EasyLink & Traxian Connect Convenience Stores with Suppliers; Breakthr

    Business Editors

    PISCATAWAY, N.J. & SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 6, 2005--EasyLink Services Corporation (NASDAQ:EASY) and Traxian, Inc. announced today a strategic alliance to provide a comprehensive suite of services that will deliver automated business-to-business capabilities to small and mid-sized companies in the $150bn US convenience store industry. The integration of EasyLink's transaction processing, delivery and management solutions with Traxian's standards-based software and directory services will enable users to enjoy benefits that have been traditionally only available to larger retailers.
    EasyLink, based in Piscataway, NJ is a leading global provider of services that power the exchange of information between enterprises, their trading communities and customers. Traxian, headquartered in San Francisco, assists small and mid-sized businesses eliminate paper-based processes through its intuitive Web Services software that provide deeper integration between commonly used small business software such as QuickBooks and enterprise transaction solutions such as EDI.
    "Over 80% of convenience stores are operated by retailers with fewer than 100 stores. These retailers have been unable to enjoy the full efficiency benefits that automated workflow technology can provide," said Bill Fallon, VP Marketing EasyLink. "Combining Traxian's integration software with EasyLink's network services eliminates the high setup costs and technical complexity that have prevented convenience stores and their suppliers from collaborating electronically."
    By utilizing the integrated solutions of EasyLink and Traxian, convenience stores can reduce cost and realize large retailer efficiencies by cutting data entry time in half and reducing errors by thirty percent. In addition, trading partners also benefit from the fast, accurate and secure transactions that help speed up the processing of critical documents and communications between business partners.
    As part of its straight-through-processing solution, EasyLink receives, validates, translates, delivers and tracks (among others) documents and their processing between partners while Traxian provides a gateway to a network of connected trading partners and "out-of-the-box" seamless integration with back-office software. Together, the combined solution offers a leading edge application of Web Services technology for business-to-business integration (B2Bi). The EasyLink platform securely exposes existing EDI or ERP processes to partners as Web Services over the Internet, enabling those partners, via the Traxian client application, to easily link their processes and applications.
    "Our partnership with EasyLink enables Traxian to offer a business-to-business solution that meets the process requirements of both the convenience store and their trading partners," said Roger Bass, CEO of Traxian, Inc. "By fusing our technology that has been developed for small and mid-sized business with EasyLink's enterprise-level solutions, customers can seamlessly and efficiently improve their processes to equal that of much larger institutions."

    About EasyLink Services Corporation:

    EasyLink Services Corporation (NASDAQ: EASY), headquartered in Piscataway, New Jersey, is a leading global provider of services that power the exchange of information between enterprises, their trading communities, and their customers. EasyLink's global network handles over 1 million transactions every business day on behalf of over 60 of the Fortune 100 and thousands of other companies worldwide. We facilitate transactions that are integral to the movement of money, materials, products, and people in the global economy, such as insurance claims, trade and travel confirmations, purchase orders, invoices, shipping notices and funds transfers, among many others. EasyLink helps companies become more competitive by providing the most secure, efficient, reliable, and flexible means of conducting business electronically. For more information, please visit www.EasyLink.com.

    About Traxian

    Founded in 2001, and headquartered in San Francisco, California, Traxian makes electronic transactions easy for small to mid-sized businesses and the large enterprises who do business with them. Traxian's intuitive Web Services software meets the needs of trading partners at both ends, delivering "last mile" integration between (popular small business software such as QuickBooks), and enterprise transaction systems such as EDI. For more information, please visit www.traxian.com

    This news release may contain statements of a forward-looking nature relating to the future events or the future financial results of EasyLink. Investors are cautioned that such statements are only predictions and that actual events or results may differ materially. In evaluating such statements, investors should specifically consider the various factors which could cause actual events or results to differ materially from those indicated from such forward-looking statements, including the matters set forth in the Company's reports and documents filed from time to time with the Securities and Exchange Commission.

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