IXOS Appoints New Chief Executive Officer for the EMEA Region / Simon Khosla joins IXOS with many years of experience in sales, marketing and strategic business

Grasbrunn/Munich, Germany (PROTEXT/ots) - IXOS SOFTWARE AG, aworldwide leading provider of eBusiness document managementsolutions in inter-enterprise system environments, todayannounced the appointment of Simon Karl Khosla (49) as ChiefExecutive Officer for IXOS SOFTWARE International AG in Biel,Switzerland. He will be reporting to Jürg Wyttenbach, the Head ofGlobal Sales and Marketing at IXOS SOFTWARE AG and become amember of the IXOS senior management team. Simon Khosla will be responsible for the Europe, Middle Eastand Africa (EMEA) sales region of IXOS SOFTWARE AG, which coverssales offices in the UK, Scandinavia, Benelux, Czech Republic,Austria, Switzerland, Italy, France, Spain and Portugal. Simon Khosla brings a multinational background to the IXOSteam. He is a citizen of Switzerland and Britain. His educationalbackground includes a Diploma in Marketing and InternationalStrategy from the University in St Gallen, Switzerland andfurther studies in Business Planning from Babson College inBoston, Massachusetts. Simon Khosla described his plans for his new leadership role,"The responsibility for IXOS' European operations represents acompelling challenge for me. I am excited to join a highlymotivated international team. IXOS is well-positioned to expandits customer base and market share in Europe through a trulycustomer-oriented organization. Customers trust in the IXOS-eCONSolution Suite, which speeds up their business processes andensure a fast return on their investments." Simon Khosla joins IXOS with 20 years of experience in sales,marketing and General Management. As a Swissair delegate andGeneral Manager for Amadeus Marketing he was actively involved inthe building up of Galileo International, a global traveldistribution system. He was General Manager of the firstinternational branch office in Germany. He then moved to Amadeusas General Manager of Amadeus in Great Britain and Switzerland.He joins IXOS from Siemens Business Services (SBS) where he hasbeen responsible for the management Line of Business Travel andTourism within SBS, and more recently was a founding member of aSiemens spin-off company dedicated to Mobile Travel Solutions, asVide President Business Development and Sales. Jürg Wyttenbach, Head of Sales and Marketing at IXOS SOFTWAREAG, commented, "We are delighted that such an experienced manageras Simon Khosla is heading our European operations. Simon bringsa multicultural background and excellent management expertise inthe field of international sales, marketing and businessdevelopment to the IXOS senior management team. His experience insoftware and solution sales will be instrumental in guiding theIXOS growth in the EMEA region." About IXOS IXOS is a worldwide leading provider of solutions for themanagement of eBusiness documents in inter-enterprise systemenvironments. IXOS solutions drive the administration of alleBusiness documents and their seamless integration into digitalbusiness processes. The modular IXOS-eCON Solution Suiteencompasses four products, which are fully compatible, to provideexceptional scalability, performance, security, and availability.The high-performance and scalable IXOS-eCONserver is at the coreof data and document archiving. The applications of IXOS-eCONtextbuilt on this server enable access to documents that aregenerated in leading transaction-based systems and which havebeen linked to relevant business processes. IXOS-eCONtent for MSExchange is a document management system for the knowledgeworker, who operates in the Microsoft Groupware environment.With the universal document portal, IXOS-eCONcert, users can viewall critical business documents, whether from SAP, mySAP.com,mySAP CRM, Siebel or customer-specific applications, from asingle source. Leading companies from various industries have selected IXOSSOFTWARE AG to be their strategic partner. IXOS has more than1,400 installations worldwide, and over 900,000 users alreadywork successfully with the eBusiness document solutions of IXOS.Complementing the product portfolio, IXOS offers a comprehensiverange of services including worldwide customer support 24x7 and aglobal team of highly qualified consultants. Shares of IXOS SOFTWARE AG are traded on the Neuer Marktsegment of the Frankfurt Stock Exchange under the symbol "XOS"(WKN 506150). In the USA, American Depositary Shares (ADSs) arelisted on the NASDAQ National Market under the symbol "XOSY".ots Original Text Service: IXOS Software AG Internet:http://recherche.newsaktuell.de You can obtain furtherinformation from: IXOS SOFTWARE AG Corp. Communications D-85630Grasbrunn / München Tel.: +49 89 46 29 2000 Fax: +49 89 46 291399 email: pr@ixos.de

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