Interleaf Announces Intellecte/BusinessWeb: New Web Technology Manages and
Delivers Mission-Critical Business Documents Across the Enterprise

Open solution ensures availability of up-to-date business documents through
low-cost Internet technology

Waltham, MA -- January 22, 1996 -- Interleaf, Inc. (NASDAQ:LEAF), today
announced Intellecte/BusinessWeb, a new and unique business- oriented,
cross-enterprise document management solution that exploits and controls
the power of the Web. Intellecte/BusinessWeb provides easy access to
business information by enabling the use of web browsers to locate and
retrieve documents from enterprise document repositories.
Intellecte/BusinessWeb is part of Interleaf's Intellecte family of
integrated document management products designed to provide the right
information to the right person, at the right time, in the right location
and presentation.

Organizations are exploring the use of internal webs for controlled access
to quantities of vital, interconnected corporate information.
Intellecte/BusinessWeb offers new, enabling technology that makes web
access to timely, accurate information possible. Users have easy Web
access to enterprise information without the time-consuming, costly
process of converting documents into HTML, posting them on the Web server,
updating them and maintaining the links between documents. As a result,
Intellecte/BusinessWeb users are not limited or delayed in their access to
corporate information, and companies are freed from the resource overhead
of managing and updating Web sites for this information.

Makes the Web a Business Process Tool

With this solution, corporate information can reside in multiple document
management repositories or Web servers where it is structured and secure.
Intellecte/BusinessWeb users, through a single user interface, access
documents directly from environments that include revision control and
workflow management. Access is provided through any standard Web browser
which allows users to search for and retrieve business documents, bringing
them to the user's desktop in virtually any file format.

Disciplined, Reliable Content

"The Web is one of the most profound developments in the history of
computing. As organizations explore using this technology for delivering
critical information, they cannot afford the liability of uncontrolled or
out-of-date information," said Ed Koepfler, president and CEO of
Interleaf. "Intellecte/BusinessWeb is the most powerful business solution
for turning the information of an enterprise into a useful knowledge
asset. This solution is the best of both worlds: the easy access of the
Web, with the timely and disciplined content of a document management
system."

"While it's very powerful, the Web is also chaotic. You can't be sure if
the documents you see in a Web site are accurate and timely," said Carl
Frappaolo, executive vice president of Delphi Consulting Group in Boston,
Mass. "Intellecte/BusinessWeb is a layer of control, designed to plug and
play with the Web. It eliminates the serious problems of link maintenance
in HTML documents, and can help to make the virtual office a reality.
Interleaf has shown a keen and well-thought-out understanding of the
problem, and brings years of document management experience to solving
it."

Architected for Openness

Intellecte/BusinessWeb is a modular, open solution designed to integrate
easily with a variety of tools from other vendors. Users can access and
view documents in the format of their choice, including Microsoft Word or
any other word processing package, Adobe Acrobat PDF, Interleaf WorldView,
PowerPoint, spreadsheets, PostScript, ASCII and any graphics format.

Intellecte/BusinessWeb is an open solution built on Liaison, Interleaf's
unique, cross-product, client/server API and integration framework.
Liaison allows users to implement Intellecte/BusinessWeb with any Web
server. Liaison is designed to be compatible with the forthcoming Document
Management Alliance (DMA) specification.

Business Users Already Seeing Benefits

Intellecte/BusinessWeb is now in use by several leading companies including
Allen-Bradley and Storage Technology. According to Mike Howard, project
manager at Storage Technology, "Intellecte/BusinessWeb allows us to put
information online so we can turn it into knowledge for the entire
corporation. In addition to our product specification documents,
Intellecte/BusinessWeb allows us to provide controlled access to current
information, including Storage Technology's policies and procedures,
telephone book, benefits packages and newsletters, across the company. It
allows us to re-use our documentation more efficiently."

Product Strengths

* Cross-Repository Retrieval allows the corporate knowledge base to reside
in separate systems, yet still function as one integrated resource. This
allows workgroups to manage their critical documents locally, while
enabling documents to be simultaneously available to the enterprise via
Web browsers.

* Dynamic Assembly extends Interleaf's ability to assemble compound,
dynamic and live documents. Now, users retrieving documents across the
Internet can take advantage of sophisticated document management and
publishing capabilities for combining and manipulating documents and
data.

* Automatic Real-time Distribution Across Multiple Channels enables the
dissemination of entire documents and document components along several
channels, such as CD-ROM, online and paper. Users have the utmost
flexibility and control in distributing the right information to the right
people and locations in the right time frame.

* Support for Multiple Document Types enables multiple distribution
formats, a critical feature in enterprise-wide installations of document
management. Users have the freedom to choose how they view the documents.

* Link Maintenance is significantly reduced because the document management
system handles relationships between business documents.

* Workflow Integration successfully combines the management of a document's
lifecycle and the business processes that create and utilize the document.
Users can route documents through the enterprise so they follow a logical
and effective progression.

* Application Templates enable developers to quickly create document
management Web-based applications. Developers can create custom
applications to meet the needs of their organizations or vertical
markets.

As a leader in managing knowledge as a corporate asset, Interleaf is
committed to managing current business-critical information across
multiple sites for the World Wide Web, providing access to information
across the widest array of presentations and formats. With Interleaf's
family of products, users can access information via print-on-demand,
online publishing, CD-ROM and web browsers. With Cyberleaf, Interleaf's
powerful web publishing and management tool, users are able to create and
maintain up-to-date sites for the World Wide Web, making these web sites
valuable information resources. Now with Intellecte/BusinessWeb, Interleaf
is leveraging web technology to offer a solution for timely,
cost-effective access to key corporate information via the organization's
intranet.

Pricing and Availability

Intellecte/BusinessWeb is available and in use now in an early access
version. Full production versions of the BusinessWeb product will ship in
April 1996. Pricing for the product is U.S. $25,000 for unlimited browser
access.

Interleaf, Inc. is a leading worldwide supplier of document management and
electronic and Internet-based publishing software and solutions.
Interleaf's object-oriented, extensible technology enables organizations
to gain competitive advantage by leveraging the knowledge assets contained
in documents and by automating the business-critical processes that rely
on documents. The Intellecte family of products is advanced, open software
for the electronic assembly, management, retrieval, distribution and
publishing of business-critical information. Interleaf is headquartered in
Waltham, Massachusetts, with offices around the world and over one million
users worldwide. More information on Interleaf and its complete line of
powerful document management solutions can be found on the World Wide Web:
http://www.ileaf.com.
 
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