CoVia Announces General Availability of InfoPortal 4.0; New Version of Platform Extends Functionality of Just-In-Time Portals and Collaborative Commerce Solutions.

Business/High-Tech Editors

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 9, 2001

CoVia, the only enterprise information portal provider to enable the personalized, collaborative business relationships that increase partner communication, sales effectiveness and customer loyalty, today announced the general availability of InfoPortal 4.0, the newest version of its flagship platform. InfoPortal is the only portal platform that empowers organizations to extend their reach to their customers' customer, and to generate previously unobtainable sources of revenue through a real-time, portal-based infrastructure that mirrors their existing business relationship networks.

CoVia solutions are available for employee portals, interactive selling, customer relationship management, project collaboration, intranets, as well as public and private web site creation. Version 4.0 of the InfoPortal platform adds a number of significant new and enhanced features, including:

-- Just-In-Time Collaboration Portals, allowing any user to create
context-based collaborative portals precisely when and where they're needed -
without the need for added IT support. Whether for a customer or prospect,
partner, consultant, coworker or any combination of groups or individuals,
CoVia's collaborative portals cross organizational, functional, enterprise and
geographic boundaries to mirror real-world working relationships.

-- Dynamic iChannels, a revolutionary CoVia feature that allows anyone using
the portal, from a portal administrator to an individual user, to publish and
deliver content and other business intelligence. Additionally, third parties
can syndicate their content using iChannels technology to enable distribution
throughout a CoVia powered portal network. This feature eliminates the
bottleneck and cost of pushing content through the IT administrator or
corporate Webmaster, and empowers any user or group of users within the
distributed portal network with web publishing ability.

-- Collaborative calendaring allows users to create a personalized online
calendar within their own workspace, and to update and share it from anywhere.
It enables real-time scheduling between multiple locations and sophisticated
group activities management.

-- CoVia's Web Mail messaging is a turnkey service companies can private-label
and offer to their customers and to their customer's constituents. Closely
coupled with CoVia's suite of collaborative business portal solutions, Web Mail
services deliver advanced email capabilities from within a user's familiar
workspace. With CoVia's private-label Web Mail services, users access email
through any Web browser, so no software installations or configurations are
necessary. The result is increased value, convenience, and overall lower cost
of ownership.

"CoVia is clearly the best technology for our implementation, enabling us to deploy an N-Tier solution, which allows our customers to provide web-based services to their customers," said Steve Blundell, vice president and general manager, Intuit (NASDAQ:INTU) Professional Accountant Channel. "The addition of the new features in InfoPortal 4.0 make our solution even more robust."

"Personalization is a key factor in the usability of our employee portals," said Jim Maxedon, Wells Fargo (NYSE:WFC) vice president and Intranet manager. "CoVia's contextual personalization technology allows our users to access what they need, when they need it."

"CoVia is the only company in the market that can provide Just-in-Time portals and complete collaborative commerce solutions," said Deborah G. Miller, CoVia CEO. "With InfoPortal 4.0 we have greatly extended our solution for any company wanting to turbo-charge their eBusiness strategy."

Pricing and Availability

InfoPortal 4.0 is available now. A software developer's kit (SDK) for InfoPortal 4.0 will be available in February 2001. Partners and developers will use the SDK to leverage and expand CoVia technology to create customized applications and solutions that fit their business objectives exactly. For pricing and additional information on how CoVia solutions can turn your organization into a next generation eBusiness call [phone].

About CoVia

CoVia, the market leader for next-generation enterprise portals and collaborative commerce, is the only provider of Just-In-Time Collaboration Portals, context-based personalization and N-Tier collaborative commerce solutions. CoVia allows work-group leaders and team members to instantly create and equip secure online workspaces that enable creative solutions and knowledge sharing with access to all relevant information across company, organizational and geographic lines. CoVia provides complete solution sets for all portal applications including employee, business units, suppliers, business partners and customers. Using its N-Tier technology, CoVia can deploy commerce solutions that include customer's customer and other relationships not possible with any other technology. CoVia powers implementations by Intuit, ADP, Interact Commerce Corporation, American Airlines, SAP AG, Wells Fargo, First American Financial, and many more. For more information, please visit www.covia.com or call [phone].

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