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Plumtree Expands 'Applications Reloaded' Workshop Series with Seven Customer Web Seminars Plumtree Customers Share Best Practices for Building Service-Oriented Applications and Managing Successful Portal Deployments SAN FRANCISCO, May 25 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Enterprise Web leader Plumtree Software today announced that seven customers spanning five industries will deliver "No Empty Portals! Applications Reloaded" Web seminars focused on sharing best practices for portal deployments and technical insights for building service-oriented applications. These Web seminars follow a nine-city No Empty Portals! Applications Reloaded seminar series earlier this year, attended by over 500 customers, prospects and partners. One industry analyst commented, "nobody delivers more value and wastes less time for interested parties than Plumtree." Topics addressed in this Web seminar series include: generating revenue via client extranets, reducing portlet development work for IT departments, designing and delivering corporate dashboards, deploying project- and department-based applications, and implementing collaborative workspaces across the enterprise. The public can register for the Web seminars at http://www.plumtree.com/04/nep . Planned dates and speakers for the "No Empty Portals! Applications Reloaded" series include: -- June 8: Enbridge Employee Portal: One Year Later -- Enbridge will discuss its portal, which has over 50 project- and department-driven applications like a health and safety application that shows loss time injury graphs, severity levels and preventable accidents; -- June 10: Corporate Dashboards: Cinergy at a Glance -- Cinergy will present its iPower dashboard, an enterprise-wide application for monitoring energy performance metrics; -- June 15: A Lesson in the Basics of Portal Deployment -- Arlington County will share its strategy for building, launching and marketing an internal portal for county staff; -- June 29: Building a Client Extranet Application -- Arthur J. Gallagher will present Gallagher Insight, a personalized, interactive application that allows customers to do business with the company faster and more effectively; -- July 13: Weyerhaeuser's Portal Education Program: Driving Adoption -- Weyerhaeuser will present its cross-departmental portal education and adoption strategy, a program for developing leaders capable of supporting and driving portal content within their own teams; -- July 20: Delivering Job-Critical Applications that Drive Value and Keep Adoption High -- Syncrude will share how it achieved enterprise-scale ROI from its ability to develop Web applications efficiently and at low cost within its MySyncrude.com portal; and -- July 27: IT Strategies: Empower your Customers -- Catalina Marketing will share how it created mission-critical collaborative applications for employees and customers while reducing IT development work by 50 percent. This Web seminar series is yet another step in Plumtree's Deployment Drivers program designed to drive the development of rich applications within the portal. As part of this program, customers receive useful tools and tips, including deployment checklists, sample hardware configurations and customer screenshots. The Web seminars will be recorded and available at http://www.plumtree.com/recordings/ , along with over 30 other customer case studies and presentations. About Plumtree Software Plumtree Software is the Enterprise Web leader. Plumtree's mission is to create a comprehensive Web environment for employees, customers and partners across the enterprise to interact with different systems and work together. Plumtree's Enterprise Web solution consists of integration products for bringing resources from traditional systems together on the Web, shared services such as collaboration, content management and search for building new Web applications, and a portal framework for delivering these Web applications to broad audiences. Plumtree's independence and its Web Services Architecture allow this solution to span rival platforms and systems, helping maximize customers' return on their existing technology investments. With offices in more than a dozen countries, Plumtree has licensed over 600 customers, including Boeing, Ford Motor Company, Procter & Gamble and the U.S. Navy. For more information, visit Plumtree on the Web at http://www.plumtree.com/. NOTE: Plumtree is a registered trademark of Plumtree Software, Inc. and/or its subsidiaries in the US and/or other countries. All other registered and unregistered trademarks in this document are the sole property of their respective owners. CONTACT: Carilu Dietrich Plumtree Software +1-415-399-7047 DATASOURCE: Plumtree Software CONTACT: media, Carilu Dietrich of Plumtree Software, +1-415-399-7047, or Web site: http://www.plumtree.com/04/nep Web site: http://www.plumtree.com/recordings Web site: http://www.plumtree.com/

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