Avatier Releases the First Microsoft.NET Self-Service Password Reset Solution; Some Things Users Should Do for Themselves.

Business Editors/High-Tech Writers

SAN RAMON, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 13, 2002

Avatier Corporation, a leading provider of award winning Microsoft-centric Enterprise, Administration, Security and Productivity applications for the Global 2000, announced today the immediate release of Password Station.NET.

Password Station.NET is the first and only Microsoft.NET product that allows employees to securely and easily reset their forgotten password without help desk intervention. Password Station.NET reliably confirms user identities prior to allowing them to reset their own password, which eliminates the risks and complexities inherent in relying on the help desk to verify the identity of each user requesting a password reset.

Forgotten passwords waste valuable employee time, tie up constrained support resources and directly lead to lost revenue. According to Gartner, this endless problem accounts for over 30% of all Help Desk calls and leaves employees idle. Simply put, when systems are inaccessible, businesses lose money. Password Station.NET enables employees to regain 24X7 access to vital business resources and applications and be productive again.

"Avatier's newly released Password Station.NET provides a valuable solution for today's corporate customers who have come to rely on Exchange to conduct their business and cannot afford the lost productivity when passwords are lost," said Brian Valentine at Microsoft, product manager of the .NET initiative. "Microsoft is excited to be working with Avatier, a .NET developer, to offer customers an easy to use solution that boosts their productivity by maintaining access to Exchange 2000." Microsoft recently recognized Password Station.NET as MEC Awards 2001 Finalist.

Designed using Microsoft's cutting edge technology, Visual Studio .NET, and leveraging the .NET Framework, Password Station.NET also maintains backward compatibility to Microsoft Windows NT4 and Windows 2000.

"We built Password Station.NET from the ground up on Microsoft .NET technologies to provide our customers with a robust and scalable enterprise solution. The Microsoft .NET platform will give our customers the ability to integrate the Password Station.NET functionality into their own internal applications. Password Station.NET directly addresses one of the biggest network drains on productivity, the lack of access to network resources," stated Nelson Cicchitto, CTO of Avatier Corporation. "We developed Password Station.NET in direct response to the needs of our large corporate customer base."

Boost employee productivity and cut support costs today by contacting Avatier at [e-mail] for further information on Password Station.NET or visit www.passwordstation.net.

Avatier Corporation provides software solutions that dramatically improve employee productivity by securing, simplifying, and automating the management of distributed Microsoft environments. Avatier's products, Trusted Enterprise Manager (TEM), Password Bouncer, and Password Station.NET, allow large distributed enterprises like NASA, Delta Airlines, Pitney Bowes, Rockwell and the U.S. Armed Forces to decrease internal security exposures, increase the quality of their IT service levels, and lower their total cost of ownership of network technology. To contact Avatier Corporation, please call 925/831-4746, or email [e-mail]. Avatier can be found on the Web at: http://www.avatier.com.