Agreement Addresses Enterprise Information Overload,
                          Makes Searching More Precise

    OTTAWA, CANADA, August 25 /PRNewswire/ - Fulcrum Technologies Inc.
(NASDAQ: FULCF; TSE: FUL) today announced that it has licensed intelligent
linguistic analysis technology from ERLI S.A., a company based in Paris,
France. Fulcrum(R) will use ERLI's technology to provide accurate concept
searches based on a multi-level linguistic analysis that understands the
intended meanings of search terms.  Users will get results based on what they
actually mean, rather than unrelated meanings of search terms.  Organizations
will also be able to create and refine a customized corporate lexicon, geared
to their own knowledge base.
    Fulcrum will leverage ERLI's technology to deliver appropriate search
results to the appropriate audience.  A computer hardware engineer searching
for information on ``drives'' is unlikely to want to see information on
automotive engineering or on golfing.  This advanced capability will be of
particular value to enterprises using the Fulcrum Knowledge Network(TM) to
provide a single window of access into the numerous, ever-growing repositories
of information that knowledge workers are using.  The key benefit is that
users spend less time narrowing down what they really need from a result
list.  Fulcrum will incorporate the additional intelligent language
processing capabilities from ERLI into the Fulcrum Knowledge Network and
Fulcrum SearchServer(TM) by year-end.
    ``Our most recent product, the Fulcrum Knowledge Network, is gaining
broad appeal in enterprise accounts,'' said Eric Goodwin, chairman and CEO of
Fulcrum.  ``This agreement with ERLI is consistent with our goal of equipping
knowledge workers to handle the huge flood of information in their
organizations, and making them more effective in finding the nuggets of
knowledge that have real value.''
    ``This is an important partnership for ERLI, because we can work with
Fulcrum to deliver strategic knowledge management solutions that meet user
needs,'' said Bernard Normier, president and CEO of ERLI.  ``Fulcrum has
clearly emerged as a leader in the knowledge management space, and both
companies are focused on delivering the highest value solutions to the
enterprise market.''

    USER BENEFITS
    -  Improved knowledge-worker productivity through an enhanced knowledge
       retrieval process.
    -  More precise results, because spurious meanings of search-terms are
       automatically ignored.
    -  More comprehensive results, because the scope of a search can
       automatically be broadened to encompass all of the intended meanings.
    -  Customizable because organizations can create a corporate lexicon
       geared to their own knowledge base.

    ABOUT THE COMPANIES
    Founded in 1977, ERLI has over 20 years' experience in natural-language
processing and is the European leader in computational linguistics.
The company's products are designed to bring the power of personal language
and conceptual thinking to the computing environment.  As a result, users can
interact and communicate with their computer as they would with another human,
increasing the quality and accuracy of information processing.
ERLI's customers include a number of on-line yellow page systems, Genelex,
GRAAL and others.  Visit ERLI's web site: http://www.erli.com.
    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, and its customers
include some of the world's most important companies, including Microsoft 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 the
Fulcrum Knowledge Network and SearchServer are trademarks of Fulcrum.
Other trademarks used throughout this document are trademarks of their
respective owners.

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