Cypress Sets New Content Delivery Standard With The Announcement of Version 3.3.

Business Editors and Technology Writers

ROCHESTER HILLS, Mich.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aug. 28, 2001

Cypress Version 3.3 sets a new standard for automated content management and delivery resulting in increased automation, productivity and accelerated business processes. This fully-integrated production-class, content delivery solution extends collaboration, improves management processes and strengthens customer relationships.

"In today's fast-paced global business environment, organizations are still only able to access a fraction of the information contained in the digital assets of a company," said Mary Hinz, Cypress' President. "In order for businesses to stay ahead of the competition they need immediate access to the information critical for driving business initiatives, improving innovation and enhancing efficiency. Cypress Version 3.3 continues to remove the barriers associated with dynamically connecting customers, partners and employees to the information needed to meet their day-to-day business needs."

Studies indicate that eighty percent of an organization's information is maintained in electronic documents. Cypress Version 3.3 harnesses all front and back office documents to enable businesses to easily create, manage, personalize and deliver complex content throughout an enterprise. The strength and flexibility of the Cypress architecture provides for an immediate return on investment.

New Version Highlights

Supporting all enterprise platforms, Cypress Version 3.3 has many new features that allow businesses to share information with internal and external recipients. Some of these new capabilities include:

Data Mining - The Data Mining Module builds on Cypress'

customized content delivery capabilities by automatically

extracting and summarizing information from reports, to

uncover results and conclusions not explicitly contained in

the original report. Selected information can then be

archived and routed to recipients as an Excel spreadsheet,

captured document or text file - without requiring any

end-user involvement or client-based data mining software.

This provides users with immediate access to bottom-line

information, without any additional end user training, labor

or software licenses. Any document currently being viewed in

Cypress Version 3.3 can also be launched in the Data Mining

Module for additional and extended data analysis.

Sticky Notes - Cypress' Sticky Notes add a new dimension of

collaboration to document exchange and delivery by enabling

users to annotate and converse within a document. These notes

can be inserted and visually linked to specific passages

within documents, reports, spreadsheets, CAD drawings,

invoices and any other digital content, allowing users to

better communicate and understand the information needed to

make critical business decisions. Cypress' robust security

capabilities can also be applied to all Sticky Notes,

ensuring that only authorized users are allowed viewing

access.

Unprecedented Document Content Search Capability - Cypress

eliminates the time and frustration users experience when

searching for content among rigid, counter-intuitive, limited

indexing and foldering products. The Cypress approach provides

users with the precise information they need without requiring

them to know where information is located or how it is

organized. Unlike traditional solutions, Cypress Version 3.3

provides content in a logical and systematic structure based

on the needs of each user. Because of Cypress' dynamic

indexing capability there is no restriction as to how

information is accessed other than user security. This

methodology is especially helpful to knowledge workers when

special situations arise or business rules change since there

are no "folder" barriers that inhibit the access of

information.

Report Bundling - Due to Cypress' ability to freely associate

information from all systems and platforms, users can bundle

digital content and individual pages of information created

in disparate applications, such as SAP, PeopleSoft, legacy

and Windows, into a single packet and deliver it based on a

recipient's needs and specifications. By using Cypress,

organizations no longer need to incur the cost of maintaining

separate report distribution systems for each environment or

platform. This results in a rapid and significant return on

investment plus an immediate increase in productivity.

Enterprise Print Statistics - The optional Print Statistics

Module offers customers a single solution for collecting all

print related events and statistics for every platform and

environment in an enterprise. By tracking all user, job and

device related events in a print environment, information can

be easily exported and analyzed for billing, load balancing,

resource utilization, print window consumption and many other

purposes.

Email Content as PDF Documents - Documents processed by

Cypress can now be delivered as a PDF document to any user

outside the enterprise. In production batch mode, Cypress

automatically assembles key content, converts it to PDF and

routes it to the appropriate email address based on the

content within the document. Companies can also share

documents with non-Cypress users by simply routing a document

through Cypress.

For pricing and additional product information, please contact Cypress at [phone].

About Cypress, The Knowledge Delivery Architecture

Cypress is a Knowledge Delivery Architecture that eliminates the barriers previously imposed by disparate platforms, applications and file types and enables enterprises to quickly deliver business critical information to employees, partners and customers in real-time. Cypress does this by automatically capturing a document page-by-page, preprocessing the document so it is in a common format and archiving the document in a virtual document repository. While creating and maintaining page independence and document integrity, Cypress enables end-users to retrieve, assemble, distribute and view only the pages of interest, and provides document delivery to all enterprise and Web-based destinations.

About Cypress Corporation

For over 18 years, Cypress Corporation has dedicated itself to the design, marketing and support of robust, high quality content delivery applications. Cypress Corporation is headquartered in southeast Michigan with additional offices throughout the United States, France, Brazil and the United Kingdom. Operating on a global scale, Cypress Corporation provides some of the world's largest companies with the technology needed for mission-critical content delivery. Customers are from all industry sectors including hospitals, universities, insurance companies, banks and governments. For more information, please contact Cypress at 248-852-0066 or visit www.cypressdelivers.com.

All other company or product names mentioned may be trademarks of their respective owners.