AMSTERDAM, Netherlands, June 22, 2004 (PRIMEZONE) -- Wolters Kluwer, a leading multinational publisher and information services company, announced today that it has standardized on Documentum 5, the latest version of the Documentum ECM platform. Wolters Kluwer chose Documentum to manage all of its publishing assets throughout its companies in North America and parts of Europe. Documentum is the leading provider of enterprise content management and a division of EMC Corporation.
More than 700 Wolters Kluwer employees will use Documentum 5. With its powerful XML capabilities to support production decrease costs and time to market, and to automate the processes for repurposing content, it eliminates highly customized middleware and time-consuming manual processes. Investing to drive revenue growth is Wolters Kluwer's top strategic priority, and using Documentum will help the company strengthen customer relationships, deliver end-to-end solutions and expand online products and services.
"We provide content to 18 different industries in a number of different media, like loose leaf publications, books, newsletters, CD-ROMs, web applications, online, Internet and intranet," said Wolters Kluwer's John Roth, vice president of technology operations and publishing - North America. "We also repurpose content among different libraries. Creating, managing, delivering and storing all of that content efficiently calls for a robust yet flexible content management system. That's why we chose Documentum."
The Documentum ECM platform provides a centralized, secure and scalable repository for text and images, including Quark documents, InDesign layouts, PDFs and multimedia assets like Flash. Wolters Kluwer's content will be automatically indexed and retrievable in seconds with Documentum's powerful search engines. Using Documentum's extensive XML capabilities, Wolters Kluwer will be able to separate layout, presentation and even language from content authoring by using pre-defined templates and stylesheets, as well as automate and manipulate content for reuse in different media.
"Documentum is pleased to expand our relationship with Wolters Kluwer as this is another example of a company that implements our products in a single division and then expands use throughout its enterprise," said Dave DeWalt, president of the Documentum software division of EMC. "Documentum continues to have great success in the publishing industry. Documentum's XML management capabilities are truly best-in-class, recognized by companies like Wolters Kluwer, who are looking to maximize efficiencies across their enterprise."
About Wolters Kluwer
Wolters Kluwer (Euronext Amsterdam:WKL) is a leading multinational publisher and information services company. The Company's core markets are in the health, tax, accounting, corporate, financial services, legal and regulatory, and education sectors. As of 2003, Wolters Kluwer has annual revenues of EUR 3.4 billion, employs approximately 19,500 people worldwide, and maintains operations across Europe, North America, and Asia Pacific. Wolters Kluwer is headquartered in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. Its depositary receipts are quoted on the Euronext Amsterdam (WKL) and are included in the AEX and Euronext 100 indices.
About Documentum
Documentum, a division of EMC Corporation, provides enterprise content management (ECM) solutions that enable organizations to unite teams, content and associated business processes. Documentum's integrated set of content, compliance and collaboration solutions support the way people work, from initial discussion and planning through design, production, marketing, sales, service and corporate administration. With a single platform, Documentum enables people to collaboratively create, manage, deliver and archive the content that drives business operations, from documents and discussions to email, Web pages, records and rich media. For more information, visit Documentum on the Web at www.documentum.com.
Media Caroline Wouters Vice President, Corporate Communications t + 31 20 6070 459 press@wolterskluwer.com Investors/Analysts Oya Yavuz Vice President, Investor Relations t + 31 20 6070 407 ir@wolterskluwer.com www.wolterskluwer.com Public Relations Contact for Documentum: David De Jear Documentum t + 1 925 600-5458 David.dejear@documentum.com
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