Authoria Unveils Authoria HR 3.0 at Annual HR Technology Conference; New Version of Flagship Product Offers Significant Ease-of-Use Features to Enhance Productivity.

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HR Technology Conference and Exposition

LONG BEACH, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 25, 2000

Authoria Inc., the leading provider of personalized HR communication applications, today announced Version 3.0 of its flagship product, Authoria HR. Accessed via the Internet, corporate portal or call center, Authoria HR 3.0 is an intelligent Web-based application that provides dynamically generated personalized answers to employees' questions about benefits and HR policies -- answers when and where employees need them. Authoria HR Version 3.0 offers customers the utmost flexibility in how they deliver information, and it provides a Web-standard look and feel, dynamic navigation, dynamic plan comparison charts and simplified authoring tools.

Authoria HR 3.0 provides dynamic navigation through which employees or CSRs can access their information. The customer has broad flexibility in naming and structuring their information. For example, a category can be named "Life Events," "At Home," "Family Choices" or any other meaningful name that speaks uniquely to the organization. With this flexibility, Authoria HR 3.0 ensures that employees can access the information in ways that reflect the company's vernacular and naming conventions. If there is a category in the navigation bar that doesn't apply to a particular group, that particular category will not show. For example, if part-time employees do not receive medical benefits, the category "Health" will be omitted from those employees' navigation bar as Authoria HR automatically personalizes the delivery of content based on employee log-in.

"Authoria HR 3.0 is the key to effectively reaching employees in a highly personal way using technology, making them feel connected, an important part of an organization," said Tod Loofbourrow, president and CEO of Authoria Inc. "Authoria HR reduces the administrative demands on HR personnel and raises employee satisfaction, as well as the responsiveness of the HR organization. The enhancements offered by 3.0 will truly provide today's eWorkforce with the personalized employee self service experience that they have come to expect at net-speed -- the ultimate in Web personalization."

Authoria has pioneered the ability to provide dynamic personalized answers to HR questions such as "Am I covered for back pain treatments?," driven by data taken from an HRIS system. Authoria HR 3.0 takes these answers a step further with dynamic plan comparison charts. With Authoria HR 3.0's dynamic plan comparison charts, employees can compare any aspect of the plans that they are eligible for, and can easily create personalized comparisons of anything from maternity benefits to dental coverage to prescriptions drug coverage. Authoria HR 3.0 draws personal data from HRIS systems to present comparisons in a meaningful and personalized chart based on the specific plans for which an employee is eligible and the features that are of interest to that employee.

Authoria HR 3.0 also offers a new "Designer" tool to provide faster implementation and easier maintenance of Authoria's dynamic web pages. This enhancement is a consolidation of what were previously three separate authoring tools to provide ease and flexibility for entering, managing and maintaining critical personalized HR communication.

More About Authoria

Authoria, Inc. delivers the kind of personalized, high-touch support that employees need - when they need it and where they need it. Over 7 million people rely on Authoria's products through leading outsourcers such as Buck Consultants, Inc. and Exult and at Global 2000 industry leaders such as Anheuser-Busch, McDonald's Corporation, T. Rowe Price, 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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