ZyLAB Named Finalist in Government Computer News "Best New Technology" Awards at FOSE 2004

ZyIMAGE 5.0 Document Management Solution Named Finalist in the Enterprise Application Software Category

February 16, 2004 - McLean, VA - ZyLAB, an established market leader of document imaging and information retrieval software, today announced that its ZyIMAGE 5.0 solution has been chosen as a finalist in the Government Computer News "Best New Technology" awards at FOSE 2004 in the Enterprise Application Software Category. ZyLAB will unveil major product enhancements for ZyIMAGE 5.0 at FOSE.

"Finalists in the Best New Technology at FOSE Awards program should be proud of their accomplishment," said Thomas R. Temin, senior vice president for Editorial at Post Newsweek. "When government agencies are trying to transform themselves into truly 21st century enterprises, they need the best technological tools to help them get these. These winning products are some of those tools. This year, we received 130 entries, each of which was carefully screened by a panel of at least five knowledgeable editors. As always, there was lots of keen competition in each of the product categories."

ZyLAB Technology provides document imaging and paper filing software to help Global 2000 companies and government agencies digitally file and manage millions of pages of paper and electronic documents. ZyLAB's comprehensive investigative capabilities (with its high-quality search and retrieval features) support over 200 languages to give users the ability to organize and easily share all information online.

For the past 10 years, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has utilized, and continues to use, ZyLAB software with investigations such as the ongoing Enron case, the Oklahoma City bombing, the Olympic bombing in Atlanta, and the 9/11 terrorist attacks on the Pentagon and the World Trade Center in New York City. ZyLAB can also be found in the Homeland Security Office; the Department of Defense (DoD); the U.S. Air Force; the U.S. Navy; the U.S. Army Intelligence Agency; the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms; the Department of Agriculture; the Department of Commerce; the Department of Justice; the Internal Revenue Service (IRS); the Department of Labor; the State Department; the Office of Personnel Management; and the Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS).

About ZyIMAGE 5.0
ZyIMAGE offers government organizations a DoD 5015.2-compliant, full XML framework for information storage and integration. During the last two years, ZyLAB has worked in close cooperation with the United Nations War Tribunals and several other classified defense and intelligence organizations to develop the latest version of ZyIMAGE . Key features and benefits of ZyIMAGE include:

- Open technology: full XML framework, based upon browser technology (HTTP only) and APIs for integration with other applications
- Scaleable and secure product and data architecture: from flat file systems to Oracle XML
- Advanced full-text retrieval including scalable fuzzy search, relevance ranking, advanced hit highlighting and hit navigation in imaging
- Integration with 3rd party NLP and translation products (L&H, Inxight, Xerox Grenoble, DMP, Apptek, Globeware)
- Support for over 200 languages, including Arabic, Farsi, Russian, Chinese, Korean and Japanese, plus automatic language recognition for scanned documents
- Support for over 270+ electronic file formats, including e-mail and its attachments
- Extensive business logic for law enforcement, legal, professional back-office, knowledge management and RMA applications

About ZyLAB
ZyLAB North America LLC is a fully owned subsidiary of ZyLAB Technologies, a fast growing and profitable group of companies. Twenty years ago, ZyLAB developed ZyINDEX, which went on to become the preferred solution for searching large collections of electronic files in PC environments. In 1991 ZyLAB created its signature product, ZyIMAGE, the best search engine available for large digitized paper and electronic file collections. Now, ZyLAB's evolution continues with ZyIMAGE 5.0, which includes a full open-source XML framework and supports paper, electronic files and e-mail. ZyIMAGE 5.0 forms the backbone of ZyLAB's fully customized document archiving, searching, retrieving, organizing and sharing solutions for professionals in the legal, law enforcement, corporate governance and financial fields. Worldwide, ZyLAB has over 300,000 current end users and has active operational installations in more than 7,000 sites. ZyLAB provides our clients prompt and local service from our offices in the USA, Europe and Asia. For more information, visit: www.zylab.com - e-mail archiving

CONTACT:
Evan Weisel of Welz & Weisel Communications,
+1-703-323-6006,
evan@w2comm.com for ZyLAB North America LLC.