Xyleme Acquires Novizio's Software Products

Xyleme Acquires Novizio's Software Products

Integrated Authoring, Assembly and Publishing Applications for XML-based eLearning and Technical Documentation

SAN DIEGO, Dec. 13 /PRNewswire/ -- Xyleme, Inc., a leading developer of XML databases and content applications, announced today that it has acquired substantially all of the assets of Novizio, Inc., a Colorado-based software developer specializing in eLearning and Technical Documentation solutions. Novizio's flagship product is an integrated application including a structured XML authoring environment, dynamic document assembly capabilities, and a real-time publishing engine that can render and preview documents on-demand in a variety of formats. When bundled with Courseware Runtime Services, a SCORM 2004 compliant eLearning application, clients can develop and manage a broad range of blended learning materials, including web-based courseware and print-based instructor-led training.

Companies that develop highly technical products, with rapid product lifecycles -- and that are increasingly moving to mass customization -- are realizing that they need XML-based production tools and methodologies in order to reduce the costs, and improve the quality, of creating, managing and distributing content. Such companies can quickly leverage Xyleme's applications to repurpose content throughout the development lifecycle, from requirements, specifications and test plans, to technical manuals and product support systems. Xyleme's solutions now feature a powerful, easy to use structured authoring environment that allows granular XML objects to be reused within flexible document templates.

"The combination of Xyleme's repository and Novizio's applications will take learning content management solutions to a completely new level," said Jeff Katzman, one of Novizio's founders, who is now Xyleme's Vice President of U.S. Operations. "Xyleme offers the fundamental technology and integrated applications that can finally deliver on the promise of single source content development for instructional designers and technical writers, and is the foundation for many advanced knowledge services."

Organizations with significant employee, customer and partner training programs will benefit tremendously from Xyleme's approach. Xyleme's applications can dynamically assemble content based on user preferences, job requirements, competency gaps and career objectives, enabling a new generation of just-in-time and competency-based training methodologies, and delivering to the learner, the right information, in the right format, at the right time.

About Xyleme

Xyleme, Inc. is a leading provider of enterprise solutions that enable content to be continuously transformed, analyzed and repurposed throughout an organization, its customers and partners. Xyleme's evolutionary information architecture supports flexible Business Content Models, which eliminate content redundancy, reduce development, maintenance and production costs, and improve customer experience. In addition to integrated applications, Xyleme offers a scalable XML repository with combined context and free text search, an application development environment, and a suite of non-XML content migration tools and services. Xyleme's customers include some of the largest financial services and publishing firms in the world, including Deutsche Bank, TimeOut and Hachette Fillipacchi and Le Monde. Xyleme is a privately-held company, with venture-backed investment from Societe Generale Asset Management, Viventures, Credit Mutuel du Nord, and Xitec Software.

For more information visit www.xyleme.com.

Xyleme is a registered trademark of Xyleme, Inc. All other trademarks, tradenames, service marks, service names and images mentioned and/or used herein belong to their respective owners.

For more information, please contact Olivier Parriche of Xyleme, Inc., +1-858-792-8340, Olivier.Parriche@xyleme.com.


Source: Xyleme, Inc.

CONTACT: Olivier Parriche of Xyleme, Inc., +1-858-792-8340,
Olivier.Parriche@xyleme.com

Web site: http://www.xyleme.com/


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