AVT's Integration With Interface Software's Flagship CRM Software Boosts the Speed of Customer Communications

Business Wire, May 1, 2000

Business Editors/High Tech Writers

TUCSON, Ariz.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 1, 2000

AVT Corp., (Nasdaq:AVTC) the leading provider of business-to-business communications solutions, Monday announced that its RightFAX software has been integrated into Interface Software's InterAction(R), the leading CRM software for professional services firms.

InterAction users, accustomed to performing business-critical tasks within a centralized database of strategic information, can now easily fax directly from the InterAction user interface. This seamless extension of InterAction's customer and client relationship management software provides smooth, fast electronic document delivery -- a function vital to every business and every business relationship.

"Providing electronic document delivery options to professional services firms is a RightFAX tradition," said Bradley H. Feder, president of AVT Document Exchange Software Group. "We're very pleased to bring tradition together with the amazing momentum of the CRM market through InterAction's award-winning software."

"We're pleased to partner with AVT. Our users rely on InterAction to effectively manage client relationships. The RightFAX electronic document delivery system complements InterAction and adds great value for our customers," said John Lipsey, Interface Software's director of communications.

Combining powerful network fax, IP fax and production fax technologies into one comprehensive offering, the RightFAXv7.0 line of electronic document delivery solutions from the AVT Document Exchange Software Group is the leading Windows NT enterprise fax software available worldwide.

It uses fax, e-mail, print and Internet technologies to provide the gateway that connects an organization's enterprise applications to their trading partners. Open and scalable, RightFAX seamlessly integrates with desktop, host, legacy and ERP applications.

About AVT

AVT Corp. is the leading provider of business-to-business communications solutions, helping organizations control and meet the high demands of their communications workflow. The company specializes in developing and marketing its RightFAX and CommercePath fax and communications servers, its MediaLinq electronic document delivery services, and its CallXpress unified messaging solution.

AVT has more than 65,000 systems installed worldwide, with 80 percent of the Fortune 100 using the company's award-winning products and services.

AVT is headquartered in Kirkland, Wash. and has main offices in Tucson, Portland, Ore., and San Francisco. In addition, AVT has sales and support offices in the United Kingdom, Germany, Hong Kong, Dubai, and Tokyo. Founded in 1982, AVT is publicly traded under the symbol "AVTC" on the NASDAQ National Market. AVT maintains a site on the World Wide Web at www.avtc.com.

About Interface Software

One of the fastest growing software companies in North America, Oak Brook, Ill.-based Interface Software Inc. is the industry leader in customer relationship management solutions for the professional services industry. Its flagship product, InterAction, enables firms to build a knowledge base of relationship data into an enterprise-wide, centralized database.

In so doing, InterAction facilitates business development by tracking relationships, managing activities, and simplifying communications.

For more information about the InterAction line of products and services, contact Interface Software at 1420 Kensington Road, Suite 320, Oak Brook, IL 60523, 630/572-1400, fax:630/572-1818, e-mail:sales@interfacesoftware.com, www.interfacesoftware.com.

In Europe and Australia, contact Mitchell Grossbach at 21c Kensington Church Walk, Kensington, London W8 4NB, UK, 011-44-171 937 5739, fax: 011-44-207-691-7985, e-mail: mgrossbach@interfacesoftware.com.

AVT and RightFAX are registered trademarks of the AVT Corp. All other company, product, and service names may be trademarks of their respective owners.