AppWorx Partners with AnswerThink to Automate Backend Processes for eBusiness.

Business Editors, High-Tech Writers

BELLEVUE, Wash.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 16, 2000

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Enterprise Process Automation Vendor Teams

with eBusiness Solutions Provider to Add Backend

Management, Integration and Customization Capabilities

AppWorx Corporation, (www.appworx.com) the enterprise process automation company, today announced that it has established a partnership with AnswerThink Consulting Group, Inc. (Nasdaq:ANSR), an eBusiness solutions provider that designs, builds, markets, and supports the eBusiness requirements of Fortune 1000 and dot-com clients.

Through this agreement, AnswerThink will recommend AppWorx as one of the solutions its clients can use for eBusiness implementations to automate backend processes associated with online business transactions.

"A lot of companies still view eCommerce as building an eye-catching website that will generate big revenues," said David Flaxman, managing director of commerce applications at AnswerThink. "But eCommerce is really the expedient fulfillment of orders placed by on-line customers. It means having multiple backend `feeder' systems and processes in place, including order entry, inventory, accounting, shipping, etc., and automating those processes in the right sequence to turn orders around within a day versus weeks. AppWorx provides rules-based fulfillment by coordinating, scheduling and reporting on the processes required to quickly deliver orders placed online."

"In helping companies build their eBusiness infrastructures, either from scratch or from their existing architectures, AnswerThink understands that the best planned eBusiness initiatives can backfire without effective backend processing," said Doug Razzano, business development director, AppWorx. "AnswerThink has the most comprehensive range of eBusiness technology and marketing services, while AppWorx can add specific value by handling some of the unique demands of eBusiness processing such as continuous operations, unpredictable inbound and outbound data flows and the need to move data quickly between different applications."

Established in 1997, AnswerThink is helping businesses generate new revenues through eCommerce and more effective use of the Web. AnswerThink offers an array of services, including eBusiness consulting and transformation, interactive marketing, Web design, benchmarking and best practices, and packaged application implementation and customization. IDC estimates the market for Internet and eBusiness services similar to AnswerThink will grow to $156 billion by 2002.

As part of AnswerThink's eBusiness practices, consultants are focused on customizing ERP systems, as well as integrating them with other third party applications to streamline business processes for internal and eBusiness systems. AppWorx automates enterprise processes, from submission through report delivery. Processes run based on conditional rules that match the priorities of the business, as well as specific times and days of the week, and available system resources. AppWorx will be used by AnswerThink to minimize ERP integration efforts by coordinating interdependent processes and providing rules-based data interchange between applications, such as MRP and supply chain systems, or human resource and financial systems.

"When we looked at different capabilities to add to our services portfolio, AppWorx was the one product that had been used by some of our own consultants," added Flaxman. "They generally agreed that it had the most advanced integration capabilities and could serve as a conduit between the third party applications that we specialize in, thereby reducing customization."

About AnswerThink

AnswerThink Consulting Group (www.answerthink.com) is a leading, integrated eBusiness solutions provider. With its recent merger with THINK New Ideas, the company now helps design, build, market and support the eBusiness efforts of a growing list of FORTUNE 1000 and dot-com clients. AnswerThink offers a wide range of integrated solutions, including eBusiness consulting, interactive marketing, branding and creative content development, Web design, benchmarking and best practices, eBusiness transformation and organization change, custom application development, software package implementation, eCommerce and decision support technology. The company's "end-to-end" focus provides its clients with a unique combination of accountability and expertise, leveraging eSolutions across multi-entity functional areas that include brand and product development, business strategy, eCommerce, supply chain, sales and marketing, customer relationship management, finance, human resources and information technology. For more information, please contact 1-888-2solve-IT.

About AppWorx Corporation

AppWorx builds and markets software products that automate and integrate application processing across the enterprise. Processes run based on conditional rules that parallel the priorities of the business, as well as specific times and days of the week, and available system resources. AppWorx innovative output management capabilities speed the reliable delivery of information to business users. Companies using AppWorx realize improvements in application continuity, application integration and end user satisfaction.

AppWorx international customer base includes AT&T, Citicorp, DoubleClick, Eastman Kodak, Glaxo Wellcome, John Deere, Motorola, New York Life, Oracle Corp., PriceWaterhouseCoopers, Texaco, the US Navy and the US Postal Service. AppWorx Corporation is privately held. For more information call 1.877.APPWORX or visit the website at http://www.appworx.com.