Systematics, atteso and PPI Plan to Adopt Workflow and Asset Management System from Adobe

IFRA, Amsterdam, (Oct. 9, 2000) (Nasdaq:ADBE)--Adobe Systems Incorporated today announced that leading system integrators Systematics, atteso and Page + Partner Media GmbH (PPI) plan to base their next generation publishing systems on Adobe® InScope™ software. Adobe InScope provides system integrators with a web-based workflow and asset management solution for meeting customers’ complex workflow and cross-media publishing requirements. Systematics, atteso and PPI can tailor Adobe InScope to existing publishing workflows because of the application's open architecture.

Systematics and InScope Manage Cross-Media

Systematics is one of the ten largest e-business integrators in Europe and plans to integrate InScope for its publishing customers, including corporate publishers who create their own printed and electronic materials. Systematics provides complete print and web editing systems for publishing houses, online magazines, advertising systems, digital picture processing, picture and text archiving and workflow solutions for publishers.

"The role of the publishing system integrator has evolved from integrating different databases to integrating processes," said Gerwin Vollmer, director, Systematics. "We are also responsible for organizingand planning print and web-based systems. Adobe InScope provides Syste matics with an ideal technical platform capable of supporting next-generation systems for both print and cross-media."

New Company Bets on InScope

The first atteso project in Germany is the development of a publishing management system for editors called VM-R, which will be based on Adobe InScope. The VM-R system will facilitate a new way of integrating processes in publishing houses and editorial departments.

"atteso was founded to develop publishing systems based on Adobe InScope for specialized publishing houses," said Helmuth Maidl, managing director, atteso gmbh. "We see the promise of InScope to elegantly streamline publishing processes for all sorts of professional publishing groups. We are anxious to see the success our combined efforts—Adobe with InScope and atteso with its own system—come to fruition."

Integrating InScope for Newspapers

Pape + Partner Media GmbH, a division of PPI AG (plc), develops software for industrial and automated newspaper production. With their production management solutions PPI has become the market leader in Germany and Central Europe for an automated newspaper workflow. PPI has plans to develop newspaper publishing systems built on InScope for companies in the U.S. and India.

"PPI is working with its customers to integrate modern editorial systems based on Adobe InScope into existing and future workflow solutions," said Christian Finder, sales director for PPI. "Adobe InScope provides PPI with a modular architecture and high degree of flexibility for adapting it to any existing workflow, making it an extremely attractive solution for our customers. Adobe InScope is a promising technological solution for the newspaper sector and PPI looks forward to developing solutions based on InScope into its customers’ newspaper workflows."

Systematics, atteso and PPI join Mediasystemen, Managing Editor, Inc., Sema Group, A&F Computer Systeme and Jeberien Consulting as integrators planning to develop publishing systems based on InScope worldwide.

About Adobe Systems Incorporated

Founded in 1982, Adobe Systems Incorporated (www.adobe.com) builds award-winning software solutions for Web and print publishing. Its graphic design, imaging, dynamic media, and authoring tools enable customers to create, publish and deliver visually rich content for various types of media. Headquartered in San Jose, California, Adobe is the third largest PC software company in the U.S., with annual revenues exceeding $1 billion.