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Journyx Releases First Enterprise-Level Workforce Management Software for Virtual Organizations

Journyx Work Optimizer enables human capital management across entire supply chain

AUSTIN, Texas, USA — December 4, 2000 — Journyx, Inc., the established leader in web and wireless web distributed workforce management, today announced that the enterprise-level version of its market share leading solution is now generally available. Journyx Work Optimizer allows companies, employees and third party supply chain partners to share information to better manage projects, tasks, time, and expenses over the Internet, while preserving their existing investments in back-office hardware and software.

Journyx Work Optimizer enables data entry and access via Internet browsers, telephones, PDAs, wireless web cell phone applications and services, and even barcode data collection and badge readers for non-exempt employees. Real-time entry and access to information enables managers and knowledge workers to improve productivity and monitor project progress on demand, as well as generate invoices based on real-time data that include up-to-the-minute employee hours, billing rates, and expenses.

"Journyx understands the challenges associated with managing a dispersed workforce in the new global economy," said Gary Mortimer, Controller of GPTS (Granite Professional & Technical Services), a professional staffing firm. "After an extensive evaluation, we selected Journyx Work Optimizer over a number of competing products because it was the only solution that allowed us to log time for attendance, bill for employee time & expenses, and track project-oriented work in a single program. In addition, it allows us to maintain our investments in corporate financial systems by integrating with our existing payroll and project accounting software."

"Workforce management is widely predicted to emerge as one of the biggest and potentially most expensive challenges facing players in the new economy," said Bill Leake, President of Journyx, Inc. "This trend is largely due to the massive shift toward outsourcing, which is emerging as a key element of the new economy business model. As a result, many firms will depend upon service providers and partners up and down the supply chain for functions such as accounting, IT services, product manufacturing and shipment, global sales and other functions outside their core business that previously would have been conducted within their own organizations."

"These extended supply chains comprise new 'virtual organizations' which are distributed not only geographically, through remote offices and telecommuters, but also organizationally, through outsourcing," Leake continued. "Most products being offered for workforce management today typically focus on just one aspect of the problem - e.g. time tracking or expense management - and only within a single organization. Journyx Work Optimizer enables emerging 'virtual organizations' for the first time to optimize widely distributed operations by cost-effectively providing knowledge workers all along their extended internal AND external supply chains with timely, Internet-based access to business-critical information."

About Journyx Work Optimizer
Journyx Work Optimizer is an enterprise-level distributed workforce management solution for optimizing human capital across organizational boundaries. It is the only product offering currently on the market that addresses all of the needs of the distributed workforce. From making it easier than ever before to effectively administer and manage large groups to enabling convenient data entry through web and wireless access, Journyx Work Optimizer makes the optimization of labor resources a reality. Any entity that tracks time for attendance, bills for employee time, or performs project-oriented work will benefit from Journyx Work Optimizer.

Sophisticated payroll and project management support features allow multiple pay rates for any individual; customized pay periods; easy, fully auditable prior period corrections; inter-project data exchange; customizable project tracking and reporting; and the use of sophisticated, user-definable business rules to manage specific classifications of work for payroll and billing purposes. Journyx Work Optimizer also automates the workflow and approval processes for timesheet submissions, providing options for single-click approval of entire timesheets or individual line-item level approval. Automatic e-mail reminders and notifications further streamline the entire time tracking and payroll process. These features combine to give employees, contractors and customer managers total control.

Pricing and Availability
Pricing for the Journyx Work Optimizer solution is $9,995 for the Enterprise Server Software plus an additional $150 for each licensed user seat with significant volume discounts available. The Journyx Work Optimizer server currently runs on Windows NT, Windows 2000, Solaris, Linux, AIX and FreeBSD, and has been scalability tested up to 100,000 users on a single installation. Please contact our sales team or call 1-800-755-9878 to discuss your organization's individual requirements, and let us walk you through a demonstration of our product.

About Journyx, Inc.
Journyx is fundamentally transforming how people do their daily jobs, by automating labor intensive, paper-based processes with a superior, web-based solution. Founded in 1996, Journyx makes e-business workforce management software and has over 250,000 people in more than 8,000 organizations worldwide using its software.

Journyx is a privately held company based in Austin, Texas, and created the 70% market share leading application in the web timesheet space, Journyx Timesheet. Journyx solutions are available both on an ASP and a standard license basis. Journyx maintains a worldwide presence through its corporate web site at http://www.journyx.com/.