NETB2B2 (AIM:NEB)
Software & Computer Services
http://www.netb2b2.com/


Strategy
The overriding business objective of the company is to become a leading provider of Internet-based business-to-business services. This objective is to be achieved through:
the acquisition of business service providers, where ownership by the Company will lead to enhanced market penetration and appropriate extensions to product offering; and
investment in and development of Internet-based business-to-business concepts.

Contact Details
Netb2b2 PLC
20/26 Brunswick Place,
London N1 6DZ

E-mail: Info@netb2b2.com
Investor Relations: IR@netb2b2.com


This technology services minnow is benefiting from restructuring its business, with a reduced loss in spite of a lower turnover. The company made a small trading profit - of 2,000 - which should bode well for the current financial year. Of its three trading divisions, cScape seems to be doing the best, winning a number of new projects and benefiting from the government's e-government initiative.
NetB2B2's publishing division ITM Graphics would appear to be breaking-even, while IBM business partner Blue Sky has changed its focus to higher margin hosting business, having shut down its consulting activities.

Shares says: Looks better placed after its share reorganisation and fund raising.

Normal market size:5,000
% spread: 21.4%


Highlights of ongoing group

Turnover 5.1million (2002: 5.7 million)

Ebitda 280,000 (2002: Loss 501,000)

Trading profit 2,000 (2002: Loss 0.973m)

Loss per share 0.07p (2002: Loss 0.84p)

Increase in operating companies client bases

Cash generative and profitable performance for cScape

Successful capital re-organisation

Successful placings raising 350,000 net of expenses


RNS Number:2696U
Net b2b2 PLC
15 January 2004

Netb2b2 plc

LAUNCH OF NEW CMS WIZARD IN CONJUNCTION WITH MICROSOFT
RESULT OF AGM

Netb2b2 plc, the AIM listed digital services group announces that its wholly
owned subsidiary company cScape Ltd has today launched a new Wizard tool
- The CMS Wizard, which will be given worldwide marketing support by Microsoft.

CMS Wizard has been jointly developed with Danish firm Mondosoft, and provides a
cost-effective way of building and maintaining a website. The CMS Wizard will
retail for $1,999.99 and is licensed on a per server basis. Revenue will be
split between the two firms.

The CMS Wizard requires minimal technical skills and has been developed to
create professional content managed websites from scratch within minutes.
Designed specifically to plug into both Standard and Enterprise editions of
Microsoft's Content Management Server, the CMS Wizard contains a range of
website styles designed to suit different organisational structures and comes
complete with an integrated search facility.

Netb2b2 plc Managing Director, Andy Gannon commented: "cScape has worked closely
with Microsoft Corp for over ten months to develop this product. Microsoft
promoted the CMS Wizard internationally to thousands of their Partners and
valuable feedback was canvassed from these parties to ensure the CMS Wizard
fully meets the needs of the partner community."

"We expect the product to be particularly successful in the public sectors,
particularly at the local government level. However, demand should also be
strong in corporates at a departmental level, where up until now they have
faced many deployment challenges when implementing a content management system
- a lack of relevant technical skills, prohibitive costs and lengthy timescales.
Using the CMS Wizard in conjunction with Microsoft's Content Management Server
companies can overcome these challenges by speedily creating well designed,
searchable, CMS-enabled websites at a fraction of the cost of previous
implementations."

Keith Young, Chairman, commenting at the Annual General Meeting of Netb2b2 plc
held today where all resolutions put to the meeting were duly passed, added:
"The positive trends mentioned in my chairman's statement of 19 November have
continued and we continue to place emphasis on both organic and acquisitive
growth going forward. It is very pleasing that our .Net Tools wizard has been
launched today in conjunction with Microsoft."

The CMS Wizard is available to purchase on-line at www.cms-wizard.com.

For further information, please contact:

Andrew Gannon Theresa Clifford John West / Claire Melly
Netb2b2 plc cScape Tavistock Communications
Tel: 020 7878 1007 Tel: 020 7689 8800 Tel 020 7920 3150





This information is provided by RNS
The company news service from the London Stock Exchange

END
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Current Price: 0.95-1.15 pence.

AIM-listed digital services group Netb2b2 put on 17.9% to 1.15p. On 15 January it said its wholly owned subsidiary cScape Ltd has launched a new tool for building and maintaining a website, the CMS Wizard, which will be given worldwide marketing support by Microsoft.

CMS Wizard, which has been jointly developed with Danish firm Mondosoft, will retail for $1,999.99 and is licensed on a per server basis. Revenue will be split between the two firms.

At last price ticks up, price 1.1-1.3 pence now, up 23.0%.

Delayed buys at 1.19 and 1.2 pence still coming through yet.

Neb's nominee broker that all shares have gone to institutions. none have gone to broker which is excellent news.

The large seller still clearing out stock hence the price back to 1.05-1.25 pence. Should be finished soon.

More delayed buys around 1.2 pence coming through.

Should continue rising again tomorrow.

A lot of buys have come through after close. Volume was very high again today.

750,000 buy at 1.18 pence just come through.

From Investtech (latest update after today's close):

Neutral (Medium term) - Jan 19, 2004
Has risen 136% since the bottom on 24 Mar 2003 at 0.50. Has broken up from an approximate horizontal trend. This signals a continued strong development, and the stock now meets support on possible reactions down towards the ceiling of the trend channel. Has risen strongly since the positive signal from a rectangle formation at the break through the resistance at 0.80. The objective at 1.09 is now met, but the formation still gives a signal in the same direction. The stock has support at p 0.60. The poor liquidity of the stock (traded 55% of the days, mean 4.72 mill per day) may weaken the analysis.

This signals a continued strong development - should see the rise continue for the next few days/weeks

Neutral (Short term) - Jan 19, 2004
Has risen 115% since the bottom on 1 Dec 2003 at 0.55. Has broken the rising trend up. This signals an even stronger growth rate. The stock has support at p 0.75. Poor liquidity (traded 55% of the days, mean 4.72 mill per day) weakens the analysis.

Some extracts taken from the Whitepaper on CMS-WIZARD.COM. Indicates to me that cScape is the main party that developed the wizard.

"Despite the deployment challenges of MS CMS it is very powerful and is now
considered second only behind IBM in the CMS market based on the sales of
Enterprise Edition.

In the Space of 18 Months, Microsoft has gone from nowhere to second position in the content management (CM) markettargeting the low-to-mid end of the market.

Microsoft Storms the Content Management Market, Ovum 2003

The release of MS CMS Standard Edition (under 7,000) should increase the
number of CMS adopters from the SMB market. However they still face
prohibitively high deployment costs. It is estimated that the cost of development can start from around $30,000 rising to in excess of $100,000. Even for larger enterprises these factors cause considerable obstacles when seeking to deploy multiple sub-sites (for example, for local regions or individual products)."

"The CMS Wizard Solution

The growing need for simple and cost-effective Content Management solutions has
lead cScape to pool their knowledge and experience in developing the CMS Wizard.

cScape have been building CMS enabled websites since 1996 and have considerable experience of building bespoke MS CMS solutions for clients. They have been working closely with Microsoft since 2000 and are a Microsoft Gold Partner. In October 2002, cScape was among the first UK partners to deploy MS CMS 2002. cScape is also a member of the Beta and Early Adopter Programs for MS CMS 2002, manages the MS CMS User Group and regularly exchanges product information with Microsoft in the UK and USA.

The idea behind the CMS Wizard began with a realisation that there are many
businesses that are currently barred from implementing a CMS, as a result of the
previously described deployment difficulties. cScapes extensive experience of
working with MS CMS 2002 meant they were ideally placed to leverage their
knowledge in developing the CMS Wizard.

The CMS wizard enables organisations to quickly build a website which reflects
their corporate image and is fully CMS enabled. It can generate a fully functional CMS enabled website in as little as 15 minutes. Overall implementation timescales are reduced to a number of days rather than months.

Who benefits?

Both End Customers and MS Partners face a number of obstacles in deploying MS
CMS solutions, the CMS Wizard addresses all these key issues.

CMS Wizard Solution for End Customers

For SMBs the benefits of building websites with the CMS Wizard are clear. It
provides them with a low-cost, fast and effective means of deploying a solution.
The scalability also provided by using MS CMS provides the opportunity to
experiment with CMS at a relatively low cost whilst still maintaining to option to scale the solution in the future if required. The CMS Wizard combined with MS
CMS Standard Edition provides End Customers with a high-quality solution and an
easy route to upgrading if required in the future. Once a site is generated using the CMS Wizard End Customers will have basic site maintenance capability which allows them to add, remove and rename the channels which form the sites
navigation. Everything else is managed through the MS CMS Console.

CMS Wizard Solution for MS Partners

There are a number of ways in which MS Partners can use the CMS wizard as an
accelerator for MS CMS projects:

Cut costs and time
Expand their service offering
Create prototypes
Build demos to use in new business pitches
Provide a training tool for MS CMS
Deploy departmental level websites

By using the CMS Wizard to deploy an out-of-the-box type solution for customers, partners are able to save both time and money. Using the CMS Wizard will prevent them from loosing business or having to reduce prices to compete against other potential providers. Ultimately, they can provide more scalable and future-proof solutions leading to long and happy client relationships.
MS Partners with relevant development skills can also use the CMS Wizard as a
starting point for site development. Sites generated by the CMS Wizard utilise
Cascading Style Sheets (CSS); thus sites generated by the Wizard can be
developed further by modifying the CSS. Additionally, the CMS Wizard also allows
developers with the relevant skills to open the site as a Visual Studio Project.
MS Partners who wish to expand their service offering can use the CMS Wizard to
add MS CMS solutions to their portfolio. For many consultancies, CMS is simply
not a solution currently provided because it is too difficult to implement. The CMS Wizard allows a consultancy to offer MS CMS solutions without prerequisite
technical knowledge. For other consultancies, the CMS Wizard offers a means of
supplying CMS sites to a range of clients who could not afford a full-bespoke
development. This will help to really expand the potential market place for MS
CMS and its associated services.

Project deployment timescales can be extensive. By using the CMS Wizard to
build initial prototypes at the beginning of a project, the consultation period with a client can be dramatically reduced.

Sales teams can use the CMS Wizard to demonstrate the functionality of MS CMS
and their service offering. This type of demonstration ordinarily requires
development time but with the CMS Wizard sales people are empowered to build
their own MS CMS sites in a matter of minutes. The appearance of a
demonstration site can quickly be designed to reflect the needs of potential clients.

New business prospects can thus be shown a working prototype MS CMS site
functionality.

The CMS Wizard can also be used by CTECs (Certified Technical Education
Centres) who provide training in using MS CMS. A CMS Wizard built website
provides CTECs with the ability to rapidly create customised training sites and
present alternatives to the Woodgrove Bank sample site. These sites can be
subsequently used to provide training in the use of the CMS console, the
publishing process, workflow and archiving with MS CMS.

Larger organisations who have already deployed CMS enabled sites may also
require smaller satellite sites at a departmental or regional level. Using the CMS Wizard, a low-cost and easily deployed solution could be incorporated into proposals, or as an additional service for clients requiring implementation of larger CMS projects.

CMS Wizard Features

The CMS Wizard helps organisations in building CMS enabled websites in a cost
and time efficient manner.

The key features and benefits of the CMS Wizard include:
12 cScape developed controls
Bespoke Mondosoft search
Built to plug easily into MS CMS SE
Professionally designed site templates
Low cost solution
Rapid deployment
Requires no or few technical skills

12 cScape Developed Controls

The CMS Wizard comprises of 12 custom built components. These components
define the structure and navigation of a CMS Wizard built site. These controls
include:

Navigation used to create the primary navigation and the drop down
navigation
Meta Control A placeholder control used to produce Dublin Core metadata
Post List used to display a user defined number of postings from a specific
channel.
Resources shows the date a file is uploaded and the size of a file
CMS Hierarchy used to create an A-Z, sitemap and top and bottom global
navigation
Post in Property Display used to display properties of the current posting,
such as the last updated time of a posting and the web browser title.
Wizard Console A CMS Wizard specific console

Mondosoft Search

TThe CMS Wizard includes a lite edition of MondoSearch which provides a search
capability for up to 1000 pages. The search engine includes automatic
categorisation, phrase search, wildcard search, automatic ranking control, keyword indicators, indexing of PDF and MS Office files, file type indicators and stemming.

cScape Strategic Internet Services Ltd 2003"

Price up to 1.1 - 1.25 pence.

Price up to 1.1 - 1.3 pence now, up 4.3% so far.

Opening trades coming through now, they all buys at 1.18 pence and 1.2 pence - appearing in sell column. Decent size buying.

Delayed 500,000 buy reported at 1.2 pence.

Hi SH, I hold a bit of these !

Hi there, these are one of best picks at the moment.

I think business to business e-Commerce is going to grow significantly this year. Business to Business e-Commerce has potential.

Some very good delayed buys have come through around 1.26 pence.

A 1.5 million buy has also been reported at 1.2 pence.

Price 1.2-1.35 pence now, up 10.8%. Looking healthier as it has broken the resistance at 1.15 pence (trend line).