One of the World's Largest Law Firms Selects Percussion Software to Manage Content for eBusiness Offering.

Business/Technology Editors

STONEHAM, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 17, 2002

Success for Ground-Breaking "Eversheds.complete" Extranet,

Serving Thousands of Clients Around the Globe,

Offers Further Evidence of Rhythmyx' Superiority

Percussion(R) Software announced today that one of the world's largest law firms has "gone live" with its award-winning Rhythmyx Content Manager V4.0. Eversheds, a legal firm with 4,500 employees in 22 locations throughout Europe and Asia, leveraged Rhythmyx V4.0 to automate and streamline the management of content for its eBusiness offering, Eversheds.complete. The implementation of Rhythmyx assisted Eversheds in lowering the total cost of its extranet solution by enabling line-of-business users to manage tens of thousands of content items across more than 5,000 Eversheds.complete Web pages. Percussion's enterprise-scale content management software solidifies Eversheds' relationships with key customers, helps improve customer service, preserves brand recognition and ultimately, boosts the overall success of the law firm's innovative client offering.

Eversheds.complete is a unique service designed to help Eversheds enhance its client relationships. Designed and developed with a client-supported advisory board, the service offers subscribers personalized legal information and resources, private project and deal rooms, breaking news from FT.com (Financial Times' online news service) and a host of other secure offerings.

With such an intense Web initiative, the legal powerhouse required content management software that could streamline the process of managing content, from authoring to archiving, and enable internal content owners to evolve and expand the extranet to meet the needs of its clients. Since its deployment, Rhythmyx V4.0 has allowed Eversheds to reduce the time required to publish content from hours to minutes. Eversheds plans to increase the number of contributors to hundreds of lawyers and consultants throughout their business in the future.

"We selected Percussion's Rhythmyx content management software for three simple reasons: value, functionality and flexibility," said Richard Oakes, director of business development for Eversheds. "Clients use our eBusiness offering -- Eversheds.complete -- to manage legal and business projects in a secure environment, to manage their work with us, and to access up-to-the-second legal news, information and research," he explained. "We needed a solution we could trust and that would contribute to the value of our business -- and Rhythmyx is not only performing beyond expectations, it is lowering our costs and extending our capabilities."

Rhythmyx Content Manager is the first content management system that allows business users to define content usage -- empowering the people in an organization who know content best. Its cutting-edge Active Assembly(TM) functionality allows business users to group and arrange content into Web pages, without requiring template redesigns from Web developers. Rhythmyx provides end users with the flexibility and control required to easily assemble content into Web pages, while providing the scalability and the reliability required to quickly deploy, implement and maintain the content management system with cost-effective internal resources. Together, these improvements increase performance and drive down the cost of evolution of a company's Web site.

"Our success with Eversheds -- one of the largest laws firms in the world -- validates the important role we can play for customers anywhere and everywhere," said Barry Reynolds, president and CEO of Percussion Software. "Further, Eversheds' use of Rhythmyx to drive sales, strengthen client relationships and provide truly pioneering service is powerful evidence of the benefits that can be achieved when timely, fresh and easy-to-manage content is properly delivered. We are proud to be a part of the technical foundation for Eversheds' innovation."

About Eversheds

Eversheds (www.eversheds.com) has over 2,000 legal and business advisors providing services to the private and public sector business and finance community. Access to all these services is provided through 19 European offices and three associated offices in Asia. Eversheds combines local market knowledge and access with the specialisms, resources and international capability of one of the world's largest law firms.

About Percussion

Percussion Software (www.percussion.com), a leader in the content management market, is the only vendor to reduce the total cost of ownership of content management solutions by reducing the costs and skill level required to evolve and expand an organization's Web presence. Percussion's flagship product, Rhythmyx Content Manager, provides line-of-business users with unprecedented control to manage their own content without the need for technical expertise. Rhythmyx boasts a long list of industry awards including finalist in the category of "e-Business Foundations" for eWEEK's 2002 eXcellence Awards and winner of the Canadian E-Content Award for "Content Management System of the Year" presented by Information Highways. Other awards include the Crossroads 2001 A-List Award as one of the "Best New Enterprise Solutions for Business and Technology Infrastructure," an Editors' Choice by PC Magazine in March 2001 and "Best of Show" for "Best Web Application Development Software" at Spring Internet World 2000. In 2000, Deloitte & Touche recognized Percussion Software for the second consecutive year as one of the fastest growing high-tech companies in New England.