HEC Montreal Chooses Percussion's Rhythmyx ECM To Manage Its Growing Multilingual Web Presence; Content Management System Helps Leading Canadian Business School Manage the Growing Volume, Complexity and Multilingual Content Needs of Its 70 Sub-Sites.

WOBURN, Mass. -- Percussion(R) Software, a leading developer of practical software solutions enabling customers to maximize the value and quality of enterprise content, today announced that HEC Montreal, one of Canada's leading business schools, has selected its Rhythmyx Enterprise Content Management (ECM) system to manage the growing volume of content for its public Web site serving students, faculty, staff, alumni, and prospective students. By moving to the Rhythmyx content management system (CMS), HEC Montreal will achieve its long-term goal of putting more emphasis on the needs of prospective students and using its public Web site as more of a student recruitment tool.

HEC Montreal's Web presence is very large scale and growing daily. Traffic on HEC Montreal's public Web site routinely approaches 1 million visitors per month. There is one public Web site and about 70 sub-sites managed with Rhythmyx. Eventually plans call for an extra 250 individual faculty Web sites as well. The number of content contributors using Rhythmyx is expected to grow fairly rapidly, starting from an initial 40 content authors, and moving on to a second phase that will be add about 50 more and a third phase, during which the 250 faculty content contributors will be added - for a total of 340 content authors. Currently, the public Web site contains some 40,000 pages of Web content, and this number, too, is expected to grow quickly.

"Our main goal in selecting the Rhythmyx ECM solution was to better manage the increasing volume, complexity and multilingual requirements of our Web content," said Kathleen Grant, Director of Communications and Student Recruitment at HEC Montreal. "In the next few years, we expect our Web page volume to scale from 40,000 to 60,000 or 70,000 pages or more. In addition, the complexity of our content management is increasing, not only because of higher volume, but also because the number of end users and content authors is growing. We also appreciate the fact that Rhythmyx makes it easy to maintain French, English and Spanish versions of our pages - which is becoming a requirement for a growing percentage of our content."

"We have a large number of content contributors, so we like the way Rhythmyx supports a large number of communities representing groupings of authors," added Grant. "Most of our content contributors are native French speakers, so Rhythmyx's support for a French version of its Content Explorer interface for content contributing and editing is really useful."

In addition to product features, HEC Montreal also cited the qualities of Percussion as a company as further reasons for choosing Rhythmyx. "We were impressed by the level of commitment we saw in Percussion," commented Grant. "With Percussion, there was a willingness to work with us, and to be available and a curiosity about what we do that made us realize we had chosen the right ECM vendor."

About HEC Montreal

Founded in 1907, HEC Montreal was Canada's first management school. It was the first North American school to hold the three accreditations AACSB International, EQUIS and AMBA, and the first non-European school to receive EQUIS accreditation. HEC Montreal's MBA program is accredited by the Association of MBAs (UK), offered in English and French, with over 55 percent international students. It was rated as one of the 10 best MBA programs outside the United States, according to the MBA 2004 classification by BusinessWeek. Close to 12,000 students, of whom 2,800 are non-Canadian visa students and permanent residents, make up the total enrollment. With a multidisciplinary faculty of nearly 240 career professors, HEC Montreal offers 33 management study programs, from BBA to PhD.It features a multilingual approach, with some courses offered in English and Spanish in addition to the French curriculum, as well as French workshops and courses in business English and business Spanish.

HEC Montreal hosts Canada's largest and most prestigious international exchange program, involving partnerships with 66 universities and major management schools in 26 countries. It maintains an active presence in over 40 countries, and through its International Projects the school exerts its international leadership. HEC Montreal was among the first Canadian universities to integrate technology into the classroom. The home of one of the world's foremost bilingual business libraries, HEC Montreal is renowned for its extensive electronic holdings, including one of the best-equipped trading rooms of any university, updated with real-time financial data by the Bloomberg, E-Signal and Reuters agencies. A highly efficient Career Center provides an interactive job search tool giving companies around the world access to HEC Montreal graduates. The school has established numerous partnerships with business and houses more than 50 research chairs, centers and groups.

About Percussion Software

Percussion Software's family of practical software solutions enables customers to maximize both the value and quality of their enterprise content through cost-effective content management, ease of content reuse, optimized delivery to multiple channels and increased efficiency. The company's flagship product, Rhythmyx 5.6, based on open standards, is the first Enterprise Content Management (ECM) solution to provide cost-effective, multi-channel delivery of easily reusable content. Percussion's Lyrix 2 product, the first comprehensive Lotus Domino Content Integration solution, unlocks proprietary Domino content for reuse in other enterprise applications. Lyrix 2 builds on Percussion's Domino expertise, gained over the past 10 years from the company's line of award-winning and innovative Power Tools for Lotus Domino: Notrix, PowerFlow, and ServerAdmin Plus.

Percussion's portfolio of over 2,500 customers includes Fortune 1000 companies as well as other global, industry and public sector leaders, including Armstrong World Industries, Bank One, Bayer, Colgate, the FAA, Hitachi, HUD, IBM, ICI Paints, Intel, Jefferson Health System, MasterCard International, McKesson, Merck, Motorola, Northrop Grumman, Prudential Insurance, Shell Chemical, the Dept. of State, 3M, Thrifty Car Rental, Toshiba and Verizon. Founded in 1994, Percussion Software is self-funded and profitable. More information can be found on the Web at www.percussion.com.

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