NCompass Labs and WorldPoint Interactive Form Strategic Alliance to Provide Integrated, Global e-Business Solutions.

SAN JOSE, Calif., April 4 /PRNewswire/ --

NCompass Labs, a leading provider of enterprise Web content management solutions, today announced a strategic alliance with WorldPoint Interactive, a market-leader in multilingual e-commerce solutions. This alliance will link NCompass Resolution, the out-of-the-box, Microsoft(R)-centric Web content management system, with WorldPoint MarketPlace, WorldPoint's globalization procurement platform. Working together, the two companies will integrate their software and secure customers that can benefit from the combined offering.

Customers competing in global markets with a worldwide presence will find the joint solution particularly compelling. NCompass Resolution provides the powerful Web site design, content authoring, publishing, and site management capability necessary to deploy and manage sophisticated, dynamic Internet, extranet, or intranet sites. Resolution's easy content authoring supports the requirement for numerous, distributed content contributors to author their own content in their own language. Through a simple link to WorldPoint's MarketPlace solution, the content then can be translated and localized as needed. A customer will have direct access to WorldPoint's globalization procurement platform, including its established network -- the world's largest

-- of 10,000 native speaking, culturally sensitive, professional, in-country translators.

"We are very pleased to be working with NCompass Labs," said Massimo Fuchs, Chief Executive Officer of WorldPoint Interactive. "NCompass is clearly one of the early leaders in offering globalized Web content management solutions. The open API of NCompass Resolution 3.0 will permit seamless integration of our product offerings, ensuring that our customers possess the e-business infrastructure they require to meet the challenges and reap the rewards of operating in the global marketplace."

"From its inception, NCompass Resolution has been Unicode-enabled in order to support the world's major languages," said Gerri Sinclair, the Chief Executive Officer for NCompass Labs. "By linking our market-leading Web content management solution with WorldPoint's pioneering globalization solution, we extend our ability to offer customers a way to quickly and cost-effectively deploy and manage sophisticated, global Web applications for e-business."

With the release of NCompass Resolution 3.0, global deployment has been simplified. A Web Client allows non-technical authors to use their browser interface and common desktop applications, such as Microsoft(R) Word, to create Web content without requiring the installation and maintenance of desktop software. This browser interface, combined with support for all of the world's major languages and time zone synchronization, permit authors to easily contribute and schedule posting of up-to-date content, regardless of their geographic location.

About NCompass Labs

NCompass Labs offers the leading Web content management solution for the Microsoft platform to deliver out-of-the-box support for e-business and Internet relationship management. NCompass Resolution integrates site design, content authoring, publishing, and site management for a complete solution. Its market-leading features -- including quick deployment, simple browser-based authoring, and seamless integration with existing infrastructures -- ensure a low total cost of ownership. Separation of content from page format and support for all major languages permits on-demand serving of personalized content to multiple audiences. Support for diverse browsing devices, including palmtops and wireless devices, ensures that the site always looks good and is easy to navigate. Innovative organizations such as Sterling Commerce, GTE, CB Richard Ellis, Marriott International and "dot com" businesses have chosen NCompass Resolution. The company is based in Vancouver, B.C. with U.S. headquarters in the San Francisco Bay Area. Additional information can be obtained at www.ncompasslabs.com or by calling either 888-304-2222 or 408-558-9300.

About WorldPoint Globalization MarketPlace

WorldPoint Globalization MarketPlace enables friction-free global e-business that is defined by the Web -- not geographies, borders or treaties. This award-winning platform, leveraging open technology and the Internet to seamlessly connect buyers and suppliers of globalization solutions, offers:

-- Web-based interfaces for clients to easily procure services in

18 languages and 35 currencies

-- Globalization solutions provided by an international community of over

10,000 language professionals and globalization experts

-- A unique and innovative procurement framework managing transactions and

workflow worldwide

-- A network of best-of-breed partners offering complementary services.

About WorldPoint

WorldPoint has been the leading provider of end-to-end globalization technology & solutions for e-Businesses since it's inception in 1995. Through its award-winning framework, WorldPoint enables companies to add a multilingual, multi-currency, and multicultural dimension to their Web presence, Internet applications, trading communities, products and customer support. WorldPoint technology & solutions provide clients such as Kodak, NTT, Mitsui,QXL and Ziff-Davis access to worldwide markets for content syndication, the buying and selling of goods and services, and communicating from anywhere at anytime completely free from the friction of language and culture. WorldPoint Globalization Marketplace, the world's largest business- to-business globalization trading community, offers a comprehensive suite of globalization solutions providing unprecedented economies of scale. WorldPoint is an international corporation with offices in San Francisco, Honolulu, Dallas, and Zurich and can be reached by phone at 888-452-3939, 415- 743-0000 or via the Internet at www.worldpoint.com.

NOTE: NCompass and NCompass Resolution are either registered trademarks or trademarks of NCompass Labs Inc. Any other marks used in this document are trademarks or registered trademarks of the manufacturers or marketers of the products with which the marks are associated.

CONTACT: Gary Byrd of Nadel Phelan Inc., 831-439-5570, ext. 223, or gary@nadelphelan.com, for NCompass Labs Inc.; or Nancy McCluskey-Moore of NCompass Labs Inc., 925-426-6035, or nmcmoore@ncompasslabs.com.