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Leading Metal Fabrication Firm Streamlines Operations and Improves Competitive Edge With Xenos terminalONE™

National Industrial Concepts Streamlines Partner Transactions Over the Internet Using Transaction Gateway Solution From Xenos

TORONTO, Ontario, August 30, 2005 - Xenos Group, Inc. (TSX: XNS), the Data to e-Content Company™, today announced that National Industrial Concepts (NIC), a leading U.S. precision sheet metal fabrication firm, implemented the Xenos terminalONE real-time data transformation and delivery solution to automate more than 260,000 transactions annually. At NIC, Xenos terminalONE automates EDI to XML data transformation and provides rules-based, intelligent message routing to corresponding back office systems for transaction processing.

"In an effort to streamline operations and remain globally competitive, the rules of engagement are constantly changing. We needed a flexible solution that would allow us to quickly and efficiently transact with new partners, customers and suppliers - using the Internet as the network," said Tom Bailey, director of IT at NIC. "Xenos terminalONE automatically separates incoming EDI data into multiple messages and custom transaction types, and using dynamically configurable business rules, performs routing of each specific message to back office systems. By eliminating the need for manual data entry and report creation, Xenos terminalONE has dramatically improved data accuracy and enables us to rapidly integrate data from a variety of sources into our existing business environment. Our business model depends on it."

NIC relies on the Xenos solution to handle inbound and outbound message traffic from manufacturing partners throughout the world and to automatically trigger scheduled events such as running scripts, uploading, downloading, or e-mailing files. This scalable, standards-based solution seamlessly integrates with NIC's global business infrastructure, eliminating the need for manual re-keying of EDI data into its ERP system.

"Companies are forced to adapt their business models to maintain competitive advantages, and this pressure is prompting them to evaluate the ways in which they communicate with their trading partners over the Internet," said Patrick Smith, director of XML products at Xenos. "terminalONE products cost-effectively deliver on the promise of EDI over the Internet by providing solutions for secure message transport, high speed data transformation, and intelligent routing. As NIC has discovered, shifting customers and suppliers to this automated Internet transaction channel significantly reduces the time of order-to-cash and so boosts bottom line performance."

About Xenos

Xenos has provided data and document management 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 and Xenos 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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Xenos Group, Inc.
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