JustSystems Champions ''The Document as the Application''

Market Brief Presents Vision for Future of Structured Authoring
and Publishing -- And How Information is Shared, Consumed and Utilized
in Document-Centric Processes
NEW YORK--(Business Wire)--JustSystems, Inc., the largest independent software vendor in
Japan and a worldwide leader in XML and information management
technologies, today announced the "document as the application," the
company's unique vision for the future of information creation,
collaboration, and delivery. This vision is detailed in the
just-released market brief "The Document as Application," available
for download at
http://na.justsystems.com/files/Whitepaper-Doc_as_App.pdf.

JustSystems' 'document-as-application' approach blurs the line
between traditional documents, which provide rich context, persistence
and portability; and business applications, which provide live data
and an interactive user experience. The result is a dynamic document
that comes to life with diverse and distributed information sources
that are always up to date.

"A pervasive business dilemma is how to best inform people," said
Jake Sorofman, vice president of marketing and business development
for JustSystems. "Users get the latest data but little context when
they're working within business applications. Documents provide users
the bigger picture, but the data it includes is often stale as soon as
the document is published. The JustSystems approach provides the best
of both worlds, giving users a real-time, fully contextual view of
their business."

Based on JustSystems' XMetaL and xfy (pronounced "x-fie") product
lines, dynamic document capabilities have transformative potential for
document-centric business processes in financial services,
manufacturing, life sciences, and other industries where data
constantly changes, and where working with out-of-date and
out-of-context information carries a high price.

Melissa Webster, program vice president, Content & Digital Media
Technologies, IDC said, "XML and XML-based solutions from companies
like JustSystems are breaking down the barriers between content and
data and documents and applications. The concept of a dynamic document
blends the rich context and portability of a document with the live
data and interactivity of a business application, allowing documents
to become authoritative sources of information, rather than snapshots
in time."

Detailing the Document as the Application

JustSystems' XMetaL and xfy products form the basis for the
'document as the application' vision, which is about creating dynamic
documents that come to life. With dynamic documents, the worlds of
document publishing and application development converge.
Traditionally, publishing processes focused on rendering of static
information in static documents via print, PDF, HTML, and other
formats. However, business depends on dynamic data, and static
documents only provide a snapshot in time.

Users who need the most current information possible must go to
the source - the business applications and other systems of record.
That sort of "on-the-glass" user experience is fine for some business
processes, but others are inherently document-centric. Product design,
field-based maintenance and service delivery and other human-centric
and collaborative processes depend on the persistence and rich context
that a document format uniquely provides. As a result, users are
forced to copy and paste data into documents, breaking the link to the
sources of record and freezing the data in time.

The JustSystems view of dynamic documents is fundamentally
different from today's traditional XML-based authoring, offering
advantages in data access, interactivity and rendering, including:

-- Persistent links to source data. Organizations can rapidly
propagate change to unstructured documents via XML-based
authoring, but data that originates in structured databases
has no native connection to documents. Within dynamic
documents, structured data has direct, persistent links back
to its native sources, ensuring the documents and the systems
of record are always in sync.

-- Interactivity. Beyond inline edits, comments, or workflow
processes, users can interact with documents as if they were
business applications, e.g., perform queries, transactions,
calculations, etc., against backend data sources and live
enterprise information. All of this interaction takes place
within the document, thereby maintaining context and
persistence. Teams and workgroups can share and collaborate on
the document -- e-mail it, associate it with a workflow --
without ever breaking the connection to this live data.

-- Dynamic rendering. Dynamic documents are highly intelligent
and aware of their environment, which allows them to render
specific views of information based on a specific user, role,
point in a workflow process, or as a result of a web service
query (e.g., a real-time look up of currency conversion rates
rendering financial data). This ensures that the information
displayed is the most relevant and appropriate to the context
of its usage.

As a key part of delivering on this vision, JustSystems today
announced the latest versions of XMetaL Author Enterprise and XMetaL
Reviewer. (Please see related announcement, "JustSystems Readies
XMetaL for Rise of 'The Document as the Application'" at
http://na.justsystems.com/releases.php?id=154.) Additional strategic
announcements will be made over the coming weeks in support of this
overarching vision.

For more information on JustSystems, please visit
http://na.justsystems.com.

About JustSystems

JustSystems is a leading global software provider with a 27-year
history of successful innovation in office productivity, information
management, and consumer and enterprise software. With over 2,500
customers worldwide and annual revenues over $110M, the company is
continuing a global expansion strategy that includes the launch of its
new enterprise software offering called xfy (pronounced 'x-fie'), and
XMetaL content lifecycle solutions. JustSystems has worldwide office
locations including global headquarters in Tokyo, and regional offices
in New York, Palo Alto, Vancouver, and London. The company currently
employs over 1,000 people. Major strategic partnerships include IBM,
Oracle and EMC. For more information, please visit
http://na.justsystems.com.

TECHMarket Communications (for JustSystems, Inc.)
Dottie O'Rourke, 650-344-1260
Dottie@TECHMarket.com

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