BusinessEdge Solutions Selects Unanet for Web-Based Time Collection and Billing, Expense Reporting, and Project Management

Leading Next Generation E-Business Solution Integrator Looks to Increase Productivity by Automating Routine Office Tasks.

Fairfax, Va., January 31, 2001 – Unanet Technologies, a privately held firm headquartered in Fairfax, Va., today announced that BusinessEdge Solutions, a leading industry e-business integrator, has implemented the Unanet Web-Based Workforce Optimization to simplify administrative tasks for its highly mobile and dispersed workforce. BusinessEdge Solutions has selected Unanet as a complete solution to manage time collection and billing, expense reporting, and overall project management. BusinessEdge Solutions will take advantage of the Unanet product suite through its advanced corporate intranet infrastructure.

“After a detailed review of the top vendors in the industry, BusinessEdge Solutions chose Unanet for its depth of functionality, ease-of-use, ease-of-implementation, technical architecture, and responsive customer support team,” said Henry Sullivan, CIO of BusinessEdge. “Unanet will improve our overall productivity and allow us to strengthen our capacity to meet our client needs.”

BusinessEdge Solutions will take advantage of the Unanet Product Suite to provide a business-to-employee focal point to enhance corporate profitability and improve employee productivity. After the time, expense, and project data is entered, Unanet can directly feed a variety of backend financial systems.

“We are excited to welcome BusinessEdge Solutions to the Unanet customer community and look forward to helping them optimize their workforce,” said Frances Craig, CEO and President of Unanet Technologies. “Unanet is the ideal solution for today’s leading edge professional service firms such as BusinessEdge Solutions that have mobile, decentralized workforces.”

As a 100 percent Web-Based solution, Unanet may be implemented extremely quickly, allowing companies to focus on their core business practices. The reason for the speed of the implementation cycle is directly related to the intuitiveness of the product. Unanet interfaces directly with a variety of backend human resources, accounting, payroll, and financial systems to streamline the end-to-end process. Unanet may also be deployed globally as it supports a variety of internationalization rules.

About BusinessEdge Solutions

BusinessEdge Solutions Inc. (www.businessedge.com) is a next generation, Industry eBusiness Integration firm specializing in eBusiness strategy, user experience design, web development, eBusiness integration and OSS integration. BusinessEdge focuses on B2B eBusiness enablement for the Communications, Energy, Financial Services and Insurance Industries. Founded in 1999, with over 700 employees, BusinessEdge Solutions is headquartered in New York with offices in Edison, NJ, Dallas, Denver, Houston and Washington, D.C.

About Unanet Technologies

Unanet Technologies is the pioneer of Web-based workforce optimization tools that increase corporate value. Unanet capitalizes on the synergies of its best-of-breed timesheet, expense report, and project management suite of products that are industry proven Web-based software in production for over three years. With over 100 customers and 65,000 registered users, Unanet Technologies has the proven leadership and innovative technology to address the demands of today's e-business environment. Unanet's customer base includes Fortune 500 companies, professional staffing organizations, Application Service Providers (ASPs), portals, system integrators, software vendors, consulting organizations, government contractors, high technology companies, health organizations, internal IT companies, and sales organizations.