Cypress Unlocks Documents Held Hostage in Foldering Systems.

Business/Technology Editors

ROCHESTER HILLS, Mich.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 13, 2001

Cypress Corporation announced today that its content indexing, filing and searching methodology provides unprecedented access to documents that heretofore have been locked inside restrictive foldering systems. Employees, partners and customers now have instant, on-demand access to all pertinent enterprise content and business information created by both front and back office applications, including ERP, CRM, legacy and Windows systems. This new level of access dramatically increases productivity and reduces costs for all business applications by eliminating the time and frustration users typically experience when searching for information located in multiple folders.

"Multi-level indexing and foldering products are archaic and restrict access to an organization's critical content," said Mary Hinz, Cypress' President. "Cypress is the new benchmark for content retrieval because it provides users with the precise information they need without having to know where information is located, what it is called or what format it is in. This unrestricted access improves decision making processes, increases job satisfaction and allows organizations to work in intuitive, highly productive ways."

Many content management solutions force users to access documents in a rigid folder hierarchy, requiring users to rummage through multiple folders and open multiple documents in search of pertinent information. Because these systems typically only index file names and select metadata, users are not able to pinpoint the content they need with a single query. For example, if your folders were organized by customers, and you needed to access all invoices that exceed $1,000, you would need to manually navigate through numerous folders to locate all invoices, open the files, then determine if the invoices exceeded $1,000. This time consuming process leads to reduced productivity and excessive implementation, training and administration costs. Additionally, once indexes and folders have been defined, it is very difficult for a company to modify and expand the structure to meet its future needs without additional administration, planning and training.

To overcome this, Cypress offers a single solution for indexing, archiving and retrieving content. Users still have their familiar folder metaphor, but they are folders without barriers. Users can now simply enter basic query information to retrieve only the pertinent pages of information they need to do their jobs. As a result, Cypress improves productivity and accelerates critical business processes to enable companies to compete more aggressively in today's marketplace. For more information on how Cypress can overcome the barriers imposed by indexing and folder products, please contact Cypress at 248-852-0066 or visit www.cypressdelivers.com.

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.

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