Santeon delivers Automated Benefits Enrollment to Sage Abra HRMS Customers

Alexandria, Virginia – November 1, 2007

Santeon, Inc. a leading provider of business process management technology and business process outsourcing services today announced an agreement with Sage Software to deliver electronic benefits enrollment to current and new Sage Abra HRMS customers. The service, being distributed and marketed by Sage Software as Sage Abra Benefits Messenger, automates the communication of employee benefits enrollment data with insurance and benefits carriers, thereby eliminating the need to submit paper enrollment forms or manually file carrier forms online, and helping to eliminate costly errors associated with duplicate data entry and missed enrollments. The service especially saves time and effort for companies working with multiple carriers.

The agreement allows Sage Software to license the Santeon Direct Enroll service and distribute it as an add-on to the Sage Abra HRMS suite of products, as well as process Sage Abra HRMS customers’ employee benefit enrollment information through the Santeon HR Benefits Clearinghouse.

“The addition of Sage Abra Benefits Messenger helps strengthen Sage Software’s leadership position in bringing innovative products, solutions and services to their growing customer base at the right time,” said Jessica Simmons, VP and General Manager for Sage Abra HRMS at Sage Software. “With annual benefits enrollment quickly approaching, it is absolutely the best time to address benefits management and streamline the enrollment activities by fully automating the open enrollment process, as well as the ongoing benefits management and administration through Sage Abra HRMS and Sage Abra Benefits Messenger.”

Sage Abra Benefits Messenger supports virtually all benefits carriers, and securely transmits employee benefits over the Internet through the Santeon clearinghouse.

Ash Rofail, President of Santeon, states, “We are very pleased to have partnered with Sage Software on this technology and service. Our business process outsourcing infrastructure and automated business process management technology enables us to support the Sage Software customer base and offer innovative approaches to support the company’s forward-thinking direction to bring valuable solutions to their present and future customers through Sage Abra Benefits Messenger.”

About Santeon, Inc

Santéon is a technology company that enables organizations to optimize performance and maximize revenues through its business process management (BPM) software products and services- solving complex business process, compliance and integration challenges from both a system integration and a human process perspective. Santeon Also offers human resources business process outsourcing (HR-BPO) services as to medium and large enterprises. For more information please visit the website at www.santeon.com or call 703.970.9200

About Sage Software

Sage Software supports the needs, challenges and dreams of nearly 2.8 million small and mid-sized business customers in North America through easy-to-use, scalable and customizable software and services. Our products support accounting, operations, customer relationship management, human resources, time tracking, merchant services and the specialized needs of the construction, distribution, healthcare, manufacturing, nonprofit and real estate industries. Sage Software is a subsidiary of The Sage Group plc, a leading global supplier of accounting and business management software solutions and related products and services for small and mid-sized businesses. Formed in 1981, Sage was floated on the London Stock Exchange in 1989 and the Group now has 5.4 million customers and employs over 13,000 people worldwide. For more information, please visit the Web site at www.sagesoftware.com or call (866) 308-2378.

Media Contacts Information:

Gihan Morris
Santeon, Inc.
Phone: 703.547.8439
GihanMorris@santeon.com