NCompass Labs Ships Resolution 3.0 for Web Content Management

Customers Embrace New Version

NCompass Labs, a leading provider of Web content management solutions, today announced that NCompass Resolution 3.0 is available for shipping. NCompass Labs customers Sterling Commerce, Inc. (NYSE: SE), a leading worldwide provider of e-business integration solutions, and Tradeweave, the business-to-business Web marketplace for buyers and sellers, are enthusiastic about how Resolution 3.0 can satisfy their unique Web content management needs.

As the leading he out-of-the-box solution for the Microsoft? platform, Resolution 3.0 integrates powerful site design, content authoring, publishing and site management. Highly visual browser-based authoring empowers non-technical users to effortlessly create, manage, publish, and archive rich content. In addition, the Resolution 3.0 open, object-oriented API permits rapid customization and integration of Resolution's Web content management capabilities.

"Our intranet is accessed by 2,300 employees worldwide," said Tom Augustine, director of corporate Web at Sterling Commerce. "After reviewing many Web content management solutions, we chose NCompass Resolution to empower users throughout the organization to create and disseminate their own information. Previously all postings went through our over-loaded Web team. The Web browser client of version 3.0 will allow us to distribute authoring to all divisions without installing and maintaining clients. Resolution is truly an open system and the API will provide excellent tools for expanding website functionality."

"As a business-to-business Internet marketplace for the apparel industry, Tradeweave needed a very dynamic and active content site," said Gopi Sankarasubramani, vice president of technology at Tradeweave, Inc. "But we also wanted a simple authoring system that didn't require authors to have HTML knowledge. We chose NCompass Resolution for its easy-to-use authoring and its robust, open and programmable systems interface. We are very impressed with the new publishing API of Resolution 3.0. It will significantly enhance our site's design and functionality with new read/write interfaces for writing and publishing content and performing object searches. Support for importing multiple resources and automatically managing links also are winning features."

"Customers are lauding Resolution 3.0 with its inherent capabilities of cutting time to market and simplifying Web content management," said Gerri Sinclair, Chief Executive Officer of NCompass Labs. "Resolution addresses the current challenge faced by IT and business departments of managing the unwieldy number of Web pages and Web sites that are created daily."

Resolution 3.0 Major Features and Functionality

• Resolution's Web Client sets an industry precedent for ease-of-use combined with extensive authoring capabilities.
• The object-based Resolution Publishing API is designed to allow Web developers to create browser-based applications for Resolution.
• The customized authoring interface can be easily customized and extended to satisfy application-specific requirements. 
• Multi-lingual support allows Web content to be created in any of the world's major languages, including Japanese, Chinese and Korean.
• Time-zone synchronization enables content scheduling across different time zones to ensure timely worldwide publishing of up-to-date information.
• Dynamic publishing permits the personalized, on-the-fly re-purposing of content throughout the site, across multiple sites and in other e-business applications.  
• Page version archiving and audit trail capabilities allow authors to copy and paste content from an earlier version of a page, while the Webmaster can review the audit trail to determine who made which changes to the site. 
• E-Mail notification support in Resolution's new API provides a workflow event model to be added into the Web Client. 
• Windows 2000 and Oracle8i support allows for simple integration with an enterprise's existing and/or planned IT environment.

Availability & Pricing
Resolution 3.0 is now available. For information about pricing, contact NCompass Labs.

About NCompass Labs
NCompass Labs offers the leading Web content management solution for the Microsoft platform to deliver out-of-the-box support for e-business and Internet relationship management. Its market-leading features - including quick deployment, simple self-service authoring, and powerful template-based publishing, personalization, and site management - ensure a low total cost of ownership. Innovative organizations like Sterling Commerce, CB Richard Ellis, Marriott International and "dot com" businesses are NCompass Labs customers. The company is based in Vancouver, BC with US headquarters in the San Francisco Bay Area. Additional information can be obtained at http://www.ncompasslabs.com/ or by calling either 888/304-2222 or 408/558-9300.

NCompass Labs Launches Resolution 3.0 to Cut Time to Market and Simplify Content Management for Global E-Business Initiatives

March 13, 2000 - San Jose, CA

NCompass Labs, a leading provider of Web content management solutions, today announced the launch of NCompass Resolution 3.0, the out-of-the-box, Microsoft?-centric Web content management solution that integrates site design, content authoring, publishing and site management. Resolution 3.0 extends the capabilities of version 2.1 to speed deployment and simplify distributed content management for worldwide e-business applications. The new release's highly visual browser-based authoring empowers non-technical users to effortlessly create, manage, publish, and archive rich content while the open, object-oriented API permits rapid customization and integration of Resolution's Web content management capabilities.

Resolution 3.0 is designed to integrate seamlessly with an organization's existing infrastructure and allow content owners to be fully engaged in Web and e-business initiatives. Its new Web Client eliminates the installation and maintenance of desktop authoring software while allowing non-technical authors to use their browser interface and common desktop applications, such as Microsoft Word?, to create Web content.  Support for all of the world's major languages and time zone synchronization permit authors around the world to easily contribute up-to-date content regardless of their geographic location. The Resolution 3.0 Publishing API permits ready customization of the authoring interface and supports personalized, on-the-fly delivery of audience-appropriate content. New page version archiving and audit trail features permit rapid review of all site changes.

"Resolution 3.0 is optimal for dynamic Web sites that frequently update content for employees, partners, vendors or customers," said Gerri Sinclair, Chief Executive Officer of NCompass Labs. "Companies are requiring that information be disseminated globally via the Web to eliminate the time-to-market bottlenecks that can plague e-business projects. Resolution allows these e-companies to quickly and cost effectively deliver products and services and facilitate critical communications. It puts the power of content creation and publishing in the hands of the authors, while keeping site design, usability, and integration under the control of Web specialists."
 According to Tom Augustine, Corporate Web Director for Sterling Commerce, "Our intranet is accessed by 2,300 employees worldwide. After reviewing many Web content management solutions, we chose NCompass Resolution to empower users throughout the organization to create and disseminate their own information. Previously all postings went through our over-loaded Web team. The Web Client of Version 3.0 will allow us to distribute authoring to all divisions without installing and maintaining clients. Resolution is truly an open system and the API will provide excellent tools for expanding Web site functionality." 

Resolution 3.0 Major Features and Functionality

• Web Client  - Resolution's Web Client sets an industry precedent for ease-of-use combined with extensive authoring capabilities. Unlike the functionally limited forms-based authoring clients of other Web content management systems, Resolution's Web Client allows non-technical authors to create media-rich Web pages from within their browsers by dragging and dropping formatted text from common desktop applications and then inserting images, video files, and hyperlinks into the pages. All authoring is done using a simple WYSIWYG page creation model that includes content scheduling, integrated workflow, page previewing within context of the entire site, and support for working on the Windows, Macintosh, and Solaris operating systems.

• Resolution Publishing API - Designed to allow Web developers to create browser-based applications for Resolution, the Publishing API is an object-based application program interface that can be called from any server side scripting language supported by Active Server Pages, including VBScript and JavaScript.

• Customized authoring interface - Built upon the Resolution Publishing API, the interface and functionality of the Web Client can be easily customized and extended to satisfy application-specific requirements. Time-consuming or expensive consulting services are not required.

• Multi-lingual Support - Web content can be created in any of the world's major languages, including Japanese, Chinese, and Korean, to support global e-business applications.

• Time-zone Synchronization - Content posting schedules can be synchronized across different time zones to ensure timely worldwide publishing of up-to-date information.

• Dynamic publishing - Resolution's Publishing API and a content-component architecture together permit the personalized, on-the-fly delivery of content to audiences with different interests and language requirements. Content also can be re-purposed throughout the site, across multiple sites, and in other e-business applications. 

• Page version archiving and audit trail - An author can copy and paste content from an earlier version of a page, while the Webmaster can review the audit trail to determine who made which changes to the site. If needed, an entire site audit can be performed.

• E-Mail notification support - Resolution's new API provides a workflow event model that allows e-mail notification to be added into the Web Client.

• Windows 2000 and Oracle8i Support - For simple integration with an enterprise's existing and/or planned IT environment, NCompass Resolution now supports Windows 2000 in addition to Windows NT.  Oracle 8i or SQL 7 can be used for the content repository.

Availability & Pricing
Resolution 3.0 will be generally available March 31. For additional information about pricing, contact NCompass Labs.

About NCompass Labs
NCompass Labs offers the leading Web content management solution for the Microsoft platform to deliver out-of-the-box support for e-business and Internet relationship management. Its market-leading features - including quick deployment, simple self-service authoring, and powerful template-based publishing, personalization, and site management - ensure a low total cost of ownership. Innovative organizations like Sterling Commerce, CB Richard Ellis, Marriott International and "dot com" businesses are NCompass Labs customers. The company is based in Vancouver, BC with US headquarters in the San Francisco Bay Area. Additional information can be obtained at http://www.ncompasslabs.com/ or by calling either 888/304-2222 or 408/558-9300.

CB Richard Ellis Chooses NCompass Resolution for Web Content Management

March 13, 2000 - San Jose, CA 

NCompass Labs, a leading provider of Web-based content management solutions, today announced that CB Richard Ellis (NYSE: CBG), the world's leading commercial real estate firm, has chosen NCompass Labs Resolution as a complete Web content management solution for the company's intranet site. CB Richard Ellis content contributors can now simply "cut, paste and post" to create Web content quickly and easily from hundreds of office locations throughout the United States.

The CB Richard Ellis Navigator - the company's proprietary intranet - was launched in January. The new site provides personalized information to employees based on their business line and local office location. Using Resolution, an out-of-the-box solution, individual business lines and local offices are able to share information such as best practices, key documents, and new program announcements with specific groups of employees, in an effort to help them service their clients' needs most effectively.

"Resolution's ease of use allows us to provide content management at the corporate, business line and local office levels. As such, we are able to keep site content accurate, timely and relevant to employees based on their individual profile. This capability allows us to utilize the site as a true business tool to help our employees do their jobs as effectively and efficiently as possible," said Ali Shah, project manager, e-business for CB Richard Ellis.

With Resolution, non-technical content experts can create, manage and publish their information directly to the Web with no advanced technical skills required and no need to learn HTML. As the CB Richard Ellis sites grow to countless pages, the streamlined content management provided by Resolution is a tremendous time saver, allowing IT to concentrate on its core competencies of site architecture and design.

"Resolution is a great fit for a large, geographically diverse company like CB Richard Ellis," said Dr. Gerri Sinclair, Chief Executive Officer of NCompass Labs. "CB Richard Ellis is able to take advantage of Resolution's inherent capabilities for personalization, scheduling, workflow and other advanced Web content management to keep information current."

About CB Richard Ellis
CB Richard Ellis (NYSE:CBG) is the world's leading real estate services company.  Headquartered in Los Angeles with 10,000 employees worldwide, the company serves real estate owners, investors and occupiers through nearly 250 principal offices in 36 countries. Services include property sales and leasing, property management, corporate services and facilities management, mortgage banking, investment management, capital markets, appraisal/valuation, research and consulting. CB Richard Ellis had 1999 revenues of $1.2 billion. For more information about CB Richard Ellis, visit the company's website at http://www.cbrichardellis.com/.

About NCompass Labs
NCompass Labs offers the leading Web content management solution for the Microsoft platform. NCompass Resolution delivers out-of-the-box support for e-business and Internet relationship management. Market-leading features - including quick deployment, simple self-service authoring, and powerful template-based publishing, personalization, and site management - ensure a low total cost of ownership. NCompass Resolution integrates with most HTML design tools and databases, offers "cut-paste-post" authoring from popular desktop applications, and delivers tailored information to specific audiences and various browsing devices. Leading edge customers include Arthur Anderson, Sterling Commerce, Marriott, and many "dot com" businesses. The company is based in Vancouver, BC with US headquarters in the San Francisco Bay Area. Additional information can be obtained at http://www.ncompasslabs.com/ or by calling either 888/304-2222 or 408/558-9300.

Marriott Vacation Club International Chooses NCompass Resolution

June 21, 1999 - Vancouver, BC -- NCompass Labs, a leading provider of Web content publishing solutions, today announced that Marriott Vacation Club International has purchased NCompass Resolution, the first end-to-end Web content publishing solution. Marriott Vacation Club International, the recognized worldwide leader in the vacation ownership industry and a division of Marriott International, Inc., the largest hospitality company worldwide, has licensed Resolution to manage dynamic Web content and maintain cost-effectiveness of Web site maintenance and support. "We expect Resolution to give us much more direct control of our Web site content," said Ed Kinney, senior director for Marriott Vacation Club International...