Arbortext and acrolinx Partnership Raises the Bar for Global Documentation Quality; Alliance Integrates Language Quality Assurance Tool with Enterprise Publishing Software

Business Wire, June 28, 2005

ANN ARBOR, Mich. & BERLIN -- Arbortext, the leading provider of enterprise publishing software, and acrolinx, the leading provider of quality assurance tools for technical documentation, today announced a technology partnership. The companies are offering a joint solution that integrates acrolinx's information quality assurance software, acrocheck(TM), with Arbortext's authoring software.

The new solution is aimed at companies that produce technical documentation in multiple languages. The joint technologies enable companies to create content that is easier to understand and translate by ensuring that authors comply with style, grammar, language and spelling standards as they write. Companies that deploy these technologies are able to publish documentation in less time while increasing its consistency and quality--particularly if they compete globally and must produce multi-lingual documents.

"Enterprise publishing helps companies serve global markets by streamlining their authoring, translation and publishing process. The acrolinx product makes translation easier by helping authors write simpler and more consistent information," said PG Bartlett, Vice President of Product Marketing at Arbortext. "Combining Arbortext with acrolinx technology results in the faster availability of information, lower costs and fewer support calls due to misunderstood documentation."

"Enterprise publishing is a roadmap for successfully producing global information," said Andrew Bredenkamp, CEO at acrolinx. "Our partnership with Arbortext is built on a shared vision of global publishing, and our products combine years of field-tested experience."

About acrolinx (www.acrolinx.com)

acrolinx is the leading producer of quality assurance tools for technical information, helping customers worldwide maintain their corporate image, address compliance issues and control document production and localization costs. Our flagship product acrocheck(TM) is used worldwide in diverse industries such as Software, Automotive, and Life Sciences.

About Arbortext (www.arbortext.com)

Arbortext is the leading provider of enterprise publishing software, enabling companies around the world to automate the assembly and publishing of product information, marketing documents, service instructions, maintenance procedures, technical publications, legal information and software documentation. Arbortext software allows companies to efficiently and cost-effectively publish to multiple audiences in multiple languages in multiple hardcopy and electronic output formats. As a result, companies can dramatically improve authoring productivity, reduce translation and publishing costs, enhance information quality and speed time-to-market of new products. Arbortext's software is installed at over 1,700 organizations worldwide.

Current customers include Abbott Laboratories, American Express Financial Services, Audi, Boeing, Bombardier, British Aerospace, Caterpillar, DaimlerChrysler, Ericsson, Ford, General Electric, GlaxoSmithKline, GM, IBM, Thomson Publishing, Lucent, Nokia, Nortel Networks, Oracle, Pfizer, Ricoh, Sun Microsystems, Toyota, United Airlines, Volkswagen, Volvo and the US Department of Defense including the Navy, Air Force, Army and Marine Corps. Arbortext is a founding member and active participant in the XML Activity of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C). Headquartered in Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA, Arbortext has offices around the world.