Authoria Receives Patent For Human Resource Knowledge Modeling & Delivery System

Authoria, Inc., the world leader in personalized, Web-based human resource communication, today announced it has been awarded a United States patent (Patent No. 6,505,183) for its human resource knowledge modeling and delivery system, which protects the core functionality of Authoria's industry-leading software products. The Authoria HR product suite, for example, utilizes this innovative knowledgebase technology to dynamically generate personalized answers to vital questions for an organizations employees and managers. The patent granted to Authoria is the first to issue from several pending patent applications for Authoria's market-leading solutions.

"This fundamental patent further validates the strength, uniqueness, and value of our enterprise communication solutions," said Tod Loofbourrow, president and CEO of Authoria. "Authoria's leadership is based in part on this patented innovation as well as our ability to put the innovation into practice, helping our customers drive high-value solutions within their organizations."

"Through our visionary technology, Authoria is able to deliver personalized answers to employee, customer service representative and manager questions about a wide variety of topics such as benefit plans, payroll, human resource policies, procedures and practices," said Tim Farlow, director of technology at Authoria. "Our customers can quickly configure the Authoria knowledgebase to fit their organizations needs and yield detailed and accurate information enterprise-wide. They also benefit from having a centralized and cost-effective repository of strategic information."

"Authoria continues to set the standard for knowledge applications that manage and communicate benefit and policy information throughout the enterprise," said Thomas Keebler, a principal in Towers Perrins HR Solutions practice. "This patent underscores Authorias market-leading position in HR communications and reaffirms why Towers Perrin has partnered with Authoria to implement best-in-class HR service delivery for our customers."

There are three primary parts to Authoria's knowledge modeling and delivery system. First, Authoria's product includes pre-configured, parameterized knowledge models on HR subjects that ship as part of the core product. Second, these models are configurable through an authoring interface to capture the specific plan, policy and life event provisions of the implementing organization. Third, personal data are accessed from existing human resource management systems (HRMS). This threefold partitioning delivers a system that can be quickly configured to meet the needs of an individual organization, yielding detailed and accurate information for individuals within the organization in a cost-effective manner. For more information on Authoria's technology, please visit: /authoriasite/products/index.aspx?page=1.

About Authoria

Authoria is the world leader in personalized, Web-based 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 human resource 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.

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David Fleming      
Authoria
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