CTA selects Xyvision's WebPorter and PDM for Air Force IWSD system; Will support over 1400 World Wide Web users.

WAKEFIELD, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 23, 1996--Xyvision announced today that CTA INCORPORATED, a Colorado Springs based systems integrator serving both the Federal and Commercial markets, has selected Xyvision's WebPorter and Parlance Document Manager (PDM) as part of an Integrated Weapon Systems Database (IWSD) documentation management system that will manage critical North American Aerospace Defense (NORAD) and United States Space Command Integrated Tactical Warning/Attack Assessment (TW/AA) information.

The IWSD System will be used for the storage and upkeep of technical information related to system-to-system interfaces, including system interface descriptions for hundreds of systems which interface to exchange critical warning data for the United States and Canada.

Under contract with the U.S. Air Force, CTA began a search for a document management system that could handle the diverse requirements of the IWSD System, including:

o ability to author and maintain documents using SGML editing and

traditional word processing applications o ability to concurrently manage five versions of the same information o a system that provides a high degree of security and data integrity o ability to create customized user interfaces o enterprise-wide integrated workflow processes that are tailorable at

the workgroup level o ability to make current information readily available to 1400

Department of Defense users throughout the world

After carefully evaluating several solutions, CTA chose Xyvision's WebPorter and Parlance Document Manager (PDM) because they were the best solution to fulfill the extensive system requirements.

According to Dave Knitt, CTA's Project Manager, "We had almost 100 very stringent requirements and Xyvision was the only vendor who proposed a cost-effective solution which addressed all of the requirements. Additionally Xyvision's proposed object-oriented relational database solution integrated with PDM is on the leading edge of technology for a document management system."

The Xyvision WebPorter/PDM solution will support 50 concurrent users who write, edit, and review technical, procedural and other information using PC-based SGML editors and word processing software. When information is approved, the original data will be stored in the PDM database as SGML or in native word processing format and automatically made available in HTML (Hypertext Markup Language) in a separate Web Repository. As master data changes, WebPorter will incrementally update and manage historical versions of data so that over 1400 authorized users around the world can view information that conforms to past, current, or future document baselines through cost-effective Web Browsers. WebPorter, combined with PDM, will manage the data conversion and content in the Web Repository as well as the associated tools, text and graphic elements, and project workflow.

Xyvision's PDM enables companies to manage information as objects in a common database, share and reuse these objects in multiple documents, and publish the same information in multiple media types. PDM supports objects of varying sizes and formats (including SGML fragments and non-SGML elements)

Formerly announced at the AIIM (Association for Information and Image Management) show this spring, WebPorter is an extension to Xyvision's Parlance Document Manager (PDM) that facilitates the management, organization, assembly, versioning, and distribution of information over an Intranet or Internet. WebPorter also controls a "finished goods" Web Repository, which can be directly accessed and navigated by authorized users via cost-effective Web clients.

About Xyvision

Xyvision, Inc. provides information management and document production solutions that leverage the value of an organization's information assets and automate the production of paper and digital documents. Since shipping its first systems in 1983, Xyvision has installed more than $300,000,000 in systems world wide. These systems are used by some of the world's most distinguished corporations, publishers, and publishing service providers to produce reference books, journals, catalogs, directories, financial and legal material, and technical manuals.

Xyvision is a sponsor member of SGML Open and a standing member of the Document Management Alliance (DMA). For more information about Xyvision's publishing products, see Xyvision's home page at http://www.xyvision.com on the World Wide Web.

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Xyvision is a registered trademark and Parlance Document Manager and WebPorter are trademarks of Xyvision, Inc.

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