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                                 FRONTSTEP, INC.

                           ANNUAL REPORT ON FORM 10-K

                                POWER OF ATTORNEY

     KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS, that each of the undersigned directors
and/or officers of Frontstep, Inc., an Ohio corporation, hereby constitutes and
appoints each of Lawrence J. Fox, Stephen A. Sasser and Daniel P. Buettin as the
true and lawful attorney or attorney-in-fact, with full power of substitution
and revocation, for each of the undersigned and in the name, place and stead of
each of the undersigned, to sign on behalf of each of the undersigned an Annual
Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended June 30, 2002 pursuant to the
Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, and to sign any amendments to such
Annual Report, and to file the same, with all exhibits thereto, and other
documents in connection therewith, with the Securities and Exchange Commission,
granting to each attorney or attorney-in-fact full power and authority to do so
and to perform any act requisite and necessary to be done as fully to all
intents and purposes as the undersigned might or could do in person, hereby
ratifying and confirming all that each attorney or attorney-in-fact or his
substitute or substitutes, may lawfully do or cause to be done by virtue hereof.
This Power of Attorney may be executed in multiple counterparts, each of which
shall be deemed an original with respect to the person executing it.

     IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the undersigned have subscribed these presents as of
the 28th day of September, 2002.
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                  /s/ Lawrence J. Fox                                       /s/ Stephen A. Sasser
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                      Lawrence J. Fox                                           Stephen A. Sasser
            Chairman of the Board and Director                   President, Chief Executive Officer and Director
                                                                          (Principal Executive Officer)

                 /s/ Daniel P. Buettin                                        /s/ Guy de Chazal
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                     Daniel P. Buettin                                            Guy de Chazal
   Vice President, Finance, Chief Financial Officer and                              Director
                         Secretary
       (Principal Financial and Accounting Officer)

                  /s/ Duke W. Thomas                                         /s/ Barry Goldsmith
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                      Duke W. Thomas                                             Barry Goldsmith
                         Director                                                    Director

                /s/ James A. Rutherford                                     /s/ Roger D. Blackwell
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                    James A. Rutherford                                         Roger D. Blackwell
                         Director                                                    Director


                  /s/ A. Zuheir Sofia
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                      A. Zuheir Sofia
                         Director

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