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NASHUA, N.H., June 3 /PRNewswire/ -- Agile Enterprise, Inc., a wholly
owned subsidiary of Applied Graphics Technologies, Inc. (Nasdaq: AGTX) (AGT),
and Compaq Computer Corporation (NYSE: CPQ) have announced an agreement to
provide products and services to the publishing industry.
Agile Enterprise, a supplier of cutting-edge newspaper systems, has
entered into a reseller teaming agreement with Compaq Computer Corporation's
MultiMedia Publishing Services unit to supply newspaper prepress systems in
the United States, Canada and Mexico. Agile Enterprise newspaper products
include complete editorial, pagination, and Internet delivery solutions. Agile
Enterprise systems are Year 2000 compliant and utilize open systems
technology.
Agile Enterprise created its cross-platform TeamBase publishing solution
in 1993. TeamBase meets and exceeds all the specialized features of
old-generation proprietary systems and allows organizations to work the way
they want to. TeamBase's familiar user-interface, customizability, use of
industry-standard tools and platform independence saves time and expense on
training. The Cole Group hailed TeamBase as, "...one of the best designed
systems the industry has ever seen."
TeamBase is installed at publications as small as 15 seats and as large as
450. Some of Agile Enterprise's customers include Newsweek (New York), U.S.
News & World Report (Washington, D.C.), Our Sunday Visitor (Huntington, IN),
Victoria Advocate (Victoria, TX), Amway (Grand Rapids, MI), and the Concord
Monitor (Concord, NH).
Frank Rizzo, General Manager of Agile Enterprise said, "Signing the
teaming agreement with Compaq will provide a perfect match of our solid
product set and development capabilities with Compaq's strong newspaper
integration skills. We are extremely pleased with this development and look
forward to a long and successful relationship with Compaq."
Agile Enterprise's TeamBase product provides a complete software
publishing solution for editors and paginators. The TeamBase editorial system
allows a mixed environment of both Macs and PCs, integrating Microsoft Word 97
(Mac Office 98) and QuarkXPress with an intuitive browser interface backed by
Microsoft SQL Server. It provides exact H&Js (hyphenation and justifications)
and features automated layout, archiving and Web output. The system runs on
Windows 98, NT and Mac OS 8.5.
Compaq Computer Corporation, with its MultiMedia Publishing Services
systems integration group, headquartered in Piscataway, NJ, integrates a
variety of hardware and software products for the newspaper industry. Compaq
seeks best in class solutions for editorial and classified systems, and offers
premier integration services, including staging, customization, installation,
training, and on-going support. Compaq has installations at many sites,
including: Hollingers/Daily Southtown (Chicago), Gary Post Tribune, Knight
Ridder/Wichita Eagle, The State (Columbia SC), Schurz/South Bend Tribune
(Bloomington, IN), Herald Times, Herald-Mail (Hagerstown, MD),
Thomson/Connecticut Post, The Advocate (Baton Rouge, LA), and The Times-News
(Erie, PA).
"Agile's products are an excellent addition to our current portfolio of
newspaper solutions," says John Chirico, senior multimedia consultant at
Compaq. "As the premier newspaper systems integrator, Compaq provides the
right technology and the right products that our customers require. Agile's
open architecture, use of industry standards, and large site installations
provides us with the winning combination to satisfy our customers." Compaq
Computer Corporation is the world's leader in open client/server solutions
from personal computing to integrated worldwide information systems. Compaq's
Intel and Alpha platforms, storage, networking, software and services,
together with industry-focused solutions from business partners, help
organizations compete and win in today's global marketplace.
AGT is a leading provider of outsourced advanced digital media asset
management and archiving services, through its proprietary Digital Link(R)
System, to magazine and newspaper publishers, advertisers and their agencies,
entertainment companies, catalogers and retailers, as well as major
corporations. Additionally, AGT provides a wide range of advertising and
marketing related creative services for customers primarily in retailing. AGT
also provides content management and the volume reproduction and distribution
of television and radio commercials to broadcast and cable media for ad
agencies and their clients. Finally, through its Devon Publishing Group, AGT
is a publisher of alternative greeting cards, calendars and fine art and other
prints and wall decor items.
This release may contain "forward-looking statements" within the meaning
of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Such statements are
inherently subject to known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors
that may cause actual achievements to be materially different from those
anticipated in the forward-looking statements. Readers are referred to AGT's
SEC filings, including its quarterly reports on Form 10-Q and Annual Report on
Form 10-K, for a discussion of such factors. AGT nor Agile Enterprise has any
responsibility to update forward-looking statements contained herein to
reflect events or circumstances occurring after the date of this release.
SOURCE Agile Enterprise, Inc. |
