Xenos Advances Competitive Stance in the Integrated Document Archival and Retrieval Systems Market with infoWEB(tm) 5.0 Release of infoWEB 5.0 strengthens Xenos overall competitive positionTORONTO, CA, June 30, 2003 - Xenos (TSE: XNS), the data to e- content company(tm), today made an aggressive move forward in the IDARS (Integrated Document Archival and Retrieval Systems) market space with the release of version 5.0 of its Xenos infoWEB software. infoWEB 5.0 continues the aggressive product development investment Xenos has committed to since acquiring Rush Creek Software in May of 2002. The new version of infoWEB implements many innovative features in response to customer demand. "infoWEB 5.0 achieves the objective of the Rush Creek acquisition. This is a dramatic step forward for the way companies use and exchange critical business information. It embraces the use of Internet technology to help companies resolve the issue of controlling and accessing information in disparate legacy and Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems while reducing cost and complexity", said Ralph Brocato, Xenos Director of infoWEB Products. infoWEB's new component-based architecture is flexible, extensible and scalable. infoWEB integrates readily, via plug-ins, with document management, workflow, archiving, content management and other applications. Solutions using enterprise application infrastructure middleware tools such as Tuxedo and MQ Series can now invoke infoWEB functions. Secure browser-based administration functions increase flexibility for central and remote control over distribution rules and recipients. End user security has been enhanced to allow recipients to receive content securely through firewalls. InfoWEB 5.0's subscribe-and-publish distribution model gives end user recipients the choice to define which reports they receive. Now IBM AFP, Xerox Metacode, HP PCL and Adobe PDF reports can be distributed for viewing and printing. "infoWEB strengthens Xenos' competitive position in providing products that bridge the worlds of enterprise printing, archiving and e-business", said Jim Farmer, President and COO of Xenos. About Xenos Xenos (http://www.xenos.com) provides software and solutions that enable organizations to transform, re-purpose and distribute electronic content to support their e-business and print strategies. Xenos d2e Platform(tm) transforms and re-purposes legacy printstreams into standard electronic formats (e-content) supporting both e-business and print strategies for applications such as electronic statement presentment, enterprise content management/archiving, print automation and customer relationship management. Xenos d2e Vision(x) is our next-generation transformation software suite. Written in Java, d2e Vision supports Asian languages that use double-byte character sets. It is designed to be scalable and extensible for dynamic e-business solutions. infoWEB(x) software enables organizations to extract, publish and disseminate critical business information throughout the enterprise. Once processed by infoWEB, clients can access this information using any standard Web Browser regardless of what platform, application or format the information was generated with. Xenos partners with industry-leading software companies, such as IBM, to provide end-to-end solutions to customers. Xenos products are deployed at organizations worldwide, in industries including Banking, Financial Services, Insurance, Telecommunications, Utilities, Service Bureaus, Healthcare, Pharmaceuticals, Manufacturing and Government. Xenos is headquartered in Toronto, Canada, with offices in Dallas, Texas and the United Kingdom. Xenos trades on The Toronto Stock Exchange under the trading symbol "XNS", with approximately 8.8 million shares outstanding. (C)2003 Xenos Group Inc. All rights reserved SOURCE Xenos Group Inc. |