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FAIRFAX, VA., April 4, 2000 /PRNewswire/ - American Management Systems, Inc. (Nasdaq: AMSY)(AMS), a leading provider of Next Generation Enterprise business and technology solutions, today announces launching a European practice to help electric & gas utilities meet the challenges of competition and deregulation now sweeping across Europe. Kevin Rutledge joins AMS as Vice President to Lead the new practice, which builds upon on the firm's successful U.S. Utilities practice and established presence in the European telecommunications and finance markets. Rutledge will bring to bear AMS's expertise in ebusiness, customer care and billing, customer relationship management and risk management.

"AMS is thrilled to expand into the European utility market space, and to have Kevin leading the charge," said Tim Matlack, AMS Vice President and co- founder of the US Utilities practice. "We are combining AMS's core competencies with Kevin's deep knowledge of the European utility market to create a powerful offering for European utility clients."

"Utilities face greater pressure than ever before to Reduce costs, manage complexity and improve their relationships with customers as the European utilities markets open up to competition," said Kevin Rutledge. "AMS has considerable expertise in assisting large organizations prepare for and thrive in a deregulated environment and exploit new technology to achieve competitive advantage and improve customer management. I am delighted to be joining a company with such strong capabilities at this exciting time in the evolution of the European utilities industry."

In Europe, AMS offers utility consulting and systems integration services in the following areas -- all of which are grounded in successful projects:

• eStrategy. AMS helps clients create Internet strategies that bring real business value and are in sync with established strategies and technology infrastructure, establishing true eCommerce communities with customers, business partners and suppliers.

• Competitive Readiness Assessment. AMS helps clients design new business processes for the competitive market and manages modernization programs to deploy process and technical change across all functional areas of the enterprise.

• Interactive Customer Value Management (iCVM)™. AMS applies iCVM to help clients adopt integrated business approaches that use customer information and life-time value to Deliver customized, and highly interactive experiences to each customer, every time.

• Interactive Supplier Value Management (iSVM)™. AMS applies iSVM to help clients deploy cost-reducing business solutions via Web technologies, to eliminate redundant paper-based processes, control spending, improve supplier and inventory management.

Kevin Rutledge has more than 15 years' experience in the utilities industry and is an expert in developing strategy and shareholder value for utilities. He has helped clients, including Scottish and Southern Energy, London Electricity, Anglian Water and ESB (Ireland), address strategic planning and regulatory issues as well as business transformation and process re-engineering. Rutledge joins AMS from AT Kearney, where he was responsible for co-ordinating the firm's services to utilities in the UK and Nordic region. He was previously a founder of Arthur Andersen's utilities consulting practice in the UK.

About AMS Utilities
AMS's Utilities Group is AMS's fastest growing consulting and systems integration practice, having doubled revenues each year since its formation. Now entering its fourth year of business, the Utilities practice has a 100- person staff currently working with 20 utility clients across the US and Canada.

About AMS
AMS is an international business and information technology consulting firm -- one of the 20 largest such firms worldwide. AMS is the premier provider of next generation enterprise business and technology solutions that dramatically improve business performance and create value for clients. AMS's suite of leading edge business and technology solutions, featuring eBusiness strategy, management and technology services make business reinvention possible in Internet time for large organizations. Founded in 1970, AMS is headquartered in Fairfax, Virginia, with over 9,000 employees and 57 offices worldwide. AMS had 1999 revenues of $1.24 billion, with eBusiness-related revenues representing 40%, an increase of more than 150% over 1998. FORBES magazine ranked AMS among the best-performing big companies in the U.S. in their "Best of the Biggest," and FORTUNE magazine placed AMS on its list of the "100 Best Companies to Work for in America" in 1999.

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