Provo, UT - October 6, 1999 - NextPage, LC, a leading provider of Internet publishing solutions for commercial and corporate publishers, today announced the LivePublish 2.0 suite of professional Internet and intranet publishing software products for the assembly and delivery of high-value content. LivePublish 2.0 is an XML-enabled enterprise publishing platform that gives commercial and corporate publishers unprecedented flexibility and control over their content including simultaneous distribution of content through corporate portals, commercial Web sites and disconnected, browser-based CD-ROM/DVD. The new product suite will be available in late October 1999.
For corporations creating intranets or needing a publishing application for their corporate portals, LivePublish Suite 2.0 delivers powerful searching and navigation, and the ability to host multiple information collections on a single server. Corporations can also package key portions of their intranet for remote, browser-based access on CD-ROM/DVD. LivePublish Personal Edition 2.0 lets disconnected users such as sales personnel, auditors, and field service engineers access corporate information through a standard Web browser as though they were connected to the corporate intranet.
For commercial publishers, LivePublish Suite 2.0 offers key new e-commerce capabilities including the ability to sell information through subscription and pay-per-view models, and the ability to create and display abstracts of commercial content for prospective buyers. With LivePublish 2.0's sophisticated rights management capabilities, corporate IT departments can now also host commercially published content on their own corporate intranet while preserving the publisher's copyrights, and automatically monitoring and reporting usage of commercial content.
LivePublish Suite 2.0 also gives commercial and corporate publishers the ability to provide individualized views into bodies of information based both on the access rights available to a particular user and the user's individual preferences.
"Companies that create and sell business intelligence, and corporations needing to internally publish their intellectual property to employees and partners, will find that LivePublish 2.0 is far and away the most mature and complete publishing solution for their corporate and commercial portals," said Brad D. Pelo, NextPage CEO. "Our thirteen years of electronic and Internet publishing experience and working relationships with the world's largest commercial publishers and hundreds of large corporate publishers give NextPage a unique understanding of publishing requirements and a track record that is second to none. In the race to provide universal access to high-value content, NextPage and LivePublish are clearly the team to beat."
Positive Customer Reaction
Beta testers have responded positively to their experience with the new product. Ronald A. Hocutt, vice president of Internet Development for Practitioners Publishing Company, the preeminent publisher of practical "how-to" products for small- to medium-sized CPA firms, said, "We needed a solution that met our internal XML initiative. LivePublish's support of native XML gives us a cost effective way of migrating our content set to the Web while also delivering content in other file formats that have not yet been migrated to XML."
Hocutt also said that access speed was a critical issue for PPC. "Our internal field tests revealed that LivePublish gave us the kind of scalability and performance from a $50,000 NT-based hardware investment that we would have expected from another solution running on a $500,000 Unix installation."
LivePublish Suite 2.0
The LivePublish Suite 2.0 consists of the following individual products:
