Authoria Sponsors and Joins HR-XML Consortium as Charter Member.

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WALTHAM, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 28, 2000

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Authoria Inc., the leading provider of intelligent, Web-ready knowledgebase applications that enable personalized employee communication via the Internet and call centers, today announced its participation in the HR-XML Consortium. The Consortium is a non-profit group dedicated to the development and promotion of standardized human resources-related XML (Extensible Markup Language) vocabularies for enabling business-to-business e-commerce and the automation of inter-company exchanges of human resources data.

Tod Loofbourrow, President and CEO of Authoria said, "Authoria has been a clear leader in establishing XML standards for employers, insurance carriers, employees and other participants in the e-benefits and eWorkforce worlds. The HR-XML framework makes data exchange between internal and external HR applications seamless. This is very important in today's e-business environment where companies are communicating internally and externally via the Internet, intranets and extranets. HR-XML will play a leadership role in establishing standards that will reduce costs to all businesses and greatly improve communications."

Taking a lead role in the HR-XML is Authoria's director of software strategy, Tim Farlow. Farlow is serving on the Consortium's business steering committee and is also chairing the Cross-Process Objects Workgroup. Leading industry analyst, Naomi Lee Bloom of Bloom & Wallace, is an advisor to this workgroup.

"The adoption of HR-XML standards is critical to the effectiveness and efficiency of the entire HRM delivery system industry. I'm excited to see an industry leader such as Authoria actively involved in the Consortium and sharing so generously their intellectual capital to create robust, pervasive solutions at a time when HR-related issues are at the top of every CEO's agenda," shared Naomi Lee Bloom, who is also the author of the HRM Business Model "Starter Kit".

About Authoria, Inc.

Authoria, Inc. delivers the knowledge employees need: when they need it and where they need it. Over 5 million people are served by Authoria's products through leading outsourcers such as Buck Consultants and Global Fortune 2000 industry leaders such as AlliedSignal, Anheuser-Busch, Ford Motor Company, McDonalds, Sears, Roebuck and Co., Travelers Insurance, Union Pacific and Wells Fargo. Headquartered in Waltham, Mass., Authoria has been ranked by Inc. Magazine and Deloitte and Touche as one of America's fastest-growing private companies. For more information, visit the Company's Web site at www.authoria.com or call [phone].

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