BCL Computers Launches BCL MeetingRunner 1.0 Beta; A Reliable and Efficient Way for Business Professionals to Automatically Schedule Meetings.

Business Editors

SANTA CLARA, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 11, 2002

BCL Computers, Inc., a leader in document management and web publishing software, today announced the beta release of BCL Meeting Runner: a real-time meeting scheduling software. The product is a free and easy to use Microsoft Outlook(R) add-in that enables business professionals to automatically schedule meetings, keep track of appointments and ensure that their calendars are up to date and accurate.

BCL Meeting Runner monitors, reviews and categorizes all incoming email for potential meeting requests. If an email message has any information about a meeting, the software determines its time and duration. When an incoming email contains a meeting request such as "Meet me for lunch at 2PM tomorrow," or "Let's meet this Thursday at 3PM to do laundry," or "Pick me up from school at 9PM," BCL Meeting Runner will extract the day, time and duration of the meeting on a pop-up screen. With the click of a button, BCL Meeting Runner will then give the user the option to reply to the email, modify the meeting time or to schedule it in the Microsoft Outlook(R) Calendar. The entire process is automated, making it a reliable way to manage one's agenda.

BCL Meeting Runner is a free, self-installing software application available on BCL Computers web site at www.bclcomputers.com. Once installed, BCL Meeting Runner will quietly run in the background of Microsoft Outlook(R), getting activated only when the user receives an email containing a meeting request. The software uses Natural Language Processing (NLP) techniques to identify meeting related queries along with their time and duration. BCL Meeting Runner is Microsoft Outlook(R) 2000 and 2002 compatible.

BCL Meeting Runner assists business professionals with complex and diverse schedules. This software solution increases productivity and efficiency by providing instantaneous access to critical scheduling information. Meetings are automatically recognized and scheduled in order to keep users organized.

About BCL Computers

BCL Computers is a leader in the document management and web publishing industry with state of the art software and services that aid in repurposing content for corporations and individuals. Using its own, patented document mapping technology, BCL Computers has developed software for publication of partial or whole documents, extraction of text and graphics, and server-based solutions that publish and catalog documents, readying them for electronic access via multiple display devices. All of BCL Computers' applications share in common the ability to streamline the document management process - automating it while maintaining the content, appearance and flow of the original documents. The company is founded in 1994 with headquarters in Santa Clara, California. For more information please visit www.bclcomputers.com.