Cypress.Web Unlocks All Digital Content With A Single Point of Access.

Business/Technology Editors

ROCHESTER HILLS, Mich.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--July 24, 2001

Leading manufacturers, shipbuilders and healthcare organizations are cutting costs, enhancing productivity and increasing profitability by embracing Cypress Corporation's Cypress.Web(R). Cypress.Web maximizes an organization's existing technology investments and eliminates the disparity between enterprise systems to allow users with virtually no training to quickly search, retrieve and deliver business-critical information to partners, customers and employees. Additionally, due to the flexibility and scalability of the architecture, businesses can implement Cypress.Web as a stand-alone content portal or easily configure it to seamlessly integrate with third-party portals.

"In the past, organizations have been forced to accept the delays and hard costs associated with delivering documents and searching for key information," said Mary Hinz, President of Cypress. "Cypress.Web changes all that by ensuring instant access to the information needed to make critical decisions, drive business processes and achieve bottom line results."

Cypress.Web creates a new paradigm for document delivery. With just a Microsoft Internet Explorer or Netscape Navigator browser, users can easily access and view individual pages of reports, as well as other digital content, created by popular enterprise applications, such as SAP, PeopleSoft, Lawson, legacy and Windows. All digital information including statements, bills and CAD drawings can then be delivered to any internal or external recipient. In order to ensure recipients have all the information needed for a specific project, content from multiple applications can also be bundled and delivered throughout the enterprise as a single knowledge packet, which increases employee productivity and improves business processes.

With a single click in Cypress.Web, users can eliminate as much as 40 to 50 percent of the time normally spent searching for information in physical and electronic document repositories. Cypress.Web's customizable search and query capabilities span across all folders, applications and disparate files to enable users to locate critical information, without requiring prior knowledge of the title, location or format of the content. This gives employees, customers and partners immediate, anywhere, anytime access to all relevant business documents without re-purposing the information into HTML, XML or any other format.

For instance, a leading not-for-profit healthcare provider uses Cypress.Web to manage and deliver financial reports throughout the company's extensive network of hospitals, primary care physician centers, rehabilitation clinics and senior health centers. Consequently, reports are received faster and printing and distribution times are effectively eliminated, so employees can respond quicker to improve the company's financial position and to launch new financial programs. In addition, after deploying Cypress.Web, the nation's largest privately held shipbuilder improved the efficiency of information throughout its organization and has furthered its paperless office initiative by eliminating six million pages of printed output per month.

Additionally, as organizations continue to expand the scope of their digital content, they will need an advanced method for capturing and distributing live source files, such as web casts, teleconferences, video and audio clips. Based on the capabilities currently available in Cypress.Web, users today already have the functionality needed to leverage the full value of all digital assets, without having to invest in additional technology. This provides businesses with a significant competitive advantage that allows them to plan for future document delivery initiatives.

For more information on Cypress.Web, please visit www.cypressdelivers.com or call [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

Cypress has focused on developing, marketing and supporting document delivery systems since 1983. The 18 year-old company is headquartered in Rochester Hills, Michigan with additional offices throughout the United States, United Kingdom, Brazil and France. Cypress customers include some of the world's largest automotive manufacturers, insurance companies, health care providers, financial institutions and governments. For more information, please contact Cypress at [phone] or visit www.cypressdelivers.com.

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