Active Data Exchange & BIAP Partner to provide sophisticated content management and delivery solution.

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ACTIVE DATA EXCHANGE, INC. AND BIAP SYSTEMS, INC. ANNOUNCE PARTNERSHIP

Partnership Designed to Provide Clients with Access to a Complete, Sophisticated, Easy-to-Use Web Content Aggregation, Management and Delivery Solution.

Bethlehem, PA-January 15, 2001-Active Data Exchange, Inc., a leading provider of Web publishing and syndication software solutions announced today a partnership with BIAP Systems, Inc., a software development firm located in Leesburg, Virginia. The collaboration will give Active Data Exchange clients a first ever software solution to retrieve, aggregate and distribute content from the Internet, enterprise intranets or extranets to individual users or groups of users.

Active Data Exchanges solutions offer the first true vendor-neutral platform for taking content from multiple locations and in a variety of data formats and networking and assimilating it onto a Web environment. BIAPs GOtrieveä is an advanced software technology that provides customized content retrieval and distribution solutions to enterprise end users, hardware manufacturers, and knowledge management companies.

The agreement between BIAP and Active Data Exchange will enable enterprise users to personalize the selection; retrieval, aggregation, and distribution of network based content. In turn this will drive efficiencies by helping users save time and make better use of information assembled from various sources for the purpose of creating knowledge.

Active Data Syndicatorä answers many challenges faced by todays corporations - to enhance business relationships, to give users targeted, real-time access to dynamic information regardless of format or physical location, and to improve the efficiency of business operations.

Due to the enormous proliferation of Web-based content, navigating the Internet and reviewing content that is truly relevant to the user has become an increasingly cumbersome task. GOtrieveä will help our Active Data Syndicator and Publisher clients view the Web in a whole new way." said Susan Yee, founder and CEO of Active Data Exchange, Inc. Through GOtrieveä, users can create their own highly personalized view of the Internet, including information from specific Web sites that they choose."

Active Data Exchange will incorporate BIAPs GOtrieveä content retrieval and distribution solution into its leading product, Active Data Syndicatorä, so that enterprise customers can publish and syndicate existing legacy data assets, as well as Web content, thus expanding Active Datas current knowledge management solutions.

Embedding BIAPs GOtrieveä software into Active Data Exchanges Syndicator will help unleash greater value to customers." Chuck Shotton, Founder and CEO of BIAP Systems, Inc. Our partnership and the seamless integration of technology between with BIAPs GOtrieveä and Active Datas Syndicator will provide businesses and users with a timely, robust, and advanced end-to-end aggregate content delivery solution," added Shotton.

About Active Data Exchange, Inc.
Active Data Exchange, Inc. (www.activedatax.com) is a leader in syndication software solutions that empower organizations to acquire the right content, delivered to the right place, and most importantly, at the right time. Active Data Exchange helps create highly effective information delivery chains with partners, customers, vendors, distributors, investors, and other target groups and affects commerce with communications tools superior to current e-mail technologies. Active Data Exchange is active in several industry standards committees including the Information Content Exchange Authoring Group and the W3C XML Protocol Standards Committee. Trusted by many top organizations, Active Data Exchanges products are highly scalable, reliable and ensure content security and protection. Clients include Crown, Cork and Seal, RealTime Media, MainStreet Networks, Turner Construction, Penn Mutual Life Insurance, and Lehigh University.

About BIAP Systems, Inc.
BIAP Systems, Inc., (www.BIAP.com) is a privately held software development and technology company that has designed edge-based software that changes the way information is accessed and managed. GOtrieve, its flagship product, uses intelligent agent-based technology to provide total, dynamic control of how users get and use information from the Internet. Through open-standard technologies, such as HTML, XML, RSS, SSI, and a serverless peer-to-peer model technology platform, users can exchange information between any Web-enabled device. BIAPs investors include SCP Partners and Pennsylvania Early Stage Partners.

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Visit Active Data Exchanges Website (www.activedataX.com) for further information.