Datatel and TimeCruiser Join Forces to Address Any Time, Any Where, Any Way Information-Access for Higher Education

Partnership enables Datatel to provide a personalized web gateway for students, faculty, and staff

FAIRFAX, – October 19, 1999 - Datatel, Inc. announces a strategic partnership with Timecruiser Computing Corporation (TCC), of Fairfield, New Jersey, to provide a comprehensive portal solution that links the entire college community -- administrators, faculty, students, and even alumni -- via collaborative tools.

The portal solution Datatel is offering is powered by CampusCruiser.com, a product of TCC.

CampusCruiser.com seamlessly integrates with Colleague, Datatel’s advanced information technology solution for higher education, and provides an online learning environment, community activities, chat rooms, e-mail, calendar, course management tools, and many other functions.

As part of Colleague, CampusCruiser.com enables faculty, staff, and students to access all institution-specific information in one location. Users of the portal can create a personalized view of all the information available to them so they only get the information they want.

"We have been working closely with our client base for some time to determine what type of portal solution would best address their need to provide access to a vast array of information for an equally vast array of constituents," stated H. Russell Griffith, Datatel’s President and CEO. "After doing our homework, we determined that CampusCruiser.com was the ideal partner for Datatel. We are very excited about this comprehensive, higher-education portal solution we are able to collaboratively offer Datatel clients."

Highlights of the Datatel – CampusCruiser.com portal strategy include:

• usable knowledge can be accessed in a timely fashion • a variety of users can collaboratively share information • geographic boundaries are removed as an obstacle to learning and sharing 1 From http://www.datatel.com/datatel/index_datatel.cfm/77/?ObjectID=EA7D8C71-F913-11D4- AE900002A5070708&Method=Display 12 July 2003 • the information the users need can be accessed in one place

"We are enthusiastic about the opportunities that the relationship with Datatel will offer the higher education community," said Allen Wang, TimeCruiser’s President and CEO. "Because of the comprehensiveness of CampusCruiser.com and its ability to seamlessly integrate with Datatel’s Colleague, this is truly the solution Datatel clients have been looking for." Datatel has nearly 500 client institutions in the , Canada, , and and will sell this portal solution to both existing and prospective customers. About Datatel, Inc. Datatel, headquartered in Fairfax, Virginia with branch locations in San Francisco and Dallas, is the only company dedicated exclusively to producing advanced information technology solutions for the higher education community. Datatel has nearly 500 client sites in the United States, Canada, Guam, and Puerto Rico. A recent recipient of the U.S. Senate Productivity and Quality Award, Datatel is celebrating 31 years of providing quality products and services to the higher education community. For more information, visit www.datatel.com. About Timecruiser Computing Corporation TimeCruiser Computing Corporation (TCC) of Fairfield, NJ is a developer of innovative Internet application software. The founders of TCC identified the opportunity to offer organizations increased productivity and cohesiveness through the power of Internet. Realizing companies' desires to discover new computing technologies and to re-engineer their legacy processes with the Web, TCC created its cross-platform solution, using Java technology, to offer enterprises a time-based information and resource management system. TCC is an initial member of the Java Foundation class (JFC) which contributes to the formation and strategy of the Java Platform. For more information, visit www.timecruiser.com. Contact: Tricia Score Public Relations Representative Datatel, Inc. 703-227-1010 [email protected]

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