American Society of Civil Engineers Extends Use of Documentum eRoom

130,000 Member Society Further Deploys Flexible Web-Based Workplaces To Collaborate on Engineering Activities and Optimize Business Processes

PLEASANTON, Calif., Aug. 11, 2003 -- Documentum (Nasdaq: DCTM), the leading provider of enterprise content management (ECM), today announced that the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) has extended its use of Documentum eRoom, the company's enterprise collaboration solution. Using eRoom, ASCE provides a flexible, web-based collaborative environment for 897 different engineering committees to collaborate across organizational and geographic boundaries, make decisions, share knowledge and leverage best practices. ASCE also extends its deployment of eRoom internally, continuing to identify new opportunities to implement the easy-to-use collaborative environment across its extended enterprise.

For more than 150 years, ASCE has been the leading voice for the civil engineering profession. As America's oldest national engineering society, ASCE represents more than 130,000 civil engineers worldwide, including members in 159 nations. The society selected Documentum eRoom to replace its existing collaboration solution, which was difficult to use and was not readily adopted by its members. eRoom was chosen for its flexibility, allowing each of the committees to quickly tailor the workplace to meet their specific requirements. eRoom is very easy to use, so end-users require minimal training to contribute.

ASCE's 897 committees use eRoom across a variety of business projects, including knowledge sharing and collaboration around large-scale structural projects, mentoring, establishing best practices and organizing and executing global conferences and events. In addition, the society's board of directors deployed eRoom to communicate, make decisions and conduct business, reducing its need to travel. Internally, ASCE continues to expand its license deployment of eRoom; the management team uses eRoom for strategic, organizational planning and its IT department recently deployed eRoom for project management and gathering and collaborating around business requirements for technical projects.

"Documentum eRoom has quickly become the preferred communication and collaboration vehicle for our committee members," said Joe DeFiglia, chief information officer for ASCE. "eRoom enhances our ability to make decisions and helps us provide a better experience for our executives, employees and membership. We continue to find new areas to implement eRoom, both internally and with our committees, and consider it a valuable asset to ASCE."

"Documentum eRoom helps global organizations, such as the ASCE, achieve new levels of operational efficiency with an easy to use collaborative environment to optimize business processes," said Dave DeWalt, president and chief executive officer for Documentum. "As demonstrated at ASCE, the use of eRoom can spread across departments and teams within an organization because of its ease of use and near-zero learning curve. Documentum looks forward to a lasting relationship with ASCE, an organization of great heritage."

About American Society of Civil Engineers

Founded in 1852, ASCE represents more than 130,000 civil engineers worldwide and is America's oldest national engineering society. ASCE celebrated its 150th anniversary in 2002. For more information, visit: http://www.asce.org.

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