6 May 2002

New York, NY - RedDot Solutions, a leading provider of enterprise content management (ECM) solutions, today released Content Management Server (CMS) 4.5. RedDot CMS 4.5 introduces new features and increased functionality in the award-winning RedDot CMS Web content management solution. Among these new features are the new plug-in interface for custom scripting of add-on functionality, server clustering capabilities and access to a Media Catalog for digital asset management (DAM).

• Additional new features include:
• Redlining for workflow and version management
• Improved template administration, including template import/export (to move to external Web design tools), ability to
• interchange page templates and template use restriction settings
• Support for UNC network paths
• Improved user management
• Enhanced password checking for NT/LDAP
• Browser-based log file administration
• Italian language interface
• Compatibility with forthcoming RedDot Content Integration Server

"This latest release of our CMS system gives customers even greater flexibility than before with RedDot. Add-on tools, either from RedDot or our business partners, allow for customization and enhancements that adds to RedDot's ability to empower users, an objective that we continue to champion," says Detlef Kamps, president of RedDot Solutions.

Plug-Ins
The new plug-in feature, allows customers to develop uniform Web applications that can be accessed from RedDot's SmartEdit™ editorial and SmartTree administration interfaces. Easily developed as a combination of the RedDot Query Language and your preferred programming language, plug-ins allow for development of add-on tools for RedDot CMS.

Server Clustering
With version 4.5, the RedDot CMS now supports the clustering of multiple RedDot Servers for optimization of user requests and processor load. This feature addresses RedDot's rapidly growing number of enterprise-level customers and their need for load balancing and dedicated server processes.

Media Catalog
The Media Catalog, sold as an add-on feature to the RedDot CMS, provides a Digital Asset Management system for administering the implementation of media files in RedDot projects. This add-on option is appropriate for RedDot CMS customers with large amounts of end-user placed images or rich media file types on their Web sites, Intranets, or Extranets. Authorized users can view images categorized by thumbnails, attributes and other file information, such as image size, upload date and author. JPG/GIF/BMP/PNG files product thumbnails automatically, while other file types assign pre-defined thumbnails.

RedDot Content Management Server 4.5 is immediately available from RedDot Solutions and its business partners.