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Montgomery County, Maryland First Joint Customer;
New Application to Automate and Streamline County's Solicitation
Creation Process
August 8, 2005 - Vienna, VA - ZyLAB, an innovative developer
of document management and compliance solutions for paper intensive
organizations, and Ingeniux, a leading provider of XML-based Web
content management and publishing systems, today announced a strategic
partnership. The combination of ZyLAB and Ingeniux technologies
will provide customers with a low-cost, highly-scalable, end-to-end
XML based solution for managing the content lifecycle. Montgomery
County, Maryland will use this integrated solution to automate the
creation of solicitations for their procurement group.
"The new application will streamline our complex solicitation
creation process and enable us to procure goods and services much
more rapidly and efficiently," said Mayland Lin, Sr. IT Specialist,
Montgomery County. "We published over 350 Request-for-proposals
last year, with an average development time of 75 days. Our goal
of the ZyLAB/Ingeniux solution is to cut this time in half which
will result in significant operations savings and faster purchase
cycles."
The Ingeniux Content Management System (CMS) provides a complete
Web content management and publishing system for developing, managing
and deploying content throughout the enterprise. Ingeniux quickly
empowers non-technical users to contribute to and manage the Web
publishing process - providing Web publishers with extended capabilities
and effective cost controls. ZyLAB offers the best available solutions
for archiving, searching, and retrieving information. The open technology
and modular construction of ZyLAB's products enable customers like
Montgomery County to configure solutions that fit their actual requirements
and budgets.
Montgomery County required a solution to manage its complex process
of creating solicitations and RFPs. The county plans to implement
ZyLAB's ZyIMAGE solution to store the solicitations once they are
created. In addition, the County required an application on the
front end for managing multiple contributors and providing structure
and re-usability for content. Ingeniux CMS will provide the workflow
features for managing multiple contributors in defined roles. Because
it stores content as native XML, content can be easily structured
and re-used in the system, allowing staff members to drag and drop
legal boilerplate and compliance requirements into and between solicitation
documents.
Once the solicitation is completed, the CMS will output the XML
as a Word document or PDF for publication to the Montgomery County
procurement website for vendor download. Also at that point, the
native XML document will automatically move into ZyIMAGE for archiving,
and in the future, records management, where the documents will
easily and rapidly be organized, searched and retrieved.
"The vision of the ZyLAB partnership is an end-to-end XML
solution for authoring, managing, and archiving digital and paper-based
documents," said Jim Edmunds, President and CEO of Ingeniux
Corporation. "Our project at Montgomery County will serve as
a great example of this integrated solution. Working together, Ingeniux
and ZyLAB will offer an affordable content and records management
solution that is based completely on next generation XML technology.
We are looking forward to working with ZyLAB at Montgomery County
and expanding our European operations, where ZyLAB is the standard
in records management."
"ZyLAB has a long-standing, established relationship with
Montgomery County and we needed a partner that used the same XML
open standard as ZyIMAGE," said Dr. Johannes Scholtes, President
of ZyLAB North America LLC. "We selected Ingeniux based upon
their XML-based technology and the fact that it is easy to implement
and use. This partnership enables us to offer mid-market customers
a truly integrated and comprehensive solution for addressing both
Web content management and document/records management requirements."
About Ingeniux
Ingeniux Corporation is the trusted provider of Web content management
and publishing software. Its XML-based technology empowers Web developers
and content creators to build the next generation Internet with
products acclaimed for their ease-of-use, rapid deployment, extensibility
and low total cost of ownership. Ingeniux delivers quality software
with unparalleled customer service to customers in a broad range
of industries, including higher education, trade associations, broadcasting,
e-government, and financial institutions.
About ZyLAB
Founded in 1983, ZyLAB is the leading provider of low-cost content
management and compliance solutions for small-and-medium-sized business
(SMB) and government organizations that need to 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 supporting over 200 languages, gives
users the ability to organize and easily share all information online.
In particular, ZyLAB solutions are relied upon extensively by legal,
law enforcement/intelligence, and financial/back-office professionals.
With over 7,500 installations worldwide and over 350,000 users, ZyLAB
has a wide breadth of experience and knowledge across a variety of
different industries and business applications. Our clients include
such U.S. Government organizations as the FBI, Department of Homeland
Security, Department of the Treasury, Department of Justice, SEC,
Department of Agriculture, Department of Commerce, IRS, Department
of Labor, State Department, Amtrak's OIG, Office of Personnel Management,
Department of Defense and all branches of the US military, as well
as such well-known companies as the New York Stock Exchange, Pepsico,
Pacific Life, and Anheuser-Busch. For more information visit: www.zylab.com - document management.
Media Contact:
Evan Weisel
Welz & Weisel Communications
P: 703-323-6006
evan@w2comm.com
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