National Underwriter Selects NextPage To Deliver Insurance And Financial Planning Content To Corporate Portals And The Internet

Business Wire, June 29, 2000

Business Editors/High-Tech Writers

PROVO, Utah--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 29, 2000

LivePublish(TM) Software Gives National Underwriter Ability To Deliver

Updated Insurance And Financial Planning Information To Customers

NextPage, the leader in Content Delivery Solutions, announced Thursday that The National Underwriter Company has selected its unique LivePublish(TM) content delivery platform. National Underwriter will use the technology to migrate its family of insurance and financial planning products to a Web-based format that delivers content to customers via the Internet or corporate portals.

Using LivePublish, National Underwriter will first deliver Tax Facts 1 and 2 reference books to its customers. National Underwriter has plans to deliver its complete line of reference software products with LivePublish.

"LivePublish is the only professional information delivery platform of its kind," said Brad Pelo, chief executive officer of NextPage. "This technology provides professionals access to key information in a comprehensive and timely manner. We are pleased to partner with National Underwriter for this service."

As one of the nation's leading insurance information publishers, National Underwriter provides insurance professionals up-to-date information on tax changes, IRS rulings, key court decisions, life and health insurance, employee benefits and business and estate planning through Tax Facts and other products.

LivePublish software will allow thousands of National Underwriter users concurrent access to vast collections of frequently updated information via corporate portals or the Internet. National Underwriter's current Tax Facts software customers will be upgraded to the LivePublish version.

To access Tax Facts through a corporate portal, corporate clients can purchase a server from National Underwriter for their intranet or link to the National Underwriter Web site.

"Our customers need a central location to quickly access regularly updated tax and insurance information," said Anita Glasmeier, director of publications marketing for National Underwriter. "Our NextPage(TM) solution has given us a greater reach to our customers and has improved the way we deliver content to them. Plus, it's more cost-effective than an in-house solution."

With LivePublish, publishers can offer customers personalized views of information based on a user identity. Customers can be presented with a designated portion of the site, a list of individual titles they subscribe to, different views or templates, customized search forms or only specific components of the site.

Publishers can tailor a business/pricing model to the particular needs of a customer, ensuring that customers access information according to negotiated rights.

About National Underwriter

The National Underwriter Co. is a leading provider of industry information for insurance and financial services professionals. The company publishes a broad array of print, e-media and software products related to the life, health, property casualty and financial planning industries.

The company, which is employee-owned, is based in Cincinnati with offices in Chicago, Cleveland, Atlanta, Seattle, Washington, D.C., New York and London. Visit www.nuco.com for more information.

About NextPage

NextPage provides content delivery solutions that enable organizations to integrate access to vast amounts of intranet and Internet content through corporate and commercial portals. NextPage does this by helping companies create Content Networks, which connect critical sources of business content wherever those sources reside.

Using NextPage solutions, organizations can better leverage intellectual assets from partners, suppliers, customers, internal organizations, as well as professional publishers, to improve worker productivity. Companies such as Travelers Property Casualty, Ernst & Young and Columbia/HCA rely on NextPage to power business-critical content within their corporate intranets.

Commercial publishers, such as Thomson, Wolters Kluwer and Reed Elsevier, use NextPage products to publish high-value, professional content on the Internet. Visit www.nextpage.com or call 800-NEXTPAGE for more information.

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