Nstein Technologies signs an agreement with Alis Technologies for a project with the French Ministry of Defence

2004-03-11

Montreal, March 11, 2004 - Nstein Technologies Inc. (TSX-V:EIN), the leader in software solutions for managing and retrieving unstructured information, announced today that it has signed a contract with Alis Technologies within the scope of a project with France's General Delegation for Armaments (DGA - an organization under the auspices of France's Ministry of Defence). The DGA is developing a project for an information portal for which Alis, through Nstein, will provide an expertise in the organization of unstructured information and automatic multilingual categorization. As per the agreement, the financial details regarding the sale have not been disclosed.

The DGA will be able to offer its users access to a multilingual information platform with advanced document search and classification features and a notification feature whereby individual users will be able to access the most recent information available in their selected areas of interest.

"Nstein is proud of this agreement because it allows us to offer our unstructured information management expertise in the very crucial area of national security," explains Mario Girard, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Nstein Technologies. He adds, "Nstein develops solutions and offers services to enable phenomenal amounts of unorganized information to be transformed into strategic and tactical data."

About Nstein Technologies 

Nstein Technologies develops and markets innovative and industry-proven content management indexing and concept extraction technology solutions that generate superior business intelligence and enable information-intensive organizations to discover new business opportunities as well as increase productivity, solve mission-critical business problems and secure competitive advantages. Nstein's technology solutions leverage the value of unstructured information and create knowledge capital for customers within the e publishing, financial, legal, government and homeland security markets. Nstein is headquartered in Montreal, Canada, with operations in New York, San Francisco, Washington DC, Boston. Nstein is a public company listed on the TSX Canadian Venture Exchange (EIN). For more information please visit our Web site at: www.nstein.com

About Alis Technologies

Founded in 1981, Alis Technologies is a world leader in Intelligent Multilingual Information Management (MIM) solutions helping businesses communicate more effectively in multilingual business environments and on the Internet. Whether for consulting services, Web site or software localization, professional or automated translation (gisting), Alis is the central control solution for Multilingual Information Management. Alis provides solutions to partners and customers such as IBM, Hewlett Packard, GE Capital, Bell Canada, Pictet & Cie Banquiers, Bombardier and Siemens. With offices in North America, Western Europe and the Middle East, its head office is located in Montreal, Quebec. For more information, please visit: www.alis.com

About the DGA

The DGA's missions consist primarily in developing a forward-looking 30-year plan that forms a working document that is edited annually to guide future preparedness actions within the Ministry of Defence. It directs defence research and studies. In addition, the DGA drives all implementation phases for the materiel required for France's defence: from preparation to commissioning. The methods used by the DGA aim to combine program cost, scheduling and performance objectives. Finally, the DGA is at the centre of the construction of a European defence dimension. It seeks to promote co-operation between our partners, assists the French industry with its international consolidation, and actively supports exports. For more information, please visit: www.defense.gouv.fr/dga/index.html

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