Corechange Integrates Microsoft Content Management Server Into Its Enterprise Portal Framework.

Business/Technology Editors

BOSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 22, 2002

Comprehensive Integration Facilitates Creation

of Dynamic, Highly Personalized Enterprise Portals

Rich in Relevant Content

Corechange, Inc., a global provider of access framework software, today announced that it has integrated Microsoft Content Management Server 2001, the Web content management system that enables businesses to quickly and efficiently build, deploy and maintain highly dynamic Internet, intranet and extranet Web sites, into Coreport(R), Corechange's enterprise portal framework. The integration of Coreport and Microsoft Content Management Server enables organizations to unify an extensive range of information assets -- including data, messages, applications, and user-created business content -- within a single framework designed to tailor information access to specific user needs.

"We are pleased to have Corechange as a go-to-market partner and believe that the benefits of streamlined, user-directed content management will become even more valuable in the context of an enterprise portal," said Betsy Frost, Group Product Manager of Microsoft's Content Management Server group. "Coreport, powered by Windows 2000 Server, Active Directory and Microsoft SQL Server, provides users with a single, comprehensive window to all sources of content and applications within the enterprise, including Knowledge Management applications built using Microsoft Sharepoint Portal Server. This level of integration with Microsoft technologies helps position Corechange as a leading go-to-market partner for Microsoft within the Enterprise Information Portal space."

The integration of Microsoft Content Management Server with the Coreport portal framework -- accomplished through Corechange's development of Coreport Connectors(TM) that provide direct, native access to Content Management Server -- enables companies to create enterprise portals offering a number of important benefits, including:

-- Increased productivity, achieved by providing users or groups of users with
the specific business content and applications they need to work most
efficiently and effectively

-- Access to the full functionality of Microsoft Content Management Server,
from within the Coreport framework

-- The ability to replace multiple intranet sites with a single information
framework capable of delivering targeted content to specific individuals or
business communities, such as separate content for employees, business partners
and customers

"The integration of Content Management Server within the Coreport access framework adds an important extra dimension to the enterprise portal," said Charles Kane, president and chief operating officer at Corechange. "In addition to having convenient access to a wide range of information resources, business users will now easily be able to create and publish content whenever necessary, directly from the Coreport portal. At the same time, administrators will be able to retain control over content structures and design, as well as workflow and approval processes, without having to get directly involved with content updates."

Corechange's integration with Microsoft Content Management Server is scheduled for general availability in April 2002.

About Coreport

Coreport is an access framework that integrates and presents all the content and system resources available to an organization. It can deliver any or all of these resources to individual users or groups of users based on their business roles and information preferences. Coreport provides unified access to any type of content or application from any wired or wireless device, putting users no more than two mouse clicks away from vital business information.

About Microsoft Content Management Server

Microsoft Content Management Server is an enterprise content management system that enables business users to create, manage and publish their own content for Web, intranet and extranet sites using a browser-based interface and easy-to-follow templates. By making it easy for business users to create the content they need to do their jobs most effectively, Microsoft Content Management Server ensures content timeliness and relevance.

About Corechange

Corechange, Inc. delivers access framework software for deploying any kind of portal. The company's Coreport(R) product family profiles and manages people, information and applications to provide an integrated and personalized user experience based on roles that can be delivered on both desktop PCs and wireless devices. Corechange has a worldwide customer base, including American Electric Power (AEP), Credit Suisse First Boston, UnumProvident Corporation, EMC, Ericsson, Philips, Hitachi, Krispy Kreme, and Royal & SunAlliance. The company's strategic partners include Microsoft, Nortel Networks, GE Medical Systems Information Technologies, Cap Gemini Ernst & Young, and Aether Systems. Corechange is headquartered in Boston, with offices throughout North America, Europe and Asia.