WORLDOX® - World Software Corporation®
By Tom Burke

June, 2002
Version 1.0

VI. A. THE COMPANY

World Software Corporation is honored to be counted as one of the fastest growing private companies in the United States as a member of the Inc. (Magazine) 500 for the Year 2000. World Software has also been designated as one of the 500 fastest growing technology companies in the United States and Canada for the Year 2000 by Deloitte & Touche.

Since 1988, World Software Corporation has set the standard in the evolving field of document management, delivering the most reliable, full-featured, cost-effective, and easy-to-use systems available. Today, World Software continues to demonstrate these same essential values, even as document management expands to take advantage of Windows XP and the Internet.

Thousands of users in the legal and financial communities rely daily on WORLDOX, World Software's prize-winning document manager, to bring order out of chaos and prevent crucial documents from being mishandled, misplaced, or lost on today's large-capacity networks. With WORLDOX, these users enjoy the full benefits of security, custom profiling, versioning, user management, archiving, full-text searching, and more-but without the complexity, outages, added costs and support requirements of a SQL-based system. Users' devotion is based not only on the extra reliability and ease of use they've come to associate with World Software products, but on the care and customization they get from World Software partners and World Software Technical Support.

WORLDOX scales easily, handling small offices and wide-area networks with equal aplomb. And WORLDOX/Web provides secure document access not just through the corporate intranet, but across the Internet as well.

Headquarters, Partnerships, and Distribution

World Software Corporation is based in the Metropolitan New York City area. Technology partners include Stellent Corporation, which provides WORLDOX with viewers for more than 150 file types via its product Outside/In, and Odyssey Development, makers of the best-of-breed ISYS search engine.
World Software products are distributed and installed by authorized resellers throughout the United States and in the United Kingdom, Australia, Canada, New Zealand, South Africa, Brazil and Peru. Products can also be purchased directly from World Software Corporation by calling 1-800-962-6360 from the U.S. or Canada, or 1-201-444-3228 from elsewhere.

Company Mission

World Software provides software and support with a problem-solving mindset. As such, World Software is also a Solutions Provider. Document management must work to the customer's advantage; anything that falls short of full usability is unacceptable. Each installation is unique because each customer's data and requirements are unique. A good document management system functions smoothly in a changeable and demanding environment, integrating not only with one or more operating systems but with dozens of unrelated programs, from word processors and spreadsheets to backup and antivirus utilities. Regardless of who, what, or why, it all has to come together successfully.

A History of Innovation and Commitment

From the beginning, World Software Corporation has demonstrated a singular commitment to document management, pursuing its vision even as competitors have given up or switched directions.
That beginning dates to May of 1988, when World Software was created around one of the more innovative concepts to enter the DOS utilities market. EXTEND-A-NAME was launched that year, liberating desktop computer users from the frustrating limits of MS-DOS's eight-plus-three character file-naming restrictions. EXTEND-A-NAME users were the first to experience extended, fully descriptive file names. Interestingly, Windows 95 implements its long file names using a technology similar to the one pioneered by EXTEND-A-NAME more than a decade ago.

Critical acclaim and market enthusiasm greeted the release in June 1989 of EXTEND-A-NAME Plus, now upgraded to a full file manager and further expanded to add networking. World Software had advanced from being the publisher of a well-received DOS utility program to become a player in the burgeoning field of file and document management. This status was confirmed in early 1991 with EXTEND-A-FILE, a full-featured Document Management System. EXTEND-A-FILE introduced such signature document management features as fully customizable profiles, indexed text searching, version control, and time-and-billing cost recovery.

World Software's vision of document management was further realized in 1992 by EXTEND-A-FILE Plus, which not only boosted the performance of indexed text searching but introduced an expanded profiling engine, complete with profile groups. As a full-fledged Enterprise Document Manager®, EXTEND-A-FILE Plus enabled the different organizational units in a business to maintain custom-tailored control over all their electronic documents and other files.

In 1993, World Software moved to Microsoft Windows with the announcement of WORLDOX Version 1.0, its Document Manager for Windows. The first version began shipping in July of 1993. Rewritten from the ground up in C++, the new program featured System Compatibility Corporation's (predecessor to Inso and now Stellent) now-famous Outside/In file viewer-the first legal document management system to do so.
Version 2.0 of WORLDOX, released in 1994, added another signature touch with the incorporation of ISYS, the award-winning, best-of-breed text search engine. World Software required ISYS to provide profile indexing as well as text searching - a strategy that allows WORLDOX to use only a single search engine for both profiles and text, simplifying maintenance greatly. Our competitors, meanwhile, still require two search engines, SQL for profiles and Verity or Fulcrum for text.

The next advance, WORLDOX 96, came in 1996, and featured the latest version of ISYS, Version 4.0 and Outside/In. In addition, its components were reconfigured under the covers to become more modular, preparing the way for a fully 32-bit program.

In 1998, World shipped WORLDOX 8.0, featuring Group Security, Domains for extensive support of wide area networks, and a 5,000-character Comments field for profiles. Upgrading was easy for existing customers, with many doing so overnight or over a single weekend.

In 2000, with WORLDOX 2000, WORLDOX/Web, and ISYS version 5.0, World Software introduced and continued to extend the boundaries of document management. WORLDOX has grown into a function-complete document management system, its status in the legal community confirmed by a fifth straight TechnoLawyer award for Favorite Document Management Solution. In addition to WORLDOX 2000 with drag & drop email capability ("Drop Zone"), World Software began focusing on intranets and the Internet with the shipment of our first Web-based product-WORLDOX/Web in March 2000.

WORLDOX Works

All told, World Software's products have been installed in more than 1,800 law firms and 700 companies in other industries. More than 300 of these instances involved WORLDOX replacing a competing product. World has shipped more than 90,000 software licenses since 1988. Our primary focus continues to be law firms, but firms in other knowledge-based industries have discovered the benefits of our robust technology as well.

Among the customers who rely on WORLDOX are:

	Prominent law firms including: Akerman Senterfitt Florida (354 attorneys) Michael Best Milwaukee (347 attorneys) Armstrong Teasdale St. Louis (200 attorneys) Calfee, Halter Cleveland (200 attorneys) Eckert Seamans Pittsburgh (200 attorneys) Jones Walker New Orleans (200 attorneys) Palmer & Dodge Boston (190 attorneys) Taft, Stettinius Cincinnati (187 attorneys) Ross & Hardies Chicago (158 attorneys) Jackson, Kelly Charleston, W.VA. (150 attorneys)
	Legal organizations including The Federal Defenders of California, The Legal Aid Society of San Francisco, and The Bar Association of North Carolina.
	Corporate customers including The World Bank, John Hancock Insurance, Hartford Insurance, Caterpillar, Pitney Bowes, Key Bank, Hilton Hotels, Boise Cascade and others.
	Silicon Valley companies such as Intuit and Altera.
	Accounting firms such as Rothstein Kass and Blackman Kallich, two of the top 30 firms in the country

B. WORLDOX (EXTEND-A-NAME/FILE) PRODUCT HISTORY

WORLDOX®

ENTERPRISE DOCUMENT MANAGER®

PRODUCT HISTORY

EXTEND-A-NAME/FILE (DOS)

EXTEND-A-FILE Plus	11/92
EXTEND-A-FILE	5/91
EXTEND-A-NAME Plus	11/89
EXTEND-A-NAME	6/88

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