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LizardTales Newsletter – April 2005

Letter from LizardTech CEO, Carlos Domingo

Dear Customers and Partners,

The first quarter of 2005 brought with it the accomplishment of three key milestones for LizardTech that offer exciting opportunities for our customers and partners. First, Japanese company Celartem Technology Inc., the parent company of LizardTech, merged its three U. S. holdings, LizardTech, Extensis and Celartem U. S., in an effort to leverage each company’s strengths across business models. I’m excited to be stepping up as the President and CEO of the newly formed company. The creation of a larger cohesive entity will result in a more competitive organization whose individual components are better positioned to expand their efforts in their respective markets, while creating a more efficient operation toward profitability for shareholders. The new entity will operate under the Celartem Inc. name and will retain both brands, LizardTech and Extensis. Celartem Inc. will leverage Extensis’ deep distribution channels and customer base and LizardTech’s technology and understanding of the government and document imaging markets to better serve our existing and future customers and partners. LizardTech is about “making your imaging work” and Extensis provides solutions for “empowering your digital assets” so starting with the corporate tag line, both companies are going to be working to provide solutions to help customers get the most out of their digital content. For the readers not familiar with Extensis, please check out their Website www.extensis.com to learn more about their world-class, client/server solutions for digital asset and font management.

Another key milestone this quarter is the integration of native wavelet MrSID technology with the Oracle^® Spatial 10g GeoRaster architecture. This integration delivers improved efficiency and reduced costs for enterprise customers who need a solution for storing and distributing large raster data sets in a database. And because we’ve led the charge in implementing JPEG 2000 encoding in a way that will best bring the benefits of that standard to professional users, this venture also represents LizardTech’s first step toward providing JPEG 2000 support for Oracle Spatial 10g in the future.

Finally, through a strategic partnership with Avision, now Celartem’s distributor for all Document Express with DjVu products in the greater China region, including Mainland China, Taiwan, Hong Kong and Korea, LizardTech has established a robust presence in the Asia Pacific region. In Asia Pacific, there is a high demand for document imaging solutions that enable organizations to cost effectively archive and share scanned color documents. Avision will not only be our distributor but will also integrate DjVu open file format in their capture application AVScan that ships with every Avision scanner. With Avision now on board as a partner I am confident we will be able to jointly deliver a world-class document imaging solution to a wide range of customers in Asia Pacific.

As we progress through 2005, we are leveraging our combined corporate strengths in the U. S. while establishing strategic partnerships necessary to better serve markets at home and abroad. We are dedicated to delivering geospatial and document imaging solutions that consistently meet and exceed customer expectations. Through furthering advanced technology such as JPEG 2000 and tight integration with technology partners such as Kofax, Kodak and Oracle, the LizardTech team now under our new corporate umbrella at Celartem Inc. will continue to build software that customers can rely upon to improve their businesses and operations.

Regards,

Carlos Domingo
President and CEO
Celartem Inc.

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GeoExpress 5.0 with MrSID®

Did you know that by popular demand, GeoExpress is now available with unlimited encoding capabilities in addition to all of the powerful new image management tools? As always, operations performed on existing MrSID images do not count against encode allotment in any edition of GeoExpress.

GeoExpress 5.0 receives rave reviews!

Directions Magazine editor Joe Francica notes in the February issue, “The product [GeoExpress 5.0] performed as stated in the documentation and the processing time on a 70 megabyte image to isolate an area compressed to 3 megabytes was relatively speedy with a 3 GHz Pentium 4 processor.”Joe continues to say, “The preview and crop features were excellent and the user interface to perform the necessary encoding options was straightforward.”

Russ Martin, President, Ascent GIS, Inc. said, “After testing the beta version of GeoExpress 5.0, I noticed the substantial amount of image managing tools included.” Russ continues, “It [MrSID] is not just a compression utility any more.”

Check out GISMonitor’s wrap-up report from this year’s GITA show.

JPEG 2000 is coming on strong. Many vendors are investigating its use and some already support the standard. Learn more in Earth Imaging Journal.

Look for the MacOSX MrSID Plug-in later this spring. Fast and fully integrated with MacOSX, the plug-in will enable viewing capabilities of MrSID imagery on the MacOSX platform.

LizardTech and Galdos Systems, Inc. have submitted to the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) a draft specification “GML in JPEG 2000 for Geographic Imagery”. The proposed specification addresses the uses of GML within JPEG 2000, application schemas for the encoding of GML layers within JPEG 2000, and packaging mechanisms for incorporating GML within JPEG 2000.

GeoExpress Resellers

From the GeoExpress Reseller Channel, the year started off January 10th with product rollout training via our Webinar program. The turnout for the three Webinars we hosted was very high and we were quite happy with the feedback received from our reseller channel since we rolled out the Geo 5.0 product through this vehicle. Those resellers who participated were sent their initial launch kit information for 5.0 as well as other handout materials. The few resellers who were not able to participate in the Webinar program have been included in our direct meeting efforts, which started in middle to late January.

Below is a breakdown of participation for the Geo Reseller Webinar program:

• Jan. 10 Webinar – 30 North American (N.A.) resellers attended with a total of 40 logins
• Jan. 11 Webinar – 5 N.A. resellers attended with a total of 17 logins
• Jan. 12 Webinar – 17 N.A. resellers attended with a total of 32 logins

Since the rollout of GeoExpress 5.0, we have added a few new resellers to our channel program in some strategic geographic areas. They are as follows:

• Ecology & Environment – Buffalo, NY
• E3Synergy – Baltimore, MD
• CADD Microsystems – Alexandria, VA
• Source Graphics – Anaheim, CA
• Digital Data Services – Lakewood, CO

We also have another handful of new prospective Geo resellers who are currently weighing their options to join our reseller network, and we’re anticipating filling in some gaps of coverage with the next couple companies that sign up.

 

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Express Server 5.0

The ArcIMS 9 Integration Toolkit for Express Server, released in February, integrates with existing installations of ArcIMS 9 (version 4.x also supported). The toolkit enables image data requested from the Express Server to be served by ArcIMS directly while minimizing the load on ArcIMS services. LizardTech provides this FREE toolkit to enable ESRI customers to RAPIDLY access massive amounts of imagery across their network.

 

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Document Express 5.1 with DjVu®

LizardTech recently released three new Document Express products:

The first, a 5.1 release of our Document Express Enterprise product with significant improvements to the GUI, was released February 5.

Next, our new Captiva Module, designed to work seamlessly within the Captiva Input Accel software and IA Express, gives the Captiva customers the ability to create DjVu files from within the hosting software using Document Express Tools. This module became available through Authorized Document Express Resellers on February 1st.

Finally, in conjunction with the KOFAX Transform Conference in March we are releasing our Document Express Module for Kofax Ascent Capture. Like the Captiva Module, the Kofax Module is designed to work seamlessly within the host software – in this case Kofax Ascent Capture.

These two modules complete our BIG three module product line-up. Our third module ships on every copy of Kodak Scan and Capture software.

In May look for a new release of our FREE DjVu Browser Plug-in that will allow users to view pages in a double-page spread and view our new annotations.

Also in May, the Professional Editor version of Document Express will have a new release with double-page spread capabilities and a new set of annotations allowing customers to make visible and concealed notes on DjVu pages along with the current annotation functions for highlighting and adding hyperlinks.

LizardTech and Document Express were featured in the January issue of Press Time Magazine in an interview with LizardTech President and CEO, Carlos Domingo, who discusses how Document Express with DjVu benefits the publishing industry.

Download the FREE DjVu browser plug-in for viewing DjVu documents.

 

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Genuine Fractals 4.0 Now Available

Genuine Fractals 4.0 was released on February 25, 2005. An indispensable tool for photographers, graphic artists and digital imaging professionals, LizardTech Genuine Fractals 4.0 PrintPro delivers the power to scale, store and electronically distribute digital images for a variety of output requirements. This award-winning plug-in for Adobe^® Photoshop^® and compatibles gives users high-quality, print-ready enlargements of various sizes and resolutions from a single medium- or high-resolution digital file without compromising the quality of the original image. Key features offered with this new version include a more intuitive user interface, faster image scaling and access, and an improved image scaling workflow within Photoshop achieved by moving away from the proprietary .STN image format and streamlining within the Photoshop menu.

Genuine Fractals Product Information

Purchase or Upgrade Genuine Fractals

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Key Customer Wins

With the release of Document Express 5.1 and GeoExpress 5.0, LizardTech has seen a tremendous interest in our products/solutions. The use of these latest products is dispersed across multiple markets, both vertical and geographic. Some of our new customers and existing customers who have upgraded to our 5.0 releases include:

• Local Government Computer Services Board (LGCSB, Dublin, Ireland)
• Bureau of Land Management, Sacramento
• US Bureau of Reclamation, Snake River
• Argonne National Laboratory
• US Army Corps of Engineers (Mobile, AL)
• US Army Corps of Engineers (Champaigne IL)
• Instituto Geografico Nacional (Peru)
• Ochoco National Forest
• USSTRATCOM
• USGS, Rolla
• US Navy
• US Air Force
• EarthData International of Maryland
• Earth Satellite Corporation (MD)3Di (OR)
• Cooper Aerial (AZ)
• 3001, Inc. (LA & FL Offices)
• BKS Surveys Ltd.(Northern Ireland)
• Robinson Aerial Surveys
• American Aerial Photos
• AeroMap (Chile)
• University of Alaska – Juneau
• University of Hawaii – Department of Botany
• Missouri Western State College
• University of Minnesota, St. Paul
• Dickinson State University
• Institute of Ocean Sciences
• Virginia Institute of Marine Sciences
• Terasen Pipelines
• Idaho Power Company
• Aramco Services Company
• Florida Power & Light Company
• European Union Space Center – Spain
• Government of the Northwest Territories, Canada
• Alberta Sustainable Resource Development
• Western Forest Products Inc.
• Lower Colorado River Authority

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Where is LizardTech?

Events in North America:

Document Express

AIIM Content Management Seminars - We are going to be visiting the following cities:

• April 5 – Sacramento
• April 7 – San Francisco
• April 12 – LA
• April 14 – San Diego
• April 19 – Denver
• April 21 – Dallas

Transform 2005

• April 26 – 28 – Orlando

Second DjVu Summit Conference and Panel Discussion Program

• May 16 – Rutgers State University, New Jersey

SCC Teleconference/Lecture Hall, Archibald S. Alexander Library

AIIM Expo 2005

• May 16 – 19 – Philadelphia

Complete schedule of LizardTech events

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