International Manufacturer Chooses AXS-One for E-mail and File System Archiving

SYDNEY, February 8, 2007 – AXS-One Inc. [AMEX:AXO], a leading provider of high performance records compliance management solutions, has been awarded a new contract from Lafarge Plasterboard for its compliance and operational archiving software solutions.

Lafarge Plasterboard manufactures and distributes plasterboard products through its national distribution network of more than 40 Lafarge PlastaMasta Centres. The Lafarge group of companies has sales of more than 14 billion Euros (approximately $10.8 billion), is listed on the Paris and New York Stock Exchanges and employs 77,000 people in 75 countries.

Modules of the AXS-One Compliance Platform™ were purchased with solutions for file system archiving and e-mail archiving for Lotus Notes to address both operational and compliance requirements; and records management. The contract was completed in the fourth quarter of 2006.

David Thompson, managing director of AXS-One in Asia Pacific, said Lafarge Plasterboard acknowledged the key benefits of being able to efficiently manage its unstructured documents within a single, scalable archiving repository, which will provide the company with regulatory compliance and record integrity, as well as delivering significant cost and productivity savings.

"Most organizations use file systems as their archives, which creates risk because they aren't managed and add to a massive storage overhead,” said Thompson. “The AXS-One Compliance Platform allows unlimited volumes of unstructured data generated from different applications, such as e-mails, word processing, spreadsheets, images, videos and PDFs to be captured and securely stored in a central repository before anyone has the ability to delete or modify them in any way. Using a web-based portal, users can quickly search and retrieve these records."

Following a Sarbanes-Oxley audit at Lafarge Plasterboard, Steve James, the company's IS manager, said it was recommended to install an automation tool for archiving e-mails and other data.

"While compliance was an important reason for implementing an AXS-One solution, we could also see considerable operational cost savings in a retention system that provides users with a self-serve arrangement to access their archived e-mails and documents," said James.

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Currently, if the HR department or an employee needs old e-mails or other files that have been archived to tape, IT support staff have to find the right tape, physically retrieve it from an offsite tape storage depot, load the tape on to a server, search it to find the right mailbox and then try and locate the e-mail required. This process can take more than 24 hours, rather than seconds. Often the e-mail or document cannot be found because it had been deleted.

When AXS-One's solution is installed for its Lotus Notes e-mail server and multiple file and print servers in Lafarge offices around Australia, users will experience a more rapid response because less data will be stored on these servers. They will benefit from fast, self-service access to archived information and will not need to call the help desk for support so often. The support team also will benefit because it avoids the lengthy tape recovery process.

"We expect a rapid return on investment with savings to be gained from a reduction of tape costs, support costs and productivity savings of approximately 15 minutes per day per mailbox user, which is a considerable saving,” said James. “Because archiving will be an automated process, users will no longer need to manually archive documents and e-mails to free up space in the mailbox.

"And of course, all our e-mails and data will be there if and when we need them, which is particularly important for litigation purposes."

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About AXS-One
AXS-One Inc. (AMEX: AXO) is a leading provider of high performance Records Compliance Management solutions. The AXS-One Compliance Platform enables organizations to implement secure, scalable and enforceable policies that address records management for corporate governance, legal discovery and industry regulations such as SEC17a-4, NASD 3010, Sarbanes-Oxley, HIPAA, The Patriot Act and Gramm-Leach Bliley. AXS-One's award-winning technology has been critically acclaimed as best of class and delivers digital archiving, business process management, electronic document delivery and integrated records disposition and discovery for e-mail, instant messaging, images, SAP and other corporate records. Founded in 1979, and headquartered in Rutherford, NJ, AXS-One has offices worldwide including in the United States, Australia, Singapore, United Kingdom and South Africa. For further information, visit the AXS-One web site at http://www.axsone.com.

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