[0] FormScape Extends Web and E-commerce Capabilities for Enterprise Business Solutions.

Business Editors/High Tech Writers

MORRISVILLE, N.C.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 16, 2000

New Version of Product Offers Output Management Solutions to

Enhance B2B and E-commerce Strategies

AFP Technology, provider of FormScape(R) Enterprise Output Management solutions, today announced the release of FormScape v2.3.

This offers expanded support for e-commerce and B2B business communications to companies with enterprise business systems on Mainframe, UNIX, Linux, AS/400 and NT platforms.

This release improves corporate e-commerce strategies by offering XML input and output processing capabilities. When implementing B2B and e-commerce applications, companies can ensure business-critical information is securely delivered to their customers via the web, with no modifications required to the original business application.

FormScape integrates easily with any application process and manages the delivery and routing of information between disparate business applications or systems. This enables companies to easily control the re-presentation, content and delivery of information to intended recipients while incorporating dynamic links, business rules, custom messages, bar codes, graphics and color. In addition to XML, FormScape also supports the processing of HTML, PDF, CSV, PCL, Postscript, ASCII and XES data streams.

FormScape allows users to transform enterprise-managed data from mainframe, UNIX, NT, AS/400 and LINUX based, ERP and e-commerce systems into dynamic business documents and reports for customers, suppliers and users. These business communications can be distributed to any network-connected destination, including printers, e-mail, fax, web-servers, cell phones and PDAs. FormScape compliments this distribution with a built-in networked document archive for the electronic storage of processed documents and reports.

Through strategic alliances with companies such as Microsoft, SAP, J.D. Edwards and Lawson Software, FormScape has positioned itself as a leading output management and business communication solution used by thousands of clients worldwide. FormScape integrates seamlessly with these systems and can significantly decrease implementation costs, leading to a higher Return On Investment (ROI).

"In today's world of e-commerce business, the presentation and delivery of information has become vital," states Eddie Riddell, Vice President of Marketing and Strategic Business Development, AFP Technology. "FormScape offers enhanced process support by streamlining business transactions and reducing overall costs for the distribution, storage, retrieval and management of business information."

"Most implementers of enterprise business systems don't realize how much they spend on their document and information needs, which can easily exceed 20% of the implementation costs," states Riddell. "With the increased number of business transactions that occur with e-commerce and B2B strategies, many times these costs are overlooked. They are, however, very real and can severely impact an organization's financial base if these challenges are ignored."

About FormScape

FormScape is an open architecture middleware solution that incorporates tools that easily create and modify business communications using drag and drop techniques and conditional processing. This allows organizations to control the presentation, content and accurate delivery of information to any destination, at any time and in any format. FormScape's intuitive suite of products allows a process approach to delivering information in a timely, economical and effective way.

As a complement, FormScape document archive allows users to search, view and re-process exact replicas of processed documents securely from their desktops. Changes or modifications to report templates can be made quickly and easily, putting them back into production immediately, an otherwise challenging task with pre-printed forms or custom program modifications. FormScape allows organizations to quickly adapt as their competitive business environment changes, while improving overall productivity and efficiency.

FormScape solutions are managing millions of business transactions every day, globally in vertical industry applications ranging from Banking, Finance and Insurance to Manufacturing, Government and Healthcare providers.

AFP Technology is headquartered in the UK, with offices across Europe and US offices in North Carolina, Texas, New Jersey, Chicago, Atlanta, and Los Angeles. The company's US headquarters is located in the Research Triangle Park at 1100 Perimeter Park, Suite 116, Morrisville, NC 27560. The company can be reached at 888-237-4350 or at its website, http://www.formscape.com .