InTechnology and Xythos launch web-based document and file management service for UK and announce London Business School as first customer

• Wednesday, 08 March 2006

London Business School aims to meet demand for internal and external collaboration by increasingly mobile student and alumni population

8 March 2006 - InTechnology has launched its latest Managed Services offering - a partnership with Xythos Software, the document collaboration application developer - to provide a Web File Service for UK academic institutions and related organizations. The partnership is already celebrating its first customer, London Business School, whose 2,500 students and faculty will be able to enjoy secure web-based data storage, file access and simplified document management from locations on and off the campus.

The Web File Service combines two proven elements - Xythos' standards-based 'WebFile Server' technology which is already used by 200 US academic institutions and over 2 million users and InTechnology's data management service delivery model, with 2500 Terabytes of data currently under management.

Users can access files and manage documents from any web-based device and are presented with a familiar Windows tree-style layout to their private folders and files. Institutions are centrally provided an SLA-based service and charged according to a per user, per month model. The new service offers an alternative to traditional campus-deployed file storage and functionality that can be incorporated in an e-learning / portal environment. Other benefits include the facilitation of multi-institution research and, crucially, the ability to better connect to the alumni network.

In the case of London Business School, the service complements the existing London Metropolitan Network (of which they are a member) InTechnology VBAK automated offsite data backup and online recovery services, already being delivered to 14 UK academic institutions including the British Library, King's College London and University of Westminster.

Russell Altendorff, Director of Information Systems at London Business School comments: "We wanted to be able to deliver more services to more users - London Business School have an extended community of over 22,000 alumni who could also benefit from this service. The institution itself will benefit significantly too, as it seeks to deliver more technology-based services to students and remain better connected to alumni.

"InTechnology is a trusted provider of services to the London Metropolitan Network and an aspect of this relationship is to develop new services which will be of direct use to member institutions such as ourselves. The launch of Web File Service marks the delivery of that promise and we are very excited about the benefits it will extend to our students and wider network."

"The demand for secure and easy to use document and file collaboration solutions is expanding rapidly around the globe and service based software delivery will represent an important part of this market," stated Ed Miller, CEO of Xythos. InTechnology has introduced an impressive combination of Xythos based services and a flexible delivery model that should appeal to a wide variety of UK customers," he added.

The new service also addresses the increasingly global nature of the academic and research marketplace. Many Xythos US customers already rely upon the company's software to overcome the limitations of email-based file sharing and enable secure collaboration between organizations on a 24/7 basis. InTechnology's offsite data centres will provide UK customers with a similar advantage without the costs of internal integration and deployment.

Anton Murphy, Head of Public Sector Managed Services at InTechnology adds: "The Web File Service is standards-based, making for easy integration with portals and eLearning environments. We are initially aiming to complement rather than replace existing campus-based file store services, with a secure 'anytime, anywhere' service. We are therefore offering an evaluation service to institutions - typically 50 users for up to 3 months - so they can trial the benefits at no cost.

"Many academic institutions are unable to determine just how much file space they require, especially those specialising in art and design. Many art students don't require PC's and yet others are storage intensive. By using the Web File Service, these institutions completely transfer this storage management headache to InTechnology and assist students to build 'ePortfolios'.

"We will initially focus on the education sector but Xythos operate successfully in other sectors in the US - from life sciences to financial services - and there's no reason why we cannot seek to extend the value of this service to other markets in the UK".

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For further information please contact:
For InTechnology:
Dan Davies/ Andy Field
Financial Dynamics
020 7269 7293 / 241
Dan.davies@fd.com / andy.field@fd.com

For Xythos Software:
Susan Morgan
Press Office
Tel: 0118 946 3177
Email: susan.morgan@smm.clara.net

Notes to Editors:

About London Business School
London Business School's Vision is to be the pre-eminent global business school, nurturing talent and advancing knowledge in a multi-national, multicultural environment. Founded in 1965, the School graduated over 800 MBAs, Executive MBAs, Masters in Finance, Sloan Fellows and PhDs from over 70 countries last year. The School's executive education department serves over 6,000 executives on its programmes every year. London Business School is based in the most accessible and international city in the world and is one of only two UK business schools to have twice been awarded the highest research rating of five-star (5*), by the Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE), confirming the School as a centre of world-class research in business and management. www.london.edu

InTechnology & Xythos will be attending the UCISA 2006 Annual Conference in March, where the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign's (UIUC) Allan Tuchman will be delivering a presentation on the drivers and benefits of Xythos' web-based file storage and document management technology and detailing the experiences of some of its 25,000 users.

About InTechnology
InTechnology plc is a 22-year old AIM listed public company, with an annual turnover approaching €0.5billion, employing 500 people in Belgium, France, Germany, Italy, Netherlands, Portugal, Spain, Switzerland and headquartered in the UK.

InTechnology provides IT infrastructure solutions, products and services to business, through a network of value-added resellers, systems integrators and consultants.

The company's offering unifies all areas of IT infrastructure to help organisations:

* Store data in the face of 100% year-on-year growth in data volumes
* Manage data for optimum business efficiency and reduced operational cost
* Protect data against ever increasing threats from malicious attack to data loss
* Network data to maximise network computing opportunities
* Liberate corporate data to maximise its value for the organisation

More details about InTechnology (LSE, AIM: ITO) are available at www.intechnology.co.uk

About Xythos
Xythos Software is a leading developer of easy-to-use solutions for managing and sharing content of any type using open standards-based technology. Xythos' web-enabled document and content management applications and its WebFile Server development platform helps organizations safely capture, manage, store and share content throughout its lifecycle. Xythos products are licensed to over two million users at commercial, education and government organizations around the world. To learn more about Xythos, visit www.xythos.com or call 1-888-4XYTHOS.

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