CASAHL TECHNOLOGY SHIPS ecKNOWLEDGE 7.1

Release enables multi-location, consolidation and distribution of enterprise content

SAN RAMON, CA – 26, 2001: CASAHL Technology, a provider of information-sharing network infrastructure, today began shipping ecKnowledge 7.1, a complete collaboration framework for companies that need to collect and distribute vital business information to multiple locations, without the high costs of programming and installation of complex enterprise software at every node.

CASAHL ecKnowledge (pronounced e-c-Knowledge) 7.1 enables companies to collect information from one or more locations, transport the information securely over a data network and absorb the incoming data into a single target data. Consolidation, a powerful new feature, combined with the product’s Broadcast distribution and industrial-strength integration facilities, provides an efficient and useful method to collect, consolidate, and distribute enterprise information across LAN, WAN, the Internet, and wireless systems.

Companies with multiple branches, franchises, subsidiaries, and partners will find CASAHL ecKnowledge to be efficient and useful infrastructure to collect, consolidate, and distribute enterprise information. The consolidator could be the headquarters of a worldwide organization that gathers information from its multinational offices or a regional office that collects data from its branches.

The United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is using ecKnowledge 7.1 to consolidate data from states, local communities, tribal governments, industry, and environmentalists, into a national data exchange. Since each of the partners use various applications and systems to collect and manage data, the challenge was build a network infrastructure that could retrieve and broadcast vital environmental data without requiring system or application changes at every node.

“ecKnowledge simplifies managing the data collections to a very easy process without any additional coding, said Chris Clark, EPA project manager. “The easiest part of the whole central data exchange has been ecKnowledge. The product works very well.”

“Businesses of all sizes can utilize the consolidation and broadcast features offered by ecKnowledge 7.1,” said Harry Wong, CASAHL president and CEO. “Using an easy, point-and-click development environment, companies can collect data from their various divisions on a scheduled basis as well as publish information to regional and local sites. Global companies will be able to rapidly build information-sharing networks and stay in sync with minimal programming effort.”