Armedia Announces Collaboration with KONE

Business Wire, Nov 10, 2008

ATLANTA -- Armedia announces project collaboration around enterprise content management with global elevator and escalator leader KONE.

KONE required support for developing next generation content rich applications based on its Microsoft SharePoint (MOSS 07) and EMC Documentum enterprise content management (ECM) platforms. Working with business and technical stakeholders based in Finland, Belgium and the USA, Armedia has been supporting KONE on a number of initiatives, including content strategy, integration between EMC Documentum and Microsoft SharePoint, and design and development of custom content based applications on the ECM platforms.

"We are pleased with our relationship with Armedia," said Johannes De Jong, KONE Director, Major Business Projects. "We are collectively making good progress towards accomplishing our key objectives of developing technology solutions to improve our customer experience."

"We are very pleased to be able to help KONE meet their business needs," said Jim Nasr, Armedia Chief Executive Officer. "We believe that KONE's strength of vision and the ability of our teams to effectively work in a globally distributed manner will lead to the development of concrete solutions to help KONE achieve its business objectives."

About KONE

KONE's objective is to offer the best people flow experience by developing and delivering solutions that enable people to move smoothly, safely, comfortably and without waiting in buildings in an increasingly urbanizing environment. KONE provides its customers with industry-leading elevators, escalators and innovative solutions for modernization and maintenance, and is one of the global leaders in its industry. In 2007, KONE had annual net sales of EUR 4.1 billion and over 32,500 employees. KONE class B shares are listed on the NASDAQ OMX Helsinki Ltd in Finland. For more information, visit www.KONE.com.

About Armedia

Armedia, a leading software, consulting, and integration firm, is headquartered in Atlanta, GA, and specializes in content management and content-related solutions. Armedia's mission is to provide world-class solutions for clients to automate the creation, capture, organization, and presentation of their intellectual assets. Software products include Caliente!, a file system-based EMC Documentum integration application; C3, an industry award winning tool for application development and management; IMS, an award winning mobile application for insurance incident management, and Ligero, a content management-enabled caching server. Armedia has offices in Atlanta, GA, Vienna, VA, Philadelphia, PA and Maastricht and is an 8(a) SDB. For more information, visit www.armedia.com.