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Johnson Controls Partners With MatrixOne to Provide Auto Suppliers Private Net Market Solution

7 January 2001

Johnson Controls Partners With MatrixOne to Provide Auto Suppliers Private Net Market Solution

Alliance Will Produce Premier Private Internet Market Software
For Auto Suppliers To Collaborate And Manage Supplier Performance,
Quality Planning And Minority Sourcing

    DETROIT, and CHELMSFORD, Mass., Jan. 7 Johnson Controls, Inc. , a leading tier one automotive interior
supplier, and MatrixOne , the first in Intelligent Collaborative
Commerce(TM), announced today a strategic partnership to jointly develop an
integrated, web-based solution for automotive suppliers to bring new levels of
collaboration, communication and management to the entire supply chain.
    MatrixOne will incorporate Johnson Controls' current proprietary Advance
Quality Planning (AQP) system into a comprehensive and secure solution that
addresses the significant supply chain challenges facing automotive suppliers.
Planned functionality for the new solution includes program management,
unified quality planning and performance management of an entire supplier
base.  MatrixOne will be integrating a diversity tracking solution from
Applied Information Services, Inc. to provide comprehensive management of
minority sourcing.
    "Collaboration is vital to getting the most out of our supplier
relationships, and this tool will greatly enhance that capability.  We are
very impressed with the eMatrix net market platform. Its business process
flexibility helps speed product development and communication with the
security necessary to safely make sensitive materials available to our supply
base," said Mike Suman, group vice president for e-Business and Marketing for
Johnson Controls.  "We are impressed at how far we can extend this supplier
solution with MatrixOne's Value Chain Portfolio(TM) of applications,
integrating our extended enterprise into all phases of the product life
cycle."
    "We are excited by the joint project.  The combination of MatrixOne's
product collaboration expertise with Johnson Controls' world-class knowledge
and leadership in the complex world of automotive supply will produce the
ultimate weapon for auto suppliers," said Mark O'Connell, president and CEO of
MatrixOne.  "The resulting product, based on our current Supplier Central
product, will give automotive suppliers the ability to deploy a private net
market solution that creates unprecedented visibility in their supply chains
-- bringing them significant advantage."
    Johnson Controls and MatrixOne are demonstrating a prototype of the new
software at Johnson Controls' exhibit at the North American International Auto
Show in Detroit this week. The software is slated for availability in the
second quarter of 2001.

    About MatrixOne, Inc.
    MatrixOne, Inc. provides applications for establishing
product collaboration among customers, trusted suppliers and other business
partners, including private and public net markets. MatrixOne has global
customers in the high technology, aerospace/defense, automotive,
telecommunications, consumer, mechanical, machinery, medical equipment and
process industries.  These companies are using MatrixOne solutions to
establish new and dynamic business models to gain competitive advantage in the
Internet economy.
    Headquartered in Chelmsford, Massachusetts, MatrixOne (http://www.matrixone.com )
maintains offices in North America, Europe and Asia.

    Note: eMatrix and Value Chain Portfolio are trademarks of MatrixOne, Inc.
All other trademarks mentioned herein are believed to be the properties of
their respective owners.

    About Johnson Controls
    The Plymouth, Michigan (U.S.A.)-based automotive business of Johnson
Controls -- which employs more than 77,000 people at 285 facilities worldwide
-- achieved US$12.7 billion in sales for the 2000 fiscal year.  In model-year
2001, it will supply interior products for more than 23 million vehicles.

    Johnson Controls, Inc. (http://www.johnsoncontrols.com ) is a global
market leader in automotive systems and facility management and control. In
the automotive market, it is a major supplier of seating and interior systems,
and batteries.  For non-residential facilities, Johnson Controls provides
building control systems and services, energy management and integrated
facility management.  Johnson Controls , founded in 1885, has
headquarters in Milwaukee, Wisconsin (USA).  Its sales for 2000 totaled
US$17.2 billion.

    CONTACT:  John Donovan of MatrixOne, 978-322-2245; or Bill Dawson of
              Johnson Controls, 734-254-5925; or Shelly Lindgren-Outwater of
              Sterling Hager, Inc., 617-926-6665, for MatrixOne/

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