Document Sciences Demonstrates Leadership At Xplor '97; Conference Features Seven Speakers From Document Sciences

Business Wire, Nov 3, 1997

SAN DIEGO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 3, 1997--Document Sciences (NASDAQ:DOCX), a global leader in document automation solutions, Monday announced that Tony N. Domit, president and chief executive officer, will lead the company's involvement in the 1997 Xplor Global Conference as part of an expert panel on the growing significance of document automation in the publishing industry.

Taking a proactive role in educating the attendees at the 18th annual conference, members of Document Sciences with several key customers will participate in six separate conference sessions that focus on vital issues facing electronic publishing professionals.

Domit's panel, titled "Document Management, Application and Distribution," will review and discuss trends in the database publishing market including the willingness of large organizations to outsource their publishing applications, the growing importance of highly personalized documents and how providers will enable consumers to specify the content of their documents.

His panel will also address the influence of the Internet on the database publishing market.

Dan Fregeau, vice president, business development, will speak on "Document Automation Across the Enterprise." This presentation positions the concept of document automation as the most significant business process improvement in recent history and how every organization can benefit from using document automation technology in every document it produces.

Points to be discussed include the integration of databases, issues of document management, imaging, electronic forms, work flow, composition, distribution, archival, viewing and Internet technologies.

Judy O'Reilly, managing director, European operations, joins Document Sciences' customers Guy Morbach from Swiss Life and Andreas Gaechter from The Baloise Insurance Co., both of Switzerland. Swiss Life and Baloise are recognized leaders in the implementation of transactional document architecture and have created solutions using Autograph to address the document automation requirements of creating a variety of documents in both the centralized and distributed environments.

The presentation will address "Multi-National Issues in Document Automation." Document automation trends in Western Europe and specific issues that customers face in the implementation phase of a document automation solution will be the focus. Other points to be addressed are linguistic and other multinational requirements, user interfaces, centralized and decentralized production, document distribution and archiving.

"Flexible Document Manufacturing" will be presented by Pete Bradshaw, vice president, development. Bradshaw will illustrate the positive influence of electronic document delivery processes on the costs and quality of producing documents within a variety of industries.

Business models and experiences will show that more effective and efficient documents can be produced with alternative methods of document delivery now offered by Document Sciences' Autograph architecture.

Lisa Cohen, senior product consultant, Europe, and Lisa O'Reilly, manager of Solution Consulting, will address issues of integrating an automated solution in their joint presentation, "Implementation of Automated Applications."

The session will be highlighted by live customer testimonials from NCM, a Dutch credit insurer, and National Life of Vermont as they discuss how they have recognized dramatic cost savings while improving productivity and document quality by implementing document automation technology.

Specifically, NCM implemented an Autograph solution that enabled it to centralize and increase production to more than 4,000 customized letters every day, saving significant costs while improving productivity.

Document Sciences will also be represented on a panel discussing the future of paper and other media in the industry of information exchange. Joining Document Sciences on the panel will be other industry luminaries including Brian Platte from IBM Printing Systems, Bill McDaniel from GenText Inc., and Pete England from Xerox Corp.

Titled "Where are We Going? Future Directions and Technology Panel," the panel is moderated by Tim Coleman, EDPP, from CMC Data Management.

In addition to the conference sessions, Document Sciences will lead a vendor tutorial focusing on the technical features of Monogram for Managed Care, Document Sciences' newest product and the latest developments in the Autograph architecture.

Xplor '97 features Document Sciences speakers in the following sessions:

--"Document Management, Application and Distribution" (Tony

Domit), Monday, Nov. 10 from 1:30 p.m. to 3 p.m.

--"Implementation of Automated Applications" (Lisa Cohen and

Lisa O'Reilly), Monday, Nov. 10 from 3:30 p.m. to 4:30 p.m.

--"Multi-National Issues in Document Automation" (Judy O'Reilly),

Wednesday, Nov. 12 from 3 p.m. to 4 p.m.

--"Flexible Document Manufacturing" (Pete Bradshaw), Wednesday,

Nov. 12 from 3 p.m. to 4 p.m.

--"Document Automation Across the Enterprise" (Dan Fregeau),