Parallelspace Becomes the Leading Developer of Truly Collaborative Business Solutions for Groove Workspace 2.0

With today's announcement of three new Groove Workspace™ solutions for proposal management, action request and tracking and a fully integrated email experience, Parallelspace Corporation becomes the leading developer of Truly Collaborative™ business solutions.

TORONTO, CANADA - April 15, 2002 - Parallelspace Corporation, a Toronto-based business software and services company, announces today three new solutions for Groove Workspace Version 2.0 -  the latest version of Groove Networks, Inc.'s decentralized business collaboration platform.

WorkSmith™ for Proposal Management allows several people to simultaneously edit and review responses to Request for Proposals (RFP) without interfering with each other.  Parallelspace ARTS™ is a fully distributed action request and tracking solution for software companies, professional service firms and general business.  Parallelspace eMail™ allows people to send and receive Outlook email as well as view and create appointments, contacts and tasks directly within Groove Workspace.

"Parallelspace is one of our earliest partners and has gotten to where they are through hard work, our developer training courses and belonging to our Groove partner programs" said Steve Wilkinson, Groove Networks' vice president of alliances. "The Parallelspace solutions built on the Groove platform are some of the most innovative we've seen. In particular, what they've done to integrate email within a Groove shared space truly positions Parallelspace as a leading developer of collaborative solutions."

"Collaboration tools that make it easier for sales teams and professional services teams to work together are incredibly valuable to an organization" said David Sharples, president of SalesTeam Canada.  "Parallelspace's ability to extend proposal management and action tracking to outside partners and customers using Groove makes their solutions uniquely valuable".

"Parallelspace was founded on the opportunity represented by the Groove Networks business collaboration platform" said Michael Herman, founder and CTO of Parallelspace Corporation.  "Groove is one of the most important innovations since the advent of the personal computer and the graphical user interface."

With the announcement of these three solutions, Parallelspace becomes the leading developer of Truly Collaborative solutions for Groove Workspace Version 2.0.

WorkSmith™ for Proposal Management
WorkSmith allows many people to edit the same RFP response at the same time. No need to worry if you have the latest copy or that someone has locked you out of the document.

WorkSmith allows individuals to simultaneously work on the sections of an RFP for which they are responsible without interfering with others. RFPs are responded to faster, with greater accuracy and less stress. Team members can see which sections others are working on at any time.

Using Groove as the underlying connection, everyone is guaranteed to have the same version of the document. If users work offline, they can lock sections of the document and the next time they connect to the Internet all new changes will be automatically merged with the other team members.

Parallelspace ARTS™
Parallelspace ARTS allows developers to easily manage and track bugs, feature requests, customer requests, and testing during the product development cycle.

ARTS incorporates workflow that allows managers to assign priorities, individuals and deadlines to action requests and quickly view items assigned to individual developers or to the entire project. ARTS works with Parallelspace Developer Studio to provide a complete multi-developer Groove tool development solution.

ARTS uses Groove's underlying technology so that managers and developers don’t have to be in the same location or worry about firewall or web server installations or operations.

Parallelspace eMail™
Parallelspace eMail allows users to have a fully functional email environment in any Groove shared space.

Email is still one of the most common forms of communication - so it only makes sense to include Microsoft Outlook™ as one of your every-day tools. No more jumping back and forth between Groove and your email program.

Personal email is kept private and not shared with other members of the shared space. eMail users can send and receive Outlook email as well as view and create appointments, contacts and tasks directly from within Groove Workspace.

About Parallelspace (http://www.parallelspace.net)

Parallelspace Corporation, founded in 2001, is a business software and services company based in Toronto, Canada and is one of the founding members of the Groove Networks, Inc. business partner program. Parallelspace offers turn-key solutions, custom software development, systems integration and strategic planning services, and has an established reputation for delivering reliable and effective solutions. Parallelspace combines technical expertise and a focus on business objectives to deploy the right enterprise-class solutions for our customers. Parallelspace customers include Compaq Global Services, Helix Commerce, Lear Corporation, Microsoft Corporation, SalesTeam Canada, Tactical Connections and ThinkPath.

More Information

More information on Parallelspace's Truly Collaborative business solutions can be found at:
http://www.parallelspace.net/solutions

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For More Information Please Contact:
Michael Herman
Parallelspace Corporation
(905) 884-8285
mwherman@parallelspace.net