Authoria Continues Leadership Position in Workplace Knowledge Application Delivery

Authoria, Inc., a world leader in personalized Web-based human resource communication, today announced its continued success in helping to meeting the Knowledge Application needs of leading PeopleSoft Inc. (Nasdaq: PSFT) customers.  More than 60 PeopleSoft customers, including Wells Fargo, Cinergy Corporation, Thrivent Financial for Lutherans and CUNA Mutual Group have chosen Authoria HR to provide benefits, HR policy knowledge and knowledge for effective employee self-service initiatives and call center operations.

"Our solution, when integrated with PeopleSoft, can help mutual customers deliver personalized benefit and HR policy information to their users," said Tod Loofbourrow, President and CEO of Authoria. "The combination of our respective solutions enables employees to make better informed self-service decisions."

"As more firms realize the importance of knowledge for successful employee self-service, they also discover that integration can be a significant part of any implementation budget," said Ron Hanscome, Senior Program Director, META Group. "Organizations are looking for easier and more seamless ways to integrate knowledge into their day to day HR transactions."

"The integrated PeopleSoft and Authoria solutions enable organizations to drive down costs by encouraging the use of self-service applications," said Doug Merritt, Vice President and General Manager, PeopleSoft Human Capital Management.  "Through real-time access to personalized and accurate information, the PeopleSoft and Authoria products, when integrated, help employees take immediate action in order to efficiently execute HR business processes."

"The PeopleSoft-Authoria partnership is a prime example of how software companies working together can solve the most challenging customer problems," said Edward Jensen, Partner in Accentures Human Performance Service Line. "The Authoria integration with PeopleSoft enables employees to obtain pre-integrated access to important benefit and HR policy knowledge while allowing HR organizations to offer high-quality customer service and realize significant savings on implementation."

About Authoria HR
Authoria HR is a suite of Knowledge Applications designed for the personalized communication of benefit plan and HR policies to employees. Authoria HR provides dynamically generated, personalized answers to vital questions for employees. By enabling businesses to deliver consistent, timely and accurate benefits information online to their employees, Authoria HR provides the means to improve employee communication, reduce administrative costs and increase HR's strategic contribution to the business.

About Authoria
Authoria is a world leader in personalized human resource communication. Authoria HR is the Knowledge Application standard in the software industry. Over one hundred organizations worldwide rely on Authoria to dramatically improve employee communication while streamlining costs. Authoria's Knowledge Applications manage and communicate complex information to millions of people at some of the world's largest companies, including Boeing, Motorola and Wells Fargo. Among Authoria's partners are industry-leaders PeopleSoft, Towers Perrin, IBM BCS and Accenture. Based in Waltham, MA, Authoria has been ranked three times by Inc. Magazine as one of America's fastest-growing private companies and has been recognized by Deloitte & Touche in the New England Fast 50 four times and the National Fast 500 twice. For more information, please visit www.authoria.com.