NEWTON, MA, February 8, 2001 - Inera Incorporated, a leading developer of XML solutions, announced today the availability of the demonstration version of eXtyles, the premier integrated suite of editorial and XML tools for Microsoft Word.

"Many editorial and production teams do not believe that un-styled Word documents can be rapidly and easily turned into high quality XML. eXtyles works at the editorial choke point to enable this capability," said Irina Golfman, President of Inera. "We've created the demonstration version of eXtyles to show how fast and easy it can be."

eXtyles automates editorial and XML production processes. It simplifies the time-consuming, error-prone and frustrating task to clean up, style, edit and tag content. eXtyles streamlines molding Word content into a corporate editorial and visual style, and exporting Word documents to XML or other metadata formats. It uses Intelligent Pattern Recognition (IPR) to automatically identify and markup XML elements and automates tedious manual content editing.

Developed with direct input from long-time publishers of SGML and XML documents, eXtyles has been specifically designed for the workflow requirements of editorial and production organizations faced with the mandate to produce XML from Microsoft Word under deadline pressure.

eXtyles enables organizations to retain complete in-house control of the Word to XML creation process and provides these additional features:

• Automates XML Creation
• Streamlines Electronic Production Process
• Enforces Corporate Style Conformance
• Automates Manual Editorial Processes
• Extends Microsoft Word

eXtyles beta sites have already experienced these significant productivity improvements:

• Faster Production Times
• Greater Content Capacity
• Higher Document Quality
• Smaller Training Investment
• Lower Costs

The 30-day demonstration version of eXtyles includes nearly all core features of the eXtyles software. In addition it includes two special applications, one for creating Financial Institution Reports, and the other for publishing Technical Papers. These applications have been developed for the demonstration version to highlight some eXtyles' capabilities.

To obtain the demonstration version of eXtyles, please contact us at eXtyles-demo@inera.com. For additional information about eXtyles, please email us at eXtyles-sales@inera.com.