Plumtree-Powered DFAS and WSIB Portals Named Among World's Top 10 Government Intranets

Plumtree-Powered DFAS and WSIB Portals Named Among World's Top 10
Government Intranets
Nielsen Norman Group Releases In-Depth Report on Top Public Sector Intranets



SAN FRANCISCO, June 21  /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Enterprise Web leader
Plumtree Software (NASDAQ:PLUM) today announced new findings by the Nielson
Norman Group that rank the Plumtree-powered intranets of Defense Finance and
Accounting Service (DFAS) and Workplace Safety and Insurance Board of Ontario
(WSIB) among the top 10 government intranet designs in the world. The Nielsen
Norman Group's "Ten Best Government and Public Sector Intranet Designs,"
released today presents detailed case studies on the public sector
organizations that are producing the highest return on their investments and
greatest productivity gains by making their intranets richer and easier to use.

DFAS is the world's largest finance and accounting operation, processing
payroll, vendor payment and accounting for all branches of the U.S. military,
the Department of Defense and other select federal agencies. DFAS disburses
more than $416 billion annually, pays nearly 6 million people and processes
more than 12 million invoices from defense contractors each year. The Nielsen
Norman Group lauded DFAS for consolidating more than 200 individual Web sites
into their Plumtree-powered portal. Launched in July of 2003, DFAS' portal
gives its nearly 15,000 employees an online working environment with
centralized access to tens of thousands of documents, team collaboration spaces
and automated processes such as travel reimbursements and training requests.

"The DFAS eportal has helped to make the agency more efficient and effective,"
said Audrey Y. Davis, chief information officer for DFAS. "Our portal delivers
the information and tools our employees need to make their jobs easier and to
better serve the men and women who defend America."

Plumtree customer Workplace Safety and Insurance Board was also recognized for
its innovative and easy-to-use Connex portal.

"Plumtree customers have some of the largest, most sophisticated portals in the
world," said Plumtree CEO John Kunze. "DFAS and WSIB have rigorously sought to
deliver ROI by tailoring their portals to address top business problems, manual
processes and collaboration needs of their organizations. They have paid
special attention to making their portals easy to use so their constituents can
take full advantage of new services. We congratulate them for winning this
prestigious award."

About WSIB

Ontario's Workplace Safety and Insurance Board plays a key role in the
province's occupational health and safety system. The WSIB is committed to the
prevention of workplace injury and illness. It also administers the province's
no-fault workplace insurance for employers and their workers. As part of this
system, the WSIB provides disability benefits, monitors the quality of
healthcare and assists in the early and safe return to work for workers who are
injured on the job or contract an occupational disease

About Nielsen Norman Group

Nielsen Norman Group (http://www.nngroup.com/) is a user-experience research
firm that advises companies on how to succeed through human-centered design of
products and services. Nielsen Norman Group principals Jakob Nielsen, Don
Norman and Bruce "Tog" Tognazzini are each world-renowned experts in usability
and human use of technology. Besides authoring books and evangelizing about
user experience, they and the other user-experience specialists at Nielsen
Norman Group offer high-level strategic consultation on usability of websites,
consumer products, software designs and anything else that needs to be
easy-to-use.

About Plumtree Software

Plumtree Software is the Enterprise Web leader. Plumtree's mission is to create
a comprehensive Web environment for employees, customers and partners across
the enterprise to interact with different systems and work together. Plumtree's
Enterprise Web solution consists of integration products for bringing resources
from traditional systems together on the Web, shared services such as
collaboration, content management and search for building new Web applications,
and a portal framework for delivering these Web applications to broad
audiences. Plumtree's independence and its Web Services Architecture allow this
solution to span rival platforms and systems, helping maximize customers'
return on their existing technology investments. With offices in more than a
dozen countries, Plumtree has over licensed over 600 customers, including
Boeing, Ford Motor Company, Procter & Gamble and the U.S. Navy.

NOTE:  Plumtree is a registered trademark of Plumtree Software, Inc. and/or its
subsidiaries in the US and/or other countries. All other registered and
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respective owners.

CONTACT:  Carilu Dietrich of Plumtree Software, [phone], or ; or Darcy
Prov of Antenna Group, [phone], or , for Nielsen Norman Group. 

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CONTACT:  Carilu Dietrich of Plumtree Software, [phone], or

; or Darcy Prov of Antenna Group, [phone],

or , for Nielsen Norman Group.



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