Dazel Introduces Powerful Report Delivery Product; Dazel Report Delivery Helps Companies Personalize and Distribute Reports and Post Them to Secure Web Sites for External Use.

High Tech Writers

AUSTIN, Texas--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 17, 2000

Dazel Corporation, an HP software company, today announced that it has extended its leading-edge core technology with the introduction of Dazel Report Delivery, which enables companies to personalize application-generated reports for specific employees in a distribution list, as well as for customers and suppliers.

This latest addition to Dazel's product line also features the ability to post an abridged report to a secure Web site, complementing the existing distribution vehicles of print, fax and e-mail. Just as with Dazel's other products, managers can track deliveries, thus confirming receipt of the information.

"This is a logical extension of our core technology," said Bill Bock, chief executive officer of Dazel. "Our customers told us that they wanted a way to personalize reports for their employees and post the reports to a secure Web site, while still benefiting from the time-tested reliability of the Dazel Output Server."

Dazel Report Delivery achieves this through powerful rules-based processing that bursts each report into sections. The rules engine looks for specified fields in the report -- cost centers or geographic regions, for example -- to identify sections that are relevant to specific users. Finally, the appropriate sections are bundled together for each user and automatically delivered.

The ability to post reports to a secure Web site is a significant benefit, as it allows companies to provide employees or remote recipients, such as customers, access to reports through the Web. If desired, users can then print the documents.

Like Dazel's other products, Dazel Report Delivery is both easy to manage and system-friendly, supporting multiple server and network platforms, while embracing any number of applications.

The overall savings in time and costs inherent in the use of Dazel Report Delivery have caught the attention of those who have tested the beta versions.

"We deliver sales reports to more than 160 sales reps in offices throughout the United States," said Tim Cochis, Manager of Infrastructure Applications Support for Matthew Bender & Co., a publishing company that is increasing its use of the Web to reach its distribution channel. "Our implementation of Dazel has helped reduce the time needed to generate and deliver these reports from one week to five hours."

U.S. Pricing and Availability

Dazel Report Delivery is available now for an estimated U.S price of $50,000 for a bundled product.

About Dazel, a Subsidiary of Hewlett-Packard Company

Dazel, an HP Software Company, is the worldwide leader in information delivery solutions, helping customers unify their information delivery infrastructure and manage business-critical output by providing products and solutions that ensure the reliable, confirmed delivery of documents and reports. Based in Austin, Texas, Dazel has direct sales offices in Atlanta; Boston; Chicago; Dallas; Denver; Los Angeles; New York; San Francisco; Seattle; and Washington, D.C. Dazel's European headquarters are located in Paris with additional sales offices in the United Kingdom and Germany. Dazel's Asia-Pacific region is operated out of Singapore with additional offices in Melbourne and Sydney. Further information can be found on Dazel's Web site at www.dazel.com.