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Gimmal Group, Inc. Announces Gimmal Works Workshare Professional Connector for Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 to Support Intranet or Extranet Document Collaboration Within and Between Organizations

Integration of Workshare Professional and SharePoint Server 2007 creates an auditable change control solution for document review, compare and sharing with policy-enforced secure PDF creation

Houston, TX – March 3, 2008 – Gimmal Group, Inc. today announced that it has released the Gimmal Works Workshare Professional Connector that works with Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007. The Connector enables customers to leverage Microsoft Office with Workshare Professional to easily manage SharePoint documents as well as documents on the local PC drive and email attachments to ensure integrity, accuracy, security of these documents by integrating collaboration, change management and risk management capabilities of these platforms.

“Workshare’s unified document control and content protection solutions are deployed in over 8300 organizations worldwide including 60% of the Fortune 1000 and 85% of the Professional Services 250. ” said Babak Salimi, general manager, Document Control Group at Workshare. “As many of our customers move to Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007, we are confident that the Gimmal Connector will bring immediate value by effectively leveraging the capabilities of Workshare Professional with SharePoint 2007 to create a powerful document review and change management solution with integrated PDF technology, centralized audit and security policy management.”

Gimmal Group, in partnership with Workshare, developed the Connector to allow users to integrate their Workshare Professional software with SharePoint Server 2007. Workshare Professional is an award winning document control solution that combines content analysis and classification, with accurate document comparison, change control for review workflow, content security, policy enforcement and a document lifecycle audit trail. Workshare Professional enables users and enterprises to easily create multi-party collaborative documents to increase productivity and decrease the document review and approval cycle. And with automated policy enforcement to protect intellectual property and prevent information leaks, organizations are able to comply with corporate policies and regulatory requirements.

“Our customers come to us because of our deep expertise in providing large globally distributed organizations with full service support for all phases of enterprise content and records management – from planning through design and implementation,” said Mike Alsup, President, Gimmal Group, “By working with Microsoft, we feel confident that Gimmal Works Workshare Professional Connector will provide users of Office SharePoint Server 2007 with world-class enterprise content and document management solutions, including content storage services, business workflow capabilities, and document-level security.”

About Gimmal Group, Inc.
Gimmal Group is a leading professional service firm offering a range of information technology services. We help the world’s leading companies improve business performance and compliance through the effective planning, implementation and integration of: Enterprise Content & Records Management, Geographic Information Systems, Web Design & User Experience. For more information about the Connectors, visit
www.gimmal.com/Workshare Connectors/Overview/.

About Workshare
Workshare, an information security company delivers Information Protection & Control solutions to over 6,000 organizations worldwide. Workshare solutions uniquely combine policy enforcement, management control and user entitlement to ensure safe information exchange without business disruption. Its products include Workshare Protect, Workshare Professional, Compare Service and TRACE! Workshare’s customer base spans small to large organizations in every industry segment with more than 60 percent of the Fortune 1000 and 85 percent of the ProServices 250. Over one million professionals in 65 countries use Workshare software. For more information, visit www.workshare.com.