Applix announces Applix Enterprise Version 6.0 making significant enhancements to the help desk offering; Applix Enterprise extends ease-of-use, inherent flexibility and scalability.

SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aug. 26, 1996--Applix, Inc. (NASDAQ:APLX) today announced at the Support Services Expo at the Moscone Convention Center, the release of Version 6.0 of its Applix Enterprise suite of customer service and support applications.

Through its redesigned interface, Applix Enterprise Version 6.0 extends the ease-of-use and inherent flexibility of this leading system.

Applix Enterprise Version 6.0 was designed with a new, modular forms or "tabbed" interface, which allows the user to easily step through various customer support processes in an intuitive fashion. Using the new application tool bar, the user can maneuver simply and quickly into each of the various application interfaces available within the Applix Enterprise suite. This translates into improved productivity per user, with easy user authorization administration. The end result is an easy to learn and use system, reducing implementation time and cost while improving application performance.

"In designing this substantially new release of Applix Enterprise, we listened closely to our customers who wanted us to strike a balance between an easy, familiar desktop standard, without limiting their flexibility or the depths of our product's functionality," said David Golan, director of business development. "Version 6.0 offers far tighter integration capabilities than anything on the market today, allowing our customers to achieve their Enterprise integration strategies and be in better control of their customer support business."

To further enhance the scalability of Applix Enterprise, Version 6.0 includes a new VIP workflow processor, which improves overall client performance by offloading workflow processes to another server. In addition, enhanced integration with popular network management and asset polling applications (such as HP OpenView and Cabletron Spectrum, and Microsoft SMS and Tally NetCensus, respectively), as well as Lotus Notes integration, have been added to the Version 6.0 release.

"I'm very impressed with what I would call the 'proactive' design of Applix Enterprise Version 6.0. For instance, with the new tabbed interface, ease-of-use has increased considerably," said Philip Van Schalkwyk, senior technical engineer, Keyfile Corporation. "Also with the addition of the training application, we will now be able to integrate our training operation with our support and service organization."

Pricing/Availability

Applix Enterprise Version 6.0 will be available Q3 1996. It is priced below $2,000 per concurrent user. Version 6.0 runs on Windows 3.1X, Windows '95, Windows NT, UNIX or interactively.

About Applix

Applix, Inc., based in Westboro, MA, provides solutions for the Real Time Enterprise -- those organizations that seek and gain competitive advantage by converting raw data into effective action in the shortest possible time. Applix develops, markets and supports Applixware, Applix Enterprise software and Applix Anyware.

Applix Enterprise is an integrated set of support automation applications for handling the dynamic data needs of customer interaction environments. Applixware for the Real Time Desk is an open suite of integrated personal desktop tools that enable individual users with time-critical and historical data needs to access, analyze, display and communicate information from a universal desktop across heterogeneous client/server environments, including the Web. Applix Anyware is the first commercial applications solution that leverages Java to develop and deploy interactive business applications to networked desktops. -0-

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