Appiant Technologies Gains Access to Over 24 Million Potential Subscribers Through Deal With Pipeline Technologies for UC/UI Offering.

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PLEASANTON, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dec. 4, 2000

Service to be Launched to Large Affinity

Marketing Groups February 2001

NHancement Technologies Inc. (Nasdaq:NHAN), now doing business as Appiant Technologies Inc., today announced a new unified communications customer, Pipeline Technologies Inc. (OTCBB:PLTN).

Appiant will deploy its unified communications/unified information product (UC/UI), inUnison(TM) Personal Information Portal, for Pipeline's nationwide customer base, giving Appiant access to more than 150,000 current Pipeline end-users nationwide, and based on Pipeline's market coverage, a potential reach of 24 million.

Pipeline will launch the inUnison portal with its standard long distance service beginning in February 2001. The inUnison product will be offered by Pipeline to its customers on a prepaid basis. The initial one-year contract provides Appiant with a minimum $1 million revenue stream, based on minimum penetration guarantees from Pipeline. Appiant and Pipeline will work closely together to drive adoption of the inUnison portal and applications among Pipeline's end-users, driving revenues well above the first year minimum commitment.

Pipeline provides prepaid flat-rate communications through its extensive distribution channels across the country, in markets comprising 70 percent of the U.S. population. Pipeline currently has contracts with a number of large affinity marketing organizations, including the North American Baptist Convention and Network America, totaling more than 150,000 members/customers. Pipeline is in negotiations with six additional national affinity marketing organizations to provide services that would include Appiant's inUnison(TM) UC/UI solution. The potential market is a membership base of 24 million members. The initial roll out of service is targeted to Pipeline's largest existing customer, the North American Baptist Convention.

Pipeline Technologies chose Appiant Technologies after conducting extensive research into the UC market. "As a Cisco Powered Network member, Appiant Technologies was recommended to Pipeline as having a robust solution built on a powerful unified communications platform," said John Gallen, COO of Pipeline Technologies. "The decision to work with Appiant Technologies was based on the company's rapid implementation capability, superior technology, and product scalability. Appiant Technologies offers a feature-rich, end-to-end solution that meets our specific needs."

"Thanks to an introduction from one of our key partners, we've landed a new customer for our inUnison product," said Doug Zorn, president and CEO of Appiant Technologies. "The inUnison portal provides substantial added value for Pipeline's broad customer base. Not only is inUnison a true value added service providing a new source of revenue for Pipeline, but also it reduces churn and fosters customer loyalty."

Appiant Technologies' inUnison IP-based portal provides a personalized, universal in-box with voice recognition and text-to-speech conversion that allows users to seamlessly link and manage their communications and information. The inUnison(TM) product facilitates all communications, including email, voicemail, fax, calendar, contact database, and corporate information, to be managed in real-time and in a highly personalized manner using virtually any device such as a PC, PDA, telephone, or cellular phone.

About Pipeline Technologies Inc.

Pipeline Technologies Inc. is in the communications business and is headquartered in Jacksonville, Fla. The company's address is 1001 Kings Avenue, Suite 200, Jacksonville, Florida 32207. For more information, please visit the company's Web site at www.ridethepipe.com.

About Appiant Technologies Inc.

Nhancement Technologies Inc., now doing business as Appiant Technologies Inc., (Nasdaq:NHAN), is a software application and infrastructure company that specializes in hosted end-to-end unified communications and unified information (UC/UI) applications for service providers. Appiant's offering is based on an open packet telephony architecture with a powerful, intuitive voice recognition interface. Through this technology, wireless carriers, LECs, ISPs and ASPs may offer consumers and enterprise employees the ability to manage in real-time, all of their telephone, email, voice mail, faxing, notification and Internet information.

Appiant's enabling technologies include data mining, data analysis, navigation, recommendation, and speech recognition engines that provide a unique ability to access important private, public, and enterprise data on the road as effectively as in the office. The inUnison(TM) portal allows all communication including email, voicemail, fax, calendar, contact database, and corporate information to be managed in real-time and in a highly personalized manner using virtually any device, such as a PC, PDA, telephone, or cellular phone.

Appiant Technologies is a Cisco Powered Network Member. Appiant is headquartered in Pleasanton, and has offices throughout the United States and abroad. For more information please visit the company's Web site at www.nhan.com.

inUnison(TM) is a trademark of Appiant Technologies.

Note: Except for historical information contained herein, the matters set forth in this press release are forward-looking statements. Forward-looking statements in this announcement are made pursuant to the "safe harbor" provisions of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Forward-looking statements are based on current management expectations that involve risks and uncertainties that may result in such expectations not being realized. Potential risks and uncertainties include, but are not limited to, the risks that the markets in which we compete do not grow as expected; that anticipated revenues will not be realized; that our growth will not continue with prior years' trends or with predictions; that our new business model will be successful; that we will be able to reach customers or gain new customers.