Momentum Builds with Continued Growth in Government, Education and Healthcare Sectors Boston, June 28, 2005 -- PaperThin, Inc., a leading mid-market Web publishing and content management software vendor, today announced continued expansion in government, education and healthcare as organizations continue to rely on CommonSpot
™ Content Server. CommonSpot is a full featured, out-of-the-box solution that enables organizations to efficiently and cost-effectively manage Web site content. It increases productivity, reduces Web maintenance costs, and helps organizations maximize the value of their site.
In the education sector, Cornell University (Ithaca,N.Y.) and Savannah College of Art & Design (Savannah, Ga.) recently selected CommonSpot to manage their Web initiatives. New government customers include the Town of Jupiter, FL (Jupiter, Fla.) and California Department of Insurance (Sacramento, Calif.). In healthcare, Riverside Healthcare System (Newport News, Va.) and Northeast Health System (Beverly, Mass.) also recently chose CommonSpot to manage their Internet sites.
Organizations are increasingly looking for ways to streamline the content management process and increase productivity. CommonSpot eliminates the need to rely on overtaxed IT staff for ongoing site maintenance. An intuitive, wizards-driven interface and extensive out-of-the-box features enable non-technical users to quickly and easily create and manage Web content –– speeding time to Web and improving content accessibility. CommonSpot’s template driven-architecture and cascading style sheet support allow organizations to increase the consistency of site navigation and design. "We reviewed several content management systems before selecting CommonSpot,” said Harley Lingerfelt, Vice President for Information Management and Technology, Savannah College of Art & Design (SCAD). "CommonSpot provided SCAD a fully customizable solution that will allow us to easily build our Web sites the way we want them to be while enforcing a unified design and consistent branding. In addition, CommonSpot will enable SCAD to increase productivity by empowering non-technical users campus-wide to publish content. This will help us to significantly improve the timeliness and relevance of content on the Web."
CommonSpot’s sophisticated framework offers IT staff the flexibility of easy customization and integration of third party applications. "We selected CommonSpot as our Intranet/Internet development platform because it has a flexible development model that is highly customizable and easy to integrate with external applications,” said Justin McMichael, Manager of Network Security/Intranet. "We were able to verify integration with our single sign-on platform during our evaluation period with minimal effort. Furthermore, CommonSpot allowed us to leverage our existing technology and in-house ColdFusion talent."
"We are excited to welcome these outstanding organizations to our customer community,” said Todd Peters, President of PaperThin. "From the beginning, we have been committed to delivering real value to organizations that wrestle with issues around efficiency and cost. As more choices in Web content management have become available over the past few years, PaperThin has remained an industry leader by helping companies to solve real business issues on time and within budget."
About PaperThin: PaperThin, Inc. is a privately held Massachusetts-based company. Since 1993, PaperThin has helped corporations and government agencies of all sizes to significantly reduce the time and expense involved in creating, updating and managing Web content. PaperThin’s flagship product, CommonSpot
™ Content Server, powers Internet, intranet and extranet sites worldwide for organizations of all sizes, including the AFL-CIO, Babson College, Booz Allen Hamilton, Business Software Alliance, Mayo Clinic, National Park Service, The Gillette Company, Turner Sports, and Vanderbilt University. CommonSpot has been twice recognized for Good Value among leading content management vendors by industry analysts at CMS Watch. And, PaperThin was recently recognized as one of New England’s fastest growing technology companies in the 2004 Deloitte & Touche Technology Fast 50.
PaperThin’s select group of partners includes industry leading Web design and development firms, system integrators, software manufacturers, and training firms, worldwide. For more information about PaperThin, Inc., please visit
http://www.paperthin.com and for additional details about CommonSpot
™ Content Server, visit
http://www.paperthin.com/Products/Index.cfm.
