Abuzz Kicks Off Innovative Beta Program for Beehive Expertise Management Solution.

CAMBRIDGE, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 20, 1998--

Abuzz Client Advisory Board Helps Companies Define

Expertise Management Needs

Abuzz, an innovator in the emerging area of expertise management, today formally kicked off their beta program for Beehive(TM), the company's flagship expertise management solution. Beehive is a first-of-its-kind solution that enables organizations to easily and effectively capture and leverage expertise across the distributed enterprise.

Under Abuzz's beta program, Beehsiness objectives. Target markets include life esents the most valuable knowledge in an organization, yet as it exists within the minds of individual employees and is shared in a unstructured format, it is difficult toup. "By integrating within existing infrastrucs."

"Beehive enables companies to take a d paradigm for how organizations tap into the immense pool of unstructured knowledge that exists in the enterpxpertise."

Beehive represents a fundamentally new approach to solving the challenges of managing knowlenects people to people. By tapping into the unsnects people to experts and automatically builds a flexible, reusable repository of knowledge exchanges. Beeincrease the innovation, responsiveness and propertise management solutions. This initiative enables participants to network with other professionals deploye strategies to educate their companies on expehelp companies optimize Beehive across their ened for release in the first half of 1999. Signizations to succeed by leveraging the responsiveness, innovation and expertise of their people. Beehive, the organizations. By enabling the easy exchange and evolution of knowledge across the enterprise, Beehive fuelsd e-mail to [e-mail].