XyEnterprise Announces New Medical Publishing Customer

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XyEnterprise, developer of XML content management and enterprise publishing software, announced that Lippincott Williams & Wilkins (LWW), a division of Wolters Kluwer Health, provider of drug guides, medical journals, nursing journals, medical textbooks and medical PDA (personal digital assistant) software, has selected XyEnterprise's XML Professional Publisher (XPP) to automate its publishing operations.

LWW selected XPP as part of its enterprise-wide focus on delivering valuable content in personalized formats to medical and nursing professionals that rely on this information. XPP will enable LWW to publish XML content for a wide variety of print products, including drug guides and medical reference books.

The XPP system is the leading tool for XML publishing, able to perform complex formatting tasks automatically and rapidly produce high-quality output. Through the standards-based XPP publishing engine, LWW will be able to more efficiently produce its myriad publications, reducing cycle time and enhancing production quality.

Larry Bryant, Director of Content Management Processes, Electronic Strategy and Product Development for LWW, stated: "Our view of publishing has moved from product-centric to content-centric. XPP will allow us to easily meet our production goals for our established publications and will enable us to produce a wider variety of custom publications for the medical and nursing fields."

"We are excited to welcome LWW to the roster of customers using XPP to drive their business-critical publishing operations," says Richard Pasewark, Vice President of Sales and Marketing at XyEnterprise. "XPP's versatility and automated features enable organizations like LWW to support new business models for publishing, greatly enhancing their full-service capabilities."

Learn more about XPP, automated XML publishing, the XPP Web Services Toolkit, at www.xyenterprise.com; the Web site also provides links to XyEnterprise's ongoing Web Seminar series and recorded events section where you can view these tools in action.

About XML Professional Publisher

XML Professional Publisher (XPP) is the proven standards-based composition, transformation and rendering software for complex and automated publishing in the technical documentation, commercial, legal, journal, financial, and pharmaceutical publishing markets. XPP batch and interactive interfaces are unique to the XML publishing space and enable leading corporations to process and transform XML and other structured content into high quality PDF and print output. XPP's Web Services Toolkit is driving new ways to conduct publishing operations and enhance the content lifecycle, creating new opportunities for customer satisfaction, product revenue, and business growth.

About Lippincott Williams & Wilkins

Lippincott Williams & Wilkins (LWW), part of Wolters Kluwer Health, is a leading international publisher of professional health information resources for physicians, nurses, specialized clinicians and students. Nearly 275 periodicals and 1,500 books in more than 100 disciplines are published under the LWW brand, as well as content-based sites and online corporate and customer services. Wolters Kluwer Health is a leading provider of information for professionals and students in medicine, nursing, allied health, pharmacy and the pharmaceutical industry. Wolters Kluwer Health is a unit of Wolters Kluwer nv, a multinational information services company with annual sales (2003) of EUR 3.4 billion and 18,750 employees.

19.10.2004, XyEnterprise