Centra Announces 2004 Paragon Award Winners.

Business Editors/High-Tech Writers

LEXINGTON, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 1, 2004

Worldwide Awards Program Recognizes Organizations that Drive More Efficient and Effective Business Processes through Best-in-Class Applications of Centra Online Business Collaboration

Centra (NASDAQ: CTRA), a leading provider of specialized application software and services for online business collaboration, today announced the 11 recipients of the 2004 Paragon Awards. Established in 1997, the Paragon Awards were conceived to recognize the achievements of organizations that share Centra's vision for supporting more efficient and effective business processes through online business collaboration. Cutting across industries, these awards showcase best practices of Centra's technology that change the way business is done.

All recipients of the Paragon award program implemented online business collaboration solutions from Centra that enabled them to achieve measurable business results, stronger customer relationships, lower operational costs and improved enterprise productivity.

The award winners were announced at Centra Summit 2004, Centra's Annual Worldwide User Conference, May 11-14, 2004, in Boston, Mass. This year, the winning organizations demonstrated the ability to enable groups of people to work faster, smarter and more efficiently by automating mission-critical projects online. These organizations use Centra to deploy enterprise applications, increase sales effectiveness and effectively transfer knowledge through collaborative learning programs.

2004 Paragon Award Winners:

Best use of Centra in Sales Effectiveness:

-- Avnet Electronics Marketing: Avnet Electronics Marketing is

the largest operating group of Phoenix-based Avnet Inc. (NYSE:

AVT), a Fortune 500 company with fiscal 2003 sales of $9

billion, and one of the world's largest technology marketing,

distribution and services companies.

-- Century 21 Real Estate Corporation: Century 21 Real Estate

Corporation is the franchisor of the world's largest

residential real estate sales organization, providing

comprehensive training, management, administrative and

marketing support for the CENTURY 21(R) System.

-- Network Appliance, Inc.: Network Appliance, Inc. (NASDAQ:

NTAP) is a world leader in unified storage solutions for

today's data-intensive enterprise. Since its inception in

1992, Network Appliance has delivered technology, product and

partner firsts that continue to drive "The evolution of

storage."

Best use of Centra in Application Rollouts:

-- Cingular Wireless: Cingular is the second largest wireless

company in the U.S., serving more than 25 million voice and

data customers.

-- Syniverse Technologies: Syniverse Technologies is a global

communications technology company specializing in innovative

business and network engineering solutions that manage and

interconnect voice and data systems in 30 countries throughout

North America, Central and Latin America, Asia Pacific and

Europe.

Best use of Centra in Collaborative Learning:

-- SYSCO(R) Corporation: SYSCO is the largest marketer and

distributor of foodservice products in North America, with a

distribution network that extends throughout the U.S. and

Canada.

-- Fidelity Investments: Fidelity Investments is an international

provider of financial services and investment resources that

help individuals and institutions meet their financial

objectives.

-- Schering-Plough: Schering-Plough is a global science-based

health care company with leading prescription, consumer and

animal health products.

-- Pivotal Corporation: Pivotal Corporation is a leading CRM 

solution provider for mid-sized enterprises.

-- Alion Science and Technology: Alion is a 100% employee-owned

research and development company built on more than 65 years

experience providing technology services to defense and

government agency customers. Alion has more than 1,600

employees at major offices and laboratories in 35 cities

worldwide.

-- Distance Education Tasmania: Distance Education Tasmania is a

distance education school in the island State of Tasmania,

Australia, providing education for approximately 180 children

from the ages of four to sixteen.

"The CENTURY 21 System is thrilled to have been selected as a 2004 Paragon Award winner," said Ernie Brescia, chief learning officer for Century 21 Real Estate Corporation. "The ability to quickly, effectively and affordably make training available to a network of more than 100,000 sales associates worldwide is absolutely critical to our business. In a recent internal study, we discovered that agents who participated in our fundamentals training program, delivered online through Centra, earned approximately 16 percent more than those who joined CENTURY 21 during the same time frame but didn't take the course. They also closed about 14 percent more transactions! We are pleased to have won this recognition for our team."

"The 2004 Paragon Award winners represent the early adopters and innovators in online business collaboration," said Paul R. Gudonis, CEO of Centra. "They have demonstrated how Centra has become a mission-critical application that contributes to their organizations' growth and success. We congratulate them on their successes, and look forward to working with them as they continue to push the frontier for integrating online collaboration into their business processes and communications infrastructure."

About Centra

Online business collaboration solutions from Centra create workforce efficiencies and enable organizations to share and exchange business-critical information with geographically distributed customers, partners, prospects and employees. Centra's solutions integrate real-time collaboration and departmental business processes with specialized applications that increase sales effectiveness, improve collaborative learning and accelerate enterprise application rollouts and customer acquisition initiatives. Currently available in 12 languages, Centra solutions can be deployed as on-site software or through its ASP service and are supported by an active ecosystem of value-added partners, including Siebel, PeopleSoft, SAP and Deloitte Consulting. Organizations across every major industry and market sector choose Centra, including Wyndham International, Weyerhaeuser, Underwriters Laboratories, BMW and Stanford University. Headquartered in Lexington, Massachusetts, Centra serves a worldwide customer base throughout the Americas, Europe, Asia and Australia. For more information, visit www.centra.com.

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