CLARISIMPACT 2.0 ANNOUNCED FOR MACINTOSH AND WINDOWS

CLARIS STORMS WINDOWS BUSINESS DIAGRAMING MARKET WITH MOST COMPLETE,
EASY-TO-USE CHARTING AND DIAGRAMING APPLICATION

PC EXPO, New York -- June 20, 1995 -- Claris Corporation today announced
ClarisImpact 2.0, bringing Windows and Macintosh users the broadest range
of quality business graphics for all their charting and diagraming needs.
ClarisImpact 2.0 is in full beta-testing and on schedule to ship to U.S.
resellers in August with a suggested retail price (SRP) of $129.

ClarisImpact 2.0 lets users automatically create connected diagrams
(organizational charts, flow charts, computer diagrams, brainstorm charts,
total quality management charts and more), project time lines, calendars,
data charts, and freeform graphics in one easy-to-use application.
ClarisImpact 2.0 for Windows is a 32-bit application ready for Windows 95,
and the Macintosh version is native for Power Macintosh, providing great
performance on both systems.

ClarisImpact 2.0 will lead the business diagraming category for
ease-of-use, breadth of chart types, speed of task completion, and
cross-platform compatibility, said Guerrino De Luca, president of Claris.
We're very excited to be the only cross-platform charting solution for our
many customers who work in mixed computing environments.

New to ClarisImpact 2.0 are brand-new styles providing users with
professionally designed art for creating the best looking graphics in
color or black and white, whether in text-based reports, on-screen
presentations or overhead transparencies.

Also new to ClarisImpact 2.0 is DataDraw, which instantly creates graphics
from any tab or comma separated data in a database or spreadsheet. For
example, ClarisImpact 2.0 can take records from a human resources database
and automatically generate an organizational chart. Or a spreadsheet used
for managing project dates can be instantly turned into a time line for

at-a-glance updates. ClarisImpact 2.0 will ship with DataDraw templates for
FileMaker Pro databases and Microsoft Excel spreadsheets to automate the
process.

CLARISIMPACT 2.0: EASIER, FASTER THAN DRAG-AND-DROP

ClarisImpact 2.0 works by using a 3-clicks and you're done approach to
creating new business charts and diagrams. One mouse click for selecting
the graphic the user wants to create, another click to choose a
great-looking style, and a third click to complete the graphic. The user
can then further edit or add data to the graphic.

ClarisImpact 2.0 provides an immense productivity boost from the drag and
drop process offered by other business charting and diagraming
applications. In those applications, the user must drag each component of
a graphic (such as the boxes and connectors of an organizational chart)
onto the page, one at a time. Editing and tweaking the graphic can mean
starting over. With ClarisImpact, global editing is as simple as choosing
a different style. Move, edit or delete a single chart component, and
ClarisImpact automatically reconnects and spaces the graphic.

CLARIS CHALLENGE: COMPARE CLARISIMPACT AND VISIO

As with all Claris products, usability testing played a big part in
creating ClarisImpact. But Claris went even further, and tested
ClarisImpact against current Windows category leader, VISIO 3.0.
ClarisImpact 1.0 and VISIO 3.0 users, and non-users, were tested on both
products. The results were clear: ClarisImpact 2.0 was overwhelmingly
rated easiest to use by test subjects and was, by far, the most preferred
application chosen by test subjects.

We did the internal competitive usability testing to improve ClarisImpact
and encourage others to compare ClarisImpact 2.0 against the competition,
said Chris Nalls, product manager for ClarisImpact. We know we have a
better solution.

The tasks were 'real world' in nature, and included creating and editing
organizational charts, project time lines and flow charts. A complete
summary of the usability test results is available from Claris Public
Relations by calling (408) 987-7623.

A COMPATIBLE ADD-ON FOR SUITE USERS

ClarisImpact 2.0 is a perfect add-on to suite offerings, such as Microsoft
Office. Its built-in XTND translation engine allows for importing most
major application formats, including several versions of Microsoft Word,
Excel, PowerPoint, WordPerfect and any text or tab and comma-separated
data. And ClarisImpact 2.0 can import or export standard Windows and
Macintosh graphics formats as well.

For companies or users who are not suite-based, ClarisImpact provides
presentation functionality tightly integrated with the charting and
diagraming features. For computer slide shows, over 50 transition effects
such as fades, wipes and dissolves, a light table for easy rearranging of
slides, an integrated outliner and great background templates for color,
black and white and transparencies make communicating easy. A
full-featured word processing environment makes it easy to create
text-based documents with compelling charts and diagrams.

PRICING AND AVAILABILITY

ClarisImpact 2.0 is scheduled to ship in August for both Windows and
Macintosh (and native for Power Macintosh) for a suggested retail price
(SRP) of $129, with an anticipated street price around $99. Upgrades are
$59; trade-ups from other graphics products, FileMaker Pro and ClarisWorks
are $69.

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