XyEnterprise Announcement

Xyvision Enterprise Solutions and A2i Combine Technologies for
Electronic Catalog Publishing System

A2i's xCat System Seamlessly Generates Page Layouts for
XML Professional Publisher

READING, MA - August 29, 2000 - Xyvision Enterprise Solutions, Inc.
(XyEnterprise), a leading developer of XML content management and
Publishing software, announced today that A2i, Inc. has added support
for XML Professional Publisher (XPP) to xCat, A2i's next-generation content
management and catalog publishing system. Together, these powerful software
products provide the ability to manage and publish large product catalogs
in a true cross-media publishing environment. By combining XPP's robust
composition engine and customizable style sheets with A2i's database-driven
electronic catalog software, users can compose and output catalog pages
faster and with a higher level of typographic quality than with any other
high-end catalog publishing products.

A2i will be demonstrating its xCat software in conjunction with XPP at
Seybold San Francisco 2000 from August 29-31 at the Moscone Center.
A2i will be offering demonstrations of this complete cross-media
publishing solution in the A2i booth #2140 of the main exhibit area.
XyEnterprise will be located in booth #2309 of the main exhibit area
and booth #3010 in the XML publishing area.

"XML Professional Publisher is a powerful composition tool capable of
handling various types of source data and producing high-quality output
at a tremendous rate, which is an essential aspect of the catalog publishing
business," said Ralph Lloyd, Director of Business Development at Xyvision
Enterprise Solutions, Inc. "We are very excited that A2i has chosen to
support our publishing solution, because they have proven themselves as
leaders in developing high-end catalog publishing systems."

Paul Weinberg, President of A2i, Inc. said, "Our electronic catalog
publishing system can manage complex product catalogs containing detailed
information on millions of products. XPP's feature-rich batch composition
engine for generating printed catalogs complements our existing support
for Web publishing as well as the powerful structured content management
capabilities of our system."

About A2i

A2i, Inc. develops and markets a content management and catalog publishing
system that supports simultaneous publishing to the Web, paper, and CD-ROM
from a single data source, and efficiently manages catalogs containing
from hundreds to millions of items. A2i customers include many of largest
industrial distributors in the United States, such as Applied Industrial
Technologies, Airgas, and Ferguson Enterprises, as well as a variety of
dot-coms, exchanges, and other publishers of large printed and electronic
catalogs. Founded in 1993, the company has engineers in Los Angeles and
Israel. For additional information, please call A2i at 310-286-2220 or
visit www.a2i.com.

About XyEnterprise

With headquarters in Reading, Mass., Xyvision Enterprise Solutions, Inc.
(XyEnterprise), is leading the XML e-volution from unstructured to
structured data by providing organizations of all sizes with content and
document management solutions that streamline the information creation

and delivery process. XyEnterprise combines its own XML content
management, workflow and publishing software with integration services
to build enterprise wide solutions for the collaborative creation,
management, assembly, and multi-channel distribution of information.
Its customer base includes industry-leading companies in the aerospace,
automotive, telecommunications, standards and publishing markets.
These customers include Boeing, IBM, Gulfstream, Telcordia, Sun
Microsystems, Lucent, ASTM, and many others. XyEnterprise is a
majority-owned operating company of Azul Holdings, Inc. (Nasdaq:
AZUL), Denver, Colorado. For more information, please call
XyEnterprise at 781-756-4400 or visit www.xyenterprise.com.

# # #

Xyvision, XyEnterprise, XML Professional Publisher, XPP, Content@ and
Content@XML are trademarks or registered trademarks of Xyvision Enterprise
Solutions. A2i and xCat are trademarks of A2i, Inc. All other product
and company names mentioned herein may be trademarks of their
Respective holders.

announce message