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Date: Tue, 28 Apr 1998 09:48:38 -0700
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   Corporate Software & Technologies Announces New Versions of CorporateTime   
                                Client and Server                              
                             (PR Newswire; 04/28/98)                           

  New Address Book Feature Extends Leading Enterprise-Class Calendaring and

    Scheduling Solution For More Complete Workgroup Information Management

    ANAHEIM, Calif., April 28 /PRNewswire/ Montreal-based Corporate
Software & Technologies Int. Inc. (CS&T) today announced CorporateTime(R)
4.0 calendaring and scheduling client and CorporateTime 4.0 server.  With
the new upgrade, CorporateTime now includes a complete Address Book that
extends the enterprise-class scheduling client to encompass more
comprehensive workgroup information management.

    CorporateTime is CS&T's multi-platform client/server solution that enables 
thousands of users to collaborate and manage their time and activities through 
a powerful, feature-complete, scalable architecture.  With CorporateTime,  
corporations can deploy calendaring and scheduling applications that enable  
users to visually navigate their calendars, block off time, invite attendees,  
and reserve conference rooms and facilities.  In addition, users can publish  
calendars to pre-defined lists of colleagues, manage tasks and activities, and 
choose from numerous printing format options.

    "The new release of CorporateTime extends CS&T's leadership in the market  
for enterprise-class scheduling solutions that can scale to hundreds of  
thousands of users," said Thomas Gosnell, chief operating officer for CS&T.  
"Our expansion of CorporateTime to include comprehensive address book  
functionality responds to our customers who are looking to integrate contact  
information with the more robust collaborative features of CorporateTime."

    CorporateTime Client 4.0: New Address Book     The key feature of the 
CorporateTime 4.0 client is its new Address Book.  CorporateTime has 
traditionally boasted the market's most reliable client for  calendaring and 
scheduling among hundreds of thousands of users across  worldwide enterprises. 
Now, using a simple two-panel view with folders and  different sorting options,
users can exploit a comprehensive Address Book with  bookmarks, various 
printing capabilities, user-defined fields, and the ability  to share public 
Address Books.  Users can enter business, general, and personal  contacts   
even if they are not CorporateTime users - and view them in a  variety of ways 
through tabs.  The CorporateTime Client enables users to enter  free-form note 
associated with each contact, such as summaries of previous  conversations.

    Users can populate their address book by importing names from files,  
copying entries from one book to another, or dragging vCard files. Address Book
contents can also be exported in different file formats.  As with all  
CorporateTime features, users can work with Address Books off-line, modify  
them, and later reconcile any changes to the server.

    To control server disk space, the system administrator can set limits to  
the number of Address Books and entries that users can create.  Corporate Time  
Address Books can be either shared public Address Books (such as a company  
phone directory) or maintained as a personal Address Book.  Only designated  
users have the right to create and manage public Address Books.

    In addition, the newest version of CS&T's acclaimed calendaring and  
scheduling client now features:

      New Display Format   CorporateTime has improved context-sensitive menus, 
hovering popups, better use of colors to indicate weekends and current day.   
"Borderless" toolbars are also provided for better use of screen real- estate. 
In addition, CorporateTime provides easier control over multiple windows and  
views.

      Improved Usability   Users can easily drag-and-drop calendar and Address-
Book entries.  Weekly views now display the week number and users can switch  
among weekly and monthly views with one mouse click.  Right-button mouse  
functionality now provides easy access to context-sensitive commands and menus 
The number of mouse clicks required to perform common tasks has also been  
reduced.

      Improved meeting creation windows   Users can now invite people and  
reserve facilities on the same page by typing a first or last name or a  
group/department name.  The Reply process is streamlined as well.

      Import Schedule+ 7.x   CorporateTime can easily import complete files  
from any Schedule+ user.

      Improved support for Motif   In addition to Windows 3.1, Windows 95,  
Windows NT, Macintosh 68000, Macintosh PowerPC clients and Web browser thin-  
clients, CorporateTime now also supports an improved Motif thick-client  
implementation as well.  Platforms supported are: HP-UX, IBM AIX, Sun Solaris, 
SunOS, SGI Irix, and Linux.

         CorporateTime Server 4.0: Back-End Support For Address Book, LDAP, an 
 Internationalization CorporateTime Server 4.0 supports the new Address Book  
feature on 4.0 clients.  Through UTF-8 encoding, full international character  
sets   including Korean and Japanese   are now supported. Server performance  
has also received a boost, which significantly speeds up dial-up access on  
slower telephone lines.

    In addition, CorporateTime Server 4.0   along with the new  
"CorporateConnect" product from CS&T   supports Control Data's Global Directory
Server and Netscape's Directory Server through the Lightweight Directory 
Access  Protocol (LDAP).  CorporateTime Server 4.0 also now supports Silicon 
Graphics  IRIX platforms, in addition to its traditional support for IBM AIX, 
HP-UX, Sun  Solaris, and Microsoft Windows NT.

    Pricing and Availability     The CorporateTime 4.0 client will be available
on April 30.  The  CorporateTime 4.0 server will be available at the end of Q2 
The CorporateTime  4.0 client is compatible with CS&T's current server 
versions. Pricing varies,  depending upon platform, starting from US $1,000 for
50 users. Contact CS&T for  more details.

    About CS&T     Headquartered in Montreal, Corporate Software and 
Technologies Int. Inc. is  the emerging leader in the growing market for 
enterprise-class calendaring and  scheduling solutions that extend beyond 
personal calendars to help thousands of  professionals collaborate and manage 
activities and time.  With installations  of its flagship CorporateTime and 
OpenTime products in more than 12 countries,  CS&T has enjoyed steady 
profitable growth since its founding in 1988.  The  company is self-funded and 
privately held. For more information, please visit  the CS&T corporate web site
at http://www.cst.ca.

SOURCE  Corporate Software & Technologies Int. Inc.     -0-                    
        04/28/98     /CONTACT: Terri Slater of Slater Public Relations, 
508-650-3904, tslater@slaterpr.com or Esther Hotter of CS&T, 514-733-8500, 
estherhcst.ca/     /Web site: http://www.cst.ca/

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