Symantec and PC DOCS Announce Technology Alliance to Include E-Forms in
Complete Document Management Solution

Canadian Coast Guard: First Implementation of Delrina FormFlow and DOCS
Open Solution

TORONTO, ONT, JANUARY 29, 1996 -- Symantec Corporation (NASDAQ:SYMC) and PC
DOCS Inc. today announced full interoperability between their products,
Delrina FormFlow and DOCS Open, providing the ability to manage electronic
forms as part of a comprehensive enterprise-wide document management
application. A Dynamic Link Library (DLL) was developed to handle FormFlow
forms like any other documents managed by the system. This integration
allows customers to automate their business processes with FormFlow
electronic forms, where the relevant FormFlow files are then organized and
managed by DOCS Open. The Canadian Coast Guard is one of the first
customer organizations to have implemented a combined FormFlow/DOCS Open
solution. This announcement marks the beginning of a series of Delrina
Group partnerships designed to allow users to easily add electronic forms
to their existing and planned enterprise-wide applications.

"More and more, electronic forms automation is becoming one part of a
comprehensive technology solution within organizations," said Teddy
Rosenberg, general manager, Electronic Forms, Delrina Group. "While
FormFlow provides complete forms management capabilities, we recognize
that these electronic forms must often fit into the management structure
of all other documents in an organization. By integrating FormFlow and
DOCS Open, we have included electronic forms in a full document management
solution. It has been our strategy to partner with key players in the
industry where it makes sense for our customers and business model. We
plan to bring this solution to our mutual customers including many other
departments in the Canadian Federal Government."

The Coast Guard's application uses FormFlow for more than 70 different
human resources and administrative forms such as employee appraisals,
vacation requests, and timesheets. DOCS Open is used as its enterprise-
wide document management solution to scan paper documents, track e-mail
and electronic forms, and manage document storage and disposal. A DLL was
developed by PC DOCS to handle FormFlow forms like other documents managed
by the system. FormFlow's unique "packaging" feature--the ability to send
a form by itself, send a form with associated data, or send pointers to
the form and/or the data--made this integration possible.

"A key consideration in our decision to purchase DOCS Open was its ability
to work seamlessly with our existing infrastructure, including FormFlow,
without requiring us to make additional software investments. Now our
FormFlow forms are managed just like the other documents in our
organization," said Scott Prieur, manager of application development for
the Information Resource Management (IRM) division of the Coast Guard.
"DOCS Open and FormFlow work together to provide an open solution that
ties into our existing resources, yet is flexible enough to work with
software we may choose in the future."

"The Symantec and PC DOCS relationship makes a lot of sense, highlighting
the natural synergies between FormFlow's powerful and versatile forms
creation and routing capabilities and the well-established document
management features of DOCS Open," said James J. Greene III, analyst at
Summit Strategies, Inc. a Boston, MA-based market consulting firm. "The
integration of these products means customers can have their cake and eat
it too, completely automating their previously paper- constrained
processes while improving the protection and management of vital
documents. Most importantly, this demonstrates the Delrina Group's
commitment to complement and enhance forms-related infrastructure
technologies such as databases, e-mail and security that are already part
of the customer environment."

About Delrina FormFlow

Delrina FormFlow electronic forms software allows organizations to leverage
their existing technology investments to automate business processes.
Organizations use FormFlow to create intelligent forms --electronic
representations of paper forms with built-in intelligence such as
calculations, links to databases, and customized toolbars and menus. In
addition, organizations can create form applications with conditional
routing and deploy them enterprise-wide using their e-mail systems. These
form applications present and move information using the existing
networks, databases, and e-mail infrastructure. Examples of such automated
business processes include travel requests, expense reporting, procurement
and human resources applications. FormFlow is currently available for
Windows, DOS, UNIX (SunOS, Solaris, SGI), and Macintosh, with IBM AIX,
HP/UX, Windows NT, and Windows 95 versions to follow.

About PC DOCS, Inc.

PC DOCS, Inc. is the leading provider of document management software for
networked professionals and sells its award-winning software, DOCS Open
through a channel of authorized resellers, integrators, and distributors
worldwide. The company provides enterprise-wide document management
systems for a variety of industries including manufacturing, finance,
government agencies, insurance, legal, and other professional service
organizations. PC DOCS, Inc. is a subsidiary of PC DOCS Group
International Inc. which is traded on the NASDAQ (DOCSF) and Toronto (DXX)
Exchanges. The company can be contacted for more information through its
Internet Web site at http://www.pcdocs.com.

About the Delrina Group

Delrina Group of Symantec Corp. designs, develops, markets and supports
innovative PC software products in the fax, data and voice communications
and electronic forms software markets. Delrina is recognized as the world
leader in PC fax and electronic forms. Delrina can be contacted for more
information through its Internet Web site at http://www.delrina.com.

Symantec Corp. develops, markets and supports a complete line of
application and system software products designed to enhance individual
and workgroup productivity as well as manage networked computing
environments. The company is headquartered in Cupertino, Calif., and sells
its software worldwide.

PRODUCT AND ORDERING INFORMATION:
Symantec Corporation
10201 Torre Avenue
Cupertino, CA 95014 USA
Tel: 1-800-441-7234 or (541) 334-6054
 
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