[announce] OASIS Member News: BNI Paris with HyperVision, Ltd.

[Kirstin Rogers <krogers@hvltd.com>]

BenefitNation Partners with HyperVision, Ltd. to Include WorX™ for Word and
WorX Server in
Proprietary Enterprise Publishing Solution

CHICAGO, Ill. –April 8, 2002– Today HyperVision, Ltd., developer of XML
tools for business content creators, announced it has formed a technology
partnership with BenefitNation, Inc. (BNI).

Backed by the resources of Bertelsmann AG, BenefitNation is a leading
provider of electronic and paper publishing services.  BenefitNation has
incorporated WorX for Word into its Enterprise Publishing Solution and will
include the HyperVision product among its suite of XML based publishing
solution offerings.

BenefitNation’s Enterprise Publishing Solution is an XML based component
management publishing platform that leverages BNI’s proprietary rules based
assembly application for the real-time construction and personalization of
documents for any output format.

The solution also handles both workflow management and the conversion of XML
components and documents to Microsoft® Word for further editing.  WorX for
Word, the premier product of HyperVision’s WorX technology, will operate as
the XML to MS Word conversion component within the Enterprise Publishing
Solution both as a server-based application and as a desktop tool, allowing
users to achieve the benefits of XML while continuing to author and edit
text in their familiar MS Word environment.

BNI's use of WorX Server is a beta test situation.  HyperVision does not
anticipate a full commercial release of the WorX Server with all its
features until third or fourth quarter of 2002.

“We are pleased to list BenefitNation as our partner in what we perceive as
a future-forward, mutually beneficial relationship,” says HyperVision
President Bert Sheingate.  “With BenefitNation’s own partnerships with
Documentum, Bertelsmann and XyEnterprise, the relationship brings great
depth and scope to our potential client base in the enterprise publishing
arena and it brings more options and increased expertise to the service of
that kind of client, as well.”

All components of BNI’s solution, including WorX for Word, are designed to
streamline the creation, storage, re-use and publishing of common components
of business critical content.  For example, in a managed care organization,
the personalized production of thousands of different certificates of
coverage and riders can be managed programmatically utilizing the business
rules driven assembly and personalization process within the Enterprise
Publishing Solution.  The application will customize and produce the
documents with variable information relating to products, member
demographics and state mandated language in an automated manner without any
human intervention.

“As publishing platforms continue to migrate toward XML, we feel our
partnership with HyperVision and our incorporation of the WorX based tools
are both good fits with our strategic direction within the XML space” said
Bill Reulein, BenefitNation President and Chief Executive Officer.

“It was a long search process to find the right technology to enable MS Word
to XML conversions for our solution,” added Zach Wittenberg, BenefitNation
Vice President of Strategic Relations.  “In the end we found WorX for Word
to be the right choice for enabling the conversion process and for our
internal document specialists to use in the XML editing and tagging process.
We were also impressed by the ease with which our developers can integrate
and customize WorX technology using the WorX for Word application
programming interface.”

BenefitNation (www.benefitnation.com) is a leader in electronic and paper
based publishing services, including enterprise-wide document management,
typesetting, internet applications, printing, distribution, and business
automation solutions for multiple industry segments. Some of the vertical
segments served by BenefitNation include healthcare, pharmaceutical,
financial services, automotive, manufacturing industries and associations.
Bertelsmann AG holds a majority interest in BenefitNation. The company's
executive team is based in Dulles, Virginia with technology operations
located there and in Silicon Valley.

Headquartered in Chicago, HyperVision, Ltd. (www.hvltd.com) has developed
WorX™ for Word, the most functional plug-in to Microsoft Word for producing
XML.  WorX for Word takes advantage of current user skills and assets,
letting authors be experts in their business, not in XML.  Current and
developing WorX products show the HyperVision commitment to creating
solutions to structured content that fit the enterprise environment while
maximizing user comfort and productivity.  XML data generated from WorX
technology is quickly re-purposed from web to print to wireless, easing
content management tasks. US clients using or recommending WorX products
include KPMG Consulting, the State of California, XyEnterprise and
BenefitNation.  International clients and partners include the Dutch Library
for the Blind and Mediasystemen, also in the Netherlands.

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For HyperVision, Contact:
Kirstin Rogers
Marketing Manager
HyperVision, Ltd.
Phone: 312.274.1206
Fax: 312.274.1228
Email:  krogers@hvltd.com

For BenefitNation, Contact:
Zach Wittenberg
Vice President, Strategic Relations
BenefitNation, Inc.
Phone: 703.433.1061
Fax: 703.433.9537
Email: zach.wittenberg@benefitnation.com



Kirstin Rogers
Marketing Associate
HyperVision, Ltd.
krogers@hvltd.com
tel 312 274 1206
fax 312 274 1228
www.hvltd.com