Glyphica Announces Support for Adobe Acrobat 4.0

Business Wire, Feb 16, 1999

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 16, 1999--Glyphica today announced that its PortalWare(TM) product suite will support Adobe(R) Acrobat(R) 4.0, a powerful tool for universal document exchange. PortalWare allows businesses to rapidly deploy corporate portals that deliver business-critical information via the Internet to customers, partners and employees.

Glyphica's support of Acrobat 4.0 will add new functionality to its PortalWare solution. Acrobat 4.0's new capabilities include generating, indexing and managing Web-based forms; capturing and spidering entire Web sites and converting them to one compact, fully searchable PDF (Portable Document Format) file; providing digital signatures; and adding annotations (i.e. "stickie notes") to specific documents to enhance Web-based collaboration and workflow. PortalWare extends the functionality of Acrobat 4.0 by enabling or supporting the following features:

-- Rapid Web deployment of critical documents in an

easy-to-use, portal-style interface

-- Powerful search and navigation tools, including a search

engine that sifts through full text, metadata, and forms

field data and highlights search hits in PDF and HTML files

-- Server-driven web capturing for competitive intelligence,

legal traceability, site archiving, and knowledge management

applications

-- Workflow and annotation technologies for the review and

approval process and notification of the availability of new

information

-- Search agents for saving search definitions and

recipient-driven notifications

-- Version and access controls that secure content, ease

management and preserve original content

-- Document viewing inside a browser with complete visual

fidelity

-- Automatic conversion of paper documents and electronic files

to PDF with dynamic searchability, and contextual links

-- Quick and easy deployment of a corporate portal site without

programming

"Our PortalWare products are designed to help organizations use the Internet to deliver the right content to the right people at the right time," said Deidre Paknad, CEO of Glyphica. "We recognize that businesses depend on information in a variety of formats and sources, from paper bound to spreadsheet to older word processing formats. Not only does this content need to be easily and elegantly shared, it also must be accessible by people across corporate and geographic boundaries. Adobe Acrobat continues to be a great solution for sharing electronic documents of all shapes and sizes across computer environments and the Web. Acrobat 4.0 adds functionality to our product, and we significantly extend the functionality of Acrobat with the ability to build and maintain a corporate portal site quickly and cost-effectively."

"Glyphica's PortalWare products allow our customers to use Adobe Acrobat to enhance productivity and collaboration across an enterprise and throughout the supply chain," said Sheri Schurter, group product manager, Adobe Systems, Inc. "Their products provide the architecture and infrastructure to completely leverage Acrobat content and integrate it with other sources of information in a corporate portal. The solution gives customers a complete Web-based solution to document delivery challenges in line of business functions for the enterprise."

PortalWare provides automated and elegant content delivery to businesses while reducing their programming, speed, and cost burdens. The PortalWare product suite consists of two products -- CollectionPortal(TM), which is ideally suited for special collections, publishing and other organizations with large, visually rich content collections and limited technical resources, and InfoPortal(TM), targeted at organizations that need to quickly, securely and easily deliver business-critical content over the Internet, intranets and extranets. Target markets for InfoPortal include large sales and marketing organizations, financial services and organizations involved in regulatory affairs.

About Glyphica

Glyphica, founded in 1996, is based in Mountain View, Calif. Glyphica's cornerstone product suite, Portalware, allows businesses to rapidly deploy corporate portals for delivering business-critical information via the Internet to customers, partners and employees. The company provides content production services, including complete CD-ROM and Web site content. Glyphica is financed by Adobe Ventures and through revenues generated from its more than 60 customers. Glyphica's customers include Alza (NASDAQ:AZA), Amateur Athletic Foundation (Olympic archives), Ascend Communications (NASDAQ:ASND), Burson-Marsteller, Chevron (NYSE:CHV), Claremont Graduate University (Peter F. Drucker archives), Epson, The Gap (NYSE:GPS), JBL/Harman, Metropolitan Life, Miller Freeman, Oracle (NASDAQ:ORCL), United Airlines (NYSE:UAL), Raco, Stanford University, World Bank, and other leading companies. For more information, contact Glyphica at 650/428-1800 or visit www.glyphica.com.

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