Arbortext Announces 2005 Strategic Advisory Forum

["Beth E Ambaruch" <bambaruch@arbortext.com>]

Arbortext Announces 2005 Strategic Advisory Forum

Group provides vertical market insight; validates Arbortext product
strategy

ANN ARBOR, Mich., May 3, 2005 -- Arbortext, the leading provider of
enterprise publishing software, today announced the members of its 2005
Strategic Advisory Forum.  This group will meet at the 10th Annual
Arbortext User Group at Disney's Contemporary Resort, May 18-20, 2005 in
Orlando, Florida.  

The Arbortext 2005 Strategic Advisory Forum members include Boeing,
Bowne & Company, CCH - a Wolters Kluwer company, Deere & Company,
Ericsson, Lockheed Martin Aeronautics, Maryland General Assembly, NCCI,
Oracle, SAP AG, Schlumberger and Visa.  Membership is by invitation
only.

This group of senior-level managers validates Arbortext's product
roadmap and helps advise the company on its product strategy.  In
addition, group members have the opportunity to participate in product
testing and evaluation of Arbortext's customer support and
implementation services.  

"I have enjoyed working with Arbortext and look forward to being a
member of the 2005 Strategic Advisory Forum," said Thilo Buchholz,
Director of Knowledge Transfer Infrastructure Development at SAP AG.
"It's important for us to have the opportunity to advise the Arbortext
executive and strategy team of product features and capabilities we feel
are strategically important to organizations like ours.  It's programs
like these that strengthen our partnership with Arbortext." 

PG Bartlett, Vice President of Product Marketing at Arbortext, said,
"Our customers provide us with tremendous insight on specific vertical
market requirements and future trends.  We are successful because we
listen to our customers and have the processes in place to implement
suggestions about software enhancements and new software products." 

About Arbortext   (www.arbortext.com)
Arbortext is the leading provider of enterprise publishing software that
automates the assembly and publishing of information, helping companies
to improve authoring productivity; reduce authoring, translation and
publishing costs; enhance information quality; and speed time-to-market
of new and improved products. Companies around the world use our
software to publish in multiple languages to multiple audiences in
multiple hardcopy and electronic output formats. Arbortext software is
installed at over 1,700 organizations worldwide.

Current customers include American Express Financial Services, Audi,
Boeing, Bombardier, British Aerospace, Caterpillar, DaimlerChrysler,
Ericsson, Ford, General Electric, GM, IBM, International Thomson
Publishing, Lucent, Nokia, Nortel Networks, Oracle, Pfizer, Ricoh, Sun
Microsystems, Toyota, United Airlines, Volkswagen and Volvo. Arbortext
is a founding member and active participant in the XML Activity of the
World Wide Web Consortium (W3C). Headquartered in Ann Arbor, Michigan,
USA, Arbortext has offices around the world.

Contact: 	Beth Ambaruch, APR		
	  	Arbortext
	  	+1 734.327.6014
	 	bea@arbortext.com

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