PaperThin

BOSTON, September 24, 2007 -- PaperThin, Inc., a leading content management solution provider, today announced that it has added eight new higher education customers to its community of colleges and universities.  Included in that group is the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee which recently extended its investment in CommonSpot allowing the entire University of Wisconsin system (including 13 universities) to take advantage of CommonSpot’s flexible, easy-to-use Web content management capabilities.

Joining PaperThin’s growing list of higher education customers are Carnegie Melon University (Software Engineering Institute), George Mason University, Stevens Institute of Technology, the Toronto Board of Jewish Education, Tulane University, the University of South Dakota, the University of Wisconsin, and Wharton Executive Education (UPenn). Taxed with overloaded IT departments, these institutions all share the similar goal of enabling content managers to easily deliver a rich online experience to meet their recruiting, donation, and alumni outreach objectives, while reducing the institution’s overall reliance on IT.

“The product and the people who support the product at PaperThin have been very responsive to meeting our needs,” said Michael Hostad, web architect of the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.  “We completed a major site re-design in about three weeks that went live with great success.  That solid performance resulted in our decision to move to an unlimited license and roll out CommonSpot University-wide.”

The University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee plans to provide access to CommonSpot to over 28,000 students, and to approximately 3,500 faculty and staff who can easily manage the content that they have created without the need to write HTML, or the need for excessive IT support.

CommonSpot offers higher education institutions flexible content management capabilities, including campus-wide workflow and collaboration features.  The system’s ease-of-use helps communications, marketing, and other business functions to take control of their online initiatives and focus their efforts on interacting more with site visitors, building communities of interest (students, alumni, and faculty), implementing brand standards across the institution, and quickly editing and publishing content to attract new recruits and funding, and achieve better business results.

“The Higher Education community continues to lead the way for online communication innovation,”  said Bob Cellucci, senior vice president at PaperThin. “Many of these schools talked with existing users about their experience with CommonSpot and that was a key factor in their decision making process.  CommonSpot’s ease-of-use, flexibility and extendibility have created powerful and compelling use cases that resonate well in this field.”

About PaperThin:
PaperThin, Inc. is a privately held Massachusetts-based company. Since 1993, PaperThin has helped organizations in the corporate, government, education, healthcare, association and non-profit sectors, among others, to significantly reduce the time and expense involved in creating, updating, and managing Web content. PaperThin’s flagship product CommonSpot™ powers Internet, intranet and extranet sites worldwide for organizations of all sizes, including: Cornell University, Mayo Clinic, National Park Service, Stanford University, Turner Sports (PGA.com), United States Senate, United Way of America, Vanderbilt University, and Voice of America. PaperThin was recognized as one of New England’s fastest growing technology companies in the 2004 & 2005 Deloitte Technology Fast 50, and was named to KMWorld’s list of “100 Companies that Matter in Knowledge Management” in 2006. CommonSpot was recently cited a 2007 CODiE Awards finalist for “Best Content Management Solution” by SIIA, and was recently named a “Trend-Setting Product” by KMWorld for the third year in a row.

PaperThin’s select group of partners includes industry leading Web design and development firms, system integrators, software manufacturers, and training firms, worldwide. For more information about PaperThin, Inc., please visit http://www.paperthin.com.