Mobius partners with TopTier to provide portal to enterprise documents

Johannesburg, 24 Oct 2000

Mobius Management Systems, Inc., a leading provider of software that supports document-centric e-business applications, today announced that it has entered into a marketing and development partnership with TopTier Software, Inc., a leading provider of enterprise portal software. The alliance will produce a robust portal infrastructure with access to the diverse documents, reports and images stored in Mobius ViewDirect(r) content repositories.

Under the terms of the agreement, Mobius will market TopTier eBusiness Integration Portal in conjunction with the Mobius ViewDirect software suite. ViewDirect creates a comprehensive content repository by capturing and integrating diverse unstructured data (documents, reports and images) from multiple back-office applications and making it available for Web presentment. An interface to TopTier Portal will provide front-end facilities for searching and creating personalized views of the ViewDirect repository.

"Many companies have robust infrastructures to support access and analysis of structured data retrieved from data warehouses and data marts," said Glenn Lombardi, Mobius vice president of business development. "But industry analysts have estimated that unstructured data, in the form of documents, reports and images, represents as much as 75% of the information in an organization. Leveraging this information for improved customer service and worker productivity is essential and its availability is vital to the success of portal strategies. Our customers use ViewDirect to integrate massive amounts of data in different formats from different sources, making it the ideal back-end repository to TopTier`s portal technology."

"Mobius is a proven leader in providing software that integrates and Web-enables documents and reports," said Mark Sochan, TopTier vice president of business development. "TopTier provides a way to correlate and present that information to each user in the form that suits that user`s needs. We offer complementary solutions that together will give our mutual customers integrated and personalized views of a wide array of enterprise information."

"We`re pleased to be working with TopTier," Lombardi added. "Their `Drag and Relate` technology, enabling users to connect and correlate diverse information, provides an easy-to-use facility for creating personalized information views that will leverage the wealth of content in ViewDirect repositories."

TopTier Software, Inc.

TopTier Software, Inc. is a leading provider of Enterprise Information Portals and products that integrate information residing in a business`s internal and external enterprise applications, databases, documents, Web sites, and other data sources. TopTier`s eBusiness Integration Portal software products are designed to enable a business`s extended enterprise of customers, vendors, suppliers and employees to directly access, navigate and manipulate integrated information using an intuitive and effective portal interface. With TopTier`s patented HyperRelational technology, users can access, interconnect, update, edit and delete information from multiple software applications and data sources through a simple Drag and Relate process. By doing so, TopTier`s products enable organizations to create collaborative advantage for their enterprise by driving a real-time, frictionless flow of information between employees, partners and customers.

TopTier`s HyperRelational technology is used in several applications of leading software companies including SAP`s [NYSE: SAP] mySAP.com and Baan Company`s [NASDAQ: BAANF] Baan Data Navigator. Incorporated in 1996, TopTier Software is a privately held company with headquarters in San Jose, California. For more information about TopTier Software, call 408.360.1700, or visit us on the Web at www.toptier.com.

Mobius

Mobius Management Systems, Inc. (www.mobius.com) is a leading provider of Web-based software solutions that support a broad range of e-business and application requirements, including customer service, enterprise resource planning and electronic bill presentment and payment. The Company`s ViewDirect(r) technology delivers high-speed access through a common portal to high-volume stores of diverse information. Click-n-Done, developed by Mobius subsidiary Click-n-Done.com LLC, provides a "next generation" electronic bill presentment and payment solution that supports all e-billing models. Mobius products are used by more than one million customers and employees of nearly 1,300 organizations worldwide, including banks, insurance companies, financial service providers, utilities and telecommunications companies. More than half of the Fortune 100 companies use Mobius software. The Company, founded in 1981, is headquartered in Rye, New York, with eleven domestic offices, as well as foreign subsidiaries in England, France, Germany, Italy, Sweden, Switzerland, Benelux, Australia and Japan.