New products at Documation '95 expo show diversity of document-management tools and solutions.

LONG BEACH, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 17, 1995--From electronic distribution methods to information access, a wide variety of new products and technology will be presented at the second annual Documation '95 Conference & Exposition.

The diversity of products at the expo reflects the immense and differing corporate documentation needs of business and industry as they increasingly turn to document-management technology for solutions. The Documation '95 Conference & Exposition, March 7-9 at the Long Beach Convention Center, is sponsored by the Graphic Communications Association, The Gilbane Report and CAP Ventures.

At the expo, a number of new products will be featured among the vendor exhibits. The XSoft division of Xerox will be conducting preview demonstrations of its new document-management system, code- named Chrystal. Chrystal is a document component management technology designed to enable organizations to leverage their SGML investment by dramatically improving access to information.

Document Sciences Corp. will be showing CompuSet, a new document-automation architecture. It will also be introducing two new CompuSet sub systems -- Document Library Services (DLS) and Document Viewing Services (DVS) -- as well as introducing compatibility with CD-ROM archived technology and popular on-line document-distribution systems.

Novell will feature WordPerfect SGML Edition, ConvertPerfect and WordPerfect Internet Publisher. WordPerfect SGML Edition layers the SGML tagging and validation system, along with a new layout- generation process on top of WordPerfect 6.1 for Windows. ConvertPerfect 2.0 is a conversion tool that supports document interchange to and from the Open Document Architecture (ODA) format, FOD26.

WordPerfect Internet Publisher, a free add-on to WP 6.1, contains everything the user needs to create HTML and native WordPerfect. It also allows users to view HTML, WordPerfect and Envoy documents, in addition to containing Internet-access software.

Texcel will be announcing Information Manager, a comprehensive suite of applications for collaborative authoring, electronic review, document assembly and workflow. It is based on an SGML repository that is able to track and manage the individual elements of documents.

Another new product, the InContext Software Developers Kit, will be demonstrated in the InContext exhibit. The SDK features a C++ API to the InContext SGML Editor, which allows customization at all levels: from adding a menu item to check a file out of a document database, to incorporating dynamic DTD-specific help facilities.

In addition, several innovative case studies will be released at Documation. For example, Andersen Consulting will feature Engineering Workbench, developed for the Paul Newman and Carl Haas Racing Team.

The Newman/Haas Engineering Workbench enables the professional race team to streamline complex race engineering tasks that have traditionally been paper-based. The client/server system runs on a 486/75 laptop and features an object-oriented, document-centric architecture based on Microsoft's OLE 2.0 specification.

In addition to the expo, Documation '95 offers a three-day conference with high-level conference sessions focusing on the issues and technology of document management. Admission to the expo is free with preregistration. For information, contact GCA, 703/519-8160.

CONTACT: Beth Sadler, 808/874-8875

808/874-6234 (fax)

BethSa(at-sign)aol.com (e-mail)