2002 Press Releases

OrgPublisher 4.E Takes Organizational Charting to the Extreme

IRVING, Texas - May 7, 2002 - Aquire Inc., the market leader in providing Internet/intranet-based organizational charting software, announced today the release of OrgPublisher for Intranets™ 4.E.

OrgPublisher uses existing human resource data from a centralized source to create full-color, interactive, web-based organizational charts that are viewable on a corporate Intranet using any Web browser. Its primary use is to create an automated, accurate picture of an organization's administrative hierarchy and distribute that picture for enterprise-wide viewing and analysis. Why 4.E? Because OrgPublisher 4.E can produce extremely large org charts containing up to 1,000,000 records!

OrgPublisher does more than simply automate the creation of an org chart. It provides a familiar venue for every employee in an organization of any size to perform every day tasks in addition to extensive data analysis through an org chart graphic, without the aide of additional reporting tools. Via a common Web browser, employees can access a published org chart, understand basic administrative hierarchy, view online employee directories, as well as perform data analysis using OrgPublisher's numeric data capabilities and extensive searching capabilities.

"OrgPublisher 4.E, produces organizational charts that are far more than business graphics--they are knowledge maps, decision support tools, management dashboards and more. To increase efficiency, extremely large organizations have traditionally built their automated org charts by departments or regions. Via its new EChart publishing option, OrgPublisher 4.E has the power to create and maintain organizational charts containing up to 1,000,000 records. One customer is publishing an organizational chart containing 60,000 records with 20 custom fields each. Once published, the org chart appears in the Web browser in a fraction of a second and you can obtain search results for specific queries within this enormous chart, in just a few seconds," states Ross Melbourne, CTO and co-founder. "We have extended OrgPublisher's architecture to afford very large companies the ability to see 'the big picture' -to visualize and analyze the entire enterprise all from one easily understood graphic."

The same power that allows OrgPublisher 4.E to build such large charts from existing human resource data also improves Internet/intranet load time of published charts, reduces the time necessary to sort through extensive records lists, enhances product performance via a dial-up connection and generally enhances org chart construction regardless of the number of records used to create the charts.

"Critical business initiatives are all tied directly to a company's human resources. Given this fact, maintaining an accurate org chart, regardless of the size of the company, is a must. Over the last seven years our customers have consistently remarked that creating and publishing organizational structures enhances employee communication, increases data integrity, improves learning, decreases decision making time, and grows the corporate knowledge base," said Lois Melbourne, co-founder and President. "The most precious asset a company has is its people. Solutions that maximize this asset provide both intrinsic value and hard dollar savings to the companies that implement them."

About Aquire, Inc.
Founded in 1994, Irving Texas-based Aquire, Inc. is the leading global provider of Internet/Intranet-based, organizational charting software used by more than 1,500 companies and organizations in over 50 countries. Customers include American Airlines, the Bank of Montreal, Colgate-Palmolive, Compaq Computers, Heinz North America, the Internal Revenue Service, Metropolitan Life Insurance Co., Reliant Energy and XO Communication, among others. OrgPublisher for Intranets, the company's flagship product, continues to be the only proven, interactive org-charting software with the largest installed base of users worldwide with more than three million individuals charted on customers' intranets. Stand-alone or combined, Aquire's products OrgPublisher and OrgBuilder provide the most comprehensive solution for creating, maintaining, distributing, and analyzing organizational information across the enterprise.

Aquire has received numerous awards recognizing its growth, product quality and service record. In November 2001, Deloitte & Touche named Aquire as one of the nation's 500 fastest-growing companies. Aquire has also been recognized by Software Magazine for being a Top 500 company, and by the Dallas Business Journal for three consecutive years as one of the 50 fastest-growing, high-tech companies in Dallas-Fort Worth. The company also received the Greater Dallas Chamber International Business Achievement Award for small businesses in 2001.

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