CONNEXT, INC. SELECTS NCMX, INC. AS ITS MANAGEMENT SERVICES PROVIDER (MSP)

Seattle, WA, November 21, 2000 – NCMX, Inc., today announced that ConneXt Inc., a Seattle-based software developer of billing and customer care solutions for the utility industry, announced that it will use NCMX, Inc. as its Management Service Provider (MSP) to automate many of their manual, labor-intensive desktop management activities.

"The services offered by NCMX will allow us to meet our growth and cost control targets without the burden of having to expand our internal IT staff," stated ConneXt, IT Manager Jim Burbidge. "We believe that NCMX's new and innovative services will help us to manage our PC environment and reduce the total cost of ownership for our network. NCMX will provide a set of flexible services, expertise, tools, and discipline necessary to deliver the PC support service levels and internal controls that we require. The NCMX Asset Management services will increase efficiency while reducing costs."

"We are excited to be partnering with ConneXt and sharing in their continued growth and success," said Steve C. Samuelson, CEO of NCMX, Inc. "We are looking forward to delivering our services to this dynamic and innovative company so that they can continue to focus on billing and customer care solutions for the utility industry"

About NCMX
NCMX is an IT management services provider (MSP), which provides PC and network information and software change management services to middle market organizations. The company uses third party and proprietary tools and processes that improve the security, reliability and productivity of the organization. The core services offered by NCMX are PC Asset Management, Asset Assurance, and Software Change Management. Along with commercially available software, NCMX uses the following proprietary tools:

  LANaide, an asset inquiry and database system

  LANqa, a closed loop change management process

About ConneXt
ConneXt is a provider of sophisticated, packaged CIS software targeted to utilities. Comprehensive, flexible and scalable, ConneXt billing and customer care solutions allow utilities to thrive in a deregulating energy market. Its flagship product, ConsumerLinX, is a powerful Customer Information System (CIS) for larger utilities featuring high volume product billing and customer care of residential, commercial and industrial energy users. Now in use at a major utility in the Pacific Northwest, ConsumerLinX has produced millions of flawless bills. It is the first CIS designed for the 21st century, feature-rich and readily implemented.

ConneXt is located at 1301 Fifth Avenue, Suite 1900, Seattle, Washington, 98101. For additional information, phone (800) 706-1976, fax (206) 521-2400 or visit the ConneXt Web site at http://www.connext.com.

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