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Arkansas Blue Cross and Blue Shield, an independent licensee of the Blue Cross and Blue Shield Association, selects Xenos d2e Platform™ Software

TORONTO, Ontario, September 17, 2002 - Arkansas Blue Cross and Blue Shield, an independent licensee of the Blue Cross and Blue Shield Association and the largest health insurance company in the state of Arkansas, has selected software from Xenos (TSE: XNS), the data to e-content companyT, to provide electronic document viewing for their employees.

Xenos d2e Platform software has been selected because of its flexibility, ease of use and quick time to market. Xenos d2e software is used to transform Arkansas Blue Cross and Blue Shield's printed statements into electronic formats. The statements are transformed into Adobe PDF format and stored on a FileNET image repository. Internal staff and external staff will have immediate access to these statements from the Internet.

"Right now we have a real problem viewing AFP print within our Enterprise. By converting AFP to standard PDF documents, we feel like this will help us serve our customers, both internal and external, better and more efficiently." said Hal Norman, Manager of Web Development.

"We are pleased to have Arkansas Blue Cross and Blue Shield as our customer," said Jim Farmer, President and COO of Xenos. "Health Insurers are looking for ways to improve the productivity of their staff and our d2e software significantly reduces the time spent waiting for statements."

About Arkansas Blue Cross and Blue Shield

Founded in 1948, Arkansas Blue Cross and Blue Shield, an independent licensee of the Blue Cross and Blue Shield Association, is the largest health insurer in Arkansas, serving more than 860,000 Arkansans. One of its subsidiaries, USAble Life, is the largest group life insurer in the state, with more than $9 billion in force. Arkansas Blue Cross and its USAble family of companies have more than 2,100 employees.

About Xenos

Xenos has provided data and electronic document transformation solutions for over 20 years. Its solutions are embraced worldwide, across a wide variety of industries, including healthcare, financial services and government. Xenos improves the efficiency of information and data management while preserving investments in existing IT infrastructure, systems, applications and procedures. Its solutions provide the capture, composition, transformation, enhancement, repurposing, storage, retrieval and distribution of documents across the enterprise. Xenos data solutions are used to integrate incompatible applications, business processes, enterprise systems, partners, structured data, databases and Web services. Its product offering includes Xenos d2e, Xenos infoWEB, Xenos terminalONE and GoXML. Xenos has offices in Canada, the United States, the United Kingdom and France. Xenos trades on the Toronto Stock Exchange under the trading symbol "XNS." For more information visit www.xenos.com.

President and COO
Jim Farmer
Tel: +1 (214) 969-5341 ext. 5308
Fax: +1 (905) 709-1023
E-mail: jfarmer@xenos.com

Investor Relations Contact:
Cory Pala
Xenos Group, Inc.
416-657-2400
cpala@xenos.com