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iMARKUP SOLUTIONS ANNOUNCES iMARKUP DOCUMENT REVIEW SERVER

Product Offers Capabilities that Facilitate the Document Review and Approval Process
 

San Diego, CA – December 19, 2001 – iMarkup Solutions Inc., (www.imarkup.com), a leading provider of Web-based productivity tools, announced the development of the iMarkup Document Review Server, a companion product to its flagship product, iMarkup™ Workgroup Server. Developed to address the needs of enterprise users collaborating on documents, the iMarkup Document Review Server provides users with a powerful and easy way to distribute, collaborate on, annotate and review documentation throughout all stages of the document review process. During workflow, versioning, and review cycles, users are assured of access to all shared documents that are stored securely on the Document Review Server. All reviewers’ markups, notes, and annotations can be displayed either one reviewer at a time, by a subset of reviewers or by all simultaneously.

     Unlike other tools available to workgroups and virtual teams, the Document Review Server can be self-administered, allowing users to create workgroups, invite users into their workgroups and set permissions. Users can easily and securely publish and distribute documents to members of their workgroups for feedback and review. Documents are automatically rendered in HTML or PDF format for easy distribution, without requiring reviewers to install the original applications. The original documents are then stored on the iMarkup Document Review Server, allowing them to be “checked out” and preventing others from editing these documents simultaneously. Notification facilities within the Document Review Server allow authors to automatically notify all reviewers when documents are ready. Authors have the ability to track reviewers’ progress as they work on documents the authors have written. Security permissions identifying which documents are accessible to which users, control the usage of those documents.

     “The iMarkup Document Review Server provides the workflow mechanisms necessary to allow the changes and requests from reviewers to be routed back to authors so the documents can be updated,” stated John O’Brien, president and CEO of iMarkup Solutions. All versions of the source documents along with the reviewers’ annotations are stored on the iMarkup Document Review Server and can be subsequently retrieved and compared against other versions. “We believe that overlaying and storing annotations separately from the original document is a more effective way to work with documents – and eliminates contaminating documents in any phase of the document review and approval cycle,” he concluded.

     Like the company’s flagship product, iMarkup Workgroup Server 2.0, members of workgroups and virtual workgroups can apply annotations including voice annotations, free-form drawings and sticky notes to online documents, including PDF format, without having to purchase Adobe Acrobat™ to run on every workstation. Because all annotations are stored separately from the original documents data is never corrupted. The product also offers users the ability to run and modify reports based on Crystal Decision technology. These reports include information from the configuration database about workgroups, users and user permissions. Among other items, management can learn about system usage (e.g. when users log in/out, what markups they are adding, which documents have been annotated, who has reviewed documents and the status of those documents, types and numbers of annotations on documents, etc.)

AVAILABILITY

     Like other products in the product suite, the iMarkup Document Review Server will be available on Windows NT/2000/XP running IIS and Windows 98 running the Personal Web Server. The product enters Beta January 28, 2002 and will be released for general availability at the end of March, 2002.

About iMarkup Solutions

     iMarkup Solutions (www.imarkup.com) provides real-time, Web-based productivity tools that enable end users to communicate, annotate, organize and collaborate over the Web. The company continually develops tools that enable users to interact with the Web, maximize their efficiency and work as intelligently with electronic information as they do with paper-based information. The iMarkup product line includes the iMarkup Client and iMarkup Workgroup Server. 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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