Percussion Software is the first Enterprise Content Management (ECM) vendor to provide cost-effective, multi-channel delivery of easily reusable content.

Its flagship product, Rhythmyx, provides the industry’s only De-Coupled Delivery architecture for cost-effective scaling; the industry’s first Intelligent Relationship capability for proactively managing content dependencies and connections; and Active Assembly, a unique graphical user interface for enabling business users to easily reuse content. Percussion’s innovative approach shortens customers’ time-to-value and makes delivery of multi-channel ECM a practical reality for the first time.

Percussion’s portfolio of Rhythmyx customers includes global and market leaders McKesson Corporation, Armstrong World Industries and Network World. Rhythmyx boasts a long list of industry honors including Transform Magazine’s Best of AIIM 2003 Award, listing in the 2003 KMWorld 100 Companies That Matter in Knowledge Management, a 2003 Codie Award Finalist for “Best Content Management Solution,” and finalist in the category of “e-Business Foundations” for eWEEK’s 2002 eXcellence Awards.

As a testament to the effectiveness of the Percussion WCM solution, Thrifty Car Rental, a subsidiary of Dollar Thrifty Automotive Group, Inc., has gone live on Thrifty.com with the company’s Rhythmyx Enterprise Content Management system. Thrifty’s choice of the Rhythmyx solution focuses initially on the company’s online Special Marketing Programs, which are used by the headquarters staff as well as local franchise owners, to drive sales and build brand loyalty. All of Thrifty’s Internet presence, including up to 250 franchise sites, its extranet hub and its corporate Intranet, are today powered by the Rhythmyx content management system.

Bottom Line: Percussion is a growing, thriving company that has established itself in the middle ground of content management software. Its products strike the balance of high functionality and affordable pricing. Percussion is a privately owned company that was founded in 1994; it is self-funded and has had at least double-digit growth every year for its entire existence. The company has been profitable continuously since 1997. As the company notes, it was doing well “before the bubble, during the bubble, during the bust, and beyond.”

Percussion Key Strengths

• Percussion Software’s practical solutions enable customers to maximize both the value and quality of their enterprise content through cost-effective content management, ease of content reuse, optimized delivery to multiple channels and increased efficiency.
• The company’s flagship product, Rhythmyx 6.x, is an enterprise-ready Web Content Management (WCM) system for creating customer-centric business applications on the Web.
• For business professionals, Rhythmyx offers a simple user interface with powerful content reuse capabilities for publishing frequently-changing, customer-orientated content accurately and promptly to their Web site.
• IT professionals are drawn to the product’s De-Coupled Delivery architecture that seamlessly integrates with their existing infrastructure.
• Organizations powered by Rhythmyx gain a competitive edge with the ability to consistently deliver compelling content in a dynamic, constantly changing world.
• EContent Magazine named Percussion Software to its' List of ‘100 Companies that Matter Most in the Digital Content Industry’.