IMR Announces Partnership with Captiva; Alchemy Integrates with FormWare for Faster Capture and Complete Document Management.

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DENVER--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 28, 2000

IMR, Inc., the world leader in information asset management software solutions, today announced a strategic alliance and co-operative marketing agreement with Captiva, the leader in high-end electronic forms processing and document capture software.

Providing leading image, storage retrieval and access systems for the creation and management of document databases, IMR recently released the Alchemy Application Programming Interface solution (API), which enables easy integration with Captiva's FormWare, as well as other business applications and document management systems.

Under the agreement, Captiva will utilize IMR's API to tightly integrate FormWare with IMR's Alchemy system resulting in a simple, effective document capture, storage and retrieval product. The FormWare software will provide document scanning, image enhancement, image and data quality assurance, and data capture. The integrated solution will enable users to substantially reduce the cost of indexing documents stored on CD, DVD, MO or magnetic disk. Stored documents are easily accessed through Alchemy's ODBC compatible database. The integrated system allows customers to capture, index and retrieve business documents, forms, COLD reports, and 250 types of electronic document types as a fully integrated document management solution. Queries, using Windows clients or Web browsers, can use form fields and/or full-text searches to retrieve any document stored in the Alchemy database.

"Captiva has a leading position in the high-volume forms capture market. IMR is a leading vendor of document management solutions in the mid-range production imaging market. Both markets require robust capture applications which this partnership enables us to provide," said Tony Caputo, vice president of sales at Captiva. "The new IMR API architecture allows us to create a seamless integration for more efficient capture, storage and retrieval of documents. End-users will benefit from this pairing through easier implementation and one standard interface."

"Our alliance with Captiva supports our mission to document and archive-enable other applications through the Alchemy API Toolkit," said Robert Clark, vice president of marketing at IMR. "We are excited about working with Captiva as it provides opportunities to leverage each other's industry expertise and reach more enterprise customers."

About IMR

With headquarters in Englewood, Colorado, and European operations in London, England, IMR was founded in 1992 and pioneered the development of portable self-contained document databases. Today, IMR is a leader in integrated information asset management solutions with expertise in storage, content and access management software. With 5,000 installations at companies around the world, including industry leaders such as First Data Corp., MCI WorldCom, Chase Manhattan Bank and Boeing, IMR has a suite of information asset management products, such as Alchemy, Alchemy Web Server, Scan2CD and DataGrabber. IMR has strategic relationships with industry pacesetters and storage leaders such as Captiva, Pivotal Corporation, JVC, Fujitsu and others. For more information about IMR and its products visit www.imrgold.com or contact IMR at [phone], e-mail at [e-mail].

About Captiva

Captiva Software Corporation is the leading provider of information capture software. Since 1989, the company's award-winning products have been used to manage business-critical information from forms, documents and electronic data streams into the enterprise in a more accurate, timely and cost-effective manner. These products automate the processing of more than 5 billion forms and documents annually, converting their contents into information that is usable in database, document-management and Internet-publishing systems. Captiva's technology serves more than 25,000 users in financial services, healthcare, insurance, government, legal and other markets. Captiva is privately held with headquarters in San Diego, CA. For more information, please visit www.captivasoftware.com.

Alchemy, DataGrabber, 2CD, Scan2CD and CAD2CD are registered trademarks of Information Management Research, Inc. All other brand or product names are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective holders.

Captiva and FormWare are trademarks of Captiva Software Corporation.