Interleaf announces WorldView System for Windows 95 and Windows NT; Leading electronic document distribution system leverages the 32-bit power of Microsoft Windows

Business Wire, August 5, 1996

WALTHAM, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aug. 5, 1996-- Interleaf Inc. (NASDAQ:LEAF), the leader in advanced document management solutions, today announced the availability of WorldView System 2.2 for Windows 95 and Windows NT, a comprehensive document distribution system for producing, accessing and navigating very large, complex electronic document collections.

With this product, Windows 95 and NT users will have access to WorldView's highly automated electronic document distribution capabilities. Additionally, this new release makes WorldView interoperable across all major UNIX and Windows platforms, greatly simplifying enterprise workgroup document collaboration and distribution in mixed platform and network environments.

For customers with large document collections, traditional desktop PC electronic publishing packages lack sufficient power and production automation features to produce large electronic document collections efficiently. They require a significant and continuous resource investment to reassemble and re-hyperlink changing electronic documents.

"Organizations in which documents are mission-critical really need solutions which are highly automated to eliminate the labor-intensive process of reapplying hyperlinks to documents that change frequently," said Linda Myers-Tierney, industry analyst and consultant at International Data Corp. "WorldView has done just that in mission-critical business applications for leading organizations across a wide variety of industries."

WorldView automatically builds a hyperlinked table of contents, index of terms and figures and maintains hyperlinks inserted in source documents originating from popular authoring packages. WorldView can very rapidly generate revised electronic document collections through incremental "press" capabilities, which processes only changed documents. The WorldView 2.2 system gives Windows users all the flexibility of traditional personal authoring tools with the added capabilities of large volume electronic publishing and easy information access via local area networks, wide area networks or Intranets, greatly facilitating distributed workgroup processing and improved personal productivity.

Abbey National plc, one of the largest financial institutions in the UK with assets of more than a billion dollars, recently implemented an enterprise-wide electronic document distribution system. "Our Business Communications Department required a total document management, publishing and distribution solution. This was required to provide daily updates to our operations manuals and update documents, which are volatile and essential for the operation of our 870 branches and additional field sites," said Peter Greenfield, manager, Business Communications. "We evaluated several systems but found that the Interleaf WorldView solution was the only one that had the required features and was capable of handling the size of document and rate of change that was typical of our operation. We can now automate the publication process and provide nightly updates to our branches using satellite distribution."

About WorldView

WorldView is a highly automated electronic document distribution system designed to easily assemble, re-style, compress and navigate very large collections of documents. Customers use WorldView for intensive online business applications such as new drug applications for regulatory agencies, nuclear plant maintenance manuals, shop floor assembly instructions, off-shore drilling platform procedures, jet fighter maintenance instructions, etc. WorldView system encompasses all the components of workgroup electronic document assembly, review and distribution with the following capabilities:

-- Rich source document filtering system allows great flexibility in source document import styles and formats.

-- High fidelity output is generated for online, ISO compliant CD-ROM or hard copy media options.

-- Document collections may include word processing text, tables, images, photos, graphics and charts, and multimedia sound and video objects.

-- Document component management and organization is provided through WorldView's visual desktop and unique chapter and book organizational analogy which allows creation of well-organized, meaningful document collections with consistent style.

-- Generation of navigation aids is highly automated. Hyperlinked table of contents, autoreferences, and indexes are automatically generated for Interleaf, Microsoft Word, WordPerfect, Framemaker, CAD software and other applications.

-- Hyperlinks created in source documents by popular authoring applications ar preserved for easy online navigation.

-- Development tools allow creation of highly customized navigation flows and user interfaces.

-- Full text search tools automatically generate a comprehensive index of term for full text search of words or phases in one or more distributed document collections.

-- Workgroup annotation tools provide extensive redline and markup functions t expedite content review cycles.