Cap Gemini Ernst & Young and empolis content management GmbH form ingintegration partnership

["Brinks,Tanja (empolis GmbH)" <tanja.brinks@empolis.com>]

Dear Sir or Madam,
please find enclosed the current press release concerning the integration
partnership between Cap Gemini Ernst & Young and empolis content management
GmbH. If you have any question, don´t hesitate to contact us.
With kind regards,
Tanja Brinks
Marketing Manager

empolis*GmbH
Bertelsmann Mohn Media Group

An der Autobahn 2
D-33311 Gütersloh

phone +49.5241.80-1929
fax +49.5241.80-60 34

mailto:Tanja.Brinks@empolis.com

www.empolis.com


Cap Gemini Ernst & Young and empolis content management GmbH forming
integration partnership

Rimpar, Juli 20, 2001

Cap Gemini Ernst & Young and empolis content management GmbH are forming an
integration partnership to provide world wide implementation services for
the sigmalink content management system and all other XML products from
empolis. This cooperation focuses on grouping the most professional project
management, integration, implementation and support services from Cap Gemini
Ernst & Young with the powerful XML based technologies from empolis to serve
international corporations with multi-national representation. This
partnership is one further step towards establishing the XML technology as a
standard in all market segments that have a need for enterprise content
management solutions.

The content industry encompasses all businesses that create, package and
distribute text, music, video, etc. and is making a living out of the
exploitation of the rights on the content.  With the emergence of new
technologies and channels to the market, the management of the content
including its rights is becoming a more and more complex task. More and more
content there for is being digitized, or made available to various channels,
and must be managed across all different media types and channels. Digital
content management is the process that supports the exploitation of the
content, on a business and technology level, which means the support for
creating, archiving and distributing of content. Both digital rights
management and digital content management are key service offerings of Cap
Gemini Ernst & Young.

The first common business case is already in place with a demanding
internationally working customer that requests for the potential for world
wide implementation of sigmalink, K42, X2X, and orenge as the standard
technological platform to be used by all affiliated companies, with ongoing
projects throughout Europe and new projects in the US and the Pacific Rim to
be started within the next few months.

"The partnership with empolis provides us with excellent systems and tools
to deliver XML based content and knowledge management solutions on a sound
technological basis to our demanding customers. This complements our
strategy to bring prepackaged service offerings to our customers
encompassing strategic business consulting, change management, project
management, technology consulting and implementation services with a network
of partners and alliances. With sigmalink, we have found a most powerful and
highly configurable content management system that we can integrate into
various environments and many business sectors," says Jos van Rijn, Global
Service Line Manager Digital Content Management from Cap Gemini Ernst &
Young.

"The partnership with Cap Gemini Ernst & Young does not only open up new
business opportunities for our XML solutions, but also helps us in
guaranteeing a high standard of professional services in combination with
our products on a global level. We are very proud to have won with Cap
Gemini Ernst & Young a reliable partner with broad XML expertise to deliver
excellence in products and services to a global market place. The open and
vivid cooperation supports our strategy to become a global player for
knowledge and content management solutions," states Petra Leuser, Business
Segment Manager Partners of empolis content management GmbH.


About CAP Gemini Ernst & Young
Cap Gemini Ernst & Young is one of the largest management and IT consulting
firms in the world and is publicly traded on the Paris Bourse (Sicovam code
12533).The new company (56.000 people) combines the resources of Gemini
Consulting, Cap Gemini IT Services and, following the recent acquisition
from Ernst & Young LLP, Ernst & Young Consulting Services. The company
offers management and IT consulting services, systems integration, and
technology development, design and outsourcing capabilities on a global
scale to help traditional businesses and "dot companies" continue to explore
growth strategies. From strategies for traditional markets to innovative
models for e-business and e-commerce, Cap Gemini Ernst & Young is committed
to playing a significant role in the evolution of the connected global
economy. More information about individual service lines, offices and
research is available at www.cgey.com.

About empolis content management GmbH
empolis content management GmbH (formerly known as STEP GmbH) is part of the
empolis Group.  empolis content management GmbH (ecom) has always been a
leading force in the area of XML/SGML-based content management and develops
comprehensive solutions in the field of document and workflow management.
ecom continues to prove its success in supplying solutions for editorial and
content management environments, as well as for the re-engineering of
information for document and workflow management.  sigmalink, the core
product based on international XML/SGML standards, shapes the future of
efficient content management.  ecom and its partner Divisions provide global
customer support for their content and knowledge management products through
their international branches in the USA, U.K., Scandinavia, Poland, Hungary.


Contact information:
Jos van Rijn
Email: jos.van.rijn@cgey.nl
Web: www.cgey.com
Tel: +31-30-6897669

Petra Leuser
Email: content@empolis.com
Web: www.empolis.com <http://www.empolis.com>
Tel: +49-9365-8062-0