Sequent Pioneers Knowledge Management Technology Market With New Corporate
Digital Library

New offering helps organizations realize bottom-line benefits by managing
their corporate knowledge assets.

BEAVERTON, ORE. - APRIL 29, 1996 - Pioneering the blossoming field of
knowledge management, Sequent Computer Systems today announced the first
commercially available corporate digital library (CDL). The CDL offering
is based on Sequent's knowledge management technology designed expressly
to help organizations translate their intellectual capital into tangible
business assets.

"Sequent's corporate digital library solves a fundamental problem emerging
in information-intensive companies, which is understanding how to capture
and manage their intellectual knowledge," said Marc Demarest, chief
knowledge officer and director of strategic marketing at Sequent. "The CDL
offers these companies a state-of-the-art solution, which includes a suite
of Sequent's Symmetry products, unique software, enterprise-grade web
technology and professional consulting services that result in
sophisticated capabilities for capturing, organizing, systematizing,
measuring and reusing corporate knowledge."

A CDL enables organizations to understand what is known, who knows it and
where it is known throughout the entire organization. The entire body of
corporate information is available via a secured, centralized repository
that allows for the publishing, managing and distribution of knowledge
embodied as documents, slideware, text massages, news feeds, videos and
images.

"Sequent's corporate digital library solution will offer Walsh an intuitive
process of managing and harvesting our internal knowledge to better serve
our customers using Intranet technology," said Larry McAferty, CIO of
Walsh America. "It is just the prescription for managing any large
organization's intellectual resources."

Sequent's CDL solution is unique from other Intranet offerings. In addition
to standard Internet-based capabilities, it enables users to:

* Capture commercial knowledge
* Publish comments and annotations on existing documents for
  public sharing
* Capture and archive on-going e-mail discussions, including
  searching and threading
* Monitor and evaluate document usage
* Notify interested parties of relevant documents
* Access and retrieve documents via a descriptive card catalog
* Develop custom, multiple views that are based on corporate
  needs and values
* Provide document security

The CDL is based on an award-winning knowledge management practice that
Sequent has developed and used internally for more than two years. This
practice, integrated throughout Sequent's entire corporate culture, values
and rewards the creation and sharing of knowledge. It has also developed
into a worldwide knowledge management infrastructure that resulted in
Sequent being selected as an Emerging Best Practice company by the
International Benchmarking Clearinghouse this past January. Sequent was
one of only nine companies worldwide to earn this designation.

Sequent Computer Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ: SQNT), is a leading architect and
provider of open client/server solutions for enterprise business
computing. With an installed base of nearly 8,000 systems, Sequent leads
all other vendors of high end UNIX systems supporting very large-scale
on-line transaction processing (OLTP), decision support (DSS) and
internet-based applications. Sequent's project-oriented offerings include
consulting, educational and professional services geared to help
organizations re-architect their existing information technology
infrastructures.

Sequent's World Wide Web address is http://www.sequent.com. This news
release and other information is available from Sequent's news-on-demand
fax service at 800-356-0834.
 
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