Quantum Research and Technologies' BookMark 2000 Beats Out Adobe's PhotoShop 5.5 and Microsoft's Vizact 2000 For Best Business Computing Software at PCExpo

Business Wire, June 30, 1999

STONY BROOK, N.Y.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 30, 1999--

Quantum Research and Technologies (http://www.qrt.com), a privately held company, was awarded PC Week Winners' Circle Award last week at PCExpo. BookMark 2000(TM), an electronic document management system (EDMS), was named Best Business Computing Software over Adobe Systems Inc.'s (http://www.adobe.com) PhotoShop 5.5 and Microsoft Corp.'s (http://www.microsoft.com) Vizact 2000.

PC Week Winners' Circle Awards honor the hottest, most innovative and most influential products announced and/or showcased for the first time at PCExpo, one of the largest corporate computing events in the world. A group of technology experts organized by Ziff-Davis's PC Week editorial staff made up this year's panel of judges, chose BookMark 2000(TM) for its unique flexibility and ability to be built around Office 2000 and Microsoft SQL 7.

"We are honored and excited that the judges recognized BookMark 2000(TM) over Adobe Systems PhotoShop 5.5 and Microsoft's Vizact 2000, said Eugene Sayan, president of Quantum Research and Technologies. "Everyone at the company deserves a lot of credit for making this award a reality."

BookMark 2000(TM), an electronic document management system that utilizes industry standard relational databases from Microsoft, Oracle (http://www.oracle.com) and Sybase (http://www.sybase.com), provides companies with an electronic environment that is much like a typical office, using file cabinets, drawers and folders for organizing electronic documents.

With BookMark 2000(TM) companies can:

- Store, retrieve and process information including scanned images,

electronic documents, audio clips, multimedia videos and other

Microsoft Windows files.

- View almost every digital image format, using embedded document

viewers or Microsoft standard Object Linking and Embedding.

- Create hyperlinks to BookMark Knowledge Folders(TM)

- residing in document repositories, Internet sites or HTML pages;

making navigation from document to document easy - no matter

where they're stored.

In addition, BookMark 2000(TM) also comes with workflow routing, in-boxes, e-mail, local and remote scanning, OCR, printing, faxing, importing and exporting capabilities. It makes workgroup collaboration easy with features such as Check-in/Check-out document library functions letting employees edit the same document simultaneously.

About Quantum Research & Technologies

Quantum Research is one of the "new breed" of document imaging, document management and workflow vendors. Using non-proprietary technologies and flexible interfaces, Quantum provides high-performance, robust, scalable systems to major corporations at the desktop, departmental and enterprise level.