FOR IMMEDATE RELEASE

Lorinda Stringer
D. Appleton Company
(703) 631-4888
(703) 631-5780 fax
lstringer@dacom.com

Fairfax, VA, February 9, 1998 - D. Appleton Company (DACOM), a leading e-Business solution provider, today announced WorkNets™, a comprehensive solution for transforming traditional businesses into e-Businesses. WorkNet are scalable and flexible e-business applications designed to engineer the full power of web technology into e-processes that optimize information assets and support collaboration among users.

"WorkNets take the power of web technology to the next level", said Dan Appleton, President, DACOM. "Most solutions today are simply using the web to make information accessible in a user-friendly format. That's where we're unique-WorkNets are 'process-centric' focusing on web implementations that are based on the demands of engineered cross-organizational business processes."

WorkNets are created exclusively by DACOM's WorkNet Development Methodology - WNDM 2000. In this methodology, DACOM integrates e-engineered processes and technologies with knowledge management, inference engines and the Internet's global reach and easy graphic interface. DACOM's six layer WorkNet architecture provides the "blue print" for WorkNet implementations as well as the mechanism to tie technical decisions to business drivers.

About D. Appleton Company
D. Appleton Company (DACOM) is a management-consulting firm delivering process-based e-Solutions to position clients at the forefront of their industries. DACOM has a 20-year history as a premier process engineering company, a leader in data management and most recently as an innovator in Web-enabled system design and integration. For more information, visit www.dacom.com.