DocuCorp Announces Agreement With CheckFree To Integrate Electronic Billing and Payment Via The Internet.

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DALLAS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 11, 2000

DocuCorp International (Nasdaq:DOCC) today announced an agreement with CheckFree Corporation (Nasdaq:CKFR) to provide an integrated electronic bill presentment and payment (EBPP) solution.

DocuCorp's technology will enable customers to view bills, statements and other documents over the Internet. Through the agreement, DocuCorp will offer its clients' bills over CheckFree's distribution and payment network of 53 live sites including leading Internet portals, banks and other financial institutions.

"Electronic billing and payment is a powerful customer communications instrument for both billers and financial institutions," said Sean Feeney, CheckFree's executive vice president, biller field operations. "Teaming with DocuCorp allows CheckFree to extend the number of companies it serves in key markets such as insurance, utilities and telecommunications."

"CheckFree is the leader in electronic billing and payment," said Michael D. Andereck, president and chief executive officer of DocuCorp. "DocuCorp is the leader in electronic document creation and presentment. This alliance will greatly benefit those DocuCorp software users wishing to offer their customers the convenience of electronic payment and collections via CheckFree's industry-leading infrastructure and distribution network, along with the ability to view and interact with their billing information."

Unlike other EBPP products on the market, which are limited by the data that they can extract from a legacy print stream, the DocuCorp technology provides unprecedented flexibility because it can access the original customer source data to create the type of bill a customer desires -- Internet or print. Since the same DocuCorp solution can generate both printed bills and Internet bills, the need to implement and support separate print and Internet systems is eliminated.

About CheckFree

CheckFree Corporation (www.checkfree.com) (Nasdaq:CKFR) is the leading provider of financial electronic commerce services and products. Founded as an electronic payments processor in 1981, CheckFree launched the first fully integrated electronic billing and payment solution, CheckFree E-Bill, in March of 1997. Today, CheckFree services enable three million consumers to receive and pay bills over the Internet or electronically. The Company has multi-year contracts with 77 of the nation's top billers to provide online billing and payment through its network of partnerships with consumer service providers (CSPs), including banks, brokerage firms, Internet portals and content sites, and personal financial management (PFM) software. CheckFree's Investment Services division provides a range of investment management services to help more than 255 institutions provide portfolio management and reporting services to their clients. CheckFree clients manage over 760,000 portfolios totaling more than $400 billion in assets. Software and services provided by CheckFree's Compliance and Financial Service division are used to process more than two-thirds of the nation's six billion Automated Clearing House (ACH) payments. In addition, nearly 400 banks and businesses use reconciliation products and services the division provides.

About DocuCorp

DocuCorp markets a portfolio of open-architecture, enterprise-wide, document automation software products that enable its customers to create, publish, manage and archive complex, high-volume, individualized documents. The company also provides document automation consulting, application integration, and document processing, printing, and mailing services. DocuCorp has an installed base of more than 900 customers, including many of the largest insurance, utility, financial services, higher education and telecommunications organizations.

Headquartered in Dallas, DocuCorp has major facilities in Atlanta and Silver Spring, Md. The company also maintains offices in London, Portland, Maine, and Bedford, N.H. DocuCorp is a Safeguard Scientifics, Inc. (NYSE:SFE) partnership company. For more information, visit DocuCorp's Web site at www.docucorp.com.

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