"Dramatically Quicker" Than the Competition, Applix TM1 Named Top Performer in Annual OLAP Survey

Nigel Pendse and The OLAP Survey 5 Name Applix TM1 Fastest Performer, Delivering Top Speed of Deployment, Query, Load and Calculation Performance, and Best Overall in Business Benefits

WESTBOROUGH, MA-December 05, 2005: Applix, Inc. (Nasdaq: APLX), a global provider of single platform solutions for Business Performance Management (BPM) and Business Intelligence (BI), today announced that according to one of the industry's most comprehensive independent studies, the OLAP Survey 5, Applix TM1 once again bests the competition with its performance, business benefits and user satisfaction. (For a summary of The OLAP Survey 5 results, download the white paper, "How to Achieve a Successful BPM Implementation.")

"Year after year, the OLAP Survey proves that Applix users are working with the best business performance management and OLAP (online analytical processing) product," said David Menninger, vice president, worldwide marketing, Applix, Inc. "Applix's unified TM1 platform is faster, easier to use, and less expensive to implement than competing products. TM1 users are reaping the benefits of 'real-time' business intelligence and operational performance management, and their satisfaction leads to an impressive level of customer loyalty."

The 2005 survey demonstrates that Applix's TM1, rated with the highest score for the business benefits index, has continued to gain ground in the business performance management market, successfully competing against companies such as BusinessObjects, Cognos, Hyperion and MicroStrategy. Applix respondents used TM1 for 25 different types of applications across more than thirty different industry segments.

Once again, TM1 ranked number 1 in several important categories, including:
" Data load/precalculation " Speed of deployment " Business benefits achieved " Fewest deterrents to wider deployment " Fewest number of technical problems " The least spent on consulting fees TM1 also returned to the top place in "query time," rising from a close second in last year's Survey. "Query performance is the product feature that has the greatest impact on the success of a project," stated Pendse. "Poor query performance not only reduces the productivity of end-users, but it also limits their numbers because performance will degrade further as more users access the system. It therefore sets a limit on user scalability, and is not just a matter of user convenience. Projects that included query performance as a selection criteria tended to be more successful than those that did not."

TM1 was also ranked among the top three products in the following categories:
" Goal achievement " Better business decisions " Support quality " Reduced external IT costs " Win rate when on the short list " Customer loyalty " Most likely to be selected when included in a product evaluation process, both competitive and non-competitive " Prevalence rate (which measures the percentage of buyers who name the product as their primary tool) " Lowest level of "shelfware"
The OLAP Survey 5, the largest and most detailed survey of OLAP products to date, is a quantifiable survey of the $4 billion OLAP market. The Survey analyzed data from 2,100 respondents in 106 countries. No vendors were involved in developing the questions, or in sponsoring the survey, making it the most reliable and unbiased research on the OLAP market. This year's survey asked usage and adoption questions concerning 54 different OLAP products.