SynXis Receives Yellow Page Industry Award; Award Presented for Online Billing & Electronic Tear Pages Product

Business Wire, Nov 19, 1999

MCLEAN, Va.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 19, 1999--

SynXis Corporation, a leading developer of Web- based eCommerce and software solutions, along with Bell Atlantic, received the Yellow Pages Publishers Association's (YPPA) annual APPY Bronze Award for Process Innovation for the development of online billing and electronic tear pages.

SynXis eBill(TM), the first online billing and tear page application, offers a streamlined, graphic and highly efficient solution to directory billing. SynXis eBill(TM) includes on screen "real" tear pages and invoices presented in a YPPA-approved format.

Through eBill(TM), advertising customers have immediate access to billing detail, tear pages and analytical tools. Benefits to publishers using eBill(TM) include significant savings in collation, directory replacement, and bill printing and distribution.

The APPY Awards recognize member excellence in a variety of Yellow Pages disciplines. The 1999 awards focused on moving the industry toward its collective goals of increasing market share, advertisers and usage. The Awards were presented at YPPA's annual conference recently held in Denver, Colorado.

SynXis Corporation (www.synxis.com) is a leading Applications Service Provider (ASP), developing Internet-based software products and solutions that enable more efficient business-to-business and business-to-consumer transactions over the Web.

Recent contracts in the Telecom Division include an award from Bell Atlantic for the SynXis eBill(TM) and SynXis eDirectory(TM) products for the Yellow Pages. In addition, SynXis has built a Web-based hotel reservation management system that maintains a single, real-time representation of property inventory -- accessible by all booking sources and alternative distribution systems.

SynXis has offices in McLean, Virginia, and Denver, Colorado.

Yellow Pages Publishers Association (YPPA) (www.yppa.org) represents publishers, Certified Marketing Representatives (CMRs) and industry suppliers in the U.S., Canada and internationally.

Now in its 11th year of operation, the association serves as a catalyst for its members to develop and implement programs that improve the Yellow Pages product in both print and electronic formats in order to better serve its advertisers, the consumers, and the industry as a whole.