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Breakthrough Technology Saves Time and Money in Product Data Standardization ,
Enrichment and Translation for Global Distributor

LOUISVILLE, Colo.
"As the world grows more interconnected, companies like Anixter have to be
expert at integrating data from disparate sources, and presenting the
information in any format and any language for a global audience," said
Barbara Mowry, CEO of Silver Creek Systems. (AMEX: AXO), a leading provider
of records compliance management software solutions, and StorageTek
(Storage Technology Corporation ) (NYSE: STK), the leading provider of
enterprise information lifecycle management, today jointly announced
certification of the AXS-One Compliance Platform with StorageTek
offerings.

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Financial terms were not disclosed. By providing greater
efficiency and accuracy than paper forms, e-forms technology helps
businesses and organizations more quickly and easily collaborate and share
information , which can increase both individual and organizational
productivity. AXS-One's technology has been critically
acclaimed as best of class and delivers digital archiving, business process
management , electronic document delivery and integrated records disposition
and discovery for e-mail, instant messaging, images, SAP and other
corporate records. Founded in 1979, and headquartered in Rutherford , NJ,
AXS-One has offices worldwide including in the United States, Australia,
Singapore, United Kingdom and South Africa.

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(AMEX: AXO) is a leading provider of Records Compliance
Management solutions .

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Support for XML allows users
to rapidly create, manage and exchange forms and documents within their
business, as well as with their partners and customers. For further information, visit
the AXS -One web site at http://www.

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Anixter is using the DataLens(TM) System from Silver
Creek Systems to standardize, enrich and deliver multi-language translations
of their large and ever-changing product list.
"High quality product data is very important to our business.

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"One of the great advantages of using the DataLens System is that after
having built the knowledge into our system , it is reusable."

About Silver Creek Systems
Silver Creek Systems, based in Louisville , Colo. The ability to exchange data in a
structured, standardized format is critical in vertical industries like
insurance, government, banking and healthcare.
XForms allows flexibility and choice and IBM intends to participate heavily
in the development of this important standard by working with customers,
standards bodies, open source community, partners, and industry verticals.

IBM will integrate newly-acquired e-forms into its portfolio of
collaboration technology, including IBM Workplace, WebSphere and
Lotus offerings.

IBM, Lotus, WebSphere and Workplace are trademarks of IBM Corporation in
the United States, other countries, or both. Mutual customers now have
access to jointly supported storage solutions to better meet their specific
ILM and storage needs."

Executives from AXS-One are also actively involved in "Compliance 2005: A
Guideline to Renew Your Compliance Strategy," the North American seminar
tour initiated by StorageTek and designed to educate attendees on
regulatory compliance issues and challenges, as well as the latest
solutions for compliant archiving and data protection.

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"Silver Creek Systems allows
Anixter to apply automation to build much more consistent, more accurate and
more timely product information and to do so in multiple languages at a
fraction of the cost of any alternative approach."

The DataLens System uses breakthrough Data Refraction(TM) technology to
deliver usable data on demand.silvercreeksystems .

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The XML format is
one of the keys to helping customers become On Demand organizations, and
IBM already supports XML across its portfolio of software products.cfm?ReleaseID=154189 .

StorageTek is a registered trademark of Storage Technology Corp.

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visit http://www. The company's innovative storage solutions
manage the complexity and growth of information , lower costs, improve
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The acquisition also complements IBM's fast-growing
content management business.com. This tested interoperability qualifies AXS-One as a member of
the TekAlliance Partner Program at StorageTek. With the
fully integrated solution based on a single, scalable repository, users get
a two-for-one solution: The ability to enhance operational efficiency by
accessing, managing and viewing all records in their original format via a
single interface, while proactively addressing requirements pertaining to
compliance and legal discovery.800.

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, Silver Creek Systems, a
provider of enterprise data usability solutions, is bringing breakthrough
technology and capabilities to Anixter International, the world's leading
distributor of communication products, electrical wire + cable and a leading
distributor of fasteners and other small parts to Original Equipment
Manufacturers ("OEMs").
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"Our solutions address one of the most important concerns corporations face
today: How to archive and manage multiple types of content in such a way
that they comply with constantly evolving regulations," said Jerry Vendome,
Executive Vice President, Business Development at AXS-One. Now, through the
TekAlliance Partner Program, customers are able to acquire a fully
compatible solution including a storage and records compliance management
solution.

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As we expand
our product offerings , we see product data changing more frequently and having
to be presented in many different formats and languages," said John Ozsvath,
vice president of eCommerce Systems at Anixter. "Our strategy focuses on integrating our multi-tiered
storage with best in class applications so our customers receive a hardened
solution with both the compliance and hierarchical management software,
coupled with best practices for implementation which can help them reduce
their technology and business risk , shorten time to implement and maximize
their return.

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Anixter sells over 275,000 different products from over 3,000 suppliers --
each of whom deliver their product information in different formats and
standards. We have already
used Silver Creek Systems to quickly cleanse and standardize product data from
past and present acquisitions which saves us time and money," continued
Ozsvath . Based on Data Refraction(TM) technology,
the DataLens(TM) System from Silver Creek Systems resolves data
incompatibility and delivers usable data for connecting the enterprise.
IBM (NYSE: IBM ) announced it has completed the
acquisition of PureEdge Solutions Inc.

IBM's new e-form technology is based on Extensible Markup Language (XML),
which provides a consistent format for the sharing of documents and
transactions between different applications.com/ReleaseDetail.axsone.9220 or 303 .

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For Anixter, this means that they can rapidly
standardize product information from thousands of suppliers using thousands of
different standards. Under the terms of the alliance, StorageTek will
offer its customers a total information lifecycle management solution that
provides an e -mail and document archive infrastructure.

About StorageTek

StorageTek is a $2 billion global company that enables businesses, through
its information lifecycle management strategy, to align the cost of storage
with the value of information. For more information, see
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These include e-mails in a variety of formats -- including Lotus
Notes, SunOne Messaging , Bloomberg Mail and Microsoft Exchange -- different
Instant Message formats, images, voice and video , and ERP reports.

"AXS-One's specialization in compliance enables us to raise the bar in the
scope of our integrated business solution offers, which are already
strong," said Gary Zasman , director, StorageTek Information Lifecycle
Management Solutions.shareholder. All other
products or company names mentioned are used for identification purposes
only, and may be trademarks of their respective owners.

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By understanding the incoming product information in
context, product descriptions can be standardized simultaneously in English
and any desired language.
When they acquired another company, Anixter used the DataLens System to
complete the conversion of thousands of product descriptions, including part
numbers, keywords and product attributes and rewrite them into the Anixter
format -- saving significant time and money and enabling the systems
integration to move ahead smoothly.

About IBM

IBM is the world's largest information technology company, with 80 years of
leadership in helping businesses innovate. IBM Software offers a wide range
of middleware and operating systems for all types of computing platforms,
allowing customers to take full advantage of the on demand era."

Built on proven, scalable and award winning technology, the AXS-One
Compliance Platform is an integrated solution designed to securely
capture, archive, manage, search, supervise , integrate, share, and audit
all electronic records from more than 250 disparate document and data
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Anixter Manages Complex Product Data in Multiple Languages With Silver Creek Systems

With this acquisition, IBM customers will have the ability to seamlessly
integrate electronic forms (or e-forms) functionality into their
collaborative solution.
While many forms vendors use proprietary forms technology and do not
support XForms (creating vendor lock-in), IBM supports this open standard. For more information on these seminars,
go to http://storagetek., in the U.

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PureEdge was also an active supporter of the open industry standard for
electronic form documents called XForms . XForms is a platform independent
markup language for data capture and validation within electronic forms.

The AXS-One Compliance Platform enables organizations
to implement secure, scalable and enforceable policies that address records
management for corporate governance, legal discovery and industry
regulations such as SEC17a-4, NASD 3010, Sarbanes-Oxley, HIPAA, The Patriot
Act and Gramm-Leach Bliley.877.

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E-forms allow for the structured exchange of data
-- such as inventory figures , customer data or pricing information --
between end users and back-end systems.software.ibm. This event series
focuses on strategies for archiving and retrieving compliance-affected
information , balancing cost of ownership with compliance needs, and
optimizing management processes and IT infrastructures for compliance with
retention and privacy regulations.com, or call 1.

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, is a leading enterprise
data usability solutions provider. "E-mail
management drives an enormous amount of storage.

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For Anixter, as for many distributors,
this is a complex and time consuming task - - a problem amplified for Anixter
by their need to present their catalog in multiple languages for their global
customer-base., a privately held company based in
Victoria, BC, Canada.

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TRADEMARKS

AXS-One, the AXS-One logo, "Access Tomorrow Today," AXSPoint, and TransAXS
are registered trademarks of, and AXS-One Compliance Platform, AXS-One
Retention Manager, "The Records Compliance Management Company,"
e-Cellerator, AXS Desk, "AXS-One Collaboration FrameWorks ," SMART, AXS-Link
and Tivity are trademarks of, AXS-One Inc.S.

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To be usable, Anixter must standardize this disparate data into a
single, cohesive and searchable list. "We are pleased to work with
leaders such as Anixter -- enabling them to succeed with some of the toughest
data integration challenges in the industry.

"Certified interoperability" and "certification" are not a guarantee, but
are an indication that very specific configurations of each company's
product(s) have been tested together , on a specific platform (OS), if
applicable, and have been found to be a working, supportable configuration
by both companies.

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From
data standardization to item matching, attribute extraction to categorization
and language translation, the DataLens(TM) System delivers a breakthrough in
data usability to help improve business performance. All other company product or
service names may be trademarks or service marks of others.storagetek. All other company
and product names are trademarks or registered trademarks of their
respective companies.