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To: Benny Baga who wrote (4852)	4/21/1999 8:28:00 PM
From: TLindt	Respond to of 20297

In all fairness...that news source just quoted...had long ago O.D.ed on Stupid Pills. I find no less then 2 things incorrect in that article....just being an Idiot with the lack of a College education it still insults my limited intelligence. Reminds me of Business Week...go against their cover story.

To: Benny Baga who wrote (4852)	4/21/1999 8:38:00 PM
From: TLindt	Respond to of 20297

Here's One....Other software suppliers are still focused on consumers. Edify's Electronic Banking System Release 3 lets banks deliver information and transactions via various access channels, including the Internet, telephone, and personal finance software. The update adds support for online billing. Wednesday April 21, 4:35 pm Eastern Time Company Press Release SOURCE: Edify Corporation Edify Accelerates Move to Internet Financial Portal Solutions for Business Users Leverages Key Market Opportunity: Ships Business Banking and Adds to Consulting Services SANTA CLARA, Calif., April 21 /PRNewswire/ -- Edify Corporation (Nasdaq: EDFY - news), a global leader providing Internet and voice e-Commerce solutions, today announced its first customer shipments of the Electronic Banking System Release 3 Business Banking Suite. Just one week after announcing shipment of its Consumer Banking Suite, Edify has shipped its Business Banking Suite for the Web cash management banking sector. Edify, the leader in Internet consumer banking solutions with over 100 licensed customers worldwide, including Chase Manhattan Bank and Australia and New Zealand Banking Group Unlimited (ANZ). Today the company also announced that it is continuing its commitment to meet the growing consulting and technical demands of its customers by expanding its Financial Services Practice. The Business Banking Suite (BBS) is designed to anchor a Web portal for a bank's business customers. BBS is a complete suite of application modules that allows banks to target the unique needs of small and medium-size businesses. BBS is a vehicle for financial institutions to manage their entire customer relationships, including cash management, loans, 401(k) and value-added services, by integrating marketing, sales management, account administration and customer service with Web, phone, and fax-based delivery. BBS is ideal for financial institutions that want to develop a business portal strategy. Financial institutions can now provide their business customers with complete, one-stop shopping financial management solutions. ''Financial institutions want to become the primary financial portal for their business customers,'' said William A. Soward, vice president of business development at Edify Corporation. ''Edify is committed to building business solutions that position them for success.'' BBS is optimized for electronic relationships through its integration of Web and call center solutions. It provides multi-channel enterprise-wide, real-time delivery. As Edify's first product to go beyond self-service, BBS integrates a browser-based customer service desktop component with its extensive customer-facing capabilities. Financial institutions have the choice of using the BBS visual customization tools themselves or enlisting the help of Edify Consulting Services or those of its implementation partners, which include ACI, Hewlett-Packard, NCR and Parkers' Edge. In addition to announcing the general market availability of the Business Banking Suite, Edify also announced that it is commensurately stepping up resources in the Financial Services Practice of its Consulting Services organization. The Consulting Services organization, using its proven methodology, provides full lifecycle consulting services to tailor and customize the Electronic Banking System so that Edify financial services customers have solutions designed specifically to meet each institution's needs. Edify Consulting consists of over one hundred professionals and the infrastructure to provide robust solutions to its customers, focusing on large global banks, emerging Internet-only de novo banks and other financial institutions. The Financial Services Practice is comprised of banking implementation experts who have been installing and supporting successful implementations since the original Electronic Banking System was launched over three years ago. To continue to deliver best in class solutions, the Financial Services Practice will now leverage the cash management and Internet delivery and payment expertise of Jeffrey B. Fischer who has joined the company as the new Director of the Financial Services Practice. Mr. Fischer brings to Edify over 20 years of online and interactive wholesale banking experience, with expertise in cash management and Internet delivery and payment. Prior to joining Edify, Mr. Fischer was President of TranSoft Services, Inc., the professional services subsidiary of Transaction Software Technologies, Inc., a leading cash management software provider. He was the New Business Development Manager for Wholesale Banking at Tandem Computers (Compaq) and, at ABN Amro Services Company, Inc. (the North American Operations subsidiary of the 12th largest bank in the world), Mr. Fischer was the Senior Vice President and head of the Corporate Payment Operations. ''Mr. Fischer and his team will focus on the company's strategic and customer satisfaction priorities in the Financial Services sector,'' said Alvin Begun, vice president of services at Edify Corporation. ''The flexibility of our Financial Services Practice allows us to give each financial institution customer its own custom-tailored solution to showcase competitive advantages.'' About Edify Corporation Edify Corporation is a global leader providing Internet and voice e-Commerce solutions used by Global 2000 organizations. The company's software offers organizations the means to automate, integrate and personalize interactions with customers and employees, yielding stronger, more profitable relationships. The company's software has been licensed to more than 1,250 organizations worldwide. Edify software is distributed directly and through leading solutions providers, application partners and distributors worldwide. With more than 470 employees, Edify Corporation is headquartered in Santa Clara, California, with international headquarters in London, England. Additional information about Edify may be obtained by calling 408-982-2000 (USA) or +44 181 263 2710 (Europe, Middle East, Africa) or via the World Wide Web at edify.com. For product information, please call 800-944-0056 or email info@edify.com. Forward Looking Statements The matters set forth in this press release, such as statements relating to EBS and the Business Banking Suite and other products and services are forward looking and are subject to a number of risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially. Although on-line banking has been available in various forms for many years, there can be no assurance that consumers will accept on-line banking over the Internet or the company's products, including EBS, in sufficient numbers to make on-line banking or the company's products successful. In addition, given the uncertainties of software development there can be no assurance that the system will be developed on time or at all, or that the company or its customers will be able to implement applications in the anticipated time frames or with the anticipated features, functionality or benefits. Further information on the important factors that could affect the results or outcomes discussed in the forward-looking statements is included in Edify's Annual Report on Form 10-K and its other reports filed from time to time with the Securities and Exchange Commission. NOTE: Edify is a registered trademark. SOURCE: Edify Corporation

To: Benny Baga who wrote (4852)	4/21/1999 8:57:00 PM
From: TLindt	Respond to of 20297

Here's the other...CheckFree is the market leader among the consolidators. It displays bills from 15 companies, including BellSouth and Pacific Gas & Electric, on its site and delivers the bills to banks and portals. It's being challenged by Transpoint, which has 37 billers and 10 financial institutions, including Citigroup, testing its system. Transpoint says at least one of those pilots will go live this quarter Monday March 1, 9:57 am Eastern Time Company Press Release SOURCE: CheckFree Corporation CheckFree and Nevada Power Company Sign Agreement for Web-based Electronic Billing and Payment; Service Will Allow Nevada Power Company's Customers to Receive and Pay Bills with the Touch of a Button ATLANTA, March 1 /PRNewswire/ -- CheckFree (Nasdaq: CKFR - news) and Las Vegas- based Nevada Power Company (NYSE: NVP - news) today announced that Internet-based electronic billing and payment will soon be available for Nevada Power Company's more than 550,000 electricity and energy services customers. By using CheckFree's E-Bill(sm) service, Nevada Power Company customers will be able to receive full-color electric bills at no charge -- complete with graphics, logos and full billing detail -- through the World Wide Web. Once they have enrolled at mybills.com, Nevada Power Company customers will be able to view and pay their electric bills with the touch of a button. Customers can also access their account information through Nevada Power Company's Web site at nevadapower.com. Nevada Power Company plans to make CheckFree E-Bill available to customers in its southern Nevada service area in June of 1999. Nevada Power Company customers will also have access to their bills via CheckFree's growing list of active distribution points. These include: -- First Union at mybills.com -- Intuit's Quicken 98/99 software -- Charles Schwab at mybills.com -- Morgan Stanley Dean Witter at dwdean.com -- Prudential Securities at mybills.com Future Web site launches for CheckFree E-Bill include Bank One and PNC Bank. ''It's important to give customers convenient options when it comes to receiving and paying their bill,'' said Michael Niggli, Nevada Power Company president and chief operating officer. ''As the fastest growing electric utility in the nation, Nevada Power Company continues to add services that we feel provide the most benefit to our customers. We are pleased to offer CheckFree E-Bill to our customers as a helpful, bill-paying alternative.'' Matt Lewis, Senior Vice President of Electronic Commerce Product Management and Marketing for CheckFree, said, ''Nevada Power Company, like other industry leaders, recognizes the cost-savings associated with presenting bills electronically. Add to that the one-to-one customer communications that the Internet provides, and you have a win-win scenario for both the biller and the consumer.'' While PC-based bill payment is not new, receiving and paying bills electronically through the Web has only recently been made possible using CheckFree E-Bill. Since launching the nation's first fully integrated, market-proven electronic billing and payment solution in 1997, CheckFree has signed multi-year contracts with more than 40 of the nation's larger billers, including: Ameren (Union Electric), American Electric Power, AT&T, Avista Utilities (Washington Water Power), BellSouth, Boston Edison, Chase Credit Card, Chase Mortgage, Columbia Gas of Ohio, Consumers' Energy, Countrywide Mortgage, CUNA Mutual Group, Florida Power & Light, GPU Energy, GTE, HomeSide Lending, Illinois Power, International Billing Services (IBS), MCI WorldCom, Northeast Utilities, Northern Illinois Gas, Portland General Electric, Public Service Company of New Mexico, Small Business Administration, Southern California Edison, Southern Company and Total System Services Inc. (TSYS). About Nevada Power Company Nevada Power Company provides electricity and energy services to residents of Las Vegas and southern Nevada and is the nation's fastest-growing electric utility. Nevada Power Company can be found on the World Wide Web at www.nevadapower.com. About CheckFree Founded in 1981, CheckFree (www.checkfree.com), the operating subsidiary of CheckFree Holdings Corp., is the leading provider of electronic commerce services, software and related products for more than 2.6 million consumers, 1,000 businesses and 850 financial institutions. CheckFree designs, develops and markets services that enable its customers to make electronic payments and collections, automate paper-based recurring financial transactions and conduct secure transactions on the Internet. SOURCE: CheckFree Corporation This is Outright Spam...to count all Transpoint 37 Pilots as actual billers...and then give Credit to CheckFree for 15 that are live now, forget the 40 reported 6 weeks ago...thus tilting the scales. If a fair comparision were done on the same measure it would be 15 to Zero, and 40 to 37. And FAT CHANCE OF GETTING ONE UP BY THE END OF THIS QUARTER. Call'um as I see'um, that butcher has always had his finger on the scale. The meat ain't worth it. You posted that just to piss me off, didn't you?

To: Benny Baga who wrote (4852)	4/21/1999 9:12:00 PM
From: jjs_ynot	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 20297

Very interesting article. Checkfree mentioned prominently. Bluegill is not a public company I don't believe?