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NextPage Accomplishes Major Product, Partnership, Customer and Marketing Milestones in 2005.


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NextPage today highlighted its most important product, partnership customer and marketing milestones achieved in 2005 as the company continues to gain momentum as a leader in the desktop document management and collaboration space. At the heart of the company's accomplishments was the first commercial release of its document management and collaboration tool A collaboration tool is something that helps people collaborate. The term is often used to mean collaborative software, but collaboration tools were being used before computers existed, a piece of paper can for example can be used as collaboration tool. , NextPage 1.5 in February. This initial version was followed by another major release NextPage 2 in September.

The NextPage solution quickly gained end-user and industry praise for its intuitive design, adapting itself to the way users work and enhancing a group's ability to quickly and efficiently collaborate on documents using Microsoft Office Microsoft's primary desktop applications for Windows and Mac. Depending on the package, it includes some combination of Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Access and Outlook along with various Internet and other utilities.  tools and email. End-users have responded well to the solution and NextPage has significantly increased its customer base. Industry recognition and awards included:

--Finalist in the 2005 Stoel Rivers UTAH INNOVATION AWARDS.

--Named to KMWorld's 2005 Trend-Setting Product List, whose finalists were selected out of more than 1,200 offerings.

--Awarded Best Document Management Product at the 2005 Information Management Awards and was chosen over 21 other finalists, including industry heavyweights IBM (International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY, www.ibm.com) The world's largest computer company. IBM's product lines include the S/390 mainframes (zSeries), AS/400 midrange business systems (iSeries), RS/6000 workstations and servers (pSeries), Intel-based servers (xSeries)  and EMC Corporation EMC Corporation (NYSE: EMC) is an American Fortune 500 and S&P 500 manufacturer of software and systems for information management and storage. It is headquartered in Hopkinton, Massachusetts, USA. .

"In our first year as a document management and collaboration company, we accomplished a number of important milestones and are beginning to gain the validation, traction and momentum necessary to expand our product line, and grow our customer base," said Darren Lee, president and chief executive officer of NextPage. "With award-winning technology, an accomplished management team and recognition from some of the industry's biggest players as an innovative company, NextPage is well positioned to grab additional mind share and market share as we introduce new products in 2006 to solve various document-related problems."

Additional milestones NextPage and its management team accomplished in 2005 include:

--Accepted as a member of Ecma International (body) ECMA International - (Formerly European Computer Manufacturers Association) An industry association founded in 1961 and dedicated to the standardisation of information and communication systems.

ECMA edits standards and technical reports.
, an international standards organization See ISO.  for information and communication technology and consumer electronics.

--NextPage partnered with Microsoft Corp., Apple, Barclays Capital Barclays Capital is the investment banking division of Barclays plc. It is a primary dealer in U.S. Treasury securities and various European Government bonds.

Barclays Capital is led by CEO Robert (Bob) Diamond, an American who had been vice-chairman of Credit Suisse First
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--Hand-selected as one of only 70 new companies to present its unique collaboration technology at the prestigious DEMO conference, which has earned a reputation for consistently identifying tomorrow's cutting-edge technologies, and has served as a launch pad event for companies such as Palm, E*Trade, Handspring and U.S. Robotics.

--Achieved Certified Partner status and ISVSoftware Solution and Information Worker Solution certifications in Microsoft Corp.'s Partner Program, demonstrating expertise with Microsoft technologies and giving NextPage access to rich set of benefits, including training and support that give NextPage a competitive advantage in the marketplace.

--Darren Lee, NextPage's president and CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. , spoke at the Microsoft Professional Advisory Council about how the company is reinventing document management with its technology. Mr. Lee also participated on the Connected Work panel at the Supernova 2005 conference.

--NextPage CTO (Chief Technical Officer) The executive responsible for the technical direction of an organization. See CIO and salary survey.  Tom Ngo was named CTO of the Year by the Utah Information Technology Association

--Cydni Tetro, vice president of product and corporate marketing for NextPage and Tom Ngo, CTO for NextPage, were named as 2005 vSpring Capital Top 100 Venture Entrepreneurs as two of the top 100 professionals who are involved in startup businesses or would be most likely to lead a successful venture in the next five to seven years.

--The company partnered with Podtech.net, the foremost Web site for podcast interviews on high-tech topics, to provide a document management and collaboration channel for its podcast site.

--NextPage's document collaboration solution received favorable reviews in several leading IT publications:

--eWeek: http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1773172,00.asp

--Infoworld: http://www.infoworld.com/article/05/03/11/11TCnextpage_1.html

--Network Computing: http://www.networkcomputing.com/showitem.jhtml?docid=1606sp2

--PC World: http://www.pcworld.com/reviews/article/0,aid,121631,00.asp

--PC Magazine: http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,1759,1771345,00.asp

About NextPage

NextPage is disrupting the document collaboration market by eliminating product abandonment experienced from traditional document management and collaboration products. NextPage delivers products that focus on solving problems from a user's perspective. NextPage 2, a document collaboration service, is the first to connect all document-based collaboration by tracking document versions that are sent as e-mail attachments, stored on users' desktops and created outside the organization. The service provides a 360 degree view of all document activities and works whether users are online or offline. NextPage 2 reduces the risk of sending out the wrong version, prevents wasted time working on wrong versions and eliminates the cost of document coordination. For more information, visit www.nextpage.com or call 801-748-4400.

NextPage is a registered trademark, and Activity Center, Digital Thread, Document Signature, Version Map and Version Check are service marks of NextPage Inc. All other names are used for identification purposes only and may be trademarks of their respective owners.
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