NEWS RELEASE

Contacts: Alan Shulman, DCI Media Relations
(978) 470-3870

Maria Cataldo, The Weber Group
(617) 520-7089

Release Date: March 12, 1997

DCI's Internet Expo and the Sales Force Automation
Conference To Host Leading Industry Visionaries
Offering Best Solutions for Business and Sales on the 'Net

Chicago Event To Feature Best-Selling Authors Dr. Stephen Covey and Harvey Mackay

Andover, MA -- DCI's Internet Expo and the Sales Force Automation Conference are coming back to Chicago from April 22-24, 1997. The co-located events will present their programs in the newly constructed McCormick Place South building and will highlight the latest Internet and sales automation products and technologies, the industry's hottest issues related to business and sales on the Internet, as well as play host to some of the industry's leading luminaries. Special presentations will be delivered by best-selling authors Dr. Stephen Covey, The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People and Principle-Centered Leadership, and Harvey Mackay, Swim With the Sharks Without Being Eaten Alive and Sharkproof.

Program Highlights

DCI's Internet Expo offers eight core conferences designed to cover the most important issues relating to the Internet, Web and EMail technologies. Conferences include: Internet; EMail; Intranet Application Development; Sales and Marketing on the Internet; Small Business Automation; and Webmaster Training; along with Sun Microsystems' Java Transforms the Enterprise Conference and Microsoft's Internet User and Developer Conference.

Key presenters and featured addresses for DCI's Internet Expo include: Kim Polese, Founder and CEO, Marimba, Inc.; Greg Blatnik, Vice President, Zona Research; Jeffery Crigler, Vice President, Internet Information Technologies, IBM; Kathleen Earley, Vice President, AT&T EasyCommerce Services; Robert McDowell, Vice President, Enterprise Business Relationships, Microsoft Corporation; and Robert J. Berger, Chief Technology Officer, InterNex.

Running concurrently with DCI's Internet Expo is DCI's Sales Force Automation Conference, co-chaired by Barton Goldenberg, President, ISM, Inc., and Tim Bajarin, President, Creative Strategies. Keynote addresses and presentations for DCI's Sales Force Automation Conference include: George Colombo, Influence Technologies, and Author, Sales Force Automation; Barry Trailer, Co-Founder, Trailer Vavrika, Inc.; Tom Siebel, Chairman and CEO, Siebel Systems, Inc.; and David Radin, President, Marketing Masters.

The survival and success of America's sales forces today and into the next century will be the thrust of DCI's Sales Force Automation Conference along with insight into the technologies and tools that will enable sales organizations to acquire a competitive edge and generate growth while maintaining profitability.

Conference Dates and Times

On Wednesday, April 23, from 11:30 a.m. to 6 p.m., and Thursday, April 24, from 10:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., DCI's Internet Expo and Sales Force Automation exhibits will be open to the public with a chance to talk with the industry's leading companies about up-to-date technologies and the premiere of new products. A special "First Look Reception" will be held for press and conference attendees on Tuesday, April 22, from 5 to 7 p.m. to check out the expo before it opens to the public.

To register for a free press pass to cover these shows, contact Alan Shulman at (978) 470-3870, or by EMail: ashulman@dciexpo.com. Further information can be accessed through DCI's home page at www.DCIexpo.com.

DCI, located in Andover, Massachusetts, is a world leader in producing conferences and expositions for the high-technology industry. DCI's 1997 schedule of 100 major shows and events will feature more than 3,000 consultants and speakers and will attract more than 10,000 exhibitors and nearly 1 million attendees.