XyEnterprise Announces Comprehensive Solution for S1000D Publishing Environments; XyEnterprise Package Provides an S1000D Common Source Database for Multi-Channel Delivery.

READING, Mass. -- XyEnterprise, a leading developer of XML content management and enterprise publishing solutions, announced today a new packaged offering for creating and publishing documentation for air, sea, and land vehicles used by the military. The new XyEnterprise offering targets content compliant with the S1000D standard, which prescribes the mark-up used in authoring and exchanging technical content describing these complex systems. The standard is maintained by the Aerospace and Defense Industries Association of Europe and the Aerospace Industries Association in the US and is increasingly mandated for existing and new military programs.

This new offering integrates XyEnterprise's Content@(TM) content management software with editorial, publishing and interactive electronic viewing technologies ("IETM"), providing a complete end-to-end solution for content creation, management and delivery of S1000D compliant data.

"XyEnterprise has deployed highly successful content management and enterprise publishing solutions for mission critical military and defense programs for many years," said Kevin Duffy, President and CEO of XyEnterprise. "We have led the industry in applying a component based, reusable content model in support of complex systems. S1000D, which is based on the notion of reusable data modules, is ideally suited to our approach. Our S1000D package will natively manage the S1000D data modules while adding our proven value in the areas of search and navigation, versioning, workflow control, module verification and assembly and delivery."

XyEnterprise has also formed an S1000D focus group to solicit input from the company's visionary customers. "We leverage focus groups for industry specific developments as well as our user group Strategic Planning Committee to ensure our products meet and exceed the requirements," said Jon Parsons, Director of Product Development. XyEnterprise's S1000D group includes representatives from such industry leaders as Boeing and AMSEC LLC, a limited liability company jointly owned by SAIC and Northrop Grumman Newport News.

The Content@ Solution Set for S1000D contains the following:

--A Common Source Data Base providing history, version control, workflow and security that is pre-configured to support the S1000D specification. In addition, the common source data base provides support for other structured data types in SGML or XML format as well as unstructured data, binary files, graphics and other forms of content.

--Simplified User Interface for Data Module authors and managers including hierarchical views based on Data Module Codes or Publication Module Codes

--Tools for Data Dispatch Note receive and send; Data Module import (single, batch and via Data Module Requirements List - "DMRL"); a Data Module builder interface with pre-populated fields based on business rules that expedite the authoring process, and Data Module export utilities for selecting, assembling and exporting Data Modules with the appropriate DMRL.

--Reports providing the status of the Data Modules throughout the editorial and publishing process; reference checks for identifying missing references to other DMs or graphics or to make sure all DMs are present before publication.

--Publication Module Builder that assembles all of the Data Modules and creates the Publication Module that the print composition engine or interactive electronic technical manual generator can consume to produce the output.

--Multi-channel delivery in support of IETMs; XyEnterprise's XML Professional Publisher and the Antenna House XSL Formatter..

XyEnterprise will demonstrate the Content@ Solution Set for S1000D at XML 2005 in Atlanta on November 15 - 17 (http://2005.xmlconference.org/). For further information on this new offering, please contact XyEnterprise at 781-756-5454.

About XyEnterprise

XyEnterprise is a leading provider of XML and standards-based content management and enterprise publishing solutions. Named one of EContent's "100 Digital Companies that Matter" for the second year in a row, XyEnterprise delivers software solutions that provide a fully integrated workflow, dynamic content import and support for both structured and unstructured data. It's XML content management software - Content@ - and automated XML publishing engine - XPP - deliver proven, scalable solutions for global leaders in the publishing, technical documentation, financial, government, aerospace and defense industries. XyEnterprise's content management and publishing solutions have been implemented by The Boeing Company, the Bureau of National Affairs, Gulfstream, IBM, the U.S. Navy, Sun Microsystems, LexisNexis, and many others. The company's headquarters is in Reading, Massachusetts, with locations throughout North America, Europe, Pacific Rim and Latin America. For additional information, please contact XyEnterprise at 781-756-4400 or visit www.xyenterprise.com.

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