North Plains Systems Announces 2002 TeleScope Innovation Award Winners

TORONTO, CANADA - October 17, 2002 - North Plains Systems, Inc., the innovator in Enterprise Digital Asset Management (E-DAM) solutions, today announced the winners of the industry's first TeleScope Innovation Awards held at the Company's recent E-DAM 2002 Customer Summit: Creating the Future of Enterprise Digital Asset Management Together. The event, held September 9-10, 2002 in Emeryville, CA at the Ex'pression Center for New Media, was attended by top executives from the industry's leading entertainment studios, publishing and technology companies and industry-leading partners such as AOL, Boeing, Frankel, Harcourt, HarperCollins Publishers, Que-Net Media, Sony Electronics, Sony Pictures, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Universal Pictures and Warner Bros.

The awards were presented to North Plains Systems' customers who maximized the potential of their Enterprise Digital Asset Management deployment through TeleScope. Nominations were made by the Company's Professional Services Group and categories included: Agency, Prepress/Print, Multilingual, Video Assets and Audio Assets. KPMG Consulting and Sun Microsystems sponsored the awards and winners were selected by GISTICS, Inc., recognized to be the leading independent research firm for Digital Asset Management.

The criteria for nominations included three components. First, the solution had to be used in a true Enterprise environment, impacting multiple departments and different classes of users. Secondly, the solution needed to demonstrate some form of unique innovation, such as the development of a custom interface, I-Piece or integration with existing systems. And finally, the implementation needed to demonstrate a return on investment in which the solution paid for itself.

The 2002 TeleScope Innovation Awards winners were:

• Que-Net Media/Quebecor World - Best Prepress/Print Management Prepress and Print were the first industries to adopt digital asset management. Que-Net turned its TeleScope E-DAM solution into a true profit center by turning it into a Web-based ASP service for their clients.
• Frankel and Company - Best Agency Implementation Frankel turned its in-house TeleScope E-DAM solution, customized and repackaged it into a service that they offer to customers called BrandGuard.
• Sony Electronics - Best Management of Video Assets Sony Electronics has turned TeleScope E-DAM into an innovative, cost-effective OEM solution that is being sold to the broadcast industry for faster return on investment.
• Sony Pictures - Best Management of Audio Assets Sony Pictures, understanding that audio is as important to a movie studio as it is to record company, customized its TeleScope E-DAM solution with I-Pieces for audio - a critical way for movie studios to save money and make money moving forward
• The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints - Best Multilingual Implementation One of the most effective implementations for ROI in asset management is true global deployment. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints helps manage localization and global usage as it relates to languages in more than 170 countries - something no other consumer company has come close to.
• Warner Bros. - Best E-DAM Profit Center Warner Bros.' Consumer Product Licensing division turned its TeleScope E-DAM solution into a profit center by learning how each asset is best used, thus capitalizing on their impressive asset collection though improved efficiency and ultimately increased licensing opportunities.

The infinite flexibility of TeleScope's architecture combined with its industry-leading XML components gives North Plains Systems customers the enterprise-class solution they needed to unify disparate technologies, address all existing file and metadata formats as well as address new, future formats. TeleScope enables production staff, vendors, licensees, partners, and consumers the ability to extract components of existing documents and dynamically generate new media assets from re-purposed ones, for a wide variety of electronic and wireless delivery methods. Built on open standards and distributed architecture, TeleScope Enterprise offers a robust and open API that allows third party technologies and legacy systems to seamlessly integrate with the TeleScope environment. TeleScope supports over 300 file formats ranging from graphics and text, to audio and video.

About North Plains Systems, Inc.
Founded in 1994, North Plains Systems, Inc. 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.

North Plains Systems Announces 2002 TeleScope Innovation Award Winners