Pumatech Teams With YOUcentric for Mobile eBusiness Relationship Management Functionality

Pumatech's Mobile Application Platform Enables YOUcentric Customer Access to Content Via Wireless Devices

YOUcentric, Inc., a leading eBusiness Relationship Management software solutions provider, and Pumatech, Inc., the leading provider of the software infrastructure for the mobile Internet, today announced a strategic relationship that will incorporate Pumatech's Browse-it(TM) Web rendering and Web browsing software into YOUcentric's YOUrelate(TM) Web-based eBusiness Relationship Management solution.

Through this relationship, Pumatech's Browse-it software will provide YOUcentric the ability to enable customers' employees, sales forces, vendors, and customers with access to any Internet-based content via mobile devices. This means that customers will be better able to stay on top of changes in product and parts availability, pricing, competitive situations, government regulation, critical industry developments and other lifeline items immediately through their mobile devices.

The Browse-it service can deliver Web content in a variety of markup languages including WML (WAP format), Compact HTML and standard Internet formats such as HTML and XML. Browse-it delivers the technology needed to view the Web through the relatively small display area found on handheld devices.

It automatically transforms the Web data from any Internet site into a form viewable by small devices, regardless of languages or protocols used by the mobile devices, such as WAP, WML or XML. Because Browse-it eliminates the need for individual Web sites to re-author their content, YOUcentric customers will have the capability to view Internet, intranet and extranet content online via their handheld devices.

Users also have the option to take Browse-it "SnapShots" for offline viewing when online Web access is not available. These capabilities further enhance the YOUrelate solution, which combines mass-customized eBusiness relationship management functionality with a flexible e-business framework and enables the management of complex and fast-moving relationships with employees, customers, sales partners, and suppliers into one interface for all users.

"Relationship management is a key component driving the growth of the Internet economy," said Brad Rowe, president and CEO of Pumatech. "We are helping to provide YOUrelate users with the ability to manage employees, customers, sales partners, and suppliers from anywhere in the world via Palm OS(R) devices, thereby granting them mobile access to important, personalized data from the Internet or their corporate intranet and extranets."

"YOUcentric is committed to providing our customers tailored, flexible solutions that allow them to develop, enhance and maintain a variety of relationships, such as those with employees, customers and partners, via a variety of channels," said Don DeLoach, president and CEO, YOUcentric. "Our agreement with Pumatech allows us to further leverage our mobile functionality on a wide variety of operating systems, including extranets, intranets, networks, databases, and Web-enabled devices."

In addition to being a key component of Pumatech's Mobile Application Platform (MAP), Browse-it will be a service of Pumatech's upcoming Intellisync.com(SM) Web service, scheduled to make its debut later this year. All Browse-it users will have ready-made access to the other components of Intellisync.com: Mind-it and Sync-it.

The Mind-it(TM) service untangles the traditional, publisher-driven Web, allowing users to track specific information and to be notified via their WAP phone, cell phone, pager, handheld device or PC when that information changes. The Sync-it(TM) service simultaneously synchronizes e-mail, calendar and other information among multiple mobile devices, PCs and applications.


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