Provo, Utah - August 30, 1999 - NextPage, LC, the leading provider of Internet publishing solutions to commercial and corporate publishers, today announced a major sale of its LivePublish Internet publishing software to Travelers Property Casualty (NYSE: TAP). Travelers replaced a legacy database application with NextPage LivePublish, a more effective, Y2K-compliant solution, giving employees and insurance agents worldwide the ability to access the company's massive set of insurance underwriting guidelines over the Internet. The entire implementation, including several custom modifications to the LivePublish interface, took just five working days. Terms of the sale were not disclosed.
The contract with Travelers is the largest since the July 1, 1999 transfer of Folio technology by Open Market, Inc. to a group of private investors, which resulted in the formation of NextPage, LC. NextPage CEO Brad D. Pelo hailed the agreement as a sign of things to come, saying, "NextPage brings more than 13 years of electronic publishing experience and technology development to bear on the needs of corporate and commercial electronic publishers such as Travelers. Developing significant, mission-critical applications in five days isn't something we recommend, but being able to do so speaks volumes about the robust flexibility of the LivePublish platform and the capabilities of our sales engineering and consulting staff."
Travelers' LivePublish application, called "Forms Online," contains a reference library of key endorsement and policy forms text covering 11 commercial insurance lines. Writing guidelines from lines as diverse as agribusiness, general liability and workers compensation are all available to agents and employees through a single, Web-based search interface.
Walt Zilahy, Travelers' vice president of Information Systems, Distributed Environments Division, said the LivePublish solution helped Travelers keep a promise to customers that all systems would be Y2K-compliant by June 30, 1999. "As long-time users of NextPage's Folio technology, we were confident that LivePublish could ensure that our "Forms" application was Y2K-compliant and would give us the searching and data management capabilities we needed. We determined that NextPage's LivePublish product not only met our requirements but would meet our deadline within budget."
Travelers' LivePublish implementation included several custom modifications to the user interface to help ease users' concerns about migrating from a familiar terminal-emulation interface to the rich, browser-based LivePublish interface. For example, the system's toolbar and search functions were greatly simplified, and certain table of contents navigation features were modified to make it possible to restrict searches to particular sections of the manual without having to use LivePublish's more powerful, but more complex, advanced search template. Another user interface modification was the addition of a "help" button on the toolbar which links to a customized help file for agent users.
"The product's conversion tools made it possible to preserve all of the familiar structure of the "Forms" environment and the flexibility of the interface allowed us to present the information in a form that was easy to adopt," said Zilahy. "We're pleased with the project's final results."
About NextPage LivePublish
LivePublish is a scaleable, standards-based, commerce-enabled solution for publishing large amounts of content on the Internet, intranets and CD-ROM. The product provides publishers with tools that automate and simplify the assembly and delivery of content-rich Web sites. End users of LivePublish sites enjoy easy-to-use navigation tools and the fastest and most accurate searching technology available from any solution--a result of more than a dozen years of search technology refinement.
NextPage also provides solutions that allow commercial publishers to package content using LivePublish and then sell it to corporate customers for use on their intranets. These solutions secure publisher content and provide detailed information usage reports to publishers and their customers to simplify management and billing for collection of subscription and royalty revenue.
NextPage's Folio software has long been regarded as an industry standard for commercial publishing applications both online and on CD-ROM. More than 700 commercial publishers in professional and consumer markets today offer products based on NextPage technology, making it the world's leading choice for distribution of high-value business information.
About Travelers Property Casualty
Travelers Property Casualty Corp., with headquarters in Hartford, Conn., is a leading provider of a broad range of insurance products for commercial markets, including workers' compensation, integrated disability, property, liability, specialty lines, surety bonds, inland/ocean marine, and boiler and machinery. The company is also a leading provider of homeowners and auto insurance for consumers. Travelers Property Casualty is a member of Citigroup (NYSE: C), a financial services company.
About NextPage
NextPage Peer-to-Peer Content Networking solutions eliminate traditional intranet and extranet barriers by enabling users to manage, access and exchange distributed content from partners, suppliers, customers and employees — in real time. With NextPage technology, users connect disparate content servers together to form an e-business Content Network. Then users can search and navigate gigabytes of data, categorize all types of content, gain secure access to information, and personalize their experience. E-businesses rely on the NXT™ 3 e-Content Platform to power business-critical content inside Content Networks. Visit www.nextpage.com or call 800-NEXTPAGE or 801-768-7500 for more information.
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