Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Kansas City Taps Eprise To Power Its Corporate Intranet, Blue Access.

Business/Technology Editors

FRAMINGHAM, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 26, 2001

Eprise Participant Server Will Support Blue Cross and Blue Shield 

of Kansas City Employees with Timely and Accurate Information

Eprise Corporation (Nasdaq: EPRS), a leading provider of content management solutions, today announced that Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Kansas City (BCBSKC), a leading health benefits company for greater Kansas City and northwest Missouri, purchased Eprise Participant Server(R) to manage content on its corporate intranet. The intranet, called Blue Access, will serve BCBSKC employees with accurate and time-sensitive information regarding employee benefits, project development, customer support and corporate procedures.

The mission of Blue Access is to create a community culture within BCBSKC by providing tools and information that foster an effective work environment for its employees. By leveraging Eprise Participant Server, BCBSKC will empower business users to manage content on their own. By eliminating the Web master content bottleneck that plagues many corporate intranets, BCBSKC will ensure all of its employees have timely access to the most relevant information. By utilizing the Eprise-powered site, BCBSKC hopes to encourage a collaborative team environment with two-way communication, reducing paper work and creating more knowledgeable service representatives. When implemented, these steps will help BCBSKC reach its goal of providing the highest quality of service to its members.

"With Blue Access we are creating a Web home for the company that will foster the community spirit of our employees," said Jean Peat, director of public relations and Web content manager at Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Kansas City. "With Eprise and its easy to use templates, we hope to distribute ownership of content and whole sections of the intranet to different groups within BCBSKC while still maintaining a consistent look and feel on the site. We realize the unity we are striving to achieve is vital to the success of our organization."

When BCBSKC began the process of building its corporate intranet, the company evaluated several content management vendors before choosing Eprise, which offers:

--Open Architecture - Because Eprise Participant Server conforms

with industry standards, BCBSKC can easily integrate the

technology with its existing applications.

--Business User Friendly Templates - With pre-defined templates

and easy content posting capabilities, non-technology

employees at BCBSKC can own the responsibility of posting and

updating content themselves. More than ten separate

departments within BCBSKC will contribute their own content to

the site.

--Workflow Approval Process - With Eprise Participant Server, when

content is updated or changed it is automatically routed

through a content approval cycle. Content can immediately be

edited and approved prior to posting, speeding the approval

process through the organization.

"Organizations like Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Kansas City continue to turn to Eprise to build effective and efficient corporate intranets," said Kathy Kessel, vice president of marketing at Eprise. "With large amounts of information to share with employees, regarding everything from new healthcare regulations to member service issues, healthcare organizations in particular see the value of an intranet that can connect employees across the organization and unite the company as it works to provide superior levels of customer care. Eprise is becoming the content management vendor of choice because of its ability to streamline the content posting process."

About Eprise Corporation

Eprise Corporation (Nasdaq: EPRS) provides Strategic Content Management solutions that enable businesses to gain competitive advantage by focusing on the needs of the business user. Its solutions are comprised of products and services that support the use of industry best practices for managing the entire content life cycle. Eprise Professional Services uses a proven methodology to assist organizations with their content initiatives by helping them to focus the needs of a content management solution from the business user's perspective.

As part of its best-of-breed approach, Eprise forms strategic alliances with technology companies to extend the capabilities of Eprise Participant Server and its partners' offerings. By integrating its products with offerings from companies such as Microsoft, IBM, Inktomi and Verity, Eprise offers an even more robust content management environment, enabling customers to improve site effectiveness and drive e-business success.

With headquarters located in Framingham, Mass., the company has expanded to include regional offices across the United States, as well as in Canada, Germany, and the United Kingdom. Global market distribution of Eprise Participant Server includes Canada, Europe and Asia Pacific including both German and Japanese versions of Eprise Participant Server.

Certain matters discussed in this announcement may involve "forward-looking statements" (as that term is used in the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995) that involve risks and uncertainties, including risks related to market acceptance of our product and customer demand, our ability to identify and respond to factors affecting our quarterly results, increased competition and consolidation in our industry and the proposed acquisition of Eprise by divine, inc., as detailed from time to time in Eprise Corporation's filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Eprise Corporation draws the reader's attention to the factors described in its most recent Form 10-Q and Form 10-K under the headings "Risk Factors" or "Factors Affecting Future Results." Any such forward-looking statements speak only as of the date such statements are made, and the company undertakes no obligation to publicly release the results of any revision to these forward-looking statements or otherwise update or supplement this announcement or the risk factors referenced herein.

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