ADVISORY/Mark Your Calendar for the 'Integrate Your Institution for Competitive Advantage' Webcast.

Assignment/News Writers

ADVISORY...for Thursday (Nov. 2)

Register and Receive a Complimentary White Paper: University of

Toronto - Integrating Student Services with Sagavista(TM)

Who: SAGA SOFTWARE, Inc. (SAGA(TM)) presents its "Integrate Your

Institution for Competitive Advantage" webcast designed to

educate the higher education community on how enterprise

integration (EI) is an enabling technology that is key to

achieving competitive advantage in this dynamic industry.

Register at http://www.sagasoftware.com/ecast.

What: Attend SAGA's "Integrate Your Institution for Competitive

Advantage" webcast and hear two of North America's largest

higher education institutions describe how using Sagavista

enables them to provide better service and achieve

competitive advantage. You'll also hear from an industry

expert who will detail why Sagavista is the Integration

Broker of choice.

FEATURED SPEAKERS:

Graham Kemp, Director, Administrative Management Systems, University of Toronto (U of T), will present how U of T implemented improved student services by integrating student and employee data. Also, you will learn why SAGA was recently awarded for the "Best Enterprise Application Integration (EAI) Implementation" for helping North America's largest higher education institution integrate everything from the mainframe, to the web, to voice response, to PalmPilots- all with Sagavista, SAGA's leading application integration engine.

Howard Murphy, Associate Vice Provost of Miami-Dade Community College (MDCC), will detail how Sagavista is helping MDCC better serve their customers through the integration of key technologies--web, wireless, mainframe, voice response unit-- by communicating with XML.

Jonathan Kinberg, SAGA's Technical Marketing Manager, will discuss the values and benefits of EI, why Integration Brokers are critical tools in EI, and a high-level overview of Sagavista, SAGA's Integration Broker.

When: Thursday, November 2nd, 2000

10:30 AM EST and 1:30 PM EST

Where: For more information and to register, please visit

http://www.sagasoftware.com/ecast.

About Sagavista

Sagavista is an award-winning e-business integration software solution designed to help businesses deliver on the promise of virtually seamless integration of mission-critical applications. Sagavista's sophisticated architecture is 100% Java(TM)-based and is distinctive in the marketplace with its state-of-the-art XML infrastructure.

Intelligently linking front office web applications with virtually any operating environment within an enterprise, Sagavista's unique design can increase an organization's productivity by eliminating up to 80% of the coding required by traditional application integration approaches. Sagavista extends the flow of communication by connecting data exchange between organizations and their customers, suppliers and partners in the emerging B2B integration marketplace.

Organizations using Sagavista's Intelligent Agent Adapters, Integration Broker and Integration Workbench can now integrate their web applications with packaged, custom-developed or legacy applications - up to ten times faster than it typically takes using traditional means.

About SAGA SOFTWARE, Inc.

SAGA, based in Reston, Virginia, offers a full suite of e-business integration and enterprise systems software that extends and supports billions of mission critical transactions daily for some of the world's largest organizations. SAGA's products and services leverage existing IT investments by connecting customer's existing and packaged applications with the newest e-business processes and applications-thereby enabling its customers to free their information from the heart of the enterprise to the desktop.

SAGA's parent company is traded on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol AGS. For further information, please visit the Company's Web site at www.sagasoftware.com.