[announce] OASIS Member News: XyEnterprise Provides Complete ContentManagement, Publishing Solution for Kohler Products

[Joy Blake Scott <joy@longleafpr.com>]

XyEnterprise Provides Complete Content Management, Publishing Solution for
Kohler Products

New XML Solution Assembles and Publishes Business Data, Automatically
Produces All Documentation for Entire Line of Kitchen and Bath Products

READING, MA - August 26, 2002 - XyEnterprise, a leading developer of XML
content management and enterprise publishing software, announced today that
Kohler Plumbing Americas had implemented XyEnterprise’s comprehensive XML
product documentation solution for its line of plumbing products. The
software solution provides Kohler with critical content management,
workflow, and publishing capability to complement the sales, support, and
delivery of its industry leading line of products.

Mark Peterson, Manager of Technical Communications at Kohler, stated,
“Manufacturing, packaging and shipping just one Kohler product - for
example, a kitchen faucet - requires publishing numerous documents that
incorporate data from a wide range of internal sources.  This includes
consumer dimensional drawings, specifications, care and warranty
information, and the instruction manual. The XyEnterprise solution enables
us to be more efficient in our ability to document and deliver our
 products.”

This integrated solution combines XyEnterprise’s Content@ Content Manager
and XML Professional Publisher (XPP) software.  Critical information from
engineering, marketing, and manufacturing is gathered in Content@’s
single-source repository.  All needed documentation is then assembled and
published “on demand” via the XPP high-speed composition engine to produce
high-quality postscript and PDF output.  Real-time XML data, such as the
latest product dimensions, are incorporated automatically into all
documents, assuring that retailers and consumers receive manuals and
warrantee information that is 100 percent accurate and up-to-date.  This
also helps reduce Kohler’s time to market, a significant return on
investment benefit of the XyEnterprise system.

Richard Pasewark, vice president sales and marketing, XyEnterprise,
commented, “The Kohler solution represents the move of consumer product
companies to adopting a centralized, XML-based content management and
publishing infrastructure. The XyEnterprise products, Content@ and XPP,
offer organizations a proven competitive advantage in bringing product to
market and supporting their customers.”

About Kohler

Founded in 1873 and headquartered in Kohler, Wis., Kohler Co. is a world
leader in products for the kitchen and bath, and one of the oldest and
largest privately held companies in the United States. The company markets
its kitchen and bath products under the brand names of Kohler, Sterling,
Kallista, Ann Sacks, Robern, Canac, and in Europe, under the brand names of
Jacob Delafon, Neomediam and Sanijura.

About XyEnterprise

Xyvision Enterprise Solutions, Inc. (XyEnterprise) is the leading provider
of single source, multi-channel XML publishing solutions. Its XML content
management software - Content@ - and its automated XML publishing engine -
XPP - power sophisticated solutions for global leaders in the publishing,
technical documentation, financial, government, and e-Learning arenas. Its
customers include Boeing, Bureau of National Affairs, Gulfstream, IBM,
Thomson and Thomson, Sun Microsystems, Wolters Kluwer, and many others. For
more information, please contact XyEnterprise at 781.756.4400 or
www.XyEnterprise.com <http://www.XyEnterprise.com>

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