CFO.com Webcast Highlighting Success of Geac MPC Performance Management Solution Achieves Record-Breaking Registration - Financial executives will participate March 8th to hear major US accounting firm BDO Seidman describe how Geac products are improving financial processes and increasing corporate profitability - SOUTHBOROUGH, MA, March 7 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Marking the largest webcast registration ever achieved by CFO.com, CFOs and financial executives will attend a live webcast on CFO.com tomorrow, highlighting the successful implementation of Geac Performance Management at BDO Seidman, LLP, one of the largest accounting firms in the U.S. BDO Seidman uses Geac software to improve decision making within their organization. The online event is co-sponsored by Geac(R) (TSX: GAC and NASDAQ: GEAC) and Microsoft(R) (NASDAQ:MSFT), and hosted by CFO Magazine. Lynn Calhoun, Director of Finance at BDO Seidman, will provide a candid, inside look at the process of establishing a standard set of metrics that can be applied across the entire organization and used as a basis for better decision making. Mr. Calhoun will offer his experience overcoming the challenge of a decentralized reporting environment in which multiple locations utilize different sets of reports from different data sources. He will review how the adoption of a standard set of measures, universally available from a single source, can result in ongoing process improvement and increased profitability. Scott Lindsay, Director, Geac Performance Management, also will make a presentation during the webcast. Following their presentations, Mr. Calhoun and Mr. Lindsay will field questions from the audience. The hour-long live webcast, entitled "From Measuring to Managing: Choosing and Applying Key Metrics," will take place Tuesday, March 8 at 2:00 p.m. ET. To register, visit http://www.performance.geac.com/cfocast. "The best way for Geac to describe the benefits of its Performance Management product family is through our customers - BDO is one example," said Brian Hartlen, Vice President Global Marketing, Geac. "We are very pleased with the early impact that our MPC offering is having on BDO Seidman's overall efficiency and profitability - and we are encouraged by the number of highly qualified prospects who are participating in the CFO webcast tomorrow and want to learn more about the value of Geac's Performance Management Solutions." The webcast is the latest in a series of co-marketing activities between Geac and Microsoft designed to foster lead generation and help close business with joint prospects. Geac is a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner for Business Intelligence and for Software Products. About CFO.com and CFO Publishing Part of CFO Publishing and owned by The Economist Group, CFO.com is a unique online resource for senior financial executives. It provides news and articles on cutting-edge issues with the strategic insight and analysis to help top financial managers perform their jobs more effectively. CFO Publishing includes CFO Magazine as well as its sister publications, CFO Europe, CFO Asia and CFO China. Together, they offer comprehensive global coverage of business issues of interest to the senior financial executive. CFO Enterprises, and their conferences and sponsored research unit, extends this coverage to a wide range of executive education programs. About Geac Geac (TSX: GAC, NASDAQ:GEAC) is a global enterprise software company that addresses the needs of the Chief Financial Officer. Geac's best-in-class technology products and services help organizations do more with less in an increasingly competitive environment, amidst growing regulatory pressure, and in response to other business issues confronting the CFO. Further information is available at http://www.geac.com/ or through e-mail at . This press release may contain forward-looking statements of Geac's intentions, beliefs, expectations and predictions for the future. These forward-looking statements often include use of the future tense with words such as "will," "may," "intends," "anticipates," "expects" and similar conditional or forward-looking words and phrases. These forward-looking statements are neither promises nor guarantees. They are only predictions that are subject to risks and uncertainties, and they may differ materially from actual future events or results. Geac undertakes no obligation to update or revise the information contained herein. Important factors that could cause a material difference between these forward-looking statements and actual events include, among other things: our ability to increase revenues from new license sales, cross-sell into our existing customer base and reduce customer attrition; whether we can identify and acquire synergistic businesses and, if so, whether we can successfully integrate them into our existing operations; whether we are able to deliver products and services within required time frames and budgets to meet increasingly competitive customer demands and performance guaranties; risks inherent in fluctuating international currency exchange rates in light of our global operations and the unpredictable effect of geopolitical world and local events; whether we are successful in our continued efforts to manage expenses effectively and maintain profitability; our ability to achieve revenue from products and services that are under development; the uncertain effect of the competitive environment in which we operate and resulting pricing pressures; and whether the anticipated effects and results of our new product offerings and successful product implementation will be realized. These and other potential risks and uncertainties that relate to Geac's business and operations are summarized in more detail from time to time in our filings with the United States Securities and Exchange Commission and with the Canadian Securities Administrators. Please refer to Geac's most recent quarterly reports available through the website maintained by the SEC at http://www.sec.gov/ and through the website maintained by the Canadian Securities Administrators and the Canadian Depository for Securities Limited at http://www.sedar.com/ for more information on risk factors that could cause actual results to differ. Geac is a registered trademark of Geac Computer Corporation Limited. All other marks are trademarks of their respective owners. DATASOURCE: Geac Computer Corporation Limited CONTACT: Investor and Media Contacts: Alys Scott, Vice President, Corporate Communications, Geac, (508) 871-5064, ; David Domeshek, Director, Corporate Communications, Geac, (508) 871-5045,

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