Folio Announces Integration of Folio VIEWS Infobases With Lotus Notes

June 28, 1994, New York City and Salt Lake City -- Folio Corporation, a
Lotus Notes Business Partner, today announced that it is working with
Lotus Development Corporation to provide integration between Folio
infobases created by Folio VIEWS software and Lotus Notes Release 3. The
product consists of software which targets the three most-requested points
of integration identified by customers who use both Lotus Notes and Folio
Infobase Technology. The announcement was made simultaneously at PC Expo
in New York City and at Infobase '94, in Salt Lake City, Utah.

The three integration points are: 1) The Folio Filter for Notes, a filter
for passing information seamlessly between Lotus Notes applications and
Folio infobases; 2) Apply Query, a Search menu option for Notes users who
want to apply a query from within Notes to existing Folio infobases either
on a network or CD ROM; and 3) Doc Links, a function allowing information
in a Notes database to be cross-referenced with information in a Folio
infobase.

"Lotus Notes customers are innovators and continually find ways to make
Lotus Notes a more useful component of their enterprise information
system," said Jeff Papows, vice president, Notes Product Division at Lotus
Development Corporation. "Notes integration with Folio's Infobase
Technology will provide users with new ways to manage enterprise-wide
information. "

"Our work with Lotus corresponds directly with requests from our joint
customers," said Tracy Scott, president of Folio Corporation. "Many of our
largest customers are also Lotus Notes users who want the advantages
provided by both technologies. Folio Infobase Technology is particularly
well-suited for giving users rapid access to and easy adaptability of
extremely large amounts of information. Integrating this functionality
with the broad, flexible functionality of the Lotus Notes environment will
give users a powerful solution that is unmatched by offerings from any
other source."

Customers Respond To Announcement

Customers of Folio VIEWS and Lotus Notes reacted positively to the
announcement.

Coopers & Lybrand, the international professional services firm, is a major
user of Lotus Notes worldwide. Jeff Hoover, a Coopers & Lybrand partner,
said, "One of our technology products in the United States is an
internally developed research tool, ReferenSearch, which uses Folio VIEWS
software. ReferenSearch provides our professionals easy access to a
library of technical literature of the SEC, Financial Accounting Standards
Board, and the American Institute of CPAs, along with our own internal
accounting and auditing policies and publications. The development of an
integration kit for Lotus Notes and Folio infobases will provide us with a
tool for seamless operations between our Notes-based C&L Audit Support
System (CLASS) application and ReferenSearch. The ability to move back and
forth between these applications and their associated databases will
enhance our productivity and the quality of our services."

Frank Niepold, manager, Electronic Document Management Systems for Chubb &
Son, Inc., a major U.S. insurer, said, "Chubb is pleased that Folio and
Lotus have responded to our expressed desire for such a link between two
components of our evolving professional workstation. Functionally, this
solution appears to deliver what we wanted: searching across both file
formats; archiving of Notes databases into Folio infobases, as well as
cutting and pasting from Folio infobases into Notes files; and, the
ability to use the Notes replication feature to distribute portions of a
Folio file.

"We also think that such a bridge will help our systems developers, as well
as our end users, to appreciate the fact that these two packages are
highly complementary," said Niepold.

Malcolm Greene, president of Brooks-Durham Software, a Folio Business
Partner located in Princeton, New Jersey, said, "Lotus Notes has emerged
as a de facto standard for corporate workgroup applications and has proven
itself to be an excellent tool for developing applications that collect
and route information. We see Folio's role as a very scalable and portable
data repository for information collected via Notes. This cooperation
between Folio and Lotus is important because it increases the
information-handling capabilities for applications with large volumes of
data."

Folio Filter for Notes

The Folio Filter for Notes will give Notes users two new capabilities: 1)
the ability to save fully formatted Notes database information to Folio
infobase format (as an archive solution); and 2) the ability to
cut-and-paste information between Notes databases and Folio infobases,
while still preserving all existing formatting.

Folio infobases are specifically designed to handle gigabytes of
free-format and semi-structured information, and offer an excellent
repository for Notes information that is important to retain, but which is
only accessed periodically. Lotus Notes users who choose to off-load
information from Notes databases to Folio infobases will gain the
advantage of a high-performance retrieval system which is both scalable
for large amounts of information, and extremely efficient, in that all
information stored in an infobase is highly compressed. In addition, all
Notes data stored in a Folio infobase will retain its respective
formatting.

Companies that rely heavily on information from commercially published
Folio infobases will find the cut-and-paste capability of the Folio Filter
for Notes very useful. The Folio Filter for Notes will enable Notes users
to easily compile documents using fully formatted pieces of relevant
information from commercially published infobase titles (subject to
applicable copyright laws). Examples include the Big Six accounting firms,
each of which subscribes to information services from multiple commercial
Folio infobase publishers, such as the American Institute of Certified
Public Accountants (AICPA), the Financial Accounting Standards Board
(FASB), the Bureau of National Affairs (BNA), and the Research Institute
of America (RIA).

Apply Query

"Apply Query" will enable a user who is searching a Notes database to also
concurrently search internal Folio infobases or commercially pre-published
infobases that are stored on CD ROM or network servers. This feature is
important for all customers who store and access electronic reference
information in both Notes databases and Folio infobases and want to search
both collections simultaneously.

Apply Query will be activated by a Notes menu option, which will also help
users identify the additional information sources to which the query
should be applied.

DocLinks

DocLinks act as hyperlinked cross-references between Lotus Notes databases
and Folio infobases. A distinctive icon represents DocLinks in a Notes
database and similar icons will be supported in Folio infobases. Both can
point to other available resources. Users following links in either
product will be presented with the linked information in the appropriate
Notes database/Folio infobase. This feature will also allow corporations
to cross-reference internal Notes databases with pre-published infobase
titles from commercial publishers.

Pricing and Availability

The product is expected to be available before the end of 1994. Pricing has
not yet been determined. For more information, contact Folio Product
Information at (800) 543-6546.

About Folio Infobase Technology

It is estimated that Folio Infobase Technology currently resides on more
than 30 million desktops in the form of Folio VIEWS, Novell NetWare Help,
Banyan VINES technical documentation and as the delivery mechanism for
hundreds of titles from more than 200 commercial publishers on CD ROM and
diskette.

Front-line service providers depend on Folio infobases to handle the
important information they need make informed decisions and help
customers. With Folio infobases, enterprises, workgroups, and individuals
can find what they need when they need it, information can be updated in
real-time without interruption and many people can edit or annotate
information simultaneously.

In addition, Folio's unique virtual, record-based structure allows users to
link, group and view information in a variety of ways to make it easier to
synthesize and analyze. Folio infobases empower people to index and
retrieve information rapidly, store multimedia objects, update information
on-the-fly, and adapt information to meet the unique needs of their
organizations.

Folio and Mead Data Central

Folio's parent company is Mead Data Central (MDC), Dayton, Ohio, provider
of the LEXIS and NEXIS online information services. MDC is a division of
Mead Corporation, "MEA" on the New York Stock Exchange, with 1993 revenues
of $4.8 billion.

Folio Corp
2155 North Freedom Blvd, Provo, UT 84604
801-344-3700,   800-543-6546

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