AstenJohnson Selects Documentum Enterprise Content Management Platform

AstenJohnson Selects Documentum Enterprise Content Management Platform 


PLEASANTON, Calif., Dec. 8  /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Documentum , the leading
provider of enterprise content management (ECM), today announced that
AstenJohnson, a manufacturer of paper machine clothing, specialty fabrics,
filaments and drainage equipment, has selected Documentum 5, the latest version
of the Documentum ECM platform, and Documentum eRoom 7, Documentum's enterprise
collaboration solution. AstenJohnson will implement the Documentum solution to
create, manage, deliver and archive the content that runs its business, foster
collaborative business processes and facilitate the execution of the
enterprise's programs and projects.

With more than 200 years of experience, AstenJohnson is the second-largest paper
machine clothing (PMC) manufacturer in North America, with customers in 28
countries.  The company's products help the major papermakers around the world
create various types of paper, such as fine writing paper, tissue, brown paper
bags, cardboard boxes and newsprint.

"AstenJohnson selected Documentum because of the completeness of the platform,"
said Marc Pujda, chief information officer for AstenJohnson. "Documentum will be
used throughout the company, dramatically enhancing our productivity and helping
us to control our costs.  Using Documentum eRoom to support our business
practices and processes that span the globe, with the ability to store that
collaborative content in the Documentum ECM platform, will help us quickly
realize new levels of operational efficiency."

"Documentum is pleased to work with AstenJohnson, a global leader in the PMC
industry," said Dave DeWalt, president and chief executive officer for
Documentum.  "Documentum eRoom has been well-received by companies looking to
manage trading partner relationships and want to take advantage of the
enterprise features, ease of use and rich integration with the Documentum ECM
platform.  We look forward to a lasting relationship with AstenJohnson."

About Documentum eRoom 7

The Documentum eRoom products are best-in-class collaboration applications that
can be easily adapted to and integrated with other enterprise systems to enable
team collaboration.  They can also be quickly tailored to specific projects,
linking hundreds of thousands of users within a company and across multiple
organizations. Documentum eRoom 7, a standalone product, is easy to use, fast to
implement, and offers the stability and scalability of an enterprise-class
application.  Documentum eRoom Enterprise 7 leverages the flexibility and ease
of use of the Documentum eRoom application and deeper integration with the
Documentum ECM platform, to enable content and collaboration services to
seamless interoperate under a common workflow.

About Documentum 5

Documentum 5 is the only ECM solution that offers unified content services for
enterprise document management (EDM), web content management (WCM), digital
asset management (DAM) and fixed content management (FCM) -- records, reports
and scanned images -- in a single, integrated platform.  Unlike other content
management solutions that support limited content types, Documentum 5 delivers
fully integrated content management, collaboration and record management
services, and an integrated repository for all types of content, across the
entire extended enterprise.  With Documentum 5, departments from R&D, operations
and manufacturing to sales, marketing and customer support are linked with
common content and processes to help drive better efficiencies for the
enterprise.

About AstenJohnson

AstenJohnson designs, manufactures and markets paper machine clothing for all
sections of the paper machine. Paper machine clothing is a highly engineered
textile fabric installed on paper machines to carry the paper stock through each
stage of the papermaking process. The design and composition of paper machine
clothing has a significant impact on the quality of paper products produced and
the efficiency of the paper machine on which it is used. The company also
designs, manufactures and markets specialty fabrics to the nonwoven, textile,
filtration and food industries as well as paper machine drainage equipment and
filaments. AstenJohnson's products are sold around the world to all major
producers of paper and paper products.  Approximately 1,500 people are employed
by the company in South Carolina, Georgia, Pennsylvania, Massachusetts, Vermont,
Wisconsin, Quebec and Ontario. AstenJohnson also has a plant in Belgium.  For
more information, visit:  http://www.astenjohnson.com/.

About Documentum

Documentum provides enterprise content management (ECM) solutions that enable
organizations to unite teams, content and associated business processes.
Documentum's integrated set of content, compliance and collaboration solutions
support the way people work, from initial discussion and planning through
design, production, marketing, sales, service and corporate administration. With
a single platform, Documentum enables people to collaboratively create, manage,
deliver and archive the content that drives business operations, from documents
and discussions to email, Web pages, records and rich media. The Documentum
platform makes it possible for companies to distribute all of this content in
multiple languages, across internal and external systems, applications and user
communities. As a result, Documentum's customers, which include thousands of the
world's most successful organizations, harness corporate knowledge, accelerate
time to market, increase customer satisfaction, enhance supply chain
efficiencies and reduce operating costs, improving their overall competitive
advantage. For more information, visit Documentum on the Web at
http://www.documentum.com/.

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of any future products or product features mentioned in this document, and no
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to the company's momentum and continued expansion of its product offerings,
diversification of its sales model, expanded global presence, increased market
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differences include, but are not limited to, the risks associated with the
software market, risks associated with development and release of new versions
and new products, fluctuations in customer demand for our products, risks
associated with rapid technological change, concentration of a large percentage
of our quarterly revenue with a few customers, the financial, economic,
political and other uncertainties caused or exacerbated by the current
hostilities involving the United States and Iraq, the risk that the company will
not be able to integrate its products, operations and business with acquired
entities effectively, that the companies' customers, suppliers and employees
will not support its acquisitions, and the other general risks of acquisitions. 
Such factors also include those discussed from time to time in the company's
public reports filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission, such as those
under "Risk Factors" included in the company's annual report on Form 10-K for
the fiscal year ended December 31, 2002, as well as the company's other filings
with the Securities and Exchange Commission, which are available at
http://www.sec.gov/.  The company undertakes no obligation to update or revise
these forward-looking statements.

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press release was not completed in the current quarter and any license revenue
associated with such transaction should be assumed to have already been included
in prior earnings announcements. 

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