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Hummingbird Enterprise named as one of the year's outstanding business applications. Hummingbird, a leading global provider of integrated enterprise content management (ECM) solutions, is pleased to announce that Hummingbird Enterprise(TM) has won the 2004 Well-Connected Award from Network Computing magazine for its integrated document management solution. Hummingbird Enterprise - DM was chosen by the editors as an outstanding technology product in the area of business applications. Hummingbird Enterprise was recognized for its superior document and records management capabilities and the integration of strong features to support an overall Sarbanes-Oxley compliance strategy, including e-mail management, a rich set of collaboration tools and robust imaging functionality. Hummingbird received the honor at a ceremony held on May 10, 2004 at the Aladdin Desert Passage in Las Vegas, Nevada. All winners and finalists are highlighted in the May 13th issue of Network Computing magazine and online at http://www.nwc.com/showitem.jhtml?docid=1509wcasec6. The 2004 award-winners were determined as a result of product testing and evaluation in the Real-World Labs of CMP Media LLC's Network Computing magazine. In total, 128 finalists in more than 40 categories were named. Hummingbird Enterprise - DM won the Network Computing Editor's Choice Award in March 2004 following a comparative real-world review of integrated document management solutions. The review, entitled: "Document Management Systems - Averting Document Disaster," is available online at: http://www.nwc.com/showitem.jhtml?docid=1505f2. "The Well-Connected Awards are the only industry awards given by technologists based on real-world product testing and evaluation. We view all products, technologies and services from the same perspective as our readers - our peers - do," said Fritz Nelson, VP and Group Publisher of Network Computing Enterprise Architecture Group. "This is an important distinction from any other award program - the products selected in the Well-Connected Awards are unique because they have been tested over an enterprise by our editors themselves. They are truly innovative solutions that work." In February of this year, Hummingbird Enterprise 2004, a completely integrated enterprise content management (ECM) platform, was launched. Hummingbird Enterprise 2004 delivers superior out-of-the-box functionality to address the content lifecycle management challenges of today's organizations at the lowest cost of ownership. The Hummingbird ECM solution provides an integrated platform that enables organizations to not only leverage their existing IT infrastructure, but also optimize the value of enterprise content by managing it throughout its entire lifecycle with a focus on handling both "structured" and "unstructured" content, business processes and line-of- business applications. Users have intuitive and rich access to Hummingbird Enterprise 2004 from a variety of interfaces, including a browser-based Webtop, Microsoft Outlook, and Microsoft Office applications. "We are delighted to receive this esteemed award from Network Computing magazine that acknowledges the superior performance and functionality of Hummingbird Enterprise," said Andrew Pery, chief marketing officer and senior vice president, Hummingbird Ltd. "Considering the stringent product testing and evaluation process that our product went through, this award offers clear validation of our strategic vision and our mission of delivering a tightly integrated platform to help Hummingbird customers capture, manage, distribute and preserve the vast amount of content used throughout the enterprise and assist them in meeting corporate governance regulations while optimizing performance and reducing risk." With the growing pressure to meet compliance regulations and increased accountability requirements, organizations today are mandating improved processes for producing accurate and reliable disclosures. Hummingbird Enterprise 2004 enables organizations to capture and organize policies and procedures in a secure and manageable repository, thereby allowing users to easily capture, store, search and retrieve business content across the entire enterprise. Key elements of Hummingbird Enterprise 2004 include:
- - A process centric foundation where entire content lifecycle management processes can be linked together through advanced automated workflow capabilities. - Hummingbird Enterprise Webtop that combines the strengths of the portal in terms of personalization and dynamic views with all the underlining functionalities for managing content lifecycle including business process management. - E-mail Management - Hummingbird Enterprise 2004 captures, manages, preserves and leverages corporate e-mail as relevant business content. Hummingbird Enterprise is integrated with all major e-mail systems such as Microsoft Outlook, Novell GroupWise and Lotus Notes. E-mail Management is cohesively integrated with the entire suite of content management components to provide organizations with the ability to easily track, classify, store, and manage messages across the enterprise. - "Actionable" mobility that enables users to manage content from various types of mobile devices including the Palm, Pocket PC and Smart Phones. Mobility provides secure, interactive access to enterprise business systems and enterprise content such as documents, reports and e-mail, enabling mobile professionals to read and review documents, update tasks, monitor projects, generate reports, and participate in workflows from any location, at any time.
