ATLANTA--(BUSINESS WIRE)--July 12, 1999--
Harbinger Corporation (NASDAQ:HRBC.O), a worldwide supplier of
Electronic Commerce software, services and solutions, announced today
that it has been selected by the U.S. Department of Interior (DOI)
to outsource a major component of its Mineral Management Service
(MMS) Electronic Commerce program.
Through a potential five-year contract, worth more than $1.5
million in its first year, Harbinger will implement Electronic
Commerce solutions for MMS mineral reporters; companies that report
production and royalties associated with federal and Indian mineral
leases. Both MMS and its reporters will see immediate efficiencies
by moving to Web-based electronic reporting. The system will be
built on the harbinger.net(SM) Electronic Commerce portal
infrastructure and the Harbinger Express 4.0 Web forms technology.
The harbinger.net service supports a variety of tools and
applications needed for exchanging business documents, including
on-network data translation, Web-based E-forms and application
hosting.
Beginning this fall, Harbinger will enable participating
companies to create reports with an electronic Web form for secure
transmission to MMS each month. Harbinger will collect the reports
and translate them into a common E-Commerce format before routing
them on to MMS for processing. MMS receives information regarding
reports and royalties from approximately 3,700 reporters each month.
Revenues associated with these reports amount to more than $4 billion
each year and are distributed to the U.S. Treasury, recipient states
and Indians.
"The MMS has determined that the most efficient and convenient
way to enable 100 percent of our reporters to submit their monthly
reports electronically is to retain an Electronic Commerce service
provider," said Lucy Querques Denett, Associate Director for the MMS
Royalty Management Program. "We are confident that the solutions
provided by Harbinger will result in fewer data errors at both ends
of the reporting process. Moreover, the new MMS Electronic
Commerce program will offer secure data transmissions, last-minute
reporting capabilities, an automated receipt feature and reduced
costs for reporters and the MMS," she added.
"As more and more government agencies identify the cost savings
and benefits to be had from Electronic Commerce, they're investing in
Internet-based solutions such as harbinger.net," said Eric Christ,
Senior Director of harbinger.net. "Harbinger is committed to
providing solutions that help government agencies connect
electronically to their trading communities, big and small."
About Harbinger
Harbinger Corporation is a leading worldwide provider of
business-to-business Electronic Commerce software, services and
solutions. The company maximizes its customers' business potential
with comprehensive, scalable E-Commerce solutions that help
streamline operations, increase profitability and build electronic
trading communities. Harbinger's objective is to serve more
customers using Internet Protocols (IP) than any other provider and
to establish harbinger.net(SM) as the preferred transaction portal
for E-Commerce information and mission-critical, business-to-business
E-Commerce transactions. Headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia,
Harbinger provides worldwide support to its customer community from
multiple U.S. and overseas operations facilities. For more
information, visit www.harbinger.com.
This press release contains statements which may constitute
"forward-looking statements" within the meaning of the Securities Act
of 1933 and the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended by the
Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Those statements
include statements regarding the intent, belief or current
expectations of Harbinger Corporation and members of its management as
well as the assumptions on which such statements are based.
Prospective investors are cautioned that any such forward-looking
statements are not guarantees of future performance and involve risks
and uncertainties, and that actual results may differ materially from
those contemplated by such forward-looking statements. Important
factors currently known to management that could cause actual results
to differ materially from those in forward-statements include
fluctuation of our operating results, the ability to compete
successfully and the ability to integrate acquired companies.
Additional factors are set forth in the Safe Harbor Compliance
Statement for Forward-looking Statements included as Exhibit 99.1 to
the Company's Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December
31, 1998. The Company undertakes no obligation to update or revise
forward-looking statements to reflect changed assumptions, the
occurrence of unanticipated events or changes to future operating
results.
Harbinger and the Harbinger logo are registered trademarks, and
harbinger.net is a service mark of Harbinger Corporation. All other
company and product names referenced herein are registered trademarks
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CONTACT: Harbinger Corporation
Wendy Gold, 404/467-3343
wendy.gold@harbinger.com
or
GCI Group
Debbie Sorokin, 404/870-3847
dsorokin@gcigroup.com
KEYWORD: GEORGIA
INDUSTRY KEYWORD: COMPUTERS/ELECTRONICS COMED
INTERACTIVE/MULTIMEDIA/INTERNET GOVERNMENT
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