Independent Software Vendors Partner With Fulcrum To Add Information
        Retrieval Functionality To Their Own Market Leading Applications

    OTTAWA, Canada, Nov. 18 /PRNewswire/ - Fulcrum Technologies Inc. (NASDAQ:
FULCF; TSE: FUL) today announced alliances with Applix, Inc. and Elite
Information Systems, and a renewed alliance with CONNECT, Inc. to deliver
applications for customer care, financial and professional services markets,
and e-commerce based on the integration of industry leading information
retrieval software from Fulcrum(R).
    ``More and more companies today are looking to software vendors for
applications that can be easily and seamlessly deployed within their
organizations to quickly and effectively achieve their business goals,'' said
Mike Laginski, president and chief operating officer at Fulcrum.
``By embedding core technologies like Fulcrum SearchServer(TM) into their
products, Applix, Elite and CONNECT are able to deliver comprehensive
out-of-the-box functionality to their customers.  We believe that by working
together Fulcrum and its alliance partners are able to ensure that customers
are provided with powerful and complete solutions.''
    Applix, Inc., is a leading provider of software for managing customer
interaction, real-time decision support and office productivity across
globally networked, extended enterprise environments.  Applix's Enterprise
product line - a customer satisfaction solution comprised of help desk, sales
and service modules - has fully integrated Fulcrum SearchServer.  Built into
the Enterprise server, SearchServer automatically indexes in real time all the
information that is added to the Enterprise database.
    ``Fulcrum SearchServer enables Applix Enterprise users to quickly obtain
up-to-date information in real time, cutting down on the latency between
taking and resolving customer requests,'' said Tony Martinez, director,
product marketing at Applix.  ``In addition, Fulcrum SearchServer's
multiplatform capabilities allow searches across all platforms supported by
Enterprise - Windows, UNIX and Java - which allows our customers to obtain the
information they need regardless of environment.''
    Elite Information Systems, Inc., a subsidiary of Broadway & Seymour,
Inc., provides leading financial and practice management applications for law
firms and other professional service organizations.  ``As the leading provider
of practice management systems in the legal industry, we wanted the best
search tool available,'' said Chris Poole, president of Elite.  ``Fulcrum has
proven to be just that, and runs well on many of the platforms we support.
Perhaps the most critical application in a law firm is the system that
searches for and identifies possible conflicts of interest before a case is
taken on.  The integration of Fulcrum SearchServer into Elite's
state-of-the-art Conflicts module gives these firms the tools they need to
help avoid these conflicts.''
    CONNECT, Inc. designs, develops, markets and supports enterprise
application software for electronic commerce.  It's award-winning software
applications, OrderStream(TM) and PurchaseStream(TM), allow global companies
to automate order capture, improve customer service, streamline purchasing,
and streamline distribution and demand chain processes.
    ``We continue to embed Fulcrum SearchServer into our OrderStream and
PurchaseStream electronic commerce applications because of its ease of
administration and the value it brings to our application,'' said Bart Foster,
executive vice president, sales and marketing at CONNECT.  ``The addition of
Fulcrum's software helps our customers use any standard Web browser to search
through large databases of information, such as product catalogs and inventory
lists, thus simplifying the online purchasing process.''

    ABOUT FULCRUM
    For 14 years, Fulcrum Technologies Inc. has been a world leader in
providing software solutions that turn enterprise information into knowledge.
Fulcrum's products allow customers to create multi-platform, standards-based
solutions - for customer care, best practices, publishing, and other
applications that require robust underlying search software.  Its customers
include world-class organizations such as Charles Schwab, the European Union,
and Fujitsu.  Headquartered in Ottawa, Canada, Fulcrum extends its global
reach with offices throughout the United States, Europe, and in Australia and
Japan, and through a network of partners worldwide.  Fulcrum is publicly
traded on the Nasdaq National Market (``FULCF'') and on the Toronto Stock
Exchange (``FUL'').  For more information on Fulcrum and Fulcrum products,
visit Fulcrum's Web site: http://www.fulcrum.com.

    Fulcrum is a registered trademark of Fulcrum Technologies Inc. and
SearchServer is a trademark of Fulcrum.  Other trademarks used throughout this
document are trademarks of their respective owners.

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