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Mobius Introduces Web Search Engine for Enterprise Documents; Provides Web Searching of 'Non-crawlable' Document Content

Business Wire, April 5, 2000

Business Editors/Hi-Tech Writers

RYE, N.Y.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 5, 2000

Mobius Management Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ: MOBI) today announced the introduction of e-Search & View, a powerful Web-based tool for searching high-volume indexed archives of enterprise documents, reports and images.

e-Search & View is an efficient, easy-to-use facility that searches the indexes of these archives, enabling searches through massive amounts of content that has been "non-crawlable," that is, inaccessible with currently available Web search techniques.

e-Search & View is the Web-based search engine of the Mobius ViewDirect(R) technology suite. ViewDirect software integrates documents, reports and images of different formats, presenting and distributing them to employees, customers and partners over the Internet and via corporate portals. e-Search & View utilizes the high-performance indexing of the ViewDirect document server to quickly locate all documents that meet the user's search criteria.

"Our goal was to deliver a Web-based search engine that would enable our customers to quickly and easily search through huge volumes of documents that, until now, have not been Web-searchable," said John Murphy, vice president of product marketing at Mobius. "We expect e-Search & View to be widely popular because it serves the needs of internal users as well as customers, suppliers and business partners who will have quick and easy 'self-service' access to information about their transactions and accounts."

e-Search & View provides users with a familiar and easy-to-use search facility. It supports simple search requests using a single condition and advanced search requests with multiple conditions. Searches are directed to a document server, where topic indexes are searched for matches and only the results returned to the browser client. Users will find searching with e-Search & View intuitive and easy, with no training required.

e-Search & View will be available at the end of April.

About 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 requirements, including customer relationship management, enterprise resource planning, enterprise document portals and electronic bill/statement presentment and payment. The Company's ViewDirect technology provides Internet and network access to an integrated repository of diverse documents, reports and images. Mobius products are used by more than 1,200 organizations worldwide, including banks, insurance companies, financial services providers, utilities and telecommunications companies.

More than half of the Fortune 100 companies use Mobius software. Founded in 1981, the Company 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.

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Factors that might affect actual results, performance, or achievements include, among other things, overall economic and business conditions, the demand for the Company's goods and services, and technological advances and competitive factors in the markets in which the Company competes. These risks and uncertainties are described in detail from time to time in Mobius' filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission, including its Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q, filed on February 14, 2000. Mobius accepts no obligation to update these forward-looking statements and does not intend to do so.