1,200 LexisNexis Authors Use Arbortext Enterprise Publishing Software to Automate Editorial Process

["Beth E Ambaruch" <bambaruch@arbortext.com>]

1,200 LexisNexis(r) Authors Use Arbortext Enterprise Publishing Software
to Automate Editorial Process

ANN ARBOR, Mich., March 22, 2005 - Arbortext, the leading provider of
Enterprise Publishing software, today announced LexisNexis, a global
provider of legal, business and news information, has standardized on
its software to improve efficiency and speed of the editing and approval
process.  As a result, its 3.2 million customers have access to fresh,
accurate online information at any time for their reference requests.

Authors at LexisNexis update over a million documents every day, and the
system experiences two million daily custom search requests.  

"A key component of our business strategy is to implement applications
that can be easily leveraged throughout the organization," said Stephen
Casbeer, Senior Director of Content Creation at LexisNexis.  "Arbortext
has worked with us for a number of years and has consistently built and
delivered applications that meet our expanding system requirements.
They are an important piece of our editorial process."

Arbortext software is ideal for organizations that have high volume
scalability requirements for global systems support in content creation
and publishing.  Using Arbortext software, LexisNexis has implemented a
content creation strategy that works within its existing business
processes and existing IT infrastructure.  

"Before a publisher can support on-demand publishing, it must first find
efficiencies in their editorial operations," said Raymond Schiavone,
President and CEO at Arbortext.  "We're proud to continue our work with
LexisNexis as they build and implement a content creation strategy
across the organization."

Other publishing companies using Arbortext Enterprise Publishing
Software include CCH, Croner Publications, Grolier's Encyclopedia,
MacMillan Publishing, McDougal Littell, Reed Elsevier, West Group,
Wolters Kluwer, and World Book.

About LexisNexis (www.lexisnexis.com)
LexisNexis(r) is a leader in comprehensive and authoritative legal, news
and business information and tailored applications. A member of Reed
Elsevier Group plc [NYSE: ENL; NYSE: RUK] (www.reedelsevier.com), the
company does business in 100 countries with 13,000 employees worldwide.
In addition to its flagship Web-based Lexis(r) and Nexis(r) research
services, the company includes some of the world's most respected legal
publishers such as Martindale-Hubbell, Matthew Bender, Butterworths,
JurisClasseur, Abeledo-Perrot and Orac.

About Arbortext   (www.arbortext.com)
Arbortext is the leading provider of Enterprise Publishing software that
automates the assembly and publishing of information, helping companies
to improve authoring productivity; reduce authoring, translation and
publishing costs; enhance information quality; and speed time-to-market
of new and improved products.  Companies around the world use our
software to publish in multiple languages to multiple audiences in
multiple hardcopy and electronic output formats. Arbortext's software is
installed at over 1,700 organizations worldwide.

Current customers include American Express Financial Services, Audi,
Boeing, Bombardier, British Aerospace, Caterpillar, DaimlerChrysler,
Ericsson Telecom, Ford, General Electric, GM, IBM, International Thomson
Publishing, Lucent, Nokia, Nortel Networks, Oracle, Pfizer, Ricoh, Sun
Microsystems, Toyota, United Airlines, Volkswagen and Volvo. 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.

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Contact: 	Beth Ambaruch, APR	 
	  	Arbortext, Inc.
	  	+1 734.327.6014
	 	bea@arbortext.com 

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