DataChannel Announces Solutions Series 2000

[Michelle Taylor <Michelle@datachannel.com>]

                  DataChannel Announces Solutions Series 2000:
                      Road Rules Intranets into E-Business

           XML and EIP Industry Leader Launches 11-City Seminar Tour

Bellevue, WA  December 28, 1999 DataChannel, Inc., the leader in XML-based
Enterprise Information Portal (EIP) Solutions, today announced the first of
its
Solutions Series 2000 seminars.  The first seminar series, Road Rules
Intranets
into E-business, will be held in 11 cities across the United States
beginning on
February 17, 2000, in Seattle. The series will define a roadmap to meet the
challenges of e-business and help you understand how and why an XML-based 
EIP is the launching point for building successful e-business initiatives.

We are excited about the launch of these multi-city seminars and the
strategic
value they will deliver to senior executives faced with developing an
e-business
strategy, said Lucie Fjeldstad, president and CEO, DataChannel. We believe
the
Solution Series will establish an invaluable dialogue between DataChannel
and
senior business decision makers and IT executives. This dialogue is critical
in
building the best real-world EIP solutions that bridge heterogeneous systems
and
use open-standards to avoid future legacy systems.

The first in a series of multi-city seminars, Road Rules  Intranets into
E-Business, a DataChannel Solutions Series, will focus on defining a roadmap
for
the creation of open-standards based EIP solutions. Proprietary, one-size
fits
all portal packages do not provide a viable long-term platform that delivers
enterprise-wide information access and publishing for all points
distribution.
The Road Rules session will educate the attendees about how DataChannel
designs
and builds custom EIP solutions that provide universal, dynamic access to
all
enterprise information and presents it in a single unified view  an
XML-based
EIP.

DataChannel Solutions Series 2000

The first DataChannel Solutions Series 2000 is a free half-day seminar for
the
CIO, CTO, Senior IT Manager and Senior Business Decision Maker.  The first
series, Road Rules  Intranets into E-Business is a three-hour morning
session
including breakfast that will be held in 11 cities across the U.S. To learn
more, visit http://www.datachannel.com/roadrules or e-mail
roadrules@dataChannel.com.


Session Topics will include:

-    The power of the enterprise information portal: Why a portal is a
mission-critical e-business initiative in enterprise computing

-    Bridging heterogeneous systems using open-standards such as eXtensible
Markup Language (XML): How to unleash your enterprise information and avoid
future legacy systems

-    The solution-centric approach to building EIPs : Why this is a better
real-world solution than an out-of-the-box product approach

-    The DataChannel Solution: Experience a DataChannel Server 4.0-based EIP
demonstration featuring the use of XML to unleash structured and
unstructured
data from Mainframe to cell phone

Solutions Series Dates and Locations:

Seattle      2/17
San Francisco  2/22
Los Angeles  2/24
Dallas       3/07
Denver       3/09
Chicago      3/14
Toronto      3/16
Atlanta      3/21
Washington DC  3/23
Boston       3/28
New York     3/30

About DataChannel
DataChannel advances the way the world does business by providing
open-standards-based Internet solutions through its products, services and
partners; ensuring that customers maximize the value of their information.

Privately held and founded in 1996, DataChannel, Inc. is an XML-based
Enterprise
Information Portal (EIP) Solutions company that unleashes enterprise
information
over the Internet, making it easier for employees, customers and partners to
participate in your business.  DataChannel's EIP Solutions Framework
provides
the building blocks for a solid e-business strategy.  DataChannel Server
4.0, an
XML-based portal server, provides a personalized and secure e-business
interface, a core component of the Framework.  The foundation of the
Framework
is the XML backbone, which extends your existing infrastructure by using XML
to
expose all enterprise information so that it can be accessed in a uniform
manner
to build dynamic Web-based applications.  To learn more about DataChannel,
visit
the company's Website at http://www.datachannel.com.

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Brodeur Porter Novelli			DataChannel
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