Leading Analyst Firm Rates Percussion Software's Rhythmyx as ''Positive'' in WCM MarketScope.

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 its Rhythmyx ECM system has been given a "Positive Rating" for Web Content Management (WCM) by leading industry analyst firm, Gartner, Inc. The Gartner MarketScope for Web Content Management(1), 2005 focuses on WCM software vendors that target large and midsize businesses with licensed server-based content management software. The 16 vendors covered in the report provide comparable WCM offerings with a broad feature set, supporting a wide variety of corporate functions, according to Gartner.

"It's very gratifying to be rated among the top six WCM vendors in Gartner's MarketScope for Web Content Management," said Percussion CEO Barry Reynolds. "We believe this rating from one of the industry's leading market-watchers reflects Rhythmyx's core strengths, including robust functionality out-of-the-box, strong custom development capabilities, multi-channel delivery and support for global, multi-site Web environments. This has been a momentum-building year for Rhythmyx, as name-brand customers such as Thrifty Car Rental and the British Library leverage Rhythmyx capabilities to drive significant online revenues and to more effectively manage and share online content. These and other businesses across a wide range of industries are proving that Rhythmyx is the practical choice. WCM solutions built with Rhythmyx can open vital new channels and positively impact revenues."

Percussion's Positive rating in the Gartner MarketScope for Web Content Management is the latest in an impressive year so far for Percussion and the Rhythmyx ECM system. Recent awards include:

--Percussion was named one of the 2005 "100 Companies That Matter Most" in the digital content industry by EContent magazine. This is the third consecutive year that EContent named Percussion a leader in the Content Management category.

--Percussion's work with the NSPCC, a UK children's charity, was awarded with Best Intranet Project at the International Information Industry Awards 2005 and with runner up at The Information Management Awards 2005 for Best Intranet.

--Rhythmyx FastForward for WCM rapid implementation capabilities won Best of Show in the Web Content Management Category at the 2005 AIIM On Demand conference, sponsored by AIIM E-DOC Magazine.

--Thrifty Car Rental's global, multi-site THRIFTY.com Web implementation won a first place IBIC (Internet/Intranet Best in Class) Award in 2005 for its use of Rhythmyx.

--Rhythmyx was named to KMWorld's 2005Trend-Setting Products list.

--Rhythmyx also won the 2005 Canadian e-Content Award for Content or Records Management Software/System, and a Lotus Advisor Editors' Choice silver award for Content Management.

In Gartner's MarketScope, a Positive rating refers to companies that "demonstrate strength in specific areas, but are largely opportunistic." Gartner recommends that current customers "continue incremental investments" while potential customers "put this vendor on a shortlist of tactical alternatives."

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 5.7, 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 product, the first comprehensive Lotus Domino Content Integration solution, unlocks proprietary Domino content for reuse in other enterprise applications. Lyrix 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.

Percussion Software is a registered trademark and Rhythmyx, Lyrix, Active Assembly and De-Coupled Delivery are trademarks of Percussion Software. All other registered trademarks and trademarks mentioned herein are the property of their respective owners.

MarketScope Disclaimer

The MarketScope for Web Content Management is copyrighted November 2005 by Gartner, Inc. and is reused with permission. The MarketScope is an evaluation of a marketplace at and for a specific time period. It depicts Gartner's analysis of how certain vendors measure against criteria for that marketplace, as defined by Gartner. Gartner does not endorse any vendor, product or service depicted in the MarketScope, and does not advise technology users to select only those vendors with the highest rating. Gartner disclaims all warranties, express or implied, with respect to this research, including any warranties of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose.

(1) Gartner Inc. "MarketScope for Web Content Management, 2005" by Lou Latham and James Lundy, November 4, 2005.