Alliances Play Prominent Role in Synygy's Growth; Cooperation provides clients with a complete incentive comp solution and leads to significant new business for both Synygy and its partners.

Business Editors/Hi-Tech Writers

CONSHOHOCKEN, Pa.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 23, 2001

Synygy Inc., the largest provider of Enterprise Incentive Management (EIM) software and services, today announced that referrals from strategic alliance partners such as Hewitt Associates, William M. Mercer, Hay Group, Towers Perrin, and Nextera Sibson Consulting Group have accounted for half of the new Synygy clients signed within the past few months.

"The recent expansion in referral-generated sales is a tremendous validation that by working with Synygy, our partners can deliver complete variable pay solutions to their clients, from plan design, to system implementation, to on-going management of plans and special contests," said Mark A. Stiffler, president and CEO of Synygy. "It's great that our 100% success rate gives our partners the confidence they need to recommend us to their clients."

More and more companies are recognizing that well managed variable compensation plans can be an important vehicle for driving their company strategy forward by ensuring that people are rewarded for behaviors that support their strategy.

"With the pace of change in today's business environment, incentive compensation plans are growing more complex," said Joanne Dahm, principal, Sales Force Consulting, for Hewitt Associates. "Synygy's IC Expert solution recently allowed two Hewitt clients to implement complex sales compensation systems quickly, improving sales effectiveness."

"The implementation and on-going management of a new plan can be a difficult undertaking for any company. Synygy has a strong track record in helping companies roll out incentive plans quickly and easily," added Craig Ulrich, principal, Sales Effectiveness Practice, at William M. Mercer Inc., which recently referred a new client to Synygy.

The Synygy strategic alliance program is building a network of companies with expertise in areas related to incentive compensation, such as sales force effectiveness, employee motivation, customer relationship management, and systems integration. Current partners include:

-- plan design consultancies, such as William M. Mercer, Hewitt Associates,
Nextera Sibson Consulting Group, Towers Perrin, and Hay Group, which work
closely with their clients to improve sales force effectiveness and design
incentive compensation plans that motivate appropriate behaviors in alignment
with the client business strategy.

-- tangible rewards companies, such as Carlson Marketing Group and Maritz
Performance Improvement Company which provide their clients with non-cash
incentive rewards, incentive travel, and marketing research services to help to
maximize employee performance.

-- system integrators, such as Accenture, which concentrate on customer
relationship management (CRM) initiatives and other complex business systems
that improve company performance.

For more information on Synygy's Strategic Alliance program and becoming a Synygy partner, contact Bob Lis at [e-mail] (see separate release on promotion of Bob Lis to vice president, Strategic Alliances).

About Synygy

Synygy Inc., The Incentive Compensation Company(TM), is the largest provider of Enterprise Incentive Management (EIM) software and services. Synygy created the EIM industry in 1991, and Synygy's IC Expert(TM) software, now in version 8.1, has been used to implement and manage the variable pay plans for more of the world's largest corporations than any other solution.

Based in suburban Philadelphia, Synygy's success and rapid growth have been recognized on the Inc. 500 for the past four years and the Philadelphia Business Journal's Philly 100 for the past six years. Synygy was recently awarded the prestigious 2001 Workforce Optimas award for Vision in its human resources practices. For more information on Synygy, visit www.synygy.com.