CDC Solutions Expands Market Share with Continued Growth and Strong Alliances In Q1; CDC Welcomes New Life Sciences Customers and Renews Strategic Alliance With Documentum.

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PHILADELPHIA & CHIPPENHAM, U.K.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 28, 2003

CDC Solutions Ltd (CDC) (www.cdcsolutions.com), the acknowledged market leader in compliance-ready, document-based solutions in the life sciences industries, today announced continued growth for quarter ended March 31, 2003 with a 22 percent increase in revenues over the same period last year.

CDC continues to increase ownership of the marketplace through careful organic growth and strategic alliances with world-class companies such as Computer Sciences Corporation (CSC), Documentum Inc., and First Consulting Group (FCG).

Included in CDC's notable new additions to its global life sciences customers for Q1 are a UK-based top 10 global biotech company, a Tokyo-based top 25 global pharmaceutical company and a New Jersey-based top 50 global consumer medicines company.

In addition to the new global customers, business was secured from smaller biopharmaceutical companies wanting to utilize CDC's EZsubs(R) Select, a new offering released in Q1 specifically designed for a cost-effective deployment of an electronic regulatory publishing system in a compliant environment.

"Our decision to focus purely on the life sciences industries has allowed us to succeed in capturing market share in Europe and the North America," said Philip Padfield, president and CEO of CDC Solutions. "Against the current political and economic backdrop we are extremely pleased to announce solid growth for Q1. Our dedication to delivering superior electronic regulatory publishing solutions is paying off in market expansion and satisfied customers," added Mr. Padfield.

In addition to a strong market presence through direct sales, CDC extends its market reach through a strategic alliance with Documentum Inc., the leader in enterprise content management. As long-time technology partners and leaders in the life sciences technology marketplace, CDC and Documentum renewed mutual reseller and Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEM) agreements in Q1.

Documentum's Document Control Manager (DCM), includes CDC's PDFaqua providing customers with the ability to create, review, revise, approve, and distribute documents within an automated and audited environment, resulting in better compliance with government and industry regulations and good business practices.

CDC's EZsubs(R) Compliance and EZsubs(R) Select electronic regulatory publishing solutions include Documentum ECM platform, providing customers with easily deployable, 21 CFR Part 11 compliant electronic regulatory publishing solution.

"Our strong alliance with Documentum has brought us extremely favorable results. Not only do we extend our market reach through the sale of Documentum DCM, but also the inclusion of Documentum within our solutions enables our customers to strengthen their ability to achieve compliance in an extremely volatile regulated environment," said Mr. Padfield.

"The alliance of CDC and Documentum demonstrates both companies' commitment to getting joint customers up and running quickly to solve their pressing electronic content, workflow and publishing challenges - and ultimately helping them realize increased internal efficiency and quality of overall business and regulatory processes," said Rob Tarkoff, executive vice president and chief strategy officer at Documentum.

About Documentum

Documentum provides enterprise content management (ECM) solutions that enable organizations to unite teams, content and associated business processes. Documentum's integrated set of content, compliance and collaboration solutions support the way people work, from initial discussion and planning through design, production, marketing, sales, service and corporate administration.

With a single platform, Documentum enables people to collaboratively create, manage, deliver and archive the content that drives business operations, from documents and discussions to email, Web pages, records and rich media.

The Documentum platform makes it possible for companies to distribute all of this content in multiple languages, across internal and external systems, applications and user communities.

As a result, Documentum's customers, which include thousands of the world's most successful organizations, harness corporate knowledge, accelerate time to market, increase customer satisfaction, enhance supply chain efficiencies and reduce operating costs, improving their overall competitive advantage. For more information, visit Documentum on the Web at www.documentum.com.

About CDC Solutions Ltd.

Founded in 1994, CDC Solutions (CDC) is the acknowledged market leader in compliance-ready, document-based solutions to the life sciences industries. Our offerings help clients achieve compliance and accuracy as they deliver mission-critical regulatory reports and submissions.

CDC's flagship offerings, including the EZsubs(R) publishing suites and PDFaqua, which enable small and large pharmaceutical, biotechnology and medical device companies gain process efficiencies and decrease time to market while meeting the strict standards of regulatory authorities around the world.

For more information, call [phone] (United Kingdom) or 610/834-9021 (CDC Solutions Inc., North America), or visit the CDC Solutions website at www.cdcsolutions.com.

CDC Solutions, EZsubs, PDFfusion, PDFrender, PDFaqua, PDFcontrol, Xtensia, Xssembler, and Xport are trademarks or registered trademarks, service marks or registered service marks of CDC Solutions Ltd. All other product and company names mentioned herein may be trademarks of their respective holders.