North Plains Systems and eVision Deliver World's First Digital Asset Management and Visual Search Solution

North Plains Systems Integrates eVision's Visual Search Technology into TeleSscope's Enterprise Architecture

SAN FRANCISCO, CA - September 25, 2001 (Seybold San Francisco Booth 417) - eVision, a leader in visual search technology, and North Plains Systems Corp. (NPS), the leading provider of Digital Asset Management (DAM) solutions, today announced that they have integrated eVe3 Professional (eVision Visual Engine) as a North Plains Systems' I-Piece, providing the industry's first content-based visual search option for NPS' TeleScope Enterprise DAM solution.

North Plains Systems and eVision will jointly market eVe 3 Professional as a value-added component of TeleScope Enterprise. By leveraging TeleScope's unique extensible I-Piece architecture and eVe's powerful suite of Java component development, NPS' customers have a new and easier way to search for assets. Using eVision's technology, customers can manage digital images by visual content and move beyond the use of only traditional text metadata.

"We are pleased that our technology has been chosen to enhance the TeleScope solution," said Dr. Mat Malladi, eVision founder and CEO. "Our partnership with North Plains gives clients innovative enterprise-class search technologies - regardless of their needs or challenges."

"The addition of eVe 3 Professional to TeleScope Enterprise offers our clients the unique ability to cross language barriers by search visually rather than by words." said Todd Eckler, VP and Director of Technology, North Plains Systems. "The use of visual searching bridges the gaps between content producers and content users by removing the requirement to establish keywords that will work for all users."

North Plains Systems' TeleScope Enterprise is the only true enterprise-wide DAM solution. Utilizing an open XML architecture, TeleScope enables users to extract components of existing documents and dynamically generate new rich-media assets and re-purpose them through multiple delivery channels. TeleScope's distributed architecture enables global organizations the ability to centrally store and systematically share and collaborate on their digital assets TeleScope supports over 300 file formats ranging from graphics, and text, to audio and video and is currently in use many industry verticals such as Media and Entertainment, Publishing, Financial, Medical and Pharmaceutical Research and Global Product and Services organizations.

Text-based search of visual assets within a database or on the Web often fails due to the subjectivity and inadequacy with which text tags and non-standard file names are assigned to visual assets. With the implementation of eVe 3 Professional I-Piece, the user simply provides an example query image to rapidly initiate a search and return a set of sorted images and/or videos based on visual similarity of content within and relevancy to the original query image.

From creative professionals to the average consumer using mainstream search sites, eVe 3 Professional enables the user to rapidly find desired target products or brand assets using visual media and fewer clicks. Specifically, eVision's technology increases search precision by enabling initiation and search for products based on desired visual features and Visual Vocabulary - a new paradigm in search technology.

About North Plains Systems Corp.
Founded in 1994, North Plains Systems Corp. is the leading provider of digital asset management solutions. Its pioneering technology, focus, and vision have been recognized through out the content management industry, including analyst Frost & Sullivan, with their 2005 Company of the Year award. Today, over 400 customers benefit from North Plains' expertise in delivering industry defining solutions for multi-channel publishing, broadcast automation, video enhanced learning, marketing automation and collaboration and brand management. Customers include Boeing, Feld Entertainment, Harcourt, HarperCollins Publishers, International Monetary Fund, Ogilvy and Mather, Publicis Groupe, Relizon, Thomson Learning, Viacom and Warner Bros. For further information please visit the North Plains website.

About eVision
eVision was founded in 1999 by a group of experts who have dedicated more than ten years of research to visual search technology. eVision's exclusive technology is the culmination of extensive research in the signal and image processing, pattern recognition, and computer vision fields. The proprietary technology distills images into their representative visual characteristics based on object, color, texture, and shape. eVision's revolutionary solution meets the needs of the $11 billion visual search technology market, including the Web-based search engine, Original Equipment Manufacturer (OEM), media asset management, and high-margin vertical market segments. For more information on eVision the Company or technology inquiries please visit our Web site at: www.evisionglobal.com.