Draper, Utah – Dec. 13, 2005 – NextPage today announced that it has been accepted as a member of Ecma International, an international standards organization for information and communication technology and consumer electronics. As an Ecma member, NextPage will work with Microsoft, Apple, Barclays Capital, BP, the British Library, Essilor, Intel Corporation, Statoil ASA and Toshiba to co-sponsor a submission to Ecma for the international standard for Microsoft Office Open XML document format technology.
In addition, the group intends to submit the results of their collaboration to the International Organization for Standardization for approval, and to maintain the evolution of the formats going forward.
Thousands of documents are created every minute in an Office format from the estimated 400 million users. All those users will be able to take advantage of the benefits of the new open standard these industry leaders are co-submitting to Ecma, enabling document contents to be stored, accessed, searched, used, integrated and developed in new, innovative ways.
For more than 40 years, Ecma has actively contributed to world-wide standardization in information technology and telecommunications. More than 365 Ecma Standards and almost 90 Technical Reports of high quality have been published, more than 2/3 of which have also been adopted as International Standards and/or Technical Reports.
NextPage recently launched NextPage® 2 Document Collaboration, a subscription service that integrates how people collaborate daily on documents – typically in Microsoft Office and in e-mail. The service eliminates user adoption problems by not requiring a centralized repository to store and manage documents and allows users to work online or offline. NextPage 2 Document Collaboration delivers real-time status of all document versions as documents progress through their life cycles. It revolutionizes the document experience through a user interface, called the NextPage Activity Center™, that reports status of documents, including who has opened, who is editing, where the latest version is and what needs to be done next.
A free trial version of NextPage 2 Document Collaboration is available at www.nextpage.com/trial.
About NextPage
NextPage is disrupting the document collaboration market by eliminating product abandonment experienced from traditional document management and collaboration products. NextPage delivers products that focus on solving problems from a user’s perspective. NextPage 2 Document Collaboration is the first to connect all document-based collaboration by tracking document versions that are sent as e-mail attachments, stored on users’ desktops and created outside the organization. The service provides a 360 degree view of all document activities and works whether users are online or offline. NextPage 2 Document Collaboration reduces the risk of sending out the wrong version, prevents wasted time working on wrong versions and eliminates the cost of document coordination. For more information, visit www.nextpage.com or call 801-748-4400.
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NextPage Inc.
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