Business Intelligence Leaders arcplan and Applix Form Technical Alliance Partnership; Partnership Evidences Increasing Popularity Pairing arcplan's dynaSight Analytic Platform.

Business Editors/High-Tech Writers

WAYNE, Pa.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 18, 2004

Front End to the Applix TM1 Planning Platform for Business Intelligence Systems

arcplan Information Services AG, a world-leading analytic platform provider, and Applix, Inc., a global provider of Business Intelligence (BI) and Business Performance Management (BPM) software solutions, have formalized and strengthened a five-year relationship to provide leading, complementary OLAP technologies to clients across the globe.

The complimentary technologies, arcplan dynaSight analytic platform and Applix's TM1 planning and budgeting software, have been combined by some of the world's leading enterprises to create custom business intelligence (BI) solutions advancing planning and budgeting, forecasting, the success of marketing campaigns and compliance with regulatory mandates.

With the cooperative partnership, clients gain the ability to quickly build a custom arcplan dynaSight front-end application, which enhances the consolidation and visualization of multi-source data, on top of Applix TM1, a top performer for query and data load/calculation times, without integration or communication hassles.

"We share a long and growing list of clients with Applix throughout the world, so we are excited to be formalizing this relationship," Jim Burke, arcplan's VP of Business Development, said. "TM1 interfaces seamlessly with dynaSight and offers our clients speed and agility for building multidimensional analyses without the hassle, hardware, or technical consulting needed with many other products. dynaSight and TM1 share some of the quickest implementation times on the market, which means businesses coupling our products attain their goals and reap ROI that much faster as well."

"With renewed focus on our proven TM1 software - the core of Applix's BI and BPM solutions - our relationship with arcplan has become that much more valuable to us," David Menninger, vice president, Applix worldwide marketing, said. "Historically, dynaSight has been one of the most popular front ends for TM1, providing graphically pleasing visualization of data in addition to dash-boarding and front-end development opportunities."

Partners and clients alike are praising the partnership.

Stratature, an Atlanta-based analytic applications company, joins dynaSight and TM1 in its BankAnalytics Planning and Enterprise Dimension Manager (+EDM) products - used with great success in some of the nation's leading financial institutions. It recently signed ClearView of London to sell the BankAnalytics and +EDM products in Europe.

"Stratature has witnessed the effective integration of dynaSight and TM1 for years, and is glad to see them enter into formal partnership," Ian Ahern, Stratature CEO, said. "The BI market is maturing, but solutions that offer true business benefit to companies with multiple analytics tools are in growing demand and that's just what this partnership offers."

GAF Materials Corporation, North America's largest roofing manufacturer, coupled arcplan dynaSight and TM1 to create a custom BI application to optimize business performance with real-time, accurate reporting and reduce consolidation time.

"We've been reaping solid business benefits from this relationship for years," Rick Stevenson, director of Business Intelligence at GAFMC, said. "TM1 is the most powerful and intuitive OLAP database platform for BPM systems, and dynaSight is the technologically superior front end that completes the solution leveraging information across the entire enterprise."

Long-time partner Breakaway Technologies offers up the dynaSight/TM1 combination of products to several of the world's top pharmaceutical companies to simplify reporting and eliminate the labor intensive burden of accumulating and summarizing management data.

"Applix's TM1 and arcplan's dynaSight make an excellent duo for BPM solutions," said Charlie Rowland CFO/COO of Breakaway. "dynaSight's Web front end takes full advantage of TM1's numeric and text read/write capabilities and real-time calculations to deliver user-friendly custom planning, forecasting, reporting and strategic business analysis that transform scattered Excel and transactional data into a single version of the truth. Together, these products provide the ability to quickly analyze and react to data rather than wait for information gathering and retrieval."

About Applix, Inc.

Applix provides business intelligence and business performance management (BPM) software solutions to more than 1700 customers, including more than one-third of the fortune 100. Teams of business and financial planners use Applix's TM1 for planning, budgeting, forecasting solutions to continuously manage, monitor, and improve their overall business performance. These customers rely on TM1 for the best Excel interfaces in the industry, the most flexible environment for matching a company's financial model, no matter how detailed, and its proven low total coat of ownership.

About arcplan Information Services AG

arcplan is a globally successful software developer whose solutions enable companies to bridge business initiatives and IT resources. With arcplan's business intelligence and guided selling solutions, IT and business professionals can create custom Web-based applications without the cost and complexity of traditional solutions. arcplan has more than 1,800 customers in 35 countries. For more information, visit www.arcplan.com.