Avolent Announces Immediate Availability of Enhanced BizCast Platform; Accelerated Delivery and Enhanced Feature Set Direct Result of Recent Acquisition.

Business Editors

SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 30, 2000

Avolent, Inc. (formerly Just in Time Solutions, Inc.), the leading vendor of Electronic Bill Presentment and Payment (EBPP), Electronic Invoice Presentment and Payment (EIPP) and Interactive Customer Care (ICC) solutions, today announced the immediate availability of its BizCast(TM) platform. Leveraging proven technologies acquired as a result of Avolent's recent union with Solant, Inc., BizCast offers enhanced functionality for the delivery of interactive electronic invoices between billers, biller service providers, banks and business customers (payers).

"Just two weeks ago we stated that by joining forces with Solant we would produce immediate benefits for the market. Today we begin delivering on that promise by announcing the release of BizCast four months earlier and more fully featured than previously planned," said Douglas S. Thompson, chairman and chief executive officer of Avolent. "We are the only company capable of providing a complete, feature-rich solution that meets the needs of business-to-business billers, service providers and payers. We have three customers using BizCast in production, and an additional two slated to go live within 30 days. With these customers, we have clearly established ourselves as the EIPP market leader."

Moreover, BizCast technology has had successful real-work implementations, such as Advanced Radio Telecom [NASDAQ:ARTT], a leading broadband wireless Internet Protocol service provider. Advanced Radio Telecom currently offers high-speed, metropolitan area networks at speeds up to 100 Mbps, and dedicated, protected OC-3 connectivity at speeds up to 155 Mbps to businesses.

"We see EIPP as an important solution for our customers," noted Steve Tarr, senior vice president and chief information officer for Advanced Radio Telecom. "We and our customers are e-savvy, so a highly efficient, paperless invoice presentment and payment capability is critical to offering our customers next generation services. In addition, the savings we achieve through using EIPP contributes to our goal of providing efficient, cost-effective services to our clients."

BizCast's enhanced customer self-care features and its streamlined workflow for receipt, review, dispute, approval and payment of invoices enable billers to simultaneously reduce support costs while providing business customers with greater convenience and better service. BizCast can directly improve the bottom line of billers by shortening the days sales outstanding (DSO) for receivables, a critical financial metric for businesses.

BizCast Features and Benefits

BizCast is a true business-to-business EIPP platform, designed to provide billers with the capability to reach the widest array of payers, from small to large. BizCast sets the bar for essential features for invoice presentment and routing, online dispute resolution and payment, and data capture, analysis and reporting. BizCast also makes it simple for billers and service providers to deliver invoices via the payer's preferred channel, including Web, e-mail, paper, fax, PDF or magnetic/optical media. Enhanced BizCast includes advanced features not found in any other single source solution, including:

-- Unlimited Tiered Account Structure -- allows billers, service providers and
banks to deliver invoices in a format that matches the way they are reviewed by
business customers.

-- Consolidated Invoicing and Invoice Rollup -- allows billers to present
large, distributed customers with a single view of multiple invoices.

-- Full Credit/Dispute Resolution -- allows billers and payers to resolve
invoice and payment issues online, quickly and efficiently.

-- Advanced Payment Handling -- supports handling and reconciliation of full,
partial, auto, scheduled and offline payments for maximum convenience and
flexibility.

-- Security and Authentication -- provides role-based access control and
authorization, and full audit trail of online activities to ensure all
transactions are safely and confidentially completed.

-- Smart Bursting/Invoice Filtering -- allows end-users on the payer side to
determine which parts of an invoice they receive.

-- Trouble Ticket Management -- gives payers the ability to send prioritized,
time-stamped trouble ticket reports directly to the biller's CSR operation.

-- Internationalization and Localization -- enables billers to extend EIPP to
international customers today.

According to Joseph Marino, Analyst, Internet Commerce at Current Analysis, "Business-to-business billers recognize the potential that EIPP holds, but until now, have not had a single solution that meets all of their needs as well as those of their customers. BizCast clearly demonstrates that Avolent understands the needs of the business-to-business market."

BizCast pricing is available on a per-transaction or license basis.

About Avolent

Avolent (formerly Just in Time Solutions) is the leading provider of standards-based software solutions for Electronic Bill Presentment and Payment (EBPP), Electronic Invoice Presentment and Payment (EIPP) and Interactive Customer Care (ICC). The company's modular BillCast(TM) software suite enables relationship-centric billers to deploy secure, scalable solutions for personalized billing, statement presentment, payment and service delivery that increase the value of each customer interaction. Avolent's BizCast(TM) software provides benefits to all parts of the business-to-business delivery chain -- including billers, payers, service providers, exchanges and financial institutions. Through a unique, data-centric approach, BizCast automates the entire "invoice to pay" process by helping businesses present, route, reconcile, dispute, analyze and pay invoices online.

Founded in 1995 and headquartered in San Francisco, Avolent helped pioneer the Open Financial Exchange (OFX) standard for online bill presentment and the thin consolidator model, and continues to champion open standards, including the Interactive Financial Exchange (IFX). In October 2000 Avolent signed a definitive agreement to acquire Solant, a pioneer in the integration of advanced business-to-business and business-to-consumer EBPP and ICC applications. Avolent's customers are some of the largest billing organizations and service providers in the industry, including Advanced Radio Telecom, AT&T, CyberBills, Intuit, MasterCard, Metavante, Output Technology Solutions, Spectrum, Trivergent, YourAccounts.Com and Wells Fargo. For more information, please visit www.avolent.com or call [phone].