Acquisition of AppliedNet Ltd Complete

Polydoc PLC
24 November 1999


Polydoc plc (now renamed Sopheon plc )  has today completed the acquisition of
AppliedNet Limited, the consultants, developers and marketers of software
which harnesses and manages information and corporate knowledge.

The acquisition of AppliedNet will strengthen significantly Polydoc's present
systems integration and consulting capabilities and of particular interest to
Polydoc is AppliedNet's recently released Knowledge Agent Software, which can
infiltrate, gather and disseminate both internal and external sources of
information.
mes Malcolm Macfarlane, 44, Managing Director and Founder of AppliedNet, has
today been appointed a Director of Polydoc and will take on the role of Group
Business Development Director.  Michael John Brooke, 58, AppliedNet's
Non-Executive Chairman, has today been appointed a Non-Executive Director of
Polydoc.
 
The change of the Company's name from Polydoc plc to Sopheon plc is effective
from today.

Further information on James Macfarlane and Michael Brooke is as follows:

Name:                                 Directorships
James Macfarlane       Current:       AppliedNet Limited
                                      AppliedNetwork Technology Limited
                                      SagaWare Europe Limited
                                      Future Tense Limited
                                      Future Tense UK Limited
                                      Network Managers (UK) Limited
                      Previous:       CMW Associates Limited
                                      Creon Software Engineering and          
                                      Application Development (UK) Limited
                                      Zysys Limited

Michael Brooke        Current:       AppliedNet Limited
                                     ATL Networks Limited
                                     Coinshire Limited
                                     Computerised Media Services Limited
                                     Flexlands School Educational Trust       
                                     Limited
                                     Interquad Limited
                                     Prelude Trust plc
                     Previous:       Active Imaging plc
                                     Active Imaging ESOP Trustee Limited
                                     Auklon Limited
                                     Azlan Group plc
                                     Azlan Limited
                                     BCS Computering Limited
                                     C-Dilla Limited
                                     Comino Plc
                                     Context Computers Limited
                                     Dacell Limited (formerly Data Cell       
                                     Limited)
                                     Enterprise Capital  Trust plc (formerly  
                                     Ivory & Sime Enterprise Capital plc)
                                     IT Professional Limited
                                     IT Professional Systems Limited
                                     Maneboard Limited
                                     Merlingrow Limited
                                     Nexgen Computing Limited
                                     Nexgen Limited
                                     Nexgen Software Limited
                                     OR Industrial Computers Limited
                                     Plasmon Plc
                                     Plasmon Trustee Limited
                                     Quadrangle Technical Services Limited
                                     Telephone Information Services plc
                                     TISH plc (in liquidation)
                                     Tudor Business Systems Limited

J M Macfarlane was a director of Creon Software Engineering and Application
Development (UK) Limited which was struck off the register of companies and
dissolved on 6 July 1993.  Mr Macfarlane has not been criticised publicly or
privately by any statutory or regulatory authority in connection with his
conduct as a director of Creon Software Engineering and Application
Development (UK) Limited.

J M Macfarlane resigned as a director of Zysys Limited in January 1990.  It
was subsequently put into liquidation in 1991. Mr Macfarlane has not been
criticised publicly or privately by any statutory or regulatory authority in
connection with his conduct as a director of Zysys Limited.

M J Brooke was a director of PC Support Limited, a computer consultancy
company, from 25 November 1986 until PC Support Limited was dissolved on 3
November 1990.  On 7 January 1988 a liquidator of PC Support Limited was
appointed. Mr Brooke has not been criticised publicly or privately by any
statutory or regulatory authority in connection with his conduct as a director
of PC Support Limited.