Uniscape Announces Integration of Globalization Management System With Microsoft Content Management Server.

Business Editors/High-Tech Writers

SUNNYVALE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 29, 2002

Integration Allows Organizations to Speed Creation and

Delivery of Multilingual Web Content to International Customers

Uniscape(R), the leader in globalization software and services, today announced it has integrated its globalization management system, Uniscape 4.0, with Microsoft Content Management Server 2001, to automate the business processes required to quickly and efficiently localize, deploy and maintain multilingual web content. Microsoft customers will enjoy greater efficiency in their localization processes, reduced localization costs, and a unified process for managing global Web content.

The complete solution from Microsoft and Uniscape enables content providers to create, manage, and publish their own multilingual content; localization managers and partners to efficiently and cost-effectively localize content for multiple markets; and IT managers to quickly deploy secure and scalable multilingual sites worldwide. Organizations who take advantage of these integrated products can expect the return on investment that results from a common, yet flexible localization approach; a tool that can be leveraged across the entire organization and its suppliers; and a system that integrates with existing IT infrastructure to provide enterprise economies of scale.

"Today's Global 2000 organizations realize that delivering ebusiness Web sites tailored to the language needs of customers is critical to effective relationship building," said Betsy Frost, group product manager for Content Management Server 2001 at Microsoft Corp. "Together, Uniscape 4.0 and Microsoft Content Management Server 2001 equip customers with the technology to efficiently deliver and synchronize multilingual Web content quickly and cost-effectively to audiences around the world."

"Our customers need a way to deliver faster, less expensive updates to multilingual content, to reinforce corporate style and branding, and to develop multilingual Web applications for customers, partners and employees in multiple locales," said Steve L. Adams, president and CEO of Uniscape. "And they need to do this while maximizing the effectiveness of their content owners, localization teams, and IT resources. By seamlessly integrating Uniscape 4.0 with Microsoft's Content Management Server, we provide customers with a complete solution to do just that. The product combination means that content management is solved on a global, not a local, scale for highly dynamic Internet, intranet, and extranet Web sites."

The Uniscape 4.0 globalization management system complements Microsoft's Web content management software by seamlessly integrating content localization processes with the content creation, management and publishing processes supported by Content Management Server. The seamless integration means that content owners unfamiliar with the complexities of localizing content can manage the localization process from within a single system. Corporate localization teams and service providers can use the vendor management, project management, and desktop tools of the Uniscape 4.0 globalization management system to automate the tasks required to localize, review, approve, and return localized content to Microsoft Content Management Server. Investing in technologies that are integrated will reduce costs and help overcome potential barriers to multilingual Web communications by specifically reducing localization costs and ensuring the accuracy of multilingual content through approval and workflow processes.

Microsoft Content Management Server 2001 is the enterprise Web content management system that enables companies to quickly and efficiently build, deploy and maintain highly dynamic Internet, intranet and extranet Web sites. It dramatically reduces the time required to bring Web site applications to market, while also offering the scalability needed for the most demanding environments.

About Uniscape

Uniscape is a leading provider of globalization software and services for the enterprise. Uniscape's award-winning globalization management system automates the costly and time-consuming manual processes involved in the localization and updating of enterprise content. Multinational corporations use Uniscape 4.0 to minimize the costs of managing their global business and to enjoy faster time to market, consistent brand and messaging, and the efficient delivery of multilingual content to customers, partners, and employees worldwide. Since 1996, more than 160 companies have relied on Uniscape to globalize their Web sites, ecommerce solutions and online customer support applications including Hewlett-Packard, VerticalNet, Lycos, CommerceOne, GE Information Services, Broadbase Software and Amway.

Uniscape, Inc. is a privately held firm, backed by leading venture firms and strategic partners, including Sequoia Capital, the Infocomm Development Authority of Singapore, Mitsui and Company Venture Partners, EDS, Jih Sun Venture Capital, and BOS Ventures, a private equity arm of the OCBC Bank Group. For more information about Uniscape's solutions, call 888/464-4186 or 408/743-3500 or visit Uniscape on the Web at http://www.uniscape.com.

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