Datatel Unveils the ActiveCampus Experience(TM).

Company's New Strategic Vision Raises the Standards for Personal Productivity, Collaboration, and Institutional Effectiveness

DALLAS -- Datatel, Inc., a leading provider of technology solutions and professional services to higher education, today introduced the ActiveCampus Experience([TM]), a groundbreaking vision and strategic approach that gives faculty, staff, students, and alumni complete access to the information and enterprise resources they need to achieve their goals. The announcement was made at the EDUCAUSE 2006 Conference and Expo in Dallas, TX.

"The ActiveCampus Experience redefines the very nature of how the academic community collaborates and cooperates," said Jayne W. Edge, Datatel vice president of strategic planning and marketing. "By leveraging proven Datatel technology and powerful new solutions, customer-centric professional services, and advanced offerings from our partners, our clients are able to make remarkable gains in personal productivity, collaboration and institutional effectiveness. This initiative dramatically raises the bar in terms of what colleges and universities can achieve."

Datatel Vice President of Professional Services Elizabeth Murphy described the ActiveCampus Experience as "the definitive state of personal productivity, collaboration, and institutional effectiveness in higher education. Participants have access to all the information and resources they need, at their fingertips. They are able to achieve their goals unencumbered by barriers and with the full cooperation of their colleagues."

In the company's corporate presentation given today at the conference, Murphy illustrated how Datatel is teaming with SAS, Microsoft, and other key partners to help colleges and universities engage their constituents in the ActiveCampus Experience, delivering solutions that streamline the flow of information, bolster productivity, and improve job satisfaction.

Throughout EDUCAUSE 2006, Datatel is highlighting several integral components of the ActiveCampus Experience in its Booth (#303):

* The ActiveCampus Portal: A secure, personalized, role-based Web browser-based gateway for all campus constituents. The ActiveCampus Portal enables users to easily aggregate, organize, and locate information across each institution. Based on Microsoft SharePoint([R]) technology and built on a scaleable, highly- distributed architecture, the ActiveCampus Portal seamlessly integrates with Datatel Colleague([R]) and partner products and includes a full suite of portal services.

* Datatel e-Marketing Solutions:

* ActiveAdmissions 2.0CoDatatel's latest version of its online recruiting solution enables advanced personalization technology to target and reach prospective students to reach recruitment goals in terms of quantity and quality.

* ActiveAlumni 2.0CoA powerful e-Marketing solution that helps engage, build, and grow personalized relationships with alumni, donors, and friends of the institution that are key in its evolution and success.

* ActiveCampus CMSCoDatatel's content management system provides robust technology that enables users to create and fully control Web content across the campus environment.

* Colleague AdvancementCoDatatel's all-new fundraising and institutional advancement solution helps each institution achieve its unique goals by streamlining administrative processes, building essential relationships, and effectively growing support from diverse sources.

Datatel's ActiveAdmissions and ActiveAlumni solutions, the ActiveCampus Portal, and ActiveCampus CMS will be covered in dedicated hands-on Datatel workshops taking place throughout the conference. Datatel is also co-hosting a workshop with SAS that focuses on the value of predictive analytics solutions for the academic community.

About Datatel, Inc.

Datatel is a leading provider of fully-integrated enterprise information management software and professional services for higher education. Headquartered in Fairfax, VA, the company has more than 725 client institutions throughout North America. Datatel has exclusively focused on meeting the needs of colleges and universities for more than 25 years, helping them operate more efficiently so they may better serve their constituents. For more information, please visit http://www.datatel.com.

[c] 2006 Datatel, Inc. All rights reserved. Datatel, Colleague, and ActiveCampus are registered trademarks of Datatel, Inc. All other names, products, and services mentioned are the trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective companies.