The DMS EXPO, the leading B2B trade fair for electronic management of information, Enterprise Content, and documents, took place from 9-11 September 2008 in Cologne.

We informed you on the newest developments and perspectives for the digital handling of information and documents. We also demonstrated how your business can also profit from solutions by COI!

In accordance with this year's theme "Novell® Making IT Work As One™", Novell and its partners will present the newest developments in the product range Workgroup, Systems Management, Identity and Security Management, and Linux during eight stops in Germany, Austria, and Switzerland starting September 4th.

Together with Novell, we have decided to support you in managing heterogeneous IT infrastructures.

This collaboration allows us to offer solutions that increase your company's efficiency and reduce costs at the same time. Benefit from the latest developments in various product ranges.

Interested parties can find information regarding integrating solutions with GroupWise as well as the integration of archive and document management in Novell environments directly at COI.

Some of the tour's hot topics :

	Virtualization and high availability in the computer center with SAP
	Storage management and security
	Systems management in heterogeneous environments
	Migration scenarios for OES2
	Collaboration with Teaming + Conferencing

Web Services such as SOAP take center stage when it comes to advancing the Internet as an infrastructure for cross-company applications or as a solution for integrating internal applications (Enterprise Application Integration – EAI). Web Services make it possible to implement both closed applications as well as services available worldwide. These can be either accessed directly by the user or integrated into new systems. Thus they provide the technical basis for the Service Oriented Architectures (SOA), in which applications can be created potentially from services available worldwide.

In COI-BusinessFlow 4X, the SOAP interface is used more and more for the integration with other products and as an communication protocol of the internal system components. This interface is gaining increasing importance as a future-proof communication center between internal and external processes. The topic of SOAP, respectively Web Services, as a basis for Service Oriented Architectures will become more important in the ECM field.

The new SOAP server is a strategic development of COI for both existing and new customers who have chosen – or will choose – the COI-BusinessFlow 4X product line.

The adoption of the SOAP protocol reduces development times and improves the solution's serviceability. Today, functions such as e-mail-archiving for Microsoft Exchange, Novell GroupWise, or Lotus Notes as well as connection to ERP systems, for example Navision, are incorporated via SOAP. As the SOAP interface can be easily and quickly expanded, our customers can continue to react flexibly to new technical requirements in the future.

The BARC once again enabled potential buyers of DMS and ECM solutions the unique opportunity to directly compare providers of document management and archiving systems.

The two-day conference offered participants a clear market review based on the proven BARC criteria. In June at the Festung Marienburg in Würzburg, ten exhibitors presented their ECM solutions in live demos and highlighted the advantages of their tools in comparison to competitive products.

All providers demonstrated their solution based on the structure defined by BARC. The goal of the event was to clearly show the differences of the software providers regarding the offered strategy and solution in this market segment and to provide – compact in time and location – decision guidance in evaluating the software products.

Within the scope of the newly extended Platinum Sponsoring of the GroupWise & Friends Community, COI will participate in the annual events in Germany and Austria to present its COI-BusinessArchive for GroupWise solution.

With COI-BusinessArchive for GroupWise – the integration of COI-BusinessFlow Xtrend with Novell GroupWise – COI offers a standardized solution for the central archiving of GroupWise information. This solution fully integrates with the IT infrastructure and files business-relevant data centrally to the server. This compliance solution does not disturb the employees in their daily routine and creates no additional work; they can still query their messages individually from the archive. With this integration the user is actively supported and the obligation to produce supporting documents is likewise covered.

Among other things, interested visitors can expect a number of international top speakers on the subject GroupWise, as for example Danita Zanré from the US, the best-known product managers for Novell GroupWise.

Please find more information on the event at www.groupwise.de.

Unlike the telephone, e-mail is a different kind of communication medium and since 1 Januar 2007 legally equal to a business letter. It has been approved for use as evidence in court for some time. As it is business- and tax-relevant, it must be archived in an audit compliant way.

You can learn what exactly this means and what the consequences are for businessmen, managers, and persons in charge of IT, etc., from the renowned specialists of the Rechtsanwaltsgesellschaft Rödl & Partner during the presentations of the COI-Roadshow.

We also inform on important topics associated with E-Mail-Archiving such as

	Relieve of server load
	Performance increase
	Compliance
	Auditing acceptability

and the varieties of E-Mail-Archiving.

Martin Wanka, COI Partnermanager, will explain what the subtle differences of the individual archiving methods are, what filing is, or context-based filing and process-oriented E-Mail-Archiving; what are the advantages for you and which additional benefit this can have.

Of course you will be able to see all this in practice during one of the live presentations.

COI will be present at analytica, the largest international trade fair for instrumental analysis, labortory technology and biotechnology. We will present our solutions for Document Management, Enterprise Content Management and E-Mail-Archiving.

Let us inform you on the newest developments and perspectives for the digital handling of information and documents. We will show how your business can also profit from solutions by COI.

You can find us at the fair booth of our sister company MAQSIMA in hall B2, stand 276.

	Contract management
	ECM – central information management
	File-server archiving
	E-Mail-Management using COI-BusinessFlow Xtrend
	Quicker and easier manageable DMS entry model for SMB
	COI-PharmaSuite: Marketing approval, GXP documentation, eCTD, eSubmissions

For more information on the analytica visit www.analytica.de

More information on our sister company MAQSIMA is available at www.maqsima.de

As of October, Walter Koch is the new Product Development Manager at COI. After graduating in computer sciences from the University of Erlangen and the university of applied sciences in Nuremberg, Walter Koch started his professional career as a software developer in the field of internet and multimedia. At that time, he made first contact with themes such as data modeling, Business Intelligence, and Workflow Management.

He was involved early on in project direction for data warehousing and Business Process Management, which he managed impressively. His further occupational steps include head of development and branch manager in various companies. We are happy that he will contribute the experience he has gained.

A warm welcome to COI, Mr. Koch!

The CERTINA IT AG, subsidiary of the CERTINA Holding AG, Munich, acquired the Munich-based aerospace supplier CAM GmbH from its former French parent company CS this summer. The new sister company of the COI GmbH is an expert for product lifecycle and test management as well as for customized aerospace software. Its new name: CAM Systems GmbH.

Aside from MAQSIMA acquired it 2006 (with its expertise in technical security management and medical engineering), and COI, CAM Systems is now the third company from the IT sector to be integrated in the CERTINA group. From now on COI, with its products Xtrend and 4X, will supply the technology platform, along with its sister company MAQSIMA.

September 6th signals this year's Novell Tour – now called Work Group Works Tour. The motto "Changes ..." is at the center of information and communication on trends, technologies and subjects all around dynamic IT infrastructures during Novell's seven city tour through Germany, Austria and Switzerland, together with its partners.

Interested parties can find information regarding integrations in LinuxDesktop, GroupWise, as well as the integration of archive and document management directly at COI in Novell environments during the Tour's flanking specialized exhibition.

For more information please visit workgroup-tour.com.

Herzogenaurach/Maintal 21 September 2007 – the IQ-optimize Software AG, a technology provider for business process management and workflow management, and the COI GmbH have started a close cooperation. The COI GmbH provides innovative systems for archiving, document management, and workflow management. The two cooperation partners pool their resources to improve both their customers´ business processes and workflows – even across company borders.

With this cooperation, the new partners are now well prepared for the increasing requirements when implementing individual business processes and realizing economic benefits.

"Everybody talks about it, but only few enterprises have moved true business process management to the top of their priority list," says Dirk Stehr, the IQ-optimize Software AG´s sales manager.

The partnership of the two companies is to be gradually extended by certifications and joint development of business process solutions. "The companies´ software products and specialized know-how match perfectly", explains Andreas Schwarze, the COI GmbH´s managing director.

The partners will focus their collaboration on optimizing business process and workflow automation for the automotive industry, banks and financial services as well as the pharmaceutical industry.

The partner solution by COI and IQ-optimize allows various modules of the business process management to work together. IQ-optimize´s graphic process modeler and workflow portal are combined with COI´s archiving and document management system and digital desktop. Thus an individual, IT-controlled workflow solution for entire projects and all its processes can be created within minutes.

For the second time the koelnmesse opens its gates for the DMS industry. Following the successful Cologne premiere last year (DMS moved from Essen to Cologne) a similar rush for the DMS-EXPO is expected for this year.

We will inform you on the newest developments and perspectives for the digital handling of information and documents during the DMS from September 25th - 27th 2007. Let us demonstrate how your business too can profit from solutions by COI.

Our focus:

	Cross-plattform information management through comprehensive middleware architecture – COI-Universal Web Client
	ECM – central information management
	File-server archiving
	E-Mail-Management wit COI-BusinessFlow in the light of "compliance"
	Quick and easily manageable DMS entry model for SMB

We are glad to once again have won the proCon IT AG from Munich as co-exhibitor. This consulting firm specializes in designing business processes and also offers individual system solutions. Their services include organizational and technical consulting as well as implementing innovative software solutions. The use of trendsetting technologies and cost awareness during the project realization are bases of their corporate concept.

Further information regarding proCon IT can be found at
www.procon-it.de.

Further information regarding the DMS EXPO can be found at
www.dms-expo.de.

To make an appointment please send an email with a recommended date and time to info@coi.de. We're looking forward to meeting you in Cologne.

Herzogenaurach 13 August 2007– Bayer Business Services, the Bayer Group's international competence center for IT-based services, is extending its workflow and archiving system YOUR-DOCes® worldwide. The corporation is thus expanding its licence for COI-BusinessFlow 4X, COI's client-server-solution for electronical archiving, document management und workflow management.

Bayer Business Services has been successfully using the software made by COI in Herzogenaurach for almost ten years. It is part of the workflow and archiving system YOUR-DOCes used by Bayer – amongst other things – for processing invoices. Expanding the COI-BusinessFlow 4X licence enables Bayer Business Services to implement YOUR-DOCes all over the world, creating a company-wide standard for invoice processing even across system boundary.

Using COI-BusinessFlow enables YOUR-DOCes to supply documents from archives and ERP systems of Bayer's IT environment for auditing of accounts. This allows the group to control invoices in a companywide manner and the user to conveniently work with a familiar user interface.

"Our COI-BusinessFlow software offers Bayer Business Services an extremely stable, powerful and highly scalable product, allowing a consistent recording of invoice processing worldwide", says Andreas Schwarze, Managing Director of the COI GmbH.

"With COI at our side, we have a reliable and straightforward partner with whom we can realize even technically demanding projects dependably within the given time and budget limitations", according to Peter Oster, Head of Workflow and Archiving at Bayer Business Services on COI.

Within the scope of the recently extended Platinum Sponsoring of the GroupWise and Friends Community, COI participated in these important annual events and presented the integration of COI-BusinessFlow Xtrend with Novell GroupWise "COI-BusinessArchive for GroupWise".

With COI-BusinessArchive for GroupWise COI offers a standardized solution for the central archiving of GroupWise information. This solution fully integrates with the IT infrastructure and files business-relevant data centrally to the server. The staff is supported in the daily routine by this compliance solution, have no additional work and can still query their messages individually from the archive. With this integration the user is actively supported and the obligation to produce supporting documents is likewise covered.

Among other things, the visitors were able to listen to a number of top international speakers on the subject of GroupWise, for example Phil Karren, one of the two product managers for Novell GroupWise active worldwide. He introduced the new version of GroupWise (also known under the code name Bonsai) which will appear at the end of the year. There was also a preview of the integration of Sitescape and future versions of GroupWise.

Herzogenaurach 5 July 2007 – After an intensive evaluation process regarding e-mail archiving software, the University of Regensburg chose the COI GmbH from Herzogenaurach. Following a successful test phase, the COI-BusinessFlow for GroupWise system has been running live with 2,500 users for several weeks.

Facing a flood of e-mails along with ever greater pressure by the legislator, the University of Regensburg was forced to reduce the load on its e-mail servers while archiving its e-mails in a law-compliant manner. Thus a software selection process was initiated to compare and evaluate individual archiving solutions for Novell GroupWise elements. Next, a software test phase of several weeks followed – involving two of the five providers – under real-live conditions with the COI GmbH emerging as the winner.

The e-mail archiving solution COI-BusinessArchive for GroupWise is based on the COI-BusinessFlow Xtrend product line and belongs to the Xtechnology family of the software developer from Herzogenaurach. Aside from archiving, COI-BusinessArchive for GroupWise allows: The direct tracing of business transactions, the discontinuation of local inaccessible storage, the filing of e-mails in context with documents and files, the protection from information loss, the long-term storage of
e-mails as well as complying with juridical requirements by audit-proof long-term archiving.

A primary project goal of the University of Regensburg's computer center was to file business-relevant information centrally on the server by automated archiving but still allow individual employees to search their e-mails while taking into account the obligation to produce supporting documents.

"A decisive factor for COI was that employees are supported by the compliance solution in their everyday work. Above all, the software should not generate additional operating expenses for archiving and enable the employees to easily handle the system. Besides, each employee must still be allowed to search his messages individually within the archive. Here too, COI was able to convince with its intuitive BusinessArchive for GroupWise." Mr. Martin Wimmer, Director of the computer center at the University of Regensburg on the selection criteria for the e-mail implementation.

In the course of this positive project run the University of Regensburg's computer center and the COI GmbH announced a close collaboration for the future. The goal of this development partnership is to further enhance the standardized solution for the integration in Novell GroupWise.

For more information on the University of Regensburg please visit www.uni-regensburg.de.

The newest release in the COI-BusinessFlow Xtrend line of products – Version 3.0 – was presented during CeBIT 2007. Among numerous other new features, especially the Explorer integration, the document wizard and the classification wizards in connection with COI-BusinessFlow Xfind stand out.

The Universal-ECM Client

This new development – which had its premiere at Cebit – for the first time offers the possibility to investigate different archives and DMS platforms . With this technology an additional information layer is offered which allows the user to handle cross-platform documents and information in a simply, fast and convenient way.

For further information please contact +49 (0) 9132/73 83-0 or send an e-mail to info@coi.de.

On the one hand business data must be kept safe over long periods of time; on the other hand these large amounts of data shall be available for quick and eays acces when required. Customers can bridge this gap with the combined solutions of HP and COI GmbH. COI-BusinessFlow Xtrend has now been certified by HP for StorageWorks Reference Information Storage System (RISS).

Xtrend is an efficient document management and archiving solution. It enables a centralized integration of data, application and process among different platforms and heterogeneous IT systems. Thus, businesses now profit from the comprehensive and law-conform solutions for the Information Lifecycle Management (ILM).

Open Interfaces – Smooth Integration

The connecting interface of COI-BusinessFlow Xtrend to HP StorageWorks RISS was tested comprehensively upon its certification. The result of these test was that an integration of both solutions is possible by an API and a file interface open to and supported by both systems. Furthermore, the certificate confirms the solutions productive operability. Customers are now able to organize their business data, such as SAP data, e-mails or file server documents, beyond company borders and in a platform-independent way. HP StorageWorks RISS serves as an efficient storage infrastructure for the data managed by COI-BusinessFlow Xtrend. Users have access to all required data and documents at any time, while administration overhead and costs drop by use of HP StorageWorks RISS.

For further information please contact +49 (0) 9132/73 83-0 or send an e-mail to info@coi.de.

The MAQSIMA GmbH, a joint venture of Certina IT and TÜV Saarland, is a systems and consulting company located in Sulzbach / Saar. As a sister company to COI GmbH, MAQSIMA GmbH develops IT solutions for the law-conform and ISO-compatible techincal management of installations and laboratories as well as test and production and maintenance processes.

MAQSIMA GmbH distinguishes itself by excellent IT competence and long-standing practical experience – the added value for development and implementation of comprehensive solutions for:

	Maintenance Management
	Responsibility Management
	Laboratory Management
	Energy and Material Flow Controlling

The design and realization of complicated solutions while taking into account individual company structures and customer wishes, as well as consulting, supporting and maintaining of our products are a part of our field of services.

MAQSIMA – Security and Transparence for Complex Enterprise Processes!

Please find further information at www.maqsima.de.

The MAQSIMA GmbH, a joint venture of Certina IT and TÜV Saarland, is a systems and consulting company located in Sulzbach / Saar. As a sister company to COI GmbH, MAQSIMA GmbH develops IT solutions for the law-conform and ISO-compatible techincal management of installations and laboratories as well as test and production and maintenance processes.

MAQSIMA GmbH distinguishes itself by excellent IT competence and long-standing practical experience – the added value for development and implementation of comprehensive solutions for:

	Maintenance Management
	Responsibility Management
	Laboratory Management
	Energy and Material Flow Controlling

The design and realization of complicated solutions while taking into account individual company structures and customer wishes, as well as consulting, supporting and maintaining of our products are a part of our field of services.

MAQSIMA – Security and Transparence for Complex Enterprise Processes!

Please find further information at www.maqsima.de.

After the extremely successful event last year, the Bechtle system houses once again organize the IT Forum Bavaria this year. Leading IT partners of the Bechtle GmbH, such as the COI GmbH, will introduce their innovative solutions and products.

The exhibit is flanked by numerous talks on late-breaking IT subjects. Mr. Martin Wanka, partner manager of the COI GmbH, will introduce – among other things – COI's innovative archiving concepts for file server, ERP server and e-mail server in combination with HP RISS.

Other experts from different fields will be available for questions and answers in a relaxed and pleasant atmosphere.

And of course you can expect some "sport highlights" at the home of the "Club" – you'll be surprized!

During the CeBIT, from March 15 - 21, you can once again find out about the newest developments and perspectives on the digital handling of information and documents – see how your business can profit from solutions by COI.

On the 23rd October the SYSTEMS in München opens its gates once again. Until the 27th October Business-to-Business makers of IT, media and communication will rendezvous. COI will coexhibit at the stand of SEEBURGER AG.

Find out about the newest developments and aspects of the digital industry during the most important ICT fair in Southern Germany. By implementing a document management system and a digital workflow you too can achieve improved quality and efficiency in your company.

Find more information about SYSTEMS at www.systems.de.

The DMS, Europe's leading professional trade fair and conference for electronic information, content and document management, takes place this year for the first time in Cologne. For its 10th anniversary the DMS EXPO has moved from Essen to Cologne. COI can also be found at koelnmesse, in hall 8, hallway G, stand 061.

COI will introduce the newest COI-BusinessFlow developments. These include enhancements for the integration in groupware systems, the extension and integration of the search and classification technology Xfind into the enterprise content management environment and new packages to be introduced during the DMS for the first time.

For the Cologne premiere of the DMS Expo we will be supported by three competent partners. During the entire fair time the SEEBURGER AG, the ISO Software Systeme GmbH and the ICODEX AG will be coexhibitors on our booth in the hall 8, aisle G, stand 061.

SEEBURGER AG – a stated integration specialist – will present its 4invoice solution which digitally records the complete invoice process – from inbox to booking in SAP.

For more than 25 years the ISO Software Systeme GmbH belongs is well established in the area of IT consultation, software development and related services. Among other things, their OnTop developments for COI-BusinessFlow will be presented.

With its business to process management solution "INTEGRATE!Comm&Work" the recent COI partner ICODEX will show a new dimension of BPM solution in respect to cost-savings, integration, handling and use of the most modern IT standards and tools.

Visitors will also find various new Add Ons for our innovative products and solutions in the areas of digital archiving, document and workflow management and the digital optimization of business processes.

Furth information regarding the DMS EXPO can be found at www.dms-expo.de.

Now you will be able to reach us even better. Please note our new telephone number.

The phone extension as they are known to you–along with our address–will remain unchanged. You will only have to subsitute the orignial two-digit 82 with the four-digit 73 83 und then dial the normal extension.

From 9 March to 15 March 2006 everything focused on the fair's motto "Join the vision". This year COI was represented twice:

In Hall 1 both in the DMS Area at the VOI Stand K 71 and at the
Novell Stand G 41 in the Identity Management Area!

At both stands we presented our innovative products and solutions for the fields of digital archiving, document and workflow management as well as the digital optimizing of business processes.

VOI Stand, Hall 1, Stand K 71

At the joint stand of the "Verbands Organisation- und Informationssysteme e.V." (VOI) we informed on current themes and developments concerning
COI and Xtechnology.

The following themes were addressed:

	Digital accounting and billing
	E-mail archiving
	Archiving of proofs of delivery
	Electronical filing (e.g. for personnel, projects, customers, contracts)
	Easy search - quick find
	Clever and convenient classification
	Create short and precise summaries automatically

Novell Stand, Hall 1, Stand G 41

In the scope of our Novell partnership we participated as a Top Solutions Business Partner. We focused on the comprehensive integration of ECM functionality within the Novell-SUSE/Linux environments.

Among other things we demonstrated:

Archiving and document management with COI-BusinessFlow Xtrend
integrated in:

	Novell Linux Desktop
	GroupWise
	StarOffice
	Identity Management

As of March 2006 Andreas Schwarze has taken over responsibility as a new managing director of COI GmbH. Andreas Schwarz was previously active as a director of sales at ITESOFT Deutschland GmbH, one of Europe's market leaders for the automated recording and processing of documents. He brings along extensive experience from the area of document recognition and process optimization.

ABBYY Europe, a member of the ABBYY Group and a leading provider of document recognition and linguistic technologies, today announced that COI, Consulting for Office and Information Management Ltd, has licenced the ABBYY FineReader Engine product. COI, which specialises in solutions for archiving, document and workflow management, has integrated the ABBYY's OCR technology into their new product COI Intelliger.

The last sessions dealing with the topic Regulatory Affairs were very successful in Munich and Hamburg in February 2004 - especially with the issues CTD and [e]CTD.

Current trends in the field of regulatory requirements for computer validation are changing. When are computer systems subject to these regulations? Which consequences have these regulations? No pharmaceutical company can escape from the demands of 21 CFR Part 11. It is important for these companies not only to keep up-to-date with current requirements but to look at future trends.

The pharmaceutical industry has to consider the statutory obligations imposed by EU and US cGMP regulations in general, and specifically with regard to Traceability, Product Recall, Product Release and Adverse Event reporting. The widespread use of computerized systems throughout the industry means that the critical GMP functions are subject to regulatory requirements for qualification and validation. Forward thinking companies now plan for "risk management" of both their day-to-day operations, and as part of new products, process, engineering, or information systems development.

From 24.-28 October 2005 we once again participate as exhibitors in the Systems in Munich. After last year's extremely successful participation we decided early on to take part in 2005.

There we will present our COI-Xtechnologies COI-BusinessFlow Xtrend, COI-BusinessFlow Xfind and COI-BusinessFlow 4X and will demonstrate how you can effectively support your company's most diverse processes with our software. Pay us a visit and let's discuss your wishes and requirements!

Be our guest at the CeBIT 2005 Hall1 booth 7i14. Catch up with the latest developments in digital filing, optimising of business processes and bundling information. More and more documents pile up by the thousand on desks and computers. React now. Check the possibilities of working with an electronical document-, workflow- and archive management system. Come and see!

For the first time the COI GmbH presented itself as an exhibitor at the SYSTEM in Munich, the leading Business-to-Business-Fair for information technology, telecommunications and new media.

In defiance of voices claiming that the SYSTEMS would´t be visited as well as previously and doesn´t offer a proper platform for the B2B sector, COI decided to participate in the SYSTEMS as an exhibitor.

Our stand was very well frequented and aside from the high number of the stand visitors the quality of these and of the conversations held was excellent. Our expectations were excelled! For COI this fair was an optimal basis for new business relations and for deepening existing contacts.

We presented solutions for Archiving / Records Management / Document Management / Information Lifecycle Management and Workflow / Business Process Management. All solutions such as the COI-BusinessFlow, the COI-Intelliger and the COI-PharmaSuite were shown with new functions, features and completely new modules.

Along with our partner Tomorrow Focus Technologies GmbH we have emphasized another area of the process support, Content Management.

COI´s conclusion regarding its first SYSTEMS participation:
For us it was a very successful fair and we will therefore take part again next year.

We thank our partner for the good cooperation and all our visitors for informative, interesting conversations which were decisive for the good success of the fair.

COI GmbH is counted among the leading technology providers in the fields of archiving, document-, workflow- and knowledge management. Our latest software development is an easy tool for searching: COI-Intelliger. With its approach of a "learning" system it independently widens the given search and analysis structures.

Visit us in the German pavilion at the CeBIT eurasia bilisim in Istanbul from
August 31 to September 5, 2004.