Ascentis Corporation Announces Partnership with Santéon Offers carrier connectivity for in-house and hosted solutions

Ascentis Corporation announces its newest partnership with Santéon, Inc. Ascentis will utilize Santéons XIP technology to provide clearinghouse" services for electronic transmission of all benefits related data from HROffice to insurance carriers and back.

Bellevue, Wash. -- June 24, 2004 -- Ascentis Corporation announces its newest partnership with Santéon, Inc. Ascentis will utilize Santéons XIP technology to provide clearinghouse" services for electronic transmission of all benefits related data from HROffice to insurance carriers and back.

With the passing of the 1996 HIPAA Act, all medical, dental, and vision insurance carriers are required to have the ability to receive enrollment data electronically. Mike Hayes, vice president of sales and marketing at Ascentis Corporation says, Ascentis can now offer carrier connectivity services to all its clients, both in-house and hosted. This new connectivity will increase customers accuracy of information, vastly reduce paperwork, and ultimately decrease time and costs associated with benefits administration. HROffice Carrier Connect Technology and Service is the first of its kind for both in-house and hosted HROffice implementations."

Like HROffice, Santéon's technology is built upon Microsoft .Net. It includes a complete platform for routing, transformation, and delivery of documents to insurance carriers. Through HROffice Employee Self-Service, employees make their benefit elections and changes to their personal information online. HROffice Carrier Connect safely passes the data to the clearinghouse service which securely delivers the information to both HIPAA and non-HIPAA insurance carriers.

Ash Rofail, CTO and Founder of Santéon, states, Our robust eXtensible Integration Platform (XIP) further enhances the services offered by Ascentis while still delivering the ease-of-use, reliability and value to which Ascentis customers have become accustomed. With its predefined HIPAA definition templates, adaptable workflow engine, innovative Human Interaction functionality, and robust customization tools, XIP offers a perfect platform for rapid and cost effective deployment of clearinghouse capabilities."

Ascentis will showcase HROffices carrier connectivity at the upcoming annual Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM) conference in New Orleans this month from June 27-29, 2004. Visit Ascentis in booth number 2250.

- About Ascentis Corporation -

Founded in 1994 and based in Bellevue Wash., Ascentis Corporation is a pioneer in state-of-the-art human resources management systems (HRMS). Ascentis offers a best-in-class, fully integrated and centralized human resources and benefits management system that promotes connectivity, communication, and control for small to mid-sized organizations. The companys flagship product, HROffice, eliminates the paper process and builds on the latest technologies from Microsoft for easy integration with those tools HR departments use on a day-to-day basis.

Ascentis Corporation was named to the Deloitte & Touche prestigious 2003 Technology Fast 500 list and is ranked one of the 500 fastest growing technology companies in North America -- one of the top 50 in Washington State. Workforce Management Magazine rated HROffice as one of the Top 15 HRMS systems" in its March 2004 issue. Microsoft and AccountMate are two examples of the many strategic partnerships Ascentis has established in the last year. For more information on Ascentis Corporation and the HROffice product line, visit www.ascentis.com or call 800.229.2713.

- About Santéon -

Headquartered in Vienna, Virginia, with offices in Texas and Massachusetts, Santéon is a technology company that enables organizations to optimize performance and maximize revenues through managed processes - solving complex business process, compliance and integration challenges from both a system integration and a human process perspective. Santéon provides software solutions for integration, transactional and informational compliance, process modeling and simulation, process automation with human review, business activity monitoring, gap analysis, project management and collaboration.

Santéon technology eases the flow of information to multiple partners while optimizing transaction and information flow and radically reducing the cost of transactions and the cost of change. For more information call 469.424.3449, email info@santeon.com, or visit www.Santeon.com. Santéon's technologies and solutions are built on Microsoft's .Net Platform--the optimal environment for integrated toolsets.

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Media Contact: Courtney McKenzie; 425.289.2359; courtney@ascentis.com

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