award from TDWI," said Marian Powell, senior
vice president of e-commerce at GE Capital Fleet Services. "This award not
only goes to our committed staff, but to our customers as well. Their
willingness to share their thoughts and insight as we developed our
application was remarkable, and we thank them for their valuable contribution
to our success."

    "The competition this year for the Best Practices Awards was once again
very strong," says Ellen Hobbs, general manager of TDWI. "But several
nominations stand out from the rest and truly demonstrate unique innovation
and superior business practices from which others can follow and learn."

    TDWI's Best Practices Awards will be presented to the winners on Monday,
August 21, 2000 at the Best Practices in Data Warehousing and E-Business
Intelligence Conference in Boston, Mass.

    The Data Warehousing Institute(TM) (TDWI), a division of
101communications, is the premier provider of in-depth, high quality education
and training in the data warehousing and business intelligence industry. TDWI
is dedicated to educating business and information technology professionals
about the strategies, techniques, and tools required to successfully design,
build, and maintain data warehousing implementations, and also to the
advancement of data warehousing research, knowledge transfer, and the
professional development of its Members.

    With headquarters in Eden Prairie, Minn., GE Capital Fleet Services is one
of the largest fleet management companies in the world with more than 1
million commercial cars and trucks under lease and service management. It has
operations in the United States, Canada, Mexico, Europe, Japan, Australia, New
Zealand and Brazil. GE Capital, with assets of more than US $345 billion, is a
global, diversified financial services company with 28 specialized businesses.
A wholly-owned subsidiary of General Electric Company, GE Capital, based in
Stamford, Conn., provides equipment management, mid-market and specialized
financing, specialty insurance and a variety of consumer services, such as car
leasing, home mortgages and credit cards, to businesses and individuals around
the world. GE is a manufacturing, technology and services company with
operations worldwide.