New Authoria Choice Extends HR Communications Solution

Flexible Delivery Options Provides Multiple Choices for Licensing, Ongoing Application Management and Application Hosting

Waltham, MA (February 26, 2004) - Authoria, Inc., the world leader in personalized, Web-based human resource communication, today announced Authoria Choiceô, a program that provides several new alternatives for the purchase of Authoria HRô solutions, including subscription licensing, application outsourcing and hosted production services. Authoria Choice is designed to provide Authoriaís customers with a wide range of purchase options to fit current budget realities while leveraging Authoriaís domain expertise and resources. Authoria solutions offer employees and managers access to personalized online information, including benefits and HR policy information, summary plan descriptions, and total compensation statements.

ìProviding alternative delivery models supports our commitment to customer satisfaction and makes good business sense,î said Joe Jaeger, Authoria senior vice president, sales and services. ìAuthoriaís solutions appeal to HR professionals because they allow them to focus on the core strategic portion of their business instead of being consumed by mundane administrative tasks.î

Jaeger continued, ìAuthoria Choice offers the ability to shift costs to the operational budget and away from the capital budget, lowering initial cost and removing barriers to entry. It provides the flexibility to easily deploy or expand services with little to no ramp up time.î

Authoria Choice Provides License, Hosting and Application Management Options

Authoria Choice options all provide the same secure, enterprise HR communications solutions, customized to the customersí specific requirements. With the application outsourcing and managed solution options, initial deployment occurs in a fraction of the time required for a traditional in-house implementation. (In-house implementations can take significantly longer due to constraints on in-house resources and expertise.) Authoria also provides hosted production services, data integration and security authentication/single sign on.

The Authoria team can also manage the application on an ongoing basis, a task that can easily overwhelm an already overburdened in-house team. With Authoria Choice, internal teams are able to focus on more strategic activities because Authoria is responsible for the implementation and the ongoing management of the solution. Services include software updates, legislative updates and ongoing content maintenance.

Authoria Choice Appeals to a Wide Range of Companies

Target customers of Authoria Choice include a wide range of companies from both large and medium-sized organizations as the program decreases barriers to entry. Early users include a leading business process outsourcing (BPO) provider and industry-leading organizations like McDonaldís Corporation. With Authoria HR, customers are able to deliver accurate and consistent personalized information to employees with greater efficiency.

Ron Hanscome, senior program director, META Group, said, We are seeing a wide range of companies, both large and small, taking advantage of hosted or outsourced services, especially in the human resources community. HR as a discipline is very familiar with the outsourcing business model and its benefits. Outsourcing has continued to grow, as companies look to save on the costs of technical know-how and infrastructure -- something even very large organizations find appealing.

Pricing and Availability
Authoria Choice is available immediately and pricing is determined by solutions, service options, and total number of users.