PRODUCT PRESS RELEASE

Honors Roll In, Momentum Rolls On for XcelleNet:
Afaria Product, Executives Recognized as Industry Leaders

Afaria Implementation Named Mobile Data Project of the Year in Europe;  XcelleNet Executives Pace Panels at COMDEX, Top Wireless Industry Shows

ATLANTA (December 4, 2000)—XcelleNet, Inc., the leader of the fast-growing market for mobile resource management, today announced that its Afaria implementation at Hercules Incorporated was named "Mobile Data Project of the Year" at the fifth annual Information Management Awards. This award program, sponsored by Micrologica and Update.com in the U.K., represents the industry’s leading accolades for excellence and innovation in the management of business information and knowledge.

Hercules, a leading global manufacturer of chemical specialties, uses Afaria to manage its mobile work force in more than 15 countries throughout the world. Afaria provides the only complete offering to centrally and securely manage mobile business solutions across a company's entire fleet of mobile systems, including laptops and devices based on Palm OS, Windows CE, and RIM Blackberry platforms. It offers the most complete suite of mobile resource management capabilities in a single product, including software distribution, backup, inventory, file transfer and event management.

XcelleNet CEO Joan Herbig said, "We can confidently say that, as indicated by this most recent award, we are a company who once again has been independently and objectively recognized as "best of breed" in the mobile device management market and shown to be delivering tangible business benefits to our customers."

Given the success and momentum its new product family, Afaria, and its flagship product, RemoteWare, are experiencing in their respective markets, XcelleNet announced last week that it was named by Computerworld as one of the Top 100 Emerging Growth Companies to watch in 2001. The company released new, significantly enhanced versions of both products during the third quarter of 2000.

In recent months, Afaria was also honored with a Network Computing "Editor’s Choice" award and two product awards from Mobile Insights, the world’s leading authority on mobile computing and data communications. To highlight and support this innovative product family, XcelleNet has introduced a website dedicated to Afaria and the rapidly growing mobile management market product family (www.afaria.com).

Like its products, XcelleNet’s executives are increasingly recognized as industry leaders and have recently been selected to speak at Comdex and top wireless industry events. Industry pundits and organizations are increasingly turning to XcelleNet’s executive team for their expertise on the nascent, growing market for mobile resource management. CTO Joe Owen was selected to lead two sessions at COMDEX/Fall 2000, , the global IT marketplace where buyers, sellers and influencers go to do business and make technology decisions. The first was "Handheld Computing in the Enterprise" and the other, "WAP: Putting the Internet in the Hands of a Billion People." In early November, CEO Joan Herbig spoke at the "Internet Untethered" mobile Internet conference sponsored by Angelbeat, the New York Times and the Harvard Business School. Also, Herbig was featured in the "Thought Leader" column in the December issue of Field Force Automation. Senior Vice President – Marketing and Business Alliances Henry Rosen participated in panel discussions about the future direction of Mobile computing at CTIA, the industry’s top wireless event, and at Mobile Insights’ premier mobile conference, GoMobile, in October.

XcelleNet has also announced recently a number of strategic partnerships with companies that offer critical technology to help enterprises mobilize their workforces. These partnerships include:

• Go America, Inc., the nation’s largest wireless ISP, and XcelleNet jointly market XcelleNet's Afaria mobile resource management solutions with Go America's GoWeb™ service to meet the needs of executives and IT professionals.
• Mobilize, Inc., a leading provider of pre-packaged mobile application services, and XcelleNet jointly market AfariaÔ mobile management solution to Mobilize’s enterprise customers.
• XcelleNet's Afaria provides core systems management functions, such as automated, centralized hardware and software asset tracking and data management for the BlackBerry™ wireless handhelds produced by Research In Motion Limited (RIM), a leading designer, manufacturer and marketer of innovative wireless solutions for the mobile communications market.
• XcelleNet has obtained Symbol Technologies, Inc. Software Partner status for its support of Symbol devices. Symbol is a global leader in wireless and Internet-based mobile data transaction systems and services.
• ThinAirApps is a pioneer in the fast-growing wireless software market that has developed a wireless software platform, ThinAir Server, which enables secure, real-time communication between any wireless device and any data source. ThinAirApps offers Afaria as a mobile device management solution for their users.
• Verizon Data Services, the commercial arm of Verizon Communications' information technology division, hosts XcelleNet’s Afaria in an ASP fashion.

About XcelleNet
XcelleNet, Inc. is the leader of the fast-growing market for mobile resource management. The explosive growth of the mobile economy, and the race to implement Internet-enabled mobile applications has created a new challenge for IT: management of smart mobile devices, including laptop computers, handhelds, smartphones and interactive pagers. XcelleNet’s AfariaÔ family of solutions enables enterprises to manage these mobile devices and the business-critical applications on these devices. XcelleNet’s RemoteWareÒ is a world-class retail polling and management solution for remote PCs and Point of Sale devices. A pioneer in remote and mobile device management with 2,500 customers worldwide, XcelleNet serves a broad range of industries, including healthcare, insurance, retail, manufacturing and pharmaceutical. XcelleNet solutions reduce total cost of ownership, accelerate end-user productivity and enable the management of applications and content to a desired configuration from a central location. More information is available at www.XcelleNet.com.

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XcelleNet is a trademark of XcelleNet, Inc. Afaria is a trademark of Afaria, Inc. – an XcelleNet affiliate. XcelleNet and Afaria make no claims of ownership to all other products and company names mentioned herein which may be the trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective owners.

Contact:
Deborah Cox XcelleNet, Inc. 678-585-7133 deborah.cox@xcellenet.com	Ed Harrison or Stefan Cencarik Schwartz Communications, Inc. 781-684-0770 stefanc@schwartz-pr.com

 

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