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Monterey County Saves Money With Xenos infoWEB Report Distribution Solution

Document Distribution Application Helps to Enable Improved Service Levels at the Department of Social Services

TORONTO, Ontario, March 22, 2005 - Xenos Group, Inc. (TSX: XNS), the Data to e-Content Company™, today announced that Monterey County, California has installed the Xenos infoWEB document distribution application. The new implementation provides a cost-effective and rapid solution that transfers information electronically within government departments and helps to enable improved social services throughout the county.

"Responsible for providing government IT services to California's Monterey County, the Department of Information Technology was tasked with providing more efficient and integrated methods for distributing reports across all nine locations of the Department of Social Services (DSS)," said Virgil Schwab, director of information technology at Monterey County. "Previously, the DSS relied on paper-based information that was first printed, then compiled and hand delivered via courier to the appropriate location. This fragmented and manual process presented significant challenges to effective communication between DSS offices, which in turn, impacted the service levels to benefit participants."

Based on a referral from another California municipal government body, Monterey County identified the Xenos infoWEB software as the best solution for creating an electronic benefit distribution system that could expedite the delivery of detailed reports and statistical information to county employees. The ability to transform paper records into electronic reports reduces the cost and time associated with paper report distribution. Prior to this implementation, Monterey County was printing 700,000 pages per month. Xenos infoWEB consolidates information from incompatible systems and makes it available for Web viewing on demand, reducing the need for printed reports, and thereby saving the county over $100,000 per year in paper and toner supplies alone.

"The use of Xenos infoWEB within the County is growing through word of mouth and the users are driving its adoption," said Schwab. "Because of the rapid implementation and ease of use, the Xenos infoWEB solution has quickly expanded to encompass additional documents associated with welfare and child-care programs, Medi-Cal card benefits, general assistance, school book documentation and transportation assistance reports. We are extremely happy with the product solution and professional services provided by Xenos. The Department of Social Services intends to put all of its report information into Xenos infoWEB."

Xenos infoWEB enables Monterey County to extract, publish and disseminate critical business reports across departments. It delivers the information securely and quickly to any standard web browser, allowing employees to view the information in a familiar environment. Powerful search capabilities allow individuals to easily find particular documents, or specific information within a report.

"The Department of Information Technology is committed to providing strategic and cost-effective IT solutions to Monterey County," said Richard Lange, manager of business information technology at Monterey County. "The Xenos infoWEB solution is an example of an application that maintains a balance between efficiency and effectiveness, improving data integrity and security while streamlining access to information. Xenos has improved our internal operations through automation and process enhancement while maintaining flexibility and responsiveness to client demands for service and change."

Xenos infoWEB preserves Monterey County's existing IT infrastructure and avoids the need for costly custom programming or system upgrades. Once the county resolved how to move reports from the mainframe to the Xenos infoWEB server, the initial implementation for Monterey County was completed in about a week.

"The present economic climate is putting more pressure on local governments to enhance productivity while controlling costs. IT departments must do more with less and continue to extract value from existing investments," said Bill Kurtz, vice president of sales at Xenos. "The Xenos infoWEB solution has a rapid return on investment and provides Monterey County employees with the information they require to make informed decisions, respond quickly and provide exceptional service to case benefit participants."

About Monterey County

Located on the central coast of California, Monterey County government serves a population of approximately 415,000 individuals and its mission is to excel at providing quality services for the benefit of all Monterey County residents while developing, maintaining, and enhancing the resources of the region. The Monterey County Department of Social and Employment Services directly administers over seventy programs that daily serve an estimated 60,000 residents of Monterey County. These services include a variety of public assistance programs, employment services, family and children's services and programs for disabled adults and older individuals.

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.

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