For Immediate Release:

--CENSA developing fully-functional, electronic equivalent to outdated paper notebook systems--

--Documentum,^® Inc. EDMS 98 offers document management foundation for CEN systems--

Medford, Mass. September 30, 1998 -- Rich Lysakowski, Ph.D., Executive Director of CENSA (the Collaborative Electronic Notebook Systems Association), Medford, MA announced, today, that Pleasanton, Calif.-based Documentum,^® Inc., (NASDAQ: DCTM), has joined CENSA as a leading Supplier Member.

CENSA is an international scientific, software, and high-technology, trade association comprised of the world's largest research and development organizations in the life sciences, chemical sciences, consumer products, healthcare, high technology, and related industries. Its major market development programs are developing the next generation of technical automation systems and science's newest tools—Collaborative Electronic Notebook Systems, Knowledge Management Systems, and Intelligent Project Support Environments.

Documentum, Inc., the recognized leader in enterprise document and knowledge management for client/server and Web environments, develops, markets and supports EDMS 98 (Enterprise Document Management System 98) and a broad family of software products that manage all phases of a document’s life, including creation/capture, change, routing, approval, publishing and retirement.  Its software is widely used in many industries including chemical, biotechnology, consumer packaged goods, pharmaceutical (90 percent of the leading drug companies are customers), aerospace, automotive, public utilities, manufacturing, and others.

Deemed critical by scientists worldwide—and seen as digital replacements to today's ubiquitous but obsolete paper recordbooks—Collaborative Electronic Notebook Systems facilitate research among the world's scientists; speed the capture, use, transfer, and archiving of critical and proprietary research data and records; and accelerate laboratory and R&D projects. These benefits are critical to scientists and corporations involved in biology, chemistry, materials, or high-tech R & D.

"CENSA’s goal is to create and drive the markets for the complete, functional, electronic equivalent of paper recordkeeping systems including legal defensibility, regulatory compliance, ease of use, convenience, portability, and more," said Dr. Lysakowski. "Documentum and the other CENSA supplier members are following CENSA's lead in the specification process for storage and migration of authenticated electronic records. We welcome Documentum in moving the industry forward with the other CENSA members, and we look forward to working together to build upon EDMS 98’s electronic document management capabilities to offer a fully electronic recordkeeping and digital archiving system."

Larry Warnock, vice president of corporate marketing for Documentum, said, "We are pleased to join CENSA particularly as the majority of CENSA Members already rely on our document management software today. Through our collaboration with CENSA, we will deliver instant electronic document access and availability as part of the base platform for recordkeeping services, to facilitate improved scientific decision-making and streamlined processes in the R&D community."

Andrew Grygiel, director of marketing, process manufacturing, for Documentum added, "CENSA members are collaborating to gain major productivity benefits in research and development, and Documentum brings domain industry expertise and experience in knowledge management applications to the table. By delivering instant access to business-critical documents, EDMS 98 dramatically improves operational efficiency, time-to-market and regulatory compliance standards."

R&D requires managing the entire document lifecycle, including creation, review, approval and release, while maintaining security. In addition, Collaborative Electronic Notebook Systems requires an enterprise base platform that can handle any document type such as HTML pages, scanned paper documents, images, office documents such as spreadsheets, video or sound clips.  Documentum provides technologies to capture and reuse information from any source, including research data that is commonly found in electronic notebooks.

CENSA Supplier Members, such as Documentum, gain many benefits, including priority access to end user members and their development projects; extensive knowledge deliverables such as specifications, Requests For Proposals (RFPs), and research reports and much more.  CENSA is working closely with Supplier Members to build mission-critical R&D team computing systems with complete collaborative electronic lab notebooks, that includes components for chemistry, biology, and engineering applications.

From now through 2000, CENSA End User and Supplier Members will release a series of detailed specifications, RFPs, and software for systems, integration frameworks, applications, and components for technical applications.  These deliverables are being designed to meet the requirements of automation managers, regulatory affairs, R&D managers, scientists and engineers, patent attorneys, records managers, and quality assurance managers. These professionals will benefit greatly from integrated systems for intelligent project data and document handling, formal recordkeeping and archiving, collaboration, and knowledge management.

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For more information contact: Dr. Rich Lysakowski, Executive Director, The Collaborative Electronic Notebook Systems Association, 19 Bowen Avenue, Suite 100, Medford, MA 02155 USA, Tel: (781) 395-3004, Internet: