Dataware Technologies Announces Dataware EPMS Support for Adobe Acrobat and Adobe FrameMaker.

CAMBRIDGE, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 17, 1997--Dataware Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ:DWTI), the leading provider of software for professional electronic publishing, today announced Dataware Electronic Publishing Management System (EPMS) support for Adobe(r) Acrobat(r) and Adobe FrameMaker(r) software. Support for Adobe Acrobat and Adobe FrameMaker will allow Dataware EPMS customers to quickly and easily integrate documents created with these popular applications into customized Dataware EPMS publications.

Announced in November 1996, Dataware EPMS is the first enterprise-level electronic publishing system for organizations that must regularly and reliably produce publishing applications for multiple media. The product accepts information from a wide variety of sources, such as word processor, groupware, database management, document management, composition, HTML and SGML systems. Organizations can then publish to the Internet/intranet, client/server networks, CD-ROM, DVD-ROM or all these media simultaneously.

Kevin Wandryk, director of Internet product management at Adobe Systems, said: "One of the key features of Adobe products is their extensible architecture, which allows Adobe to work with industry leaders like Dataware to provide integrated solutions that help simplify the process of creating, managing and delivering content in electronic form. The combination of Adobe software with Dataware EPMS can help businesses distribute content from multiple sources to multiple destinations through one integrated environment, reducing the time and headaches involved to get information online."

"Dataware EPMS is the only enterprise electronic publishing system to accept a variety of source information formats, making it the natural choice for professional electronic publishers," said Bill Thornburg, vice president of product planning at Dataware Technologies. "Because our publishing customers consider Adobe Acrobat software the standard for final form electronic documents and Adobe FrameMaker the tool-of-choice for creating long, content-rich documents, we've made it a priority to provide full support for Adobe software."

The Dataware EPMS architecture features support for plug-in filters, called Source Cartridges, for the most important file formats. Dataware will offer a Source Cartridge for Adobe Acrobat 3.0 software that will give electronic publishers the most advanced set of capabilities possible for including Adobe Portable Document Format (PDF) files in electronic publications. PDF is the cross-platform file format produced by Adobe Acrobat software that retains the visual fidelity of the original document across platforms and printers.

In addition, Dataware plans to develop a Source Cartridge for Adobe FrameMaker software, an integrated, cross-platform document authoring application combining word processing, page layout, graphics, equations, table- and book-building tools for creating a range of publications. The Source Cartridge for Adobe FrameMaker will read FrameMaker binary files directly into Dataware EPMS, where they can be combined with files in other formats for publication to a variety of media. Dataware EPMS currently supports FrameMaker MIF format as well as over 40 additional formats including Microsoft Word, Corel Word Perfect, HTML and SGML.

Pricing and availability

Prices for Dataware EPMS start at $15,000, with complete Dataware EPMS Publishing Manager and Internet/intranet server solutions available for under $25,000. Pricing for EPMS includes the Source Cartridge for FrameMaker MIF format.

About Dataware Technologies, Inc.

Dataware Technologies, Inc., is the leading provider of software for professional electronic publishing. Dataware's innovative software products and solutions enable customers to manage and distribute a wide variety of information via the Internet, intranets, CD-ROM, enterprise networks, commercial online services, print-on-demand and combinations of these media. Today, Dataware's software is used by more than 2,000 organizations worldwide-including commercial publishers, corporations, government agencies, professional firms and educational institutions-serving over 800,000 end-users in more than 20 countries. For further information, visit http://www.dataware.com .

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Dataware is a registered trademark owned by Dataware Technologies, Inc. Adobe, Acrobat and FrameMaker are trademarks of Adobe Systems Incorporated. Other product or company names mentioned in this press release may be trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective companies and are hereby acknowledged.

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