Artesyn and Merrimac Increase Efficiencies Using Stellent to Manage Content for Intranet and Employee Portal.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers EDEN PRAIRIE Eden Prairie A city of eastern Minnesota, a residential suburb of Minneapolis. Population: 57,300. , Minn.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 29, 2002 Artesyn Technologies and Merrimac Industries increase employee productivity and information exchange using Stellent Content Management Stellent(TM), Inc. (Nasdaq:STEL STEL Short Term Exposure Limit STEL Stellent, Inc. (stock abbreviation, AMEX) STEL Short Time Exposure Limit STEL Standard Telecommunications ), a global provider of enterprise content management solutions, announced today that Artesyn Technologies, a leading supplier of power conversion products, and Merrimac Industries, a designer and manufacturer of small electronics, are increasing business efficiencies using the Stellent(TM) Content Management system to manage content on their intranet and employee portal, respectively. At Artesyn, more than 4,000 employees across North America North America, third largest continent (1990 est. pop. 365,000,000), c.9,400,000 sq mi (24,346,000 sq km), the northern of the two continents of the Western Hemisphere. , Europe and the Pacific Rim Pacific Rim, term used to describe the nations bordering the Pacific Ocean and the island countries situated in it. In the post–World War II era, the Pacific Rim has become an increasingly important and interconnected economic region. use a Web browser The program that serves as your front end to the Web on the Internet. In order to view a site, you type its address (URL) into the browser's Location field; for example, www.computerlanguage.com, and the home page of that site is downloaded to you. to contribute content to three Stellent Content Servers that act as content repositories for the company. Users assign metadata to content when submitting it to make it easily searchable through the company intranet, and Stellent's enterprise search feature enables employees to conduct one search across all three servers. Artesyn employees can route content, such as engineering change orders, through the Web to other staff members using Stellent's workflow feature. This function enhances the collaboration and approval process among employees worldwide. "We needed to get our arms around the business content stored in disparate systems across our organization," said Brett Ostrom, Internet applications developer for Artesyn. "We quickly deployed the Stellent Content Management system and soon began enjoying greater efficiencies in our business processes because we could find information faster. The productivity of our employees increased, and our staff was able to exchange more information more easily and quickly." In Merrimac's implementation, the company utilized Stellent's Quick Start Program to get the Stellent Content Management technology up and running in a week and a half. Merrimac's employees access content saved in the Stellent Content Server through its Novell portal, which provides employees with a personalized interface to company content. Employees use Stellent Content Management to conduct dynamic queries for quick access to business content such as policies, customer specification sheets, proposals, drawings and financial information. Stellent Content Management's version control feature ensures only the most current information is published to the portal and enables Merrimac to easily document and store each version of its plans and designs for review and archiving purposes. "Our entire business is operating more efficiently because of Stellent Content Management," said Jayson E. Hahn, Merrimac's vice president of information technology and chief information officer. "The Stellent system gives employees quick access to organizational content used to design and manufacture our custom-built products. We look forward to expanding our Stellent deployment in the near future to share information even more effectively across our company and with our partners." "Stellent Content Management is used by numerous companies worldwide to make business processes more efficient," said Vern Hanzlik, president and chief executive officer for Stellent. "The Artesyn and Merrimac implementations are prime examples of how organizations can benefit from the productivity gains our content management system generates." To view in-depth case studies of the Stellent Content Management implementations at Artesyn and Merrimac, visit http://www.stellent.com/artesyn and http://www.stellent.com/merrimac. Stellent Content Management Features Stellent Content Management enables customers to rapidly deploy line-of-business Web sites as well as content management solutions for enterprise initiatives such as enterprise portals and business commerce applications. The system Web-enables business content by aggregating content from multiple sources, converting it to Web formats, managing and publishing it to the Web, and personalizing it for specific audiences, devices and applications. Stellent Content Management offers the widest array of content contribution and content delivery mechanisms on the market, enabling any user to contribute any kind of content into the system for conversion, management and delivery to any kind of consumer or application. The system also integrates with existing security systems and provides business personalization features. For information on how to obtain the Stellent Content Management system, contact Stellent at 1-800-989-8774. About Stellent, Inc. Stellent, Inc. (www.stellent.com) is a global provider of line-of-business and enterprise content management solutions for business Web sites. The company offers a broad array of content contribution and content delivery mechanisms, enabling users to contribute virtually any kind of content into its content management system for conversion, management and delivery to a wide variety of consumers or applications. Stellent has been ranked one of the top three content management vendors by industry analyst firms Gartner Dataquest, Forrester Research Forrester Research is an independent technology and market research company that provides its clients with advice about technology's impact on business and consumers. Corporate facts
About Artesyn Technologies Artesyn Technologies, Inc. is a leading provider of advanced power conversion equipment and real-time subsystems to the communications industry. With one of the broadest portfolios of power products available, Artesyn offers customers a wide range of high efficiency AC/DC AC/DC adj. Slang Having a bisexual orientation. [From the likening of a bisexual person to an appliance that works on either alternating or direct current. power supplies, as well as advanced DC/DC and Point-of-Load converters for distributed power architectures. Artesyn's line of WAN interfaces, CPU CPU in full central processing unit Principal component of a digital computer, composed of a control unit, an instruction-decoding unit, and an arithmetic-logic unit. boards, DSP (1) (Digital Signal Processor) A special-purpose CPU used for digital signal processing applications (see definition #2 below). It provides ultra-fast instruction sequences, such as shift and add, and multiply and add, which are commonly used in math-intensive solutions and protocol stacks are also at work in many of today's leading Teledatacom(TM) networks. For more information about Artesyn Technologies and its products, please visit the company's web site at http://www.artesyn.com. About Merrimac Industries Merrimac Industries, Inc. is a leader in the design and manufacture of Multi-Mix PICO Pico (pē`kō) [Port.,=peak], island (1991 pop. 15,129), 167 sq mi (433 sq km), Horta dist., in the N Atlantic, one of the central Azores. It takes its name from the volcanic mountain, Pico Alto [high peak], which rises to 7,711 ft (2,350 m). RF Microwave components, assemblies and Micro-Multifunction (MMFM) Modules, serving the wireless telecommunications industry worldwide with enabling technologies for space, defense and commercial applications. Merrimac is focused on providing Total Integrated Packaging Solutions(TM) with Multi-Mix(R) Microtechnology Microtechnology is technology with features near one micrometre (one millionth of a metre, or 10-6 metre, or 1μm). In the 1960s, scientists learned that by arraying large numbers of microscopic transistors on a single chip, microelectronic circuits could be , a leading edge competency providing value to customers through miniaturization min·i·a·tur·ize tr.v. min·i·a·tur·ized, min·i·a·tur·iz·ing, min·i·a·tur·iz·es To plan or make on a greatly reduced scale. min and integration. The Multi-Mix process for microwave, multilayer integrated MMFM circuitry is a patented method developed by Merrimac Industries based on fluoropolymer A fluoropolymer is a polymer that contains atoms of fluorine. It is characterized by a high resistance to solvents, acids, and bases. Fluoropolymers were discovered serendipitously in 1938 by Dr. Roy J. Plunkett. composite substrates. The fusion bonding of multilayer structures provides a homogeneous dielectric medium for superior electrical performance at microwave frequencies. The bonded layers may incorporate embedded semiconductor devices, MMICs, etched resistors, passive circuit elements and plated-through via holes to form a three-dimensional subsystem enclosure that requires no further packaging. Merrimac Industries' facilities are registered under ISO (1) See ISO speed. (2) (International Organization for Standardization, Geneva, Switzerland, www.iso.ch) An organization that sets international standards, founded in 1946. The U.S. member body is ANSI. 9000, an internationally developed set of quality criteria for manufacturing operations. Any forward-looking statements in this release are made pursuant to the safe harbor Safe Harbor 1. A legal provision to reduce or eliminate liability as long as good faith is demonstrated. 2. 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When a person begins a civil lawsuit, the person enters into a process called litigation. , risks in technology development and commercialization, risks in product development and market acceptance of and demand for the Company's products, risks of downturns in economic conditions generally and in the Web content management tools and intranet information management markets specifically, risks associated with competition and competitive pricing pressures, risks associated with foreign sales and higher customer concentration and other risks detailed in the Company's filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Stellent and the Stellent logo are trademarks of Stellent, Inc. in the USA and other countries. Outside In and Quick View Plus are registered trademarks of Stellent Chicago, Inc. in the USA and other countries. All other trade names are the property of their respective owner. |
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