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LAS VEGAS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 24, 2001 via NewsEdge Corporation -

ASACA and eSystems, Inc., a leading provider of advanced, integrated
content management and information portal solutions for businesses,
announced today that ASaP, eSystem's multi-dimensional database
software, works seamlessly with ASACA TeraCart(R) 2.3 -- 109TB
DVD-RAM/R libraries for fast retrieval of enterprise data. The
libraries and software enable authorized corporate users to carry out
comprehensive and precise searches of distributed information banks --
inside or outside the enterprise.

The ASaP data mining solution is unique in its ability to work with
virtually all document, data and image repositories. More than 200
document formats are supported including images, sound, video, web and
office documents. Using ASaP as a single point of entry, users can
query against single or across multiple data banks to extract highly
accurate results. This enables managers and authorized users to mine
information from the web, corporate intranets, databases, imaging
systems, file servers and other sources. With ASaP's "on-the-fly"
structured search capabilities, users can modify search fields and
indexes at any time without having to re-index the database stored on
the high-performance, high-capacity DVD-RAM/R library.

Costing about the same as tape systems, the new ASACA libraries are
the first to incorporate the new combination DVD-RAM/R drives. The
write-once DVD-R General media provides users with the security they
need for recording and archiving volumes of information that cannot be
altered or erased. DVD-RAM offers more than 100,000 write/rewrite
cycles and random access capabilities that provide almost instant
access to any file or a specific video frame for editing and playback.

According to IDC analysts, the demand for quicker access tools for
information collection, retrieval, and analysis as well as the ability
to handle heterogeneous collections of text, images, video, and sound
will lift the document and content technologies (DCT) market to new
heights. They project that the worldwide DCT market will increase at a
compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 32%, from $1.8 billion in 2000
to nearly $4.4 billion in 2004.

See www.esystemsonline.com