STONEHAM, MA - March 1, 2004 — Percussion Tools, a leading developer of practical software solutions enabling customers to maximize the value and quality of enterprise content, today announced that it will showcase the new release of its popular content integration product, Lyrix 2, for the attendees of AIIM 2004, March 8-10 at the Jacob Javits Convention Center, New York, NY, Booth # 1865. Percussion is continuing the celebration of its 10 th Anniversary Year at AIIM 2004 with the corporate theme: 10 Years of Investing in Customer Success,and invites attendees to stop by the booth for a special anniversary gift .At the show, the company will demonstrate its suite of content-related products, including:
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Lyrix 2, a content integration product for Lotus Domino ® . New features in this release of Lyrix include enhanced support for Microsoft SharePoint; bi-directional support for both Content Services and Content Transfers, giving users the ability to submit content changes from target applications to Domino applications; ; and additional sample applications to help organizations take advantage of Lyrix capabilities immediately.
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The Rhythmyx Express Portal — , the industry's first Workgroup Portal, designed for organizations that need a rapid implementation, enabling them to achieve standard portal benefits in a fraction of the time and cost.
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The award-winning Rhythmyx 5 — Enterprise Content Management (ECM) system, which enables organizations to easily reuse and re-purpose all their enterprise content, including documents, Web content, digital assets and images.
"AIIM has always been an important venue for Percussion, and this year we have the opportunity to show AIIM attendees the expanded breadth and depth of our content expertise," said Barry Reynolds, president and CEO of Percussion Tools. "While Lyrix 2 and the Rhythmyx Express Portal are new to the AIIM audience, we believe that these products offer unique solutions to very real problems. From a practical perspective, organizations need to save time and money in either portal implementation or Domino content reuse, and we're helping them do just that with these products."
In addition, two executives from Percussion, Vernon Imrich, Chief Technology Officer, and Scott McGrath, Senior Product Manager for Rhythmyx, will participate in the following conference activities:
- Vernon Imrich will participate on the panel, "Understanding ECM Pricing Models & Costs" at 4:15 PM on March 8th
- Scott McGrath will be speaking on "A Tale of Two Technologies: Content Management and Search" at the Convera booth, # 1127, at 11:30 AM on March 8th and 9th and 12:00 noon on March 10th.
Lyrix 2 Extends the Value of Domino Content Enterprise-Wide —
Thousands of organizations have invested heavily in Lotus Domino and have built Domino applications to manage and store their mission-critical information. Today, many of those organizations are adopting heterogeneous environments that rely on other platforms, and are looking for a way to seamlessly bridge these platforms, ensuring flexible content reuse while preserving context and meaning. Lyrix 2 is designed to play a key role in any organization's Domino content strategy, regardless of their current use or future plans for their Domino Applications.
Lyrix 2 enables direct, out-of-the-box reuse of Domino content, in a wide variety of enterprise applications:
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Portals: BEA WebLogic ® , IBM WebSphere ® , Microsoft SharePoint ®
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Collaboration Platforms: Lotus Workplace ® , Microsoft SharePoint
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Content Management Solutions : Percussion Rhythmyx
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Enterprise Applications: Sales Force Automation, Customer Relationship Management, Document Management
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Web-based Applications: J2EE or .NET
Among the new features in Lyrix 2 is enhanced support for Microsoft SharePoint, adding automatic cataloging for Domino content, such as Document Libraries. The addition of bi-directional support for both Content Services and Content Transfers, gives users the ability to submit content changes from target applications to Domino applications. For example, Web sites built in either J2EE or .NET can use content from Domino and enable visitors to update the content and submit it back to Domino. Another addition to the product is Single Sign On, which allows users to sign in to a non-Domino system based on their security (ACLs) from Domino, allowing organizations to continue to use Domino's industry-leading security capabilities.
Lyrix 2 is based on a state-of-the-art Web services architecture that converts Domino content into formats easily consumed by other applications. It automatically transforms all unique Domino attributes (e.g., Rich Text, embedded images, doc links, attachments, etc.) into standard XML and xHTML. Using Lyrix's visual mapping interface, developers create Content Types, which define the pieces of Domino content required by external applications. Domino content can then be accessed directly with Content Services, or it can be transferred to external file systems and databases using Content Transfers.
Rhythmyx Express Portal, the industry's first Workgroup Portal
Rhythmyx Express Portal is a Workgroup - as opposed to Enterprise - Portal, designed to enable organizations to achieve standard portal benefits in a fraction of the time and cost. Rhythmyx Express Portal provides teams within organizations a comprehensive yet practical solution for ensuring that the right information is delivered to the right person at the right time.
Key capabilities of the Rhythmyx Express Portal include out-of-the-box personalized content delivery, an extensive library of pre-built and sample portlets, project collaboration capabilities and content integration through a sophisticated content capture feature. In addition, Rhythmyx users can choose to "live" in the portal and, using the Rhythmyx portlets, access the content contribution and management capabilities of Rhythmyx. Rhythmyx Express Portal is designed for organizations that need a rapid implementation, enabling them to realize results in a matter of weeks. Using Rhythmyx's first-of-a-kind De-Coupled Delivery capability, it provides a user-aware framework for personalized, dynamic delivery to intranets, extranets or Internets.
Contact Information:
Pam Foote
Parker Communications
978.691.5572
pfoote@parkercomms.com
