ATK Chooses Authoria to Deliver Superior Quality of Employee Services; Authoria HR Empowers ATK to Provide Health and Welfare Benefits Information to 6400 Employees Nationwide.

Business, High-Tech and Human Resources Editors

WALTHAM, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 22, 2001

Authoria Inc., the trusted world leader in personalized, dynamically generated, Web-based communication, today announced that Minneapolis-based Alliant Techsystems (NYSE: ATK), a national supplier of aerospace and defense products, has chosen Authoria HR 3.0 as the cornerstone of its Web-based communication in its HR call center. ATK rolled out the first phase of its new employee communication program on April 2, 2001 with Authoria HR providing consistent delivery of health and welfare benefits information services to 6400 active employees nationwide via call centers.

"Authoria HR gives ATK the vehicle to improve the quality of service to its national employee base," said Tod Loofbourrow, president and CEO of Authoria. "Authoria HR enables ATK to establish a service center environment where its employees know they can count on a single resource for consistent, thorough and personalized HR and benefits information."

Authoria HR 3.0 is a Web-based application designed for the communication of benefits plan and HR policies to employees. Deployed via the Web, HR intranets for employee self-service (ESS), or within call centers, Authoria HR uses a knowledgebase structure especially developed to handle the complex nature of employee information, benefit plan and HR policy design. Authoria HR enables employers to strengthen their relationship with their employees by providing dynamic, personalized and consistent answers to the questions they have about their 401(k) plan, health coverage, or sick and vacation time, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.

Authoria HR enabled ATK to switch from a decentralized, business-unit-specific model of information distribution to a centralized communication system capable of managing HR and benefit data for the entire organization. Prior to implementing Authoria HR, ATK serviced HR and benefit needs at the local level.

"Because of Authoria HR, a staff of 10 in our central offices can provide the same level of services as 20 people distributed among our individual locations," said Brenda Byron, manager of HR Shared Services for ATK. "We wanted to ensure that an ATK engineer in Salt Lake City, upon contacting our call center for HR, will receive the same quality of employee services as an ATK engineer in Minneapolis. Authoria HR enables us to deliver on that vision." ATK next plans to roll out the defined benefit, defined contribution modules as well as the life events component of Authoria HR 3.0. That is slated for a go-live date of June 1, 2001.

"Authoria HR enables ATK's HR staff to focus on other strategic goals," continued Byron. "By centralizing the administration of HR services, we are able to reduce the work effort that is repeated from location to location and improve the reliability of the information that we provide our employees. Establishing best practices within our enterprise ensures that it is possible for ATK to continue to invest in new programs that will make our business better. Authoria HR makes us a more efficient and more effective company."

About Authoria Inc.

Authoria is the trusted world leader in personalized, dynamically generated, Web-based communication. Authoria's software allows employers and benefit providers to communicate vital information to their employees and customers via the Internet, intranet or call center - anywhere, anytime. Millions of people rely on Authoria's products through leading outsourcers such as Buck Consultants, Inc. and Exult and Global 2000 industry leaders such as McDonald's Corporation, T. Rowe Price, Weyerhaeuser and Wells Fargo. With a unique blend of Internet technology and an unparalleled knowledgebase, Authoria HR(TM) 3.0 and Authoria AnswerWise(TM), provide employers and benefit providers with an application to deliver intelligent, personalized, Web-based answers to thousands of benefit and HR policy questions. Authoria's products instantly and dynamically generate answers to employee and member questions based on their individual needs.

Incorporated in 1997, Authoria has been ranked twice by Inc. Magazine as one of America's fastest-growing private companies and by Deloitte & Touche in the New England Fast 50 and National Fast 500. For more information, visit the Company's Web site at www.authoria.com or call 781-530-2000.

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