Silas Technologies Announces Silas Reveille for Kodak Document Archive Writers.

Business Editors/High-Tech Writers

WINSTON-SALEM, N.C.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 27, 2003

Leader in application monitoring software adds to system support for Kodak customers, providing real-time monitoring of the 4800 and new i9600 Document Archive Writers

Silas Technologies Inc. and Eastman Kodak Company's Commercial Imaging business today announced the introduction of Silas Reveille for Kodak Document Archive Writers, which provides proactive, real-time monitoring and metrics reporting for Kodak's Reference Archive environment. With Silas Reveille for Kodak Document Archive Writers, managers and supervisors can evaluate process productivity, pinpoint problem areas within the archiving environment and analyze archive metrics at an individual archive writer or enterprise level.

"Companies seeking to create true Enterprise Content Management(1) (ECM) systems must be able to rapidly and continually understand the health and productivity of their ECM environment," said Brian DeWyer, director of business process consulting, Silas Technologies. "Silas Reveille enables Kodak's customers to optimize the analog archiving portion of their ECM environment by proactively monitoring service availability and responsiveness of Kodak Reference Archive applications."

Silas Reveille for Kodak Document Archive Writers is part of the family of Silas Reveille for Content Management solutions, which proactively isolate and evaluate problems that affect the quality of application services. Silas Reveille is unique because it monitors both mission-critical and supporting infrastructure applications through a single, easy-to-use product.

"New federal regulations such as the Sarbanes-Oxley Act have made reference archiving absolutely critical for organizations to ensure the keeping of unalterable financial and other business documents," said Eric Bruening, worldwide product marketing manager, Kodak Imagelink. "Silas Reveille adds significant value by managing the service availability of a Reference Archive system and reporting on archive metrics, which enables managers to resolve technology or process issues immediately and improve the productivity of their operations. Combining IT infrastructure such as Silas' software with Kodak Reference Archive devices such as film writers creates a truly unique infoimaging solution for businesses."

In addition to monitoring all components (servers, connections, repositories, etc.) of a complex ECM infrastructure, Silas Reveille also evaluates the operational behavior of an application, which directly impacts customer service quality. Silas Reveille is the only product that monitors ECM applications from an end-to-end operational view, installs in hours and helps organizations achieve a positive financial impact within days. Silas Reveille provides Records Management, Operations and IT executives with real-time information and metrics that help ensure ECM systems are running at optimum levels and delivering the maximum return on investment.

Silas Reveille supports both the Kodak 4800 Document Archive Writer and the new i9600 Series Writers by interfacing with Kodak Archive Writer Interface Software. No additional software beyond Silas Reveille for Kodak Document Archive Writers is required.

"Recent global economic and political events have organizations facing increased scrutiny both internally and from government regulators on document security, business continuity and long-term image storage," said Andrew Warzecha, senior vice president and service director, META Group. "While film is a solid medium that has proven longevity, the systems that archive and access the stored data need to have monitoring in place to maintain their efficiency and usefulness over their lifetime."

Silas Reveille generates information that can be used for in-depth analysis, reporting and historical trends concerning the health of ECM applications and the resources that support them.

Silas Reveille for Kodak Document Archive Writers will be demonstrated live for the first time at the 2003 AIIM Exposition and Conference at the Jacob K. Javits Convention Center in New York City, April 7-9 at Kodak's booth location, No. 1722.

(1) The Association for Information and Image Management (AIIM, www.aiim.org) defines Enterprise Content Management (ECM) as the ability to capture, manage, store, preserve and deliver structured (character data) and unstructured (binary images) content to support business processes.

About Silas Technologies

Silas Technologies, Inc. (www.silastechnologies.com) applies the right experience in operations, technology and business process to deliver software and solutions that yield immediate value from new and existing customer technologies. Silas Technologies(TM) Business Process Consulting and Silas Reveille(TM) (www.silasreveille.com) improve business efficiency, maximize resources and drive expense reductions, because we leverage our experience to understand how our customers want to run their business. Silas Technologies further advances the increasingly vital link between Business and Operations by helping companies present critical data the way they want it, need it and measure it.

About Eastman Kodak Company and infoimaging

Kodak is the leader in helping people take, share, enhance, preserve, print and enjoy pictures for memories, for information, for entertainment. The company is a major participant in infoimaging -- a $385 billion industry composed of devices (digital cameras, scanners), infrastructure (online networks and specialized imaging software), and services and media (Reference Archive Media). Kodak harnesses its technology, market reach and a host of industry partnerships to provide innovative products and services for customers who need the information-rich content that images contain. The company, with 2002 sales of $12.8 billion, is organized into four major businesses: Photography, providing consumers, professionals and cinematographers with digital and traditional products and services; Commercial Imaging, offering image capture, output and storage products and services to businesses and government; Components, delivering flat-panel displays, optics and sensors to original equipment manufacturers; and Health, supplying the health-care industry with traditional and digital image capture and output products and services.

Silas Technologies, the Silas Technologies logo, and Silas Reveille are trademarks, or registered trademarks, of Silas Technologies, Inc. All other trademarks or registered trademarks are the property of their respective owners. (C) 2003, Silas Technologies, Inc.

(C) Eastman Kodak Company, 2003 Kodak is a trademark of Eastman Kodak Company