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Logility announces keynote speakers for Connections 2008: saddle up for supply chain success

ATLANTA, Feb. 26, 2008 -- Logility, Inc. (Nasdaq: LGTY), a leading supplier of collaborative solutions to optimize the supply chain, today announced the keynote speakers for its Connections 2008: Saddle Up for Supply Chain Success conference to be held May 14-16 at the Hotel Contessa in San Antonio, TX.

Connections 2008 will feature valuable insight into today's complex supply chain issues from a wide range of industries such as apparel, consumer goods, food and beverage, service parts and other distribution-intensive industries. This year's Connections attendees will hear best practice tips and techniques from industry peers and leading supply chain experts from leading companies such as Brown Shoe Company, Verizon Wireless, Basic American Foods, David Yurman, A.O. Smith Water Products, Lance, Associated Grocers of Florida and Jarden Consumer Solutions.

Featured keynote speakers on the conference program include:

-- Lora Cecere, research director, consumer products, AMR Research, who works closely with some of today's leading manufacturers and top supply chain executives, will offer valuable insight into the best strategies for creating a demand driven supply chain that is profitable and efficient while providing a competitive advantage in today's global marketplace.

-- Cliff Engle, senior vice president, global supply chain, Fender Musical Instruments, will give attendees a look into how the world's #1 maker of stringed instruments is setting the foundation for supply chain success through an improved forecasting process leading to better control of inventory, synchronized supply flow and increasing forecast accuracy.

-- Greg Schwem, corporate America's favorite funnyman, will provide attendees with comic relief through his humorous and motivational look at the latest technologies and the way business is conducted today.

Supply Chain Management is a key driver of business success, and Connections 2008 is designed to help attendees keep pace with new concepts and trends and take away innovative ideas that can be immediately put into action to optimize supply chain visibility and performance in today's global economy. Attendees ranging from executives, vice presidents, directors, managers, analysts, and planners of supply chain, logistics, warehouse and transportation, will have the opportunity to network with supply chain peers, gain new strategies and insights, overcome real business challenges, and receive valuable training.

The conference agenda will also include executive and best practices panels on successful strategies for tackling today's business challenges and deploying supply chain solutions to drive value; breakout sessions featuring Logility Voyager Solutions(TM) deployments with speakers representing every major industry; and a Solutions Center for face-to-face access to Logility experts and complementary solutions.

For more information and to register for the event, visit http://www.logilityconnections.com.

About Logility

With more than 1,250 customers worldwide, Logility is a leading provider of collaborative, best-of-breed supply chain solutions that help small, medium, large and Fortune 1000 companies realize substantial bottom-line results in record time. Logility Voyager Solutions is a complete supply chain management solution that features performance monitoring capabilities in a single Internet-based framework and provides supply chain visibility; demand, inventory and replenishment planning; Sales and Operations Planning (S&OP); supply and global sourcing optimization; manufacturing planning and scheduling; transportation planning and management; and warehouse management. Logility customers include Brown Shoe Company, McCain Foods, Pernod Ricard, Sigma Aldrich, and VF Corporation. Logility is a majority owned subsidiary of American Software (Nasdaq: AMSWA). For more information about Logility, call 1-800-762-5207 or visit http://www.logility.com.

Forward-Looking Statements

This press release contains forward-looking statements that are subject to substantial risks and uncertainties. There are a number of factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from those anticipated by statements made herein. These factors include, but are not limited to, changes in general economic conditions, technology and the market for the Company's products and services including economic conditions within the e-commerce markets; the timely availability and market acceptance of these products and services; the effect of competitive products and pricing; the uncertainty of the viability and effectiveness of strategic alliances; and the irregular pattern of the Company's revenues. For further information about risks the Company could experience as well as other information, please refer to the Company's Form 10-K for the year ended April 30, 2007 and other reports and documents subsequently filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission. For more information about risks the Company could face as well as other information, contact Vincent C. Klinges, Chief Financial Officer, Logility, Inc., 470 East Paces Ferry Rd., Atlanta, GA 30305, (404) 261-9777. FAX: (404) 264-5206 INTERNET: http://www.logility.com or E-mail: asklogility@logility.com.

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