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Stellent Selected to Manufacturing Business Technology's List of the World's Top IT ProvidersEDEN PRAIRIE, Minn. --(Business Wire)-- July 19, 2005 -- 2005 Global 100 recognizes the "who's who" in supplying IT that drives productivity growth in the manufacturing industry Stellent, Inc. (Nasdaq:STEL), a global provider of content management solutions, announced today it has been selected to Manufacturing Business Technology's 2005 Global 100, an annual list of the world's top information technology (IT) providers to the manufacturing industry. The 2005 Global 100 rankings are based on each vendor's total revenues in calendar year 2004 and additional research. "Released each July for more than a decade, the Manufacturing Business Technology Global 100 says a lot about 'who's who' when it comes to supplying IT that drives productivity growth in the manufacturing industry," said Kevin Parker, editorial director for Manufacturing Business Technology. "We are pleased to include Stellent on our 2005 Global 100 list, as its enterprise content management (ECM) technology continues to help many manufacturers address key information lifecycle management challenges." For example, the Graphic Systems Equipment Group of Agfa Corp., a manufacturer of analog and digital systems for prepress and printing, healthcare and specialty industries, has enhanced its manufacturing operations using Stellent(R) Universal Content Management(TM), Stellent's flagship ECM suite, to power a number of applications, including a secure intranet and supplier extranet. "Stellent Universal Content Management enables us to provide both internal employees and external suppliers more timely and easy access to accurate digital engineering assets, such as drawings, specification documents and change orders," said R. "Chester" Holleran, senior engineering manager for Agfa Corp. "As a result, we have enhanced and streamlined the planning and production of our complex digital equipment and brought a better product to market." "We are pleased to be recognized by Manufacturing Business Technology as a global leader in the development of IT solutions for the manufacturing industry," said Robert Olson, president and chief executive officer for Stellent. "As manufacturers continue to face significant market pressures and increasing competition worldwide, Stellent Universal Content Management's comprehensive and unified functionality enables organizations of all sizes to deploy business-critical applications -- such as project intranets, supplier extranets, compliance initiatives and collaborative workspaces -- to increase productivity and quality, reduce costs and bring products to market quicker." Along with its Manufacturing Business Technology Global 100 distinction, Stellent has been honored by a number of leading publications and organizations for its product innovation, market leadership and successful customer implementations. Recent honors include: 2005 and 2004 "Best of Show - Enterprise Content Management" awards from AIIM E-DOC Magazine for the Stellent Universal Content Management system; two 2005 AIIM Best Practices Awards for enterprise-wide Stellent Universal Content Management implementations at Land O'Lakes and the City of Aurora, Colo.; 2005 I3 award for the Stellent Universal Content Management implementation at Emerson Process Management; 2004 Canadian e-Content Award for Stellent Universal Content Management deployment at Bell Canada; KMWorld "100 Companies that Matter in Knowledge Management;" EContent's EContent 100; and Supply & Demand Chain Executive's Supply & Demand Chain Executive 100. The 2005 Global 100 recipients are featured in the cover story of the July issue of Manufacturing Business Technology and online at www.mbtmag.com. To view case studies of Stellent implementations at numerous manufacturers, including Agfa, visit www.stellent.com/success. Stellent Universal Content Management Features Stellent Universal Content Management provides rapid success and distinct advantages to customers via its product functionality, breadth of content managed, unified architecture and ease-of-use -- all which enable fast implementations and quick user adoption. The Universal Content Management product suite offers a full array of enterprise content management functionality, including document management and imaging, Web content management, digital asset management, collaboration, and records management. The scalable system manages and delivers the entire spectrum of unstructured content, from documents, graphics and Web pages to scanned images, email and records. Stellent technology is standards-based, multi-platform and service-oriented, and provides productized integrations to leading application server, portal and enterprise resource planning applications. These solutions enable customers to easily deploy multiple line-of-business applications -- such as public Web sites, secure intranets and extranets, compliance initiatives and marketing brand management -- as well as multi-site management and enterprise-wide content management initiatives. For more information, contact Stellent at (952) 903-2000. About Stellent, Inc. Stellent, Inc. (www.stellent.com) is a global provider of content management software solutions that drive rapid success for customers by enabling fast implementations and generating quick, broad user adoption. With Stellent Universal Content Management, customers can easily deploy multiple line-of-business applications -- such as compliance initiatives, public Web sites, and secure intranets and extranets -- and also scale the technology to support multi-site management and enterprise-wide content management needs. More than 4,400 customers worldwide -- including Procter & Gamble, Merrill Lynch, Los Angeles County, The Home Depot, British Red Cross, ING, Vodafone, Georgia Pacific, Bayer Corp., Coca-Cola FEMSA, Emerson Process Management and Genzyme Corp. -- have selected Stellent solutions to power their content-centric business applications. Stellent is headquartered in Eden Prairie, Minn. and maintains offices throughout the United States, Europe, Asia-Pacific and Latin America. Any forward-looking statements in this release are made pursuant to the safe harbor provisions of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Investors are cautioned that all forward-looking statements involve risk and uncertainties including, without limitation, risks of intellectual property litigation, risks in technology development and commercialization, risks in product development and market acceptance of and demand for the Company's products, risks of downturns in economic conditions generally and in the Web content management tools and intranet information management markets specifically, risks associated with competition and competitive pricing pressures, risks associated with foreign sales and higher customer concentration and other risks detailed in the Company's filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Stellent and the Stellent logo are registered trademarks or trademarks of Stellent, Inc. in the USA and other countries. Outside In and Quick View Plus are registered trademarks of Stellent Chicago, Inc. in the USA and other countries. 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