ClearStory Announces Release of ActiveMedia 6.0 Pure J2EE Digital Asset Management System Enables Unprecedented Business Agility Through Industry Standard Architecture and Flexibility NEW YORK, May 9 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- ClearStory Systems, Inc. a leading provider of enterprise content management (ECM) solutions, today announced the release of ActiveMedia 6.0, the only pure J2EE digital asset management (DAM) software application currently available on the market. ActiveMedia 6.0 will be showcased in booth 216 at the Henry Stewart DAM & MOM Symposium on May 9-10 in New York. ActiveMedia 6.0 is built on ClearStory's Radiant Enterprise Media Server (EMS), a pure J2EE digital media engine that supports best practices IT infrastructures and offers a highly scalable platform for the solution. "ActiveMedia 6.0 is ideally suited to respond to market demands for the management of rich media, and well positioned to outperform the competition," said Henry F. Nelson, president and CEO of ClearStory Systems. "Other systems are J2EE only at the presentation layer, but ActiveMedia 6.0 is J2EE to the core, rendering a myriad of productivity efficiencies and scalability opportunities never before available to DAM users." ActiveMedia 6.0 builds on ClearStory's legacy of providing completely Web-based enterprise DAM applications with low total cost of ownership, powerful functionality, flexible metadata models, user simplicity, and high interoperability. The system also offers superior handling of compound documents such as QuarkXpress and Adobe InDesign, a critical requirement for marketing teams, advertising agencies, and marketing services firms. The proliferation and expanded use of rich media such as video, flash, presentations, and graphics has outgrown the capabilities of most legacy DAM systems. The systems were simply not architected to support the scalability required for environments with high volume assets and large user counts. This expanded use of rich media requires a solution that can support a distributed enterprise with geographically dispersed workgroups. ActiveMedia 6.0 offers an n-tier, pure J2EE design that supports the scalability requirements of modern DAM implementations. Its Web-based user interface offers rich functionality to support global marketing implementations that require the management and consumption of content by teams around the world. Enhanced features include a powerful metadata engine, a robust asset-level security model, and uncompromised functionality for managing complex video, multi-media graphics, compound documents and other rich media. About Radiant EMS Radiant Enterprise Media Server(TM) (EMS) helps companies achieve business agility. Radiant EMS offers companies a modern, J2EE service oriented architecture (SOA) software platform for delivering rich media solutions that can be utilized across a global organization. From marketing to sales, accounting to manufacturing, and to partners, resellers, and even consumers, EMS helps organizations deliver the right content, in the right format, to the right individuals. About ClearStory Systems ClearStory Systems is an established provider of flexible, on-demand ECM solutions. ClearStory's Radiant Content Suite provides discrete management and on-demand access for the full spectrum of content -- from graphics and video to customer statements and email. The company's standards-based technology provides a powerful platform for integrating rich media and business documents into a multitude of business-critical environments, including marketing and finance departments, call centers, channel partner portals, compliance initiatives, and global marketing extranets. For more information, visit http://www.clearstorysystems.com/. There are statements in this news release that contain forward-looking statements within the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, including, for example, the expected benefits of ClearStory's in-house hosting model, the anticipated customer demand for ClearStory's products and services (including its recently released ActiveMedia version 6 and its Radiant Enterprise Media Server), and the expected benefits to be derived from ClearStory's products and services. These forward-looking statements include all statements that are not statements of historical fact and relate to the intent, belief, plans or expectations of ClearStory Systems, their management, and their customers. Words like "plans," "intends," "believes," "signifies," "estimates," "anticipate," "will," "expect," and words of similar meaning are intended to identify forward-looking statements. Actual results may vary significantly from the forward-looking statements. For a detailed discussion of cautionary statements that may affect ClearStory's future results of operations and financial results, please refer to ClearStory's filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission, including its Annual Report on Form 10-KSB for the year-ended March 31, 2004, and its Quarterly Reports on Form 10-QSB. Actual results, events and performance may differ materially. Readers are cautioned not to place undue reliance on these forward-looking statements, which speak only as of the date hereof. The Company undertakes no obligation to release publicly the result of any revisions to these forward-looking statements that may be made to reflect events or circumstances after the date hereof or to reflect the occurrence of unanticipated events. DATASOURCE: ClearStory Systems, Inc. CONTACT: Susan Worthy of ClearStory Systems, +1-508-870-4225, ; or Valerie Harding of Ripple Effect Communications, +1-617-536-8887, Web site: http://www.clearstorysystems.com/

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