Cerebyte's Infinos Product Enhancements Unlock Companies' Intellectual Capital.

Business Editors/High Tech Writers

LAKE OSWEGO, Ore.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 17, 2000

New Roadmap, Enhanced Navigation and Charting Features Simplify

Software's Use and Help Capture and Automate Intellectual Capital

Cerebyte's Infinos(TM) System software, an integrated suite of 10 applications that capture best practices and institutional knowledge, releases version 3.0, adding significant archiving and collaboration capabilities with its roadmaps features while enhancing existing navigation and charting capabilities.

Cerebyte's software applies the captured knowledge of all aspects of business operations to generate more revenue and increase customer satisfaction without adding personnel. Additional benefits of using Infinos include the reduction of loss of intellectual capital through employee turnover, reduced employee training time, enhanced ability to scale an organization, and the opportunity to sell the IC.

"More than 80 companies are now using Infinos to cut costs, increase productivity and generate new revenues while protecting themselves against the loss of their best workers," said William Seidman, Cerebyte president and CEO. "Version 3.0 enhancements make it easier for companies to unlock the power of their intellectual capital by capturing and automating their best practices."

Version 3.0 incorporates a new "roadmap for reuse" capability that creates a special archive so the user can define and store captured intellectual capital. Infinos captures IC and distills it as best practices, which are then available as "roadmaps" for reuse by many industries and functions.

The technology facilitates the synthesis of experience, processes, understanding and data into roadmaps that are easy to use and effective at reproducing superior decision-making behavior.

Other new features include:

--The ability to link existing process documents to the Infinos system so that it acts like a mini-document management system;

--Sophisticated workflow management;

--E-mail launch from Infinos.

Enhancements include improvements to the navigation system that permit the user to move more quickly and easily between modules, simplified terminology to improve communications, and upgraded bar chart capabilities that permit the user to view an entire schedule on a single screen.

Current users of the Infinos System have demonstrated significant improvement in their ability to leverage their IC:

--Hewlett-Packard Co., Palo Alto, Calif., utilizes Cerebyte software to develop common language and process steps for defining, tracking and managing product development projects throughout the company.

"I'm constantly on the lookout for this kind of software, but I've never found anything that follows our process as closely as Cerebyte," said Richard Bauhaus, manager of engineering and management development for HP;

--Tektronix, Inc., Wilsonville, Ore., initially utilized Cerebyte software as a project management tool for infrastructure improvements. It is now being employed to manage product campaing launches in 26 countries.

"We are using Infinos to help us identify the critical requirements of a successful campaign," said Bill Fitzgerald, director of marketing operations for Tektronix. "Our marketing people don't want to be bound by a rigid structure--they want to be conversational and developmental in their thinking as well as creative, and the Cerebyte tool allows us to do that."

To encourage collaborative planning and decision making, Infinos' 10 applications collect and organize IC in critical work areas, including the definition of work objectives, key roles and responsibilities, and capacity management. Infinos guides the application of previously captured IC to new situations.

Additional roadmaps are being developed by experts in such fields as software development, safety, legal and audio-visual systems to provide in-depth guidance to users in these areas. Cerebyte also provides a range of professional services designed to increase the use of Infinos within organizations, including development of "roadmaps to success" information, software implementation and planning workshops, applications customization, management coaching and training classes.

Upgrades are priced at $400 per seat. A complete software suite sells for $2,500 per seat, and discounts are provided for volume purchases.

The intellectual portion of Infinos IC software is programmed in Visual Basic, writes a Microsoft Access-compatible database, and creates output through Microsoft Office in an MS Windows environment.

Cerebyte is also creating a business-to-business application service provider (ASP) to enable 24/7 access to its software, roadmaps library, and online services.

About Cerebyte

Founded in 1997, Cerebyte, Inc. is a pioneer in the development of intellectual capital software that improves efficiency and profitability while retaining the knowledge of a company's best employees. The company will relocate its headquarters to the San Francisco Bay Area in the near future.