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Achievement reflects company's commitment to software and services quality CARLSBAD, Calif., Sept. 5 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Document Sciences Corporation (NASDAQ:DOCX) today announced that its Beijing development center has achieved CMMI Level 5 certification, the highest level in the quality standard. Capability Maturity Model Integration (CMMI) focuses on improving process quality in software and service development and delivery. Document Sciences leads the market in providing customer communications management solutions for personalizing contracts, policies, statements, correspondence and other critical client communications. Quality is a critical component of customer communications management. "We rely on our Beijing operation for both software product development and customer-specific service projects," said Douglas Winter, Chief Operating Officer for Document Sciences. "Through best practices and disciplined development this team delivers higher quality at a lower cost." The CMMI ratings were defined by the Software Engineering Institute, a federally-funded R&D center at Carnegie Mellon University. The standard encourages progression from ad hoc processes at Level 1 to continuous process improvement at Level 5. This progression yields clear benefits for both the certified company and its customers, including: -- Faster turnaround to new releases -- Better schedule adherence -- Lower software unit cost -- Smoother delivery to customers -- Increased development productivity -- Reduced cost to fix defects "These benefits have been quantified by some of the largest and most respected companies in the Fortune 500," said Winter. "By adhering to the same standard, we pass these same benefits on to our customers." The Beijing development center is part of Document Sciences subsidiary Objectiva Software Solutions. About Document Sciences Document Sciences is a market-leading global provider of customer communications management solutions. Our award-winning xPression software suite enables organizations to automate the creation and delivery of well-designed, highly personalized communications -- from customized marketing collaterals, contracts and policies to high-volume relationship statements and correspondence. More than 500 content-driven organizations worldwide, including over 60 FORTUNE Global 500 companies, use Document Sciences' solutions to reduce development costs by up to 90%, improve time-to-revenue by as much as 75%, and enhance the overall customer experience with highly effective 1:1 communications. Based in Carlsbad, California, with award-winning offshore services operations in Beijing, China and offices across the U.S., in London and Sydney, Document Sciences also markets its products in Europe, Australia, Canada, New Zealand, Latin America, Asia and Africa. For more information about Document Sciences Corporation, call 888.4.DOC.SCI or visit http://www.docscience.com/. This press release may contain "forward-looking" statements about possible or assumed future results of our financial condition, operations, plans, objectives and performance. You can identify these statements by the fact they use words such as "believe," "expect," "anticipate," "estimate," "project," "intend," "plan" or similar expressions. Many possible events or factors could affect our future financial results and performance. This could cause our results or performance to differ materially from those expressed in these forward-looking statements. Some of these events or factors include the following: (i) national, international, regional and local economic, competitive and regulatory conditions and developments; (ii) the market for dynamic content publishing software; (iii) market acceptance of enhancements to our existing products and introduction of new products; (iv) continued profitability of our professional services; (v) maintaining our relationships with Xerox Corporation and our other distribution partners and/or other risks detailed from time-to-time in our SEC reports, including the report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2006. We do not undertake, and specifically disclaim, any obligation to update forward-looking statements. DATASOURCE: Document Sciences Corporation CONTACT: Editorial, Dane Becker, , or Investors, Leslie Weller, , both of Document Sciences Corporation, +1-760-602-1400 Web site: http://www.docscience.com/

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