Florida's Broward Community College Revitalizes Web Presence with Percussion's Rhythmyx Content Management System.

Business Editors/High-Tech Writers

STONEHAM, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dec. 10, 2002

-- Rhythmyx enables 12th largest community college in United

States to better serve student and faculty needs --

Percussion(R) Software, the first content management vendor committed to lowering the total cost of ownership for content management, today announced that Broward Community College, the 12th largest community college in the United States, has selected Rhythmyx to speed the creation and publication of content to its mission-critical Web presence. With more than 60,000 students and 2,000 faculty and staff, Broward Community College relies on its Web site to facilitate administrative processes, provide online registration and fee payment and disseminate education and marketing information to the community and prospective students.

With more than 5,000 pages of content and individual faculty Web pages to create and maintain, Broward Community College's Web team was spending 80 percent of its time managing content, rather than devoting time to developing new applications or enhancing current content. Through its home-grown content management system, faculty Web pages had to be created with inflexible templates that permitted very few options. "The mission of the college, providing opportunities for higher education to our community, was challenged because we were being overwhelmed with content changes to static pages," said Brandon Kaminsky, director of Internet and E-Business Solutions for Broward Community College. "We needed a new content management system to transfer ownership of content to end users, so we could concentrate on providing more strategic online programs to our students, faculty and the community."

After an evaluation of 30 content management solutions, Broward County Community College selected Rhythmyx based on the product's open architecture, in addition to its workflow capabilities and easy-to-use interface for non-technical users. "The intuitive navigation and editing capabilities of the Rhythmyx Site Explorer interface, coupled with the content layout flexibility provided by Rhythmyx Active Assembly, will enable us to extend content creation and maintenance capabilities to more than 40 Internet content authors as well as to 2,000 faculty contributors to the College intranet, freeing our developers to focus on adding functionality to our sites," said Kaminsky. "While it was important for us that Rhythmyx was easy to learn, we were equally impressed with the product's power and ability to manage and integrate dynamic content."

"Broward Community College's selection of Rhythmyx has demonstrated once again that customers value software that fills a specific need while providing the vision and flexibility to meet their future requirements," said Barry Reynolds, president and CEO of Percussion Software.

With its ability to work with content from any application, Rhythmyx offers a comprehensive solution to its customers' content management challenges. Percussion integrates its content management methodology into Rhythmyx, thereby reducing the time and skill level required to execute content initiatives, transferring ownership of the system back to the customer, and lowering the total cost of ownership. Built on configurable engines that facilitate the production and aggregation of content without the need for custom coding, Rhythmyx provides enterprises with a "future-proof" content management foundation.

About Broward Community College

Broward Community College (www.broward.edu) provides higher education and technical and occupational training for the residents of Broward County. As one of the twenty-eight community colleges in the Florida system, Broward Community College is designed to be a community-based institution that offers a comprehensive range of programs responsive to changes in the community and in technology. Through a wide variety of degree and certificate programs and continuing education courses, the college attracts a diverse student body, including individuals planning to complete a bachelor's degree program, people seeking to acquire job-entry skills, employees desiring to upgrade skills for promotion or career change, and individuals seeking education for their personal enrichment. BCC is the principal access to higher education in the county. The college is also a source of cultural enrichment, a resource for corporate and industry training and development, and an avenue for continued skill upgrading and enhancement and retraining.

About Percussion Software

Percussion Software (www.percussion.com), a leader in the content management market, is the first vendor to reduce the total cost of ownership of content management solutions by reducing the costs and skill level required to evolve and expand an organization's content initiatives. Percussion's flagship product, Rhythmyx, provides line-of-business users with unprecedented control to manage their own content without the need for technical expertise. Percussion's portfolio of Rhythmyx customers includes global and market leaders McKesson Corporation, Armstrong World Industries and Network World. Rhythmyx boasts a long list of industry awards including finalist in the category of "e-Business Foundations" for eWEEK's 2002 eXcellence Awards and winner of the Canadian E-Content Award for "Content Management System of the Year" presented by Information Highways.

Percussion Software is a registered trademark and Rhythmyx, Active Assembly and Rhythmyx Content Model are trademarks of Percussion Software.