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Volkswagen Selects DOCUMENTUM

23 November 1998

Volkswagen Selects DOCUMENTUM as Enterprise Document Management Standard

      Projects at Volkswagen AG, Volkswagen Financial Services and Audi
                               Already Underway

    PLEASANTON, Calif., Nov. 23 -- DOCUMENTUM (R), Inc.
, the recognized leader in enterprise document and knowledge
management solutions for client/server and Web environments, today announced
that it signed a license agreement with Volkswagen in the third quarter of
1998.  The top selling European car importer in the U.S. selected the
DOCUMENTUM Enterprise Document Management System 98 (EDMS 98) as its worldwide
corporate standard for all document, Web content and knowledge management
applications.  The first in a series of projects are currently underway at
Volkswagen Financial Services AG, the legal and human resources department of
Volkswagen AG and the research and development department of Audi AG.

    Functionality, Scalability and Integration With SAP R/3 Drove Purchase
    Decision
    Volkswagen adopted EDMS 98 as its corporate standard to effectively manage
the vital corporate knowledge contained in documents and to enable knowledge
sharing across the enterprise.  Volkswagen regards EDMS 98 as a strategic
infrastructure layer to improve productivity and profitability.  The company
is employing EDMS 98's rich functionality to implement highly automated,
efficient document-centric business processes and to link unstructured
documents with structured, transaction-based data managed by SAP R/3.  Due to
Volkswagen's global reach, scalability and first-class intranet capabilities
were crucial factors in their software selection.
    "We have standardized on DOCUMENTUM because of its rich functionality and
scalability.  EDMS 98 is ideally suited to be the common base for automating
all document-centric business processes," said Karl-Heinz Hornbostel, Manager
Informatikzentrum at Volkswagen in Wolfsburg, Germany.  "Document and
knowledge management are among the key technologies enabling shorter
development cycles, higher quality, profitability and growth in the
increasingly competitive global automotive market."
    "We are pleased to announce our selection as the corporate standard at one
of the world's leading automotive companies and all of their subsidiaries,"
said Jeffrey A. Miller, president and chief executive officer of DOCUMENTUM.
"Volkswagen is a great example of how our technology contributes to enterprise
solutions that meet global customer needs and further demonstrates our ongoing
success in the automotive industry."

    About Volkswagen
    Volkswagen (VW) with sales in 1997 of 113 billion DM is the largest car
producer in Europe.  The company's auto divisions include its namesake
Volkswagen, Audi (luxury models, Germany), Lamborghini (luxury sports cars,
Italy), Bentley (luxury models, UK), SEAT (sports cars, Spain), and SKODA
(family cars, Czech Republic).  VW makes about 4.3 million cars annually at
plants across Europe as well as in Africa, the Asia/Pacific region, and North
and South America.  The firm also offers consumer financing.

    About DOCUMENTUM
    DOCUMENTUM ( http://www.DOCUMENTUM.com ) develops, markets and supports a
family of enterprise document management products that improve the
effectiveness of the organization based on a company's business-critical
information and proven processes.  Headquartered in Pleasanton, California,
DOCUMENTUM sells its products and services worldwide through a direct sales
force, systems integrators and affiliated distributors.  DOCUMENTUM is the
recognized leader in the document management market, with global customers in
the process manufacturing, discrete manufacturing, finance and government
services sectors.
    NOTE:  DOCUMENTUM is a trademark of DOCUMENTUM, Inc. and may be registered
in certain jurisdictions.  All other company and product names are used for
identification purposes only and may be trademarks of their respective owners.