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U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to Standardize on Documentum Enterprise Content Management Platform EPA to Serve as Model for Enterprise Content Management in The Federal Government PLEASANTON, Calif., Oct. 27 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Documentum , the leading provider of enterprise content management (ECM) software, today announced that the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), has selected the Documentum ECM platform as the standard for records management and document management applications throughout the entire agency. The EPA currently uses the Documentum ECM platform across a number of its 10 regions and 15 laboratories, and plans to extend the use of Documentum to all of its locations, to manage citizen and business interactions with the government. The EPA is the second federal agency to standardize on the Documentum platform this year, joining the U.S. Food & Drug Administration, which standardized on Documentum for creation, management, delivery and archival of all types of content, including records, web content, documents and the results of collaborative efforts. The EPA initially deployed the Documentum ECM platform in May 2002 to support EDOCKET, an innovative, web-based, electronic docket system that has substantively enhanced the public's ability to participate in the Agency's rulemaking process. Since its launch, EDOCKET has saved taxpayer dollars and streamlined citizen-to-government communications. Based on EPA's success with the Documentum-based EDOCKET system, Documentum has been selected as the model for a federal government-wide docket management system accessible to the public and all Federal agencies. This system is currently under development as part of the eRulemaking Initiative -- a significant interagency E-Government effort managed by EPA and affecting the entire federal government. After evaluating EPA's requirements, the Agency chose Documentum from more than 18 commercial off-the-shelf records management and document management applications that it evaluated for its Electronic Records and Document Management System (ERDMS). "In the Agency's evaluation of available products, Documentum stood out as the most cost-effective and complete ECM solution on the market," said Oscar Morales, Director, eRulemaking Initiative for the EPA. "Since EDOCKET was first launched, site traffic has increased 400 percent, and our users are well-informed on issues affecting them. Documentum provides the flexibility and scalability to easily support our growing needs -- now and in years to come." "EPA's decision to standardize on Documentum agency-wide demonstrates how Documentum is fast becoming the ECM platform of choice in the public sector," said Dave DeWalt, president and chief executive officer for Documentum. "More and more we see Documentum customers continue to expand their use of our products, making the Documentum platform a core part of their IT infrastructure. Documentum is proud to team with the EPA, helping them to serve as a successful model for e-government initiatives." Government Agencies Rely on Documentum Documentum has hundreds of local, state, federal and international government customers, including the Food & Drug Administration, General Services Administration (GSA), Maryland Procurement Office, U.S. Army Recruiting Command, U.S. Navy Bureau of Medicine & Surgery (BUMED), the UK Foreign and Commonhealth Office (FCO) and the County of San Diego. These customers rely on Documentum to be more effective, improve operational efficiencies and decrease costs. About Documentum Documentum provides enterprise content management (ECM) solutions that enable organizations to unite teams, content and associated business processes. Documentum's integrated set of content, compliance and collaboration solutions support the way people work, from initial discussion and planning through design, production, marketing, sales, service and corporate administration. With a single platform, Documentum enables people to collaboratively create, manage, deliver and archive the content that drives business operations, from documents and discussions to email, Web pages, records and rich media. The Documentum platform makes it possible for companies to distribute all of this content in multiple languages, across internal and external systems, applications and user communities. As a result, Documentum's customers, which include thousands of the world's most successful organizations, harness corporate knowledge, accelerate time to market, increase customer satisfaction, enhance supply chain efficiencies and reduce operating costs, improving their overall competitive advantage. For more information, visit Documentum on the Web at http://www.documentum.com/. NOTE: Documentum and the Documentum logo are trademarks or registered trademarks of Documentum, Inc. in the US and throughout the world. All other company and product names are used for identification purposes only and may be trademarks of their respective owners. Documentum cannot guarantee completion of any future products or product features mentioned in this document, and no reliance should be placed on their availability. Printed in the U.S.A. In addition to historical information contained herein, this news release contains forward-looking statements that involve risks and uncertainties. These forward-looking statements include, but are not limited to, statements relating to the company's momentum and continued expansion of its product offerings, diversification of its sales model, expanded global presence, increased market share, expanded revenue stream, increased cross-sell opportunities and strong execution. The company's future actual results could differ materially from these forward-looking statements. Factors that could cause or contribute to such differences include, but are not limited to, the risks associated with the software market, risks associated with development and release of new versions and new products, fluctuations in customer demand for our products, risks associated with rapid technological change, concentration of a large percentage of our quarterly revenue with a few customers, the financial, economic, political and other uncertainties caused or exacerbated by the current hostilities involving the United States and Iraq, the risk that the company will not be able to integrate its products, operations and business with acquired entities effectively, that the companies' customers, suppliers and employees will not support its acquisitions, and the other general risks of acquisitions. Such factors also include those discussed from time to time in the company's public reports filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission, such as those under "Risk Factors" included in the company's annual report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2002, as well as the company's other filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission, which are available at http://www.sec.gov/. The company undertakes no obligation to update or revise these forward-looking statements. Unless expressly stated otherwise, the customer transaction discussed in this press release was not completed in the current quarter and any license revenue associated with such transaction should be assumed to have already been included in prior earnings announcements. DATASOURCE: Documentum, Inc. CONTACT: media, Bonnie Harris of B3 Communications, +1-415-332-5816, or ; or investors, Pat Menchaca of Documentum, +1-925-600-5593, or Web site: http://www.documentum.com/

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