Xythos Software, Inc.

Q4 2006 Sales Presentation

Agenda

• Who Is Xythos? • What are Basic Content Services?• Live Demonstration• Customer Examples

Who is Xythos?

• Leading pioneer of Basic Content Services▪ 2.5 million licensed users

• Largest supplier of BCS technology to OEM market▪ Blackboard, Oracle, SAP, SAS Institute

• Alternative to enterprise stack vendors▪ IBM, Microsoft, Oracle

• Vendor with proven history of satisfying distributed enterprises

The Xythos Mission

To provide customers with cost-effective solutions for managing and

sharing content of any type using open standards-based technology

The Xythos Platform

An open standards-based content management platform that enables developers to build custom applications that access, manage and share documents and files

Government

Commercial Education

Select Xythos Customers

What IT Leaders Are Saying

“Unlike competing platforms, Xythos did not force us into a rigid, externally-imposed application structure. We were able to bank on the platform’s strengths while applying our own look-and-feel, and enforcing our own business rules.”

- Avi Halutz, VP of Technology, Marketing Information and Retail Systems, Time Inc.

“Xythos enables our users to self-administer web storage, including cross-community access management, and provides the basic document management features that make our portal a richer and more collaborative environment.”

- Bob Weir, CIO, Northeastern University

“Our institution alone will have received $40 million in grant money over four years from grants prepared using Xythos.”

– Dr. Michael Halle, Director of Technology Development, Brigham and Women’s Hospital

Recent Press Response

“Curing Document Management Complexity”

“The Web-based Enterprise Document Manager turns Xythos into a serious alternative to Documentum or Hummingbird.”

“When Only Document Management Will Do”

“Xythos' product provides everything one would expect from an enterprise-class document management application and is worth a look.”

“Document Management Made Simple” “If your enterprise is still e-mailing documents back and forth, Xythos has a better way.”

“Box Score: A”“This management suite is good for agencies that need to store multiple documents and make sense of all the information.”

“Xythos’ EDM Suite 5.0 trumps the competition when it comes to ease of use.”

“Xythos Document Management Suite Offers Easier Access”

Low Total Cost of Ownership

Gartner’s research shows that organizations spend two to three times the cost of software licenses on professional services to implement a traditional ECM application.

• Low integration costs• Minimal training costs• Low maintenance costs

High Adoption Rates

“Xythos has had the highest adoption rate of any instructional technology we’ve offered to the campus and has become integral to our teaching and learning environment.”

- Sandy Schaeffer, Director, Advanced Learning Center, University of Memphis

• Easy-to-use • Does not change user habits• Designed to work with the applications users

are already familiar with

Basic Content Services

What Are Basic Content Services?

• Content management for the masses

• Core library services once limited to expensive ECM systems

• File management integrated with users’ desktops

• A collaborative working environment

Drivers for Basic Content Services

Demand for Simple, Collaborative DM

Market Opportunity: ECM & BCS

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Worldwide Content Management Software Revenue

• ECM market forecast to grow at 14.2% CAGR – IDC

• ECM Software License Market Growth Will Reach $3.9 Billion By 2008 – Forrester

• By 2007, viable basic content management solutions will become mainstream (0.7 probability). – Gartner

• By 2010, basic content management solutions will achieve a desktop penetration rate of more than 65 percent (0.7 probability). – Gartner

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Source - IDC

Criteria for Basic Content Services

What BCS Is Being Used For

• Managing administrative workflows and business processes• Improving document security and compliance• Enabling collaboration with external parties• Providing a web-enabled extranet• Integrating document management functionality into portals

and custom applications• Centralizing unstructured content• Meeting disaster recovery guidelines

Live Demonstration

Customer Examples

Chubb Insurance

• Challenge▪ Mainframe file system costly to maintain and manage▪ Underwriters require single-view of multiple data sources

• Solution▪ Migrate content to common document repository▪ Develop web based application to view content in

standard formats

• Benefits▪ Retired costly legacy system▪ Can securely share content with re-insurers

Time Warner

• Challenge▪ Needed to keep track of magazine articles and its publication▪ Must provide access to magazine distributors

• Solution▪ Migrate data to Xythos’ web-based file server▪ Use access control lists to maintain security

• Benefits▪ Reduced development time vs. leading ECM vendor▪ Improved channel sales with timely data access

University of Calgary

• Challenge▪ Needed to increase DNA sample processing▪ Must guaranty security of customer data

• Solution▪ Web enable sample data collection and results distribution▪ Use Xythos read/write tickets to manage security

• Benefits▪ Increased processing capacity by over 50%▪ Able to provide test results immediately

Brigham & Women’s Hospital

• Challenge▪ Difficulty competing for grant funding with larger institutions▪ Multi-author submissions require too much time

• Solution▪ Provide secure, shared access to grant requests▪ Use workflow, and subscriptions to accelerate submissions

• Benefits▪ Won $70 million 5 year contract grant▪ Helps automate re-authorization process

U.S. Joint Forces Command

• Challenge▪ Existing system was not secure enough to provide real-

time access to operational and tactical information

• Solution▪ Integrated Xythos portlets into JFCOM’s eXo portal▪ Allow employees to author, publish and manage

documents over a distributed network

• Benefits▪ Creates rich information sharing environment▪ Streamlines information exchange between Allied and

Coalition forces

Stone & Youngberg

• Challenge▪ Old document management system could not scale▪ Collaboration was not consistent across geographies

• Solution▪ Centralize company’s content in web-based platform▪ Collaborate on deal documents through version control,

subscriptions and comments

• Benefits▪ Increases deal volume as underwriters are more efficient▪ Improves content security with clients and partners

Northeastern University

• Challenge▪ Give students anywhere access to University services and software

• Solution▪ Integrate Xythos into University’s Luminis portal▪ Each student and faculty given personal storage space

• Benefits▪ Over 95% of Northeastern’s 18,000 undergrads use myNEU portal

each day▪ Enables collaboration in and across institutions

Indiana State University

• Challenge▪ Facilitate secure and universal access to institutional content▪ Promote collaboration among its faculty, staff and students

• Solution▪ Deployed web-based content management system with complete

set of document and file management capabilities

• Benefits▪ Allows administrators, faculty and students to easily manage and

share files regardless of location ▪ Familiar and easy-to-use for faculty and students

Pepperdine University

• Challenge▪ No shared administrative electronic space ▪ No central repository for accreditation-related documents

• Solution▪ Secure collaboration across institutional boundaries ▪ Integration with university authentication (LDAP)

• Benefits▪ Provides a central repository and framework for documents▪ Streamline academic and administrative means for document

collection, organization and review

Loyola Marymount University

• Challenge▪ Luminis portal had low adoption among students and faculty▪ Needed to facilitate collaboration among faculty at LMU and

other institutions

• Solution▪ Integrated Xythos within Luminis portal via single sign-on▪ Provided critical content management capabilities via portal

• Benefits▪ Improves internal and external content collaboration via

University’s portal environment

Additional resources

• www.xythos.com▪ Case studies▪ White papers▪ Articles

• www.developer.xythos.com▪ Evaluation software▪ Developer’s forum▪ Best practices

• www.xythosondemand.com▪ Online accounts for testing of EDMS