OASIS Member News: XyEnterprise Users Meet in London to Explore Web Services, XML Content Management and Enterprise Publishing Solutions

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

XyEnterprise Users Meet in London to Explore Web Services, XML Content
Management and Enterprise Publishing Solutions

READING, MA - May 28, 2003 - The XyUser Group (XYUG), an independent
organization of customers and users of XyEnterprise software, met last week
in London to discuss business trends, explore technology developments, and
share solutions to common business and workflow challenges. During the
Conference, the latest versions of XyEnterprise’s Web-centric Content@
content management and XML Professional Publisher software were shown.

Attendance was strong at this Conference, targeted for European users, with
representation from the British Medical Journal, LexisNexis UK, Jane’s
Information Group, Henry Ling Ltd, Reed Business Information, Letterpart
Ltd., Column Design, and Kerrypress from the UK. Representatives from Jouve
and CPi in France, Grafikon and Wolters Kluwer in Belgium, Portalyx in The
Netherlands, EDS in Switzerland, and OrgaGraph GmbHGermany were also in
attendance, as well as several industry consultants and analysts of
technology trends.

Sessions included case studies of recent XyEnterprise implementations
including content re-use and workflow automation solutions in legal
publishing, commercial printing, and technical documentation Technical
sessions described best practices for applying current software features and
presented a preview of coming opportunities using new Web Services
interfaces. Sessions explored the ability to use XyEnterprise software to
build a Web Services-based solution architecture that appeals to both end
users and IT support teams.

“This was a great turn-out and an enthusiastic community to work with,” said
Karen Steele, executive director of the XyUser Group. “The extent of the
participation demonstrates the proven business returns of XyEnterprise
solutions and shows the value of sharing experience across the wide variety
of organizations using XyEnterprise to meet their content management,
publishing, and workflow requirements."

Reaction to the Web-centric content management and publishing environment
demonstrated was also enthusiastic. “XyEnterprise’s new Web Services
interface provides endless possibilities” said Chris Leggett of Letterpart,
Ltd. “I’ve been talking with my colleagues ever since about new ways to
leverage the interface in our publishing workflow.”

About XYUG

Founded in 1990 the XyUser Group is a not-for-profit organization that
provides a global forum for communication, networking, and educational
services for users of XyEnterprise software. The Group is governed by a
board of directors that represents several markets, geographic regions, and
XyEnterprise products. It employs an executive director; and several
advisory committees are comprised of volunteer members.

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,
Kohler Plumbing, Sun Microsystems, LexisNexis, the United States Navy and
many others.  For more information, please contact XyEnterprise at
781.756.4400 or www.xyenterprise.com.

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