Athene Software Selects Unify eWave to Power Its Web-Based CRM Solution for Communications Service Providers.

Business Editors/High-Tech Writers

SACRAMENTO, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 6, 2001

Unify Provides Scalable, Standards-Based Platform for Enterprise-Level

Customer Retention and Relationship Management Solution

Unify Corporation (OTC System:UNFY), a leading provider of extending business applications to the Web, today announced that Athene Software has selected Unify eWave Engine for the development and deployment of its enterprise-level iCRM product suite for intelligent customer relationship management.

Components of Athene's iCRM suite, APT Churn(TM) and APT Profitability(TM) dynamically predicts customer behavior, reveals the drivers or reasons for this behavior, delivers pro-active, real-time recommendations to all customer touch points, and continuously learns with each customer interaction. Athene's software enables communications service providers around the world to proactively build and retain profitable, long-term and loyal customer bases. By powering its solution with Unify eWave Engine, Athene offers its customers a Java-based, component architecture that features platform independence and high scalability.

A high-performance application server, Unify eWave Engine supports the Java 2 Platform Enterprise Edition(TM)(J2EE) specification, including the Enterprise JavaBeans(TM)(EJB) 1.1 component architecture.

"Unify eWave Engine provides our developers with a standards-based development environment that offers the flexibility required to create feature-rich, highly scalable, performance-optimized applications and bring them to market quickly and cost-effectively," said Richard Wolniewicz, vice president of engineering at Athene Software. "Our decision to select Unify eWave Engine to deploy APT Churn is primarily due to its implementation of the J2EE standards."

"Unify eWave Engine provides customers with a feature rich platform for highly available enterprise processing," said Dave Glende, chief technology officer for Unify. "Athene's decision to use our technology will help their customers get up and running faster while providing them with superior technology that will meet their needs today and tomorrow."

About Athene Software

Athene Software provides a suite of customer-focused intelligent Customer Relationship Management (iCRM(TM)) software which dynamically predicts customer behavior, reveals the drivers or reasons for this behavior, delivers pro-active, real-time recommendations to all customer touch points, and continuously learns with each customer interaction. Athene's predictive intelligence provides a 360-degree view of customers throughout their life cycle. Drawing on the expertise of some of the world's best domain experts and machine learning scientists, Athene enables ISPs, subscriber-based e-businesses and Communications Service Providers around the world to proactively build and retain profitable, long-term and loyal customer bases. Athene Software is headquartered in Boulder, Colorado, U.S.A. with offices in London. For more information, call 303/786-7500 or visit www.athenesoft.com.

About APT Churn and APT Profitability

APT Churn uses state-of-the-art machine learning models and advanced statistical techniques to provide customer-specific prediction and customer-centric solutions to maximize customer retention and allow management of customers by their profitability potential. First released in July 1999, APT Churn marks the industry's first native web system that not only predicts those customers most likely to churn, but also suggests the most successful retention methods and campaigns designed to keep them as loyal customers. APT Profitability proactively identifies up-sell and cross-sell opportunities for new and existing products and services.

About Unify eWave Engine

Unify eWave Engine is an easy-to-use Web application server that takes advantage of the latest J2EE standards including JavaServer(TM) Pages (JSP), Servlets, and Enterprise JavaBean (EJB) technology to build dynamic Web applications. Unify eWave Engine supports all major platforms including Windows NT, Windows 2000, Sun Solaris, and Linux, as well as all major Web servers including Microsoft IIS, Netscape Enterprise Server, iPlanet Web Server and Apache Web Server. Free downloads are available at www.unifyewave.com.

About Unify Corporation

Unify Corporation is a leading provider of solutions for extending business applications to the Web. Unify's proven technology, unparalleled customer support, experienced consulting organization, managed hosting services and partner programs form the comprehensive solution companies need to extend their businesses to the Web quickly, reliably and cost effectively. Headquartered in Sacramento, Unify has offices in Europe and Japan, in addition to a worldwide network of distributors. Additional information and product downloads are available at www.unify.com and www.unifyewave.com.

Note to Editors: Athene Software, Advanced Predictive Technology Platform, APT, APT Churn and iCRM are trademarks of Athene Software, Inc.