Viador and Hynet Technologies Deliver Dynamic eBusiness Content via XML

[Kaetonjua Cummings <Kaetonjua@hynet.com>]

Viador and Hynet Technologies to Help Companies Access & Deliver Dynamic
eBusiness Content via XML 
Centralized Access to Business Critical Information for Companies with
Time-to-Market Challenges
MOUNTAIN VIEW and SAN MATEO, Calif., November 29, 1999 - Hynet
Technologies(tm), a leading provider of Dynamic Customer Content (DCC)
solutions for empowering e-business, and Viador Inc.(tm) (Nasdaq: VIAD),
a leading provider of enterprise portals, today announced a joint
development effort designed to help companies with time-to-market
challenges to easily access and deliver dynamic, personalized
information through Viador's enterprise portal. As a result, users will
be able to access the Hynet Directive(tm) XML repository via Viador's
E-Portal Suite(tm), giving Viador customers access to business-critical
information such as sales proposals, marketing collateral and
globalization of e-Content.
Viador's E-Portal Suite is a single, web-based access point that
provides an entire business community - employees, customers, and
trading partners - with desktop access to the specific information they
need to make better business decisions. Hynet Directive is expected to
increase the value of Viador's offering by incorporating sources of data
that were previously difficult to integrate so that users can utilize
all relevant information, regardless of its source.
"We are very excited to offer our customers a single interface to access
all of their business-critical information managed in Hynet Directive
via Viador's enterprise portal," said Daniel Chang, president at Hynet.
"Viador's ability to leverage Hynet Directive will give enterprises the
ability to access and deliver business-critical information more rapidly
than ever before. This will enable them to accelerate time-to-market by
delivering superior products and services to their end-customers, while
enhancing their return-on-investment."
Viador's enterprise portal enables companies to securely search, access
and organize all types of business information, including structured
data contained in databases and business applications, as well as
unstructured data stored in file systems (Microsoft, etc.), groupware
(Lotus Notes), or on corporate intranets. The addition of Hynet
Directive offers Viador users new capabilities such as reading popular
source files and managing them in standardized XML objects or
Information Units (IUs). Significant savings are expected by managing
reusable information assets, eliminating human-introduced errors caused
by manual cut-and-paste documentation, and by accessing current
knowledge on demand through browsers. Hynet Technologies can make it
possible to integrate document-centric data such as sales proposal and
marketing collateral into the Viador enterprise portal, presented in
multiple formats across the web.
Examples of these new capabilities include:
*	Marketing Automation
Companies can quickly and easily integrate their vast marketing data
sources into one easy to use repository to deliver all customer facing
data. By adding this functionality to Viador's E-Portal Suite, companies
can run their entire marketing departments from one user friendly web
interface. 
*	Proposal Generation
Sourced e-business data, including data stored in the increasingly
popular XML format, can be placed into a specific Viador report or
document, or put into a relational database, making it possible to save
and format the information for delivery to customers quickly and
accurately across the intranet or on an extranet. 
*	E-Content Globalization
Through Directive's patented translation management solution, companies
can realize a return on investment of 2-3 times, by reusing and
re-purposing their original language e-Content into various languages.
This system enhances the translation services that companies are already
using and ensures maximum efficiency in delivering the translated
versions of all companies' customer facing data. 
"Viador's focus is to provide an enterprise portal solution that enables
our customers to access all of the information they need to solve
business problems more efficiently and at less cost," commented Ben
Connors, vice president of business development at Viador. "To do this,
they need the capability to source essential business information
wherever it might be. The added capabilities of Hynet Directive will be
another very positive step in this direction."
About Hynet Directive
Hynet Directive an XML content management system that captures documents
created in familiar word processing applications, such as Adobe
FrameMaker, Microsoft Word, and XML, and transforms the data blocks
(paragraphs, graphics, definitions) within them into Information Units
(IUs). These IUs are tagged and stored in a repository that can be
accessed across the corporate environment. Using the "drag and drop"
method IUs are recalled by virtue of their attributes (or metadata
assignment) and reused and re-purposed to create varied pieces of
corporate collateral. The collateral can take the form of a web-site or
print.
About Hynet Technologies
Hynet Technologies is the leading provider of Dynamic Customer Content
(DCC) e-business solutions for rapidly deploying customized content to
meet the needs of their diverse customer base, improve knowledge
sharing, increase productivity and reduce the operational costs
associated with distributing information. Hynet has provided compelling
solutions and ROI to such market leaders as 3Com, Charles Schwab,
Hewlett-Packard Company, Compaq, Standard & Poors, and others. Founded
in 1995, Hynet Technologies is a privately held, venture-backed company
located in Mountain View, California. Hynet Technologies can be reached
at 650.637.8398 and at www.hynet.com <http://www.hynet.com>.
The Viador E-Portal Suite
Designed for Global 1000 corporations and any company wanting to become
an e-business, the Viador E-Portal Suite enterprise portal enables users
to securely search, access, and distribute business information, from
any information source, including databases, documents and the world
wide web. Viador presents a single, personalized "portal-like" view to
all of this information and delivers a comprehensive set of user
capabilities on the Web - all built on one open, integrated architecture
that can be adapted to meet the individual needs of each enterprise. The
Viador solution represents a significant innovation beyond knowledge
management portals which lack the capabilities to fully access the
information that companies need most to run their business.
About Viador
Viador Inc. (Nasdaq: VIAD) is a leading developer of enterprise portals
that help corporations leverage their information and technology assets
to gain business advantages. The company's Viador E-Portal Suite gives
thousands of users, including business managers and analysts, rich yet
easy-to-use functionality based on a thin-client architecture that
supports widespread deployment at a low cost of ownership. Viador's
innovative technology is used by customers including 3Com, Charles
Schwab, FedEx, Internal Revenue Service, Lucent Technologies, Sprint
PCS, and Xerox. Viador has headquarter offices in San Mateo, Calif. For
more information, call 650-685-3000 or visit the Web site at
www.viador.com <http://www.viador.com>. 
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Editors note: Viador, the Viador E-Portal Suite, Viador Sage, Viador
Information Center, Viador Gateway, Viador Sentinel, and the Viador SDK,
are trademarks of Viador Inc. of San Mateo, California. Hynet
Technologies and Hynet Directive are trademarks of Hynet. All other
products or company names mentioned are used for identification purposes
only, and may be trademarks of their respective owners.
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the Securities and Exchange Commission, including its registration
statement on Form S-1
Contact for Hynet Technologies:
Marie Bahl
Rain Maker Communications
(650) 210-9474
marie_bahl@rainmakerpr.com <mailto:marie_bahl@rainmakerpr.com>
Contact for Viador:
Margit Wennmachers
OutCast Communications
(415) 392-8282
margit@outcastcom.com <mailto:margit@outcastcom.com>

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