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Micrografx Integrates Microsoft VBA 6.0, Extends Functionality of iGrafx Professional

Business Wire, April 28, 1999

RICHARDSON, Texas--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 28, 1999--

Enables Robust Customization Capabilities, While Significantly

Reducing Development Time

Micrografx, Inc., (NASDAQ:MGXI), a global provider of enterprise graphics software, announced today support for Microsoft VBA 6.0 in the upcoming release of iGrafx Professional(TM), a leading product that delivers VBA 6.0-enabled applications. Now, corporate developers, independent software vendors (ISVs) or system integrators can take advantage of Micrografx's robust diagramming engine and VBA 6.0 to rapidly develop custom process and graphics driven solutions.

"We have long been a fan of extending core applications using industry standard tools to solve unique customer needs," said Scott Baird, president of ProcessModel. "Now with VBA 6.0 and iGrafx Professional, we expect to complete our custom application in approximately 40 percent less time than with previously available tools. This will have a dramatic effect on reducing our development costs, while rapidly getting our solution to market."

Robust Environment

iGrafx Professional delivers the richest set of graphic functionality to visualize, understand and improve business processes at corporations. VBA 6.0 brings to iGrafx Professional an integrated development environment that enables developers to extend and enhance this graphic capability to build custom graphics applications or extensions by leveraging the graphical features of iGrafx Professional.

Rapid Integration with other VBA-enabled applications

iGrafx Professional can be easily tailored to fit into a solution that uses other VBA-enabled applications. With iGrafx professional, now the 2 million developers who building solutions with Microsoft Office can create a seamless solution that integrates the diagramming engine from iGrafx Professional with Microsoft Office components.

"The vision of a digital nervous system within an enterprise is based in part on a system of interconnected PCs and integrated software solutions," said Neil Charney, group product manager for Microsoft Visual Basic for Applications and Office 2000 Developer. "By easily integrating graphic capabilities from iGrafx Professional with VBA into these solutions, corporations can get more accurate representation of data leading to better decisions."

About Micrografx

Micrografx, Inc. (NASDAQ:MGXI) is a recognized global leader in enterprise graphics software. The company is specifically focused on providing corporations with intelligent graphic solutions that help people visually communicate and analyze key corporate information, processes and ideas to solve real-world business problems. Micrografx is dedicated to delivering solutions through highly intelligent graphics-oriented enterprise software in four categories, including corporate graphics, process management, network documentation and technology development and licensing.

In 1999, Micrografx delivered the iGrafx System, a one-of-a-kind, easy-to-use, highly scalable enterprise graphics platform to address the needs of users at every level. Visit www.micrografx.com for more information.

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