[announce] Doculabs Reviews Arbortext's Epic Product Suite

[Beth Ambaruch <bea@arbortext.com>]

Arbortext’s Epic Product Suite Solves Business Challenge of Multichannel
Publishing for Complex Content

Doculabs confirms Arbortext Epic product suite simplifies content
authoring and maintenance, automates publishing and distribution, and
facilitates re-use


ANN ARBOR, Mich., February 25, 2002 -- Arbortext, Inc., the only global
provider of XML-based software that enables the creation, editing and
publishing of information to multiple media types from a single source of
content, today announced that Doculabs, an independent research and
analyst firm, evaluated the Arbortext Epic 4.2 product suite and concluded
that, “Arbortext provides a technology solution that is specifically
designed to manage and automate the process of publishing complex
documents across multiple channels.”

Highlights of the Functional Assessment of Arbortext Epic 4.2 Product
Suite include:
·	“Epic’s software is straightforward enough for non-technical users to
understand, which minimized the time-consuming process of manually
re-authoring and re-publishing content.”
·	“Epic Editor is a thick-client application that is very similar in look
and feel to Microsoft Word.”
·	“While the Arbortext Epic product suite can be utilized as a stand-alone
system, customers will likely derive the most value from the product suite
when it is integrated with a content management repository such as those
from Documentum, Interwoven, FileNET, and Oracle.”
·	Benefits from using Epic Editor and E3 include slashing the cost of
updating and publishing information in multiple forms; improving the
accuracy, freshness, consistency, usability and reusability of
information; and cutting time to market for new and improved products.

For most organizations, the process of creating, publishing and improving
information is critical to customer relationships.  Inaccurate, incomplete
and out-of-date information reduces customer satisfaction, harms customer
retention, exposes the organization to increased liability, and increases
selling and support costs.  To build an efficient, automated system to
capture information from multiple sources, tailor it for multiple
audiences and publish it to multiple channels – Web, print, CD-ROM,
wireless – requires a technology solution specifically designed for the
job.

The Epic product suite provides this solution through its use of XML as a
standard format for all content, by either converting to XML or creating
directly in XML using Epic Editor, and then using its Epic E-Content
Engine (E3) to assemble and publish that content.  Epic Editor is an
intuitive, XML authoring tool designed for users to create single-source
XML content with a familiar word processing-style interface.  E3 is a
content conversion and multichannel publishing server that converts,
customizes and automatically publishes content for delivery to the Web,
print, wireless devices and other media.

The complete review can be found at
http://www.arbortext.com/html/awards___testimonials.html.

About Arbortext
Arbortext is the only global provider of XML-based software that enables
the creation, editing and publishing of information to multiple media
types – Web, print, CD-ROM, wireless – from a single source of content.
Shipping since 1991, Arbortext’s standards-based software supports
technical publishing, reference publishing and catalog publishing
applications that enable enterprises to provide more accurate,
cost-efficient, complete, timely, consistent and usable information on all
media. Arbortext’s software is installed at over 3,500 customers,
including over 300 of the Global 2000 companies. Current customers include
American Express, Audi, Boeing, British Aerospace, Caterpillar,
DaimlerChrysler, Ericsson Telecom, Ford, GM, IBM, International Thomson
Publishing, Lucent, Nokia, Nortel Networks, PeopleSoft, Pfizer, Qantas,
Ricoh, Sun Microsystems, United Airlines, Volkswagen, Volvo and West
Group. 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.  For more
information please visit http://www.arbortext.com.
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Contact: 	Beth Ambaruch 				Steve Jensen
	  	Arbortext, Inc.				Phase Two Strategies
	  	+1 734.327.6014				+1 415.772.8403
	 	bea@arbortext.com				sjensen@p2pr.com