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AstenJohnson Selects Documentum Enterprise Content Management Platform PLEASANTON, Calif., Dec. 8 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Documentum , the leading provider of enterprise content management (ECM), today announced that AstenJohnson, a manufacturer of paper machine clothing, specialty fabrics, filaments and drainage equipment, has selected Documentum 5, the latest version of the Documentum ECM platform, and Documentum eRoom 7, Documentum's enterprise collaboration solution. AstenJohnson will implement the Documentum solution to create, manage, deliver and archive the content that runs its business, foster collaborative business processes and facilitate the execution of the enterprise's programs and projects. With more than 200 years of experience, AstenJohnson is the second-largest paper machine clothing (PMC) manufacturer in North America, with customers in 28 countries. The company's products help the major papermakers around the world create various types of paper, such as fine writing paper, tissue, brown paper bags, cardboard boxes and newsprint. "AstenJohnson selected Documentum because of the completeness of the platform," said Marc Pujda, chief information officer for AstenJohnson. "Documentum will be used throughout the company, dramatically enhancing our productivity and helping us to control our costs. Using Documentum eRoom to support our business practices and processes that span the globe, with the ability to store that collaborative content in the Documentum ECM platform, will help us quickly realize new levels of operational efficiency." "Documentum is pleased to work with AstenJohnson, a global leader in the PMC industry," said Dave DeWalt, president and chief executive officer for Documentum. "Documentum eRoom has been well-received by companies looking to manage trading partner relationships and want to take advantage of the enterprise features, ease of use and rich integration with the Documentum ECM platform. We look forward to a lasting relationship with AstenJohnson." About Documentum eRoom 7 The Documentum eRoom products are best-in-class collaboration applications that can be easily adapted to and integrated with other enterprise systems to enable team collaboration. They can also be quickly tailored to specific projects, linking hundreds of thousands of users within a company and across multiple organizations. Documentum eRoom 7, a standalone product, is easy to use, fast to implement, and offers the stability and scalability of an enterprise-class application. Documentum eRoom Enterprise 7 leverages the flexibility and ease of use of the Documentum eRoom application and deeper integration with the Documentum ECM platform, to enable content and collaboration services to seamless interoperate under a common workflow. About Documentum 5 Documentum 5 is the only ECM solution that offers unified content services for enterprise document management (EDM), web content management (WCM), digital asset management (DAM) and fixed content management (FCM) -- records, reports and scanned images -- in a single, integrated platform. Unlike other content management solutions that support limited content types, Documentum 5 delivers fully integrated content management, collaboration and record management services, and an integrated repository for all types of content, across the entire extended enterprise. With Documentum 5, departments from R&D, operations and manufacturing to sales, marketing and customer support are linked with common content and processes to help drive better efficiencies for the enterprise. About AstenJohnson AstenJohnson designs, manufactures and markets paper machine clothing for all sections of the paper machine. Paper machine clothing is a highly engineered textile fabric installed on paper machines to carry the paper stock through each stage of the papermaking process. The design and composition of paper machine clothing has a significant impact on the quality of paper products produced and the efficiency of the paper machine on which it is used. The company also designs, manufactures and markets specialty fabrics to the nonwoven, textile, filtration and food industries as well as paper machine drainage equipment and filaments. AstenJohnson's products are sold around the world to all major producers of paper and paper products. Approximately 1,500 people are employed by the company in South Carolina, Georgia, Pennsylvania, Massachusetts, Vermont, Wisconsin, Quebec and Ontario. AstenJohnson also has a plant in Belgium. For more information, visit: http://www.astenjohnson.com/. About Documentum Documentum provides enterprise content management (ECM) solutions that enable organizations to unite teams, content and associated business processes. Documentum's integrated set of content, compliance and collaboration solutions support the way people work, from initial discussion and planning through design, production, marketing, sales, service and corporate administration. With a single platform, Documentum enables people to collaboratively create, manage, deliver and archive the content that drives business operations, from documents and discussions to email, Web pages, records and rich media. The Documentum platform makes it possible for companies to distribute all of this content in multiple languages, across internal and external systems, applications and user communities. As a result, Documentum's customers, which include thousands of the world's most successful organizations, harness corporate knowledge, accelerate time to market, increase customer satisfaction, enhance supply chain efficiencies and reduce operating costs, improving their overall competitive advantage. For more information, visit Documentum on the Web at http://www.documentum.com/. NOTE: Documentum and the Documentum logo are trademarks or registered trademarks of Documentum, Inc. in the US and throughout the world. All other company and product names are used for identification purposes only and may be trademarks of their respective owners. Documentum cannot guarantee completion of any future products or product features mentioned in this document, and no reliance should be placed on their availability. Printed in the U.S.A. In addition to historical information contained herein, this news release contains forward-looking statements that involve risks and uncertainties. These forward-looking statements include, but are not limited to, statements relating to the company's momentum and continued expansion of its product offerings, diversification of its sales model, expanded global presence, increased market share, expanded revenue stream, increased cross-sell opportunities and strong execution. The company's future actual results could differ materially from these forward-looking statements. Factors that could cause or contribute to such differences include, but are not limited to, the risks associated with the software market, risks associated with development and release of new versions and new products, fluctuations in customer demand for our products, risks associated with rapid technological change, concentration of a large percentage of our quarterly revenue with a few customers, the financial, economic, political and other uncertainties caused or exacerbated by the current hostilities involving the United States and Iraq, the risk that the company will not be able to integrate its products, operations and business with acquired entities effectively, that the companies' customers, suppliers and employees will not support its acquisitions, and the other general risks of acquisitions. Such factors also include those discussed from time to time in the company's public reports filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission, such as those under "Risk Factors" included in the company's annual report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2002, as well as the company's other filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission, which are available at http://www.sec.gov/. The company undertakes no obligation to update or revise these forward-looking statements. Unless expressly stated otherwise, the customer transaction discussed in this press release was not completed in the current quarter and any license revenue associated with such transaction should be assumed to have already been included in prior earnings announcements. DATASOURCE: Documentum, Inc. CONTACT: media, David De Jear, +1-925-600-5458, or , or investors, Pat Menchaca, +1-925-600-5593, or Web site: http://www.documentum.com/

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