Endymion Systems, Inc. Strengthens Board With Thought Leadership

Market Wire, 20050229

Endymion Systems, Inc., (Endymion), a leading systems integration and software products company in the enterprise content management sector announced today that UC Berkeley Professor Marti Hearst has joined the Company's Advisory Board.

Dr. Marti Hearst is an assistant professor in SIMS, the School of Information Management and Systems at the University of California at Berkeley. Her primary research interests are user interfaces and visualization for information retrieval, empirical computational linguistics, and text data mining.

Professor Hearst received BA, MS, and PhD degrees in Computer Science from the University of California at Berkeley, and she was a Member of the Research Staff at Xerox PARC from 1994 to 1997. Marti is on the editorial boards of ACM Transactions on Information Systems and ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction and was formerly on the boards of Computational Linguistics, IEEE Intelligent Systems and was the program co-chair of SIGIR '99. She is an Okawa Foundation Fellow, a recipient of an NSF CAREER award, and the recipient of a student-initiated Excellence in Teaching award.

"Marti Hearst is a leading thinker in the field of Knowledge/Content Management technology and its application to employee, supplier and customer self-service. Her past experience and her current work are an excellent match with our focus on enterprise content search, navigation and management," said Steve King, Endymion President and CEO. "We welcome her influence as we develop our plans to keep our recent acquisition of the ZNOW Knowledge Navigation (ZKN)(R) product suite in a leadership position in the search and navigation markets."

ZKN, a third-generation software product enabling end-user self-service, imports and classifies over 200 standard office document types with up to one million pages of documentation on an "as-is" basis, without the need for extensive up-front manual activities. The ZKN content search tool provides an intuitively easy means for navigating large text content databases and is targeted at mission critical applications, such as Customer Service, Technical Support, Technical Publications and R&D Knowledge Content Mining.

About Endymion

With a focus on information sharing, collaboration, knowledge management and systems and data integration, Endymion is a full-service solutions provider for extended enterprises seeking to take advantage of net-native architectures.

Adopting a new business model for traditional IT Services companies, through the addition of software products, Endymion specializes in implementing streamlined operational systems by integrating best of breed third-party applications such as SAP, PeopleSoft, Siebel, and Oracle. Endymion then surrounds those end-to-end streamlined business processes with its own information and knowledge tools to enable customers, employees and trading partners to collaborate effectively, based on what the company calls "actionable information".

Endymion has developed a Web Services based Business Process Integration Framework (BPIf)(R), which enables truly functional enterprise integration and content management solutions. And, Endymion's tested and proven methodology for development and deployment assures that efficiencies derived from best practices and re-usable processes are transferred to each new client engagement and translated into affordable economics and rapid implementations.

More information about Endymion is available by visiting www.esicom.com or by calling us at 510-563-4100. Endymion is headquartered in Oakland, CA, and serves customers nationally through branch offices in Irvine, Seattle and Houston.