Leading Analyst Firm Rates Percussion Software's Rhythmyx as "Positive" in 2007 WCM MarketScope

Business Wire, March 26, 2007

WOBURN, Mass. -- Percussion Software, a leading developer of Web Content Management (WCM) software for multi-channel, customer-centric applications, today announced that its Rhythmyx WCM system has been given a "Positive Rating" for Web Content Management (WCM) by leading industry analyst firm, Gartner, Inc. The "Gartner MarketScope for Web Content Management, 2007"1 focuses on WCM software vendors that target large and midsize businesses with licensed server-based content management software. The 16 vendors covered in the report "provide comparable WCM offerings with a broad feature set, supporting a wide variety of corporate functions", according to the Gartner report.

"We're very pleased that Percussion was rated positive among WCM vendors by Gartner's MarketScope for Web Content Management," said Percussion CEO Barry Reynolds. "Our growing list of customers have found that Rhythmyx enables organizations to achieve a higher return-on-content by delivering dynamic, frequently changing content that is compelling to customers. Rhythmyx easily manages content across multiple sites, channels and lines of business to ensure the consistency of brand and customer experience."

Percussion's Positive rating in the Gartner MarketScope for Web Content Management is the latest addition to an impressive list of honors for Percussion and Rhythmyx during the past year. Recent awards have included:

* Percussion was named one of the 2007 "100 Companies That Matter in Knowledge Management" by KMWorld magazine. This was the fifth consecutive year that KMWorld named Percussion a leader in the field.

* Percussion was named one of the 2006 "100 Companies That Matter Most" in the digital content industry by EContent magazine. This was the fourth consecutive year that EContent named Percussion a leader in the Content Management category.

* Percussion's Rhythmyx earned two shortlist nominations at the Information Management Awards 2006, hosted by the British Computer Society (BCS). Two of the company's UK customers -- magic circle law firm Allen & Overy and the University of London - were nominated at the prestigious awards in the category of content management.

* Percussion and University of London also were short-listed in the CNET Networks UK Technology Awards, in the category of "Public Sector Technology Project of the Year." This followed the university's successful implementation of Rhythmyx to manage the online content for its Centre for Distance Education that supports distance educators in its External Program, including 34,000 students in over 180 countries.

In Gartner's MarketScope, a Positive rating means that "the vendor is strong in multiple areas, and large enough to sustain a strategy for growth across a substantial market domain." Vendors with positive ratings "have the research and development resources to make technical innovations that keep up with market demand," added Gartner.

About Percussion Software

Percussion Software's family of practical software solutions enables customers to maximize both the value and quality of their enterprise content. The company's flagship product, Rhythmyx 6, is an enterprise-ready Web Content Management (WCM) system for creating customer-centric business applications. Rhythmyx 6 enables organizations to achieve a higher return-on-content by delivering dynamic, frequently changing content to customers. Based on open standards, it provides organizations with a robust platform that allows customer-centric content to interoperate with other enterprise content, regardless of repository or ECM system. With Rhythmyx 6, content can be easily managed across multiple sites, multiple channels and multiple lines of business in order to ensure consistency of brand and customer experience.

Percussion's portfolio of customers includes Fortune 1000 companies as well as other global, industry and public sector leaders, including Armstrong World Industries, AIM Funds, Autotrader.com, Bank of Canada, BC Hydro, Cheapflights.com, Chubb, Churchill Downs, Edmund Optics, Genentech, Hotwire.com, ICI Paints, ING Direct, International Monetary Fund, Kohl's, Midway Games, Natural History Museum, U.S. Departments of State, Health & Human Services and Justice, U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, Vegas.com and The Washington Post.

Founded in 1994, Percussion Software is self-funded and profitable. More information can be found on the Web at www.percussion.com.

Percussion Software is a registered trademark and Rhythmyx is a trademark of Percussion Software. All other registered trademarks and trademarks mentioned herein are the property of their respective owners.

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