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SIEMENS INTELLIGENT CONTENT MANAGEMENT SOLUTION TO INCLUDE iMARKUP SOFTWARE

Companies Embed iMarkup Content Review Server Technology into HyBrix  Product Line
 

San Francisco, CA – March 7, 2002 – At AIIM 2002, iMarkup Solutions Inc., (www.imarkup.com), a leading provider of web-based collaboration tools, announced that its Content Review Server technology is being embedded into Siemens HyBrix Intelligent Content Management solutions and will be available Q2, 2002. The iMarkup Content Review technology will assist personnel in the Automation and Control business segment of Siemens AG (NYSE:SI) Munich/Berlin, who are accessing online documentation to solve plant maintenance, quality management and production problems. It will enable them to make real time voice and written annotations and markups on their documentation. Access to the most current documentation will ensure that the knowledge base for situations relating to plant safety, operations, production quality, maintenance and efficiency is available to everyone in need of that information.

Because situations occur in the course of operating industrial plants that call for access to inter-disciplinary information and information sharing, the development of innovative technologies that address these requirements has been of interest to Siemens. The company’s Automation and Control segment is the world’s largest supplier of products, systems, solutions and services in the industrial and building technology sectors. The business groups within this segment cooperate closely using the latest information technology to provide solutions for their primary markets: manufacturing, process, building and logistics automation. Their innovative solutions span the entire manufacturing life cycle – and customers can access services and solutions 24 hours a day from 300 locations worldwide.

HyBrix, the Intelligent Content Management system, stores and manages structured data records including XML/SGML texts and CGM4 graphics as well as unstructured documents such as CAD, Word, Interleaf and PDF files in a relational SQL database, ensuring rapid access to a range of digital content. Online data that supports service, repair and maintenance work situations and object-related instructions from manuals, for example, is available to employees. “The HyBrix content management system facilitates efficient plant operations and provides timely information to plant operators, manufacturers and users while also reducing data redundancies and storage requirements,” stated Bernhard Scholz, Section Manager for Industrial Data Management, Siemens I&S. “This operational knowledge can be shared across organizations helping to reduce ‘wear and tear’ while also increasing effective communication and adoption of operational guidelines,” remarked Uwe Greisinger, Sales Manager, Siemens I&S. See: www.siemens.com/hybrix.

“With the annotation capabilities of the iMarkup Content Review Server, including voice annotations specifically requested by Siemens, employees on the plant floor who need access to information to solve a problem can do so efficiently – and can then annotate and document, in real time, what they find for the benefit of the next person needing that information,” commented John O’Brien, president and CEO of iMarkup Solutions. “We are pleased to be working with Siemens to embed our technology into their intelligent content management solution,” he concluded.

About iMarkup Solutions

     iMarkup Solutions (www.imarkup.com) provides real-time, web-based collaboration tools that enable end users to annotate, organize and communicate over the Web. The company is focused on developing tools that improve workflow and enable users to maximize their efficiency, working as intelligently with electronic information as they do with paper-based information. The iMarkup product line includes iMarkup Content Review Server, iMarkup Document Review Server and the iMarkup Client. The company is privately held and is headquartered in San Diego, California. For more information, call 877-MARKUP1 or visit www.imarkup.com.

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