Prodika accelerates food and beverage product formulation and labeling
Prodika offers a unique program to help Food and Beverage companies accelerate product design, reformulation, and nutrition labeling efforts to comply with emerging labeling and nutrition standards.

Dallas/Ft. Worth, Texas - August 13, 2003 — Prodika, a premier provider of collaborative Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) solutions for global Consumer Goods companies, today announced the immediate availability of a new program aimed at helping Food and Beverage companies accelerate their product design, re-formulation, and nutrition labeling efforts to comply with emerging labeling and nutrition standards.

By offering this program, named ARC (Accelerating Regulatory Compliance), Prodika provides the tools and support to help companies transform the potential liability, expense, and risk presented by new government regulations into new market opportunities by accelerating the time-to-market of new and re-formulated products. "Prodika's vision is to help companies turn these challenges into new opportunities. Prodika has the technology, experience, and expertise to help companies accelerate time-to-market and gain meaningful benefits in the process", says Kenneth Crain, Prodika's CEO and Chief Architect.

Portfolio of Online Applications
Through the ARC program, Prodika customers gain access to a portfolio of online applications designed to streamline the process of introducing re-formulated products and packaging to market. The application portfolio includes Prodika's Product Design Workbench (DWB) and Labeling, Marketing & Packaging (LMP).

Prodika's Product Design Workbench (DWB) is a scientific design application that enables product developers to model the behavior of formulations given different nutrition/ compliance objectives, ingredient substitutions, and cost constraints. By conducting "rationalized experimentation", R&D groups can rapidly prove the most feasible and optimal formulations prior to entering the lab. In addition, real-time calculation and automation utilities assist in the creation of Label Ingredient Order and Nutrition Panel information.

Prodika's Labeling, Marketing & Packaging (LMP) is a collaborative online environment for developing packaging and labeling, enabling an organization's Design, Manufacturing, Procurement, Quality and Regulatory groups to rapidly and easily collaborate with Marketing. By sharing a common platform for packaging development, it is common for Prodika customers to experience a 50%-70% reduction in cycle times for label design and approval.

ARC Services
The program includes tailored business services to help companies ramp up quickly and execute efficiently. Prodika provides the immediate support and expertise needed to extend a company's resources to meet short-term objectives without additional headcount or overhead. Prodika's services include accelerated on-boarding of a company's raw material specifications and recipe formulations to provide a robust foundation for product (re)formulation and compliance management.

Pay-as-you-go, On-Demand Technology
Prodika's web-based application framework is made available to participants in the ARC program as a Managed Application Service with "web service" interoperability. With this approach, Prodika customers enjoy an immediate technology solution for tracking and managing the product design and approval process, without the up-front costs normally associated with enterprise software licensing and implementation. The Prodika applications are available to 100, 300, or 1000+ users at a single, fixed monthly rate.

About Prodika
Prodika is a premier provider of collaborative Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) solutions for global Consumer Goods companies. Prodika's solutions for managing global specifications, recipes and formulations, labeling and packaging, supply chain relationships, and New Product Development (NPD) processes help companies capture business value by accelerating time to market, improving value chain collaboration and coordination, enhancing support for quality and safety management, rationalizing suppliers and spend, and optimizing return on R&D. Prodika solutions are delivered as managed application services based on the Microsoft .NET platform and a service-oriented architecture. Deployed around the world, Prodika solutions natively support all languages, cultures, and currencies.

For more information about Prodika and its innovative products and services visit www.prodika.com or contact us at info@prodika.com