Basel, Switzerland and Auckland, NZ - August 1, 2008
AXICOS ANNOUNCES COLLABORATION AND JOINT MARKETING INITIATIVE WITH ACTIVEDOCS

Axicos Ltd and ActiveDocs International Ltd today announced that they have entered into a collaboration to jointly market their products carizma and ActiveDocs Opus™, both built on the powerful Microsoft .NET V3 Framework. The integrated solution of both products will deliver superior value to their clients.
"We're very happy to partner with ActiveDocs, as their state of the art products to automate complex and critical business documents perfectly complement our contract management solution, carizma" said Bernd Kottke, CEO of Axicos.

Glenn Ricketts, CEO of ActiveDocs said "This partnership allows our companies to provide a one-stop solution for world class contracts and alliance management combined with our world leading solution for document automation."
Carizma is a software product dedicated to the contract management process, including obligation management and automatic royalty calculations. Carizma is highly adaptable, and can be customized easily to support any company or industry. ActiveDocs Opus™ is a world-leading Document Automation Solution built on Microsoft® Office and Microsoft® Windows Server technology, and supports industry standard integration with data sources and document storage and handling applications. Templates are designed in Microsoft® Word and built from reusable components. ActiveDocs Opus has built-in management and deployment tools to allow Templates to be used for User-Driven (interactive) and Program-Driven (automated) document creation.

About ActiveDocs
ActiveDocs, founded in 1992, is an independent software vendor that delivers server-based document creation solutions. These significantly improve a corporation's productivity and efficiency by the automation of routine documents. A Microsoft® Gold Certified Partner, ActiveDocs has built its reputation delivering its solutions on the Microsoft® platform, bringing significant cost savings to businesses worldwide and dramatically enhancing corporate productivity. In addition to providing the software, ActiveDocs also provides services to assist with implementation, training and template creation.

ActiveDocs has offices in Auckland NZ, Kansas City USA, and London UK, and has over 60,000 users of ActiveDocs applications worldwide from around 450 companies, including 122 of the US Fortune 500. Customers' industries include Banking and Finance, Government (both Federal and State Local), Healthcare, Professional Services, Real Estate and Manufacturing. As well as customers in specific vertical industries, ActiveDocs has seen specific use of its ActiveDocs technology in Human Resources, Sales and Marketing proposals, Contract Management and General Business Administration.

About Axicos
Axicos Ltd is an innovative European IT company providing solutions and services focusing on business intelligence, corporate partnering and contract management.

Axicos solutions support companies in managing the full process of external relationships from first contacts to full contract implementation and compliance management.
When serving customers, Axicos understands the complexity that comes from having multiple systems, sites and business partners in place and is respectful of managements' needs.

Axicos was founded by senior healthcare industry executives and is headquartered in Basel, Switzerland's pharmaceutical hub, with additional staff in Hockenheim, Germany.