17 May 2005 | Traction Introduces TeamPage as Disruptive Alternative to Electronic Content Management Software

Traction Attends AIIM 2005 to Bring Enterprise Weblogs to the ECM Marketplace

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Jen Revis Snider
Red Javelin Communications, Inc.
617-899-1377
jen@redjavelin.com

Philadelphia, PA May 17, 2005 AIIM Conference and Exhibition, Traction Booth # 3614 -- Traction Software Inc. today introduced its Traction® TeamPage™ enterprise weblog software to the ECM marketplace at the Annual AIIM Conference and Exhibition. AIIM 2005 is the largest enterprise content & document management conference and exposition showcasing the technologies and solutions that provide intelligence behind information.

Traction's award winning TeamPage software makes it easy for groups of business users to keep in touch using a simple, secure and highly effective weblog model for working communication. Traction's products include a host of capabilities that address security and other critical needs of business workgroups while retaining the simplicity, scalability and syndication features that make personal weblogs so easy to deploy and use on the public Internet.

"Enterprise weblog software, with security, scalability and compatibility with enterprise identity management, is poised to replace traditional ECM products. We believe this will happen both as complete solution for many businesses, or to define a vastly simpler and more accessible working communication layer over traditional ECM and line of business systems for large enterprises," said Greg Lloyd, president and founder of Traction Software. "Traditional ECM software is expensive to purchase, deploy and use and is better suited to making sure that nothing is lost than making sure that content is used. The flexibility and simplicity of the weblog format makes it simple to write long or short items that keep track of research, discussion, debate, decisions and follow-up actions. It's simple to link to and comment on information posted on the corporate intranet, as well as the public Internet, making content actionable that the company has paid dearly to create."

For product management, sales, marketing, competitive intelligence and other business functions, Traction's solution does 80% of what traditional ECM solutions do at 20% of the cost. Weblog technology is also intuitive to anyone who uses the Internet or email, so training costs is minimal and users can immediately benefit from day one of installation.

Traction's enterprise weblog software adds wiki style support for multiple groups working together over time, built-in WebDAV for secure distributed file authoring and versioning with a zero-footprint web browser interface. This makes it simple to use Traction to connect internal and external stakeholder groups with a model that's secure, inexpensive and works with RSS/Atom syndication and web search standards. This creates a new component of ECM that works and scales like the web.

In a separate announcement today, Traction also announced the newest version of TeamPage, TeamPage 3.6. TeamPage 3.6 is a free upgrade for Traction's customer that provides significant new user-driven enhancements.

About AIIM
AIIM (The Association for Information and Image Management) - the international authority on Enterprise Content Management (ECM), is leading the way to the understanding, adoption and use of ECM technologies. These technologies, tools and methods are used to capture, manage, store, preserve, and deliver content across an enterprise in support of business processes. As a non-profit association for more than 50 years, AIIM provides news, information and resources through its industry web portal and ongoing education through programs that include market analysis, industry standards development, publications, chapters and regional events. For additional information, visit AIIM.org. For AIIM's E-Doc magazine, visit www.edocmagazine.com.

About Traction Software
Traction Software provides business and government organizations with enterprise weblog software that allows groups and teams to communicate more effectively. Traction's easy to use TeamPage™ software creates a secure communications hub for business information and working communications that collects, organizes, links and shares sources of information in context over time. TeamPage is used for business applications ranging from product development and project management to marketing field communication, competitive intelligence, and sales. Traction Software has been named one of the 100 Companies that Matter by KMWorld and is a winner of the RedHerring 100 and EContent 100 awards. The company distributes its products directly and through global partners. Based in Providence, Rhode Island, Traction Software is a privately held corporation with financing from investors including In-Q-Tel and Slater Interactive. For additional information, visit Traction at www.tractionsoftware.com.

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