Altova's XML Document Editor, AUTHENTIC 5, Automates Business Processes at University of California, Irvine

Altova Inc. (www.altova.com), the world's leading XML software tools producer, today announced that it has supplied UC Irvine with their XML document editing software, AUTHENTIC 5, for use in their internal business portal.

UC Irvine (www.uci.edu/) is a leading higher level educational institution offering programs at the undergraduate, graduate, professional and continuing education levels. UC Irvine is ranked in the nation's top 10 for information technology education by eWeek, a national high-tech magazine, and is ranked among the top 50 universities in the USA, or twelfth among all public universities, according to the 2003 U.S. News & World Report annual college survey.

"A Business Portal is considered a key part of the New Business Architecture endorsed by all the University of California campuses. UC Irvine is one of the first campuses in the UC system to develop an Administrative Staff portal. In the early stages of planning the technical direction for our portal, we decided to employ the structured nature of XML, to enable the standard look and feel for the portal. We developed content using XML," said Katya Sadovsky, Technical Project Leader, University of California, Irvine

Sadovsky continued: "We also wanted to allow subject matter experts to maintain their own content. The ability to edit XML content in a WYSIWYG fashion was essential to the success of our project. Altova's AUTHENTIC 5 allowed us to quickly and easily create a customized editing environment for our content developers. Users, who were familiar with word processors such as Microsoft Word, did not require any additional training to start using the AUTHENTIC 5 product. Having the content edited by the subject matter experts directly, reduced the amount of errors and streamlined content delivery."

Pricing and Availability

AUTHENTIC 5, is available immediately for free download at www.altova.com/download_authentic.html and is offered under a free software license.

Visit the Altova booth and see a live demonstration of AUTHENTIC 5 and other Altova products line at an upcoming software tradeshow this spring 2003:

- Web Services Edge East, Boston, Massachusetts, March 19-20, 2003 - BEA EWorld, Orlando, Florida, March 2-5, 2003 - AIIM Content Management Solutions Seminar, April 7-9, 2003

About Altova

Altova, Inc. is a leading provider of XML software solutions with offices in Beverly, MA and Vienna, Austria. The privately held company was founded in 1992 and has been actively involved in the XML market from the early conception of Extensible Markup Language. Altova's XMLSPY 5 is the leading choice of Fortune 500 and Global 1000 companies. Altova's XMLSPY 5 product line is the world's best-selling XML tool and has won the leading industry awards including PC Magazine's Editor's Choice Award and Best Product of 2002. Altova is a technology partner with the world's leading software companies including Microsoft, Oracle, BEA, IONA, and Software AG. Altova is a member of the W3C and WS-I. Visit Altova on the web at www.altova.com.

Altova, XMLSPY, STYLEVISION, AUTHENTIC and AXAD are trademarks of Altova GmbH registered in numerous countries. The names of and reference to companies and products mentioned herein may be the trademarks of their respective owners.