Avidian Upgrades Outlook 2003 with True Integrated Sales Opportunity Management.

Business Editors/High-Tech Writers

SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 7, 2004

New version of Prophet 2004 transfers easy-to-use sales opportunity

management to Outlook 2003 challenging Business Contact Manager

as the choice for business relationship professionals

Avidian Technologies today announced the release of Prophet 2004 1.5, offering enhancements to both its single-user platform and the Prophet 2004 Server Edition. Compatibility with Outlook 2003 leads the list of feature enhancements bringing patent pending sales opportunity management, reporting, opportunity data sharing and personalized group e-mail solutions to the latest version of Microsoft Outlook.

"Compatibility with Outlook 2003 was the No. 1 request from current and potential clients," explained Tim Nguyen, Avidian co-founder and CIO. "Prophet 2004 now offers people a more intuitive way to add sales opportunity management to Outlook 2003 than Business Contact Manager."

In addition to being compatible with Outlook 2003, key additions to Prophet 2004 include:

-- The ability to send HTML and images in the Personalized, Group

Email Wizard from within Outlook in addition to standard text

formats.

-- Access to Exchange Public folders from the integrated Outlook

and Prophet 2004 interface.

-- The option to e-mail opportunity data in addition to sharing

data in a peer-to-peer mode or centralized server mode (with

Prophet 2004 Server Edition and Prophet 2004 Professional).

-- New built-in reports requested by current Prophet users

including a summarized contact detail listing.

-- Expanded customization of Prophet with new user-defined tabs

and fields.

-- Additional custom reporting features including access to new

data fields.

Prophet 2004 combined with Outlook 2000, XP or 2003 provides a single contact management interface for sales opportunity management, e-mail communications, calendaring, task management, and sales pipeline reporting. Prophet also streamlines the sales management process, which enables sales personnel to focus on the most important sales tasks each day. Prophet 2004 Server Edition adds a centralized data storage component for sharing data across the network or enterprise.

"Finally, a program that effectively utilizes the power that exists within Outlook 2003," said Al Shelley, director of sales, SATECH Inc. "No need to reinvent the wheel or recreate contacts, as other programs do, in order to integrate, track and record interactions with prospects and clients. Prophet 2004 has made the wheel better -- what a relief!"

Pricing and Availability

Prophet 2004 is available now for a downloadable retail price of US $149.95 from www.Avidian.com and Amazon.com. Prophet 2004 Server Edition is available now for a retail price of US $1,495 for Server and five client license pack from www.avidian.com.

About Avidian Technologies

Avidian Technologies, a Bellevue, Wash.-based software development company, is committed to creating solutions that help Outlook and Exchange users become more effective. Prophet 2004 leverages the .NET platform's programming efficiency to build the most important requirements of a world-class management solution into Outlook. For more information on Avidian and Prophet, please visit www.avidian.com.

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