Hiawatha Island Software Company, Inc. and Journey Education Marketing work together to best serve Educational Markets.   
Faculty, Students and Administrators at Educational Institutions now can access  HiSoftware’s metadata solutions at discounted prices.

CONCORD, NH – Jan 22, 2001 - Hiawatha Island Software (HiSoftware), a leading developer of knowledge management, Web site promotion, and e-business intelligence software, announced today that it will be partnering with Journey Education Marketing (Journey Education) of Carrollton, TX to bring metadata solutions to colleges and universities throughout the world.  HiSoftware and Journey Education’s new partnership will ensure a cost-effective and simplified procurement process for post secondary education facilities to purchase HiSoftware solutions.

 "Journey is committed to developing strong relationships with vendor partners like HiSoftware, and working with them to bring quality products to academic buyers at affordable prices," says Mike Fischler, CEO and President for Journey Education Marketing.

 “HiSoftware understands the importance of providing easy access to leading edge software solutions to educational markets, institutions, students, faculty and administration alike. Students of today are the web authors of the future. Their education in the use of Metadata will improve web communications around the world, ” said Ted Chumas, Vice President of Sales and Marketing for HiSoftware.  HiSoftware’s metadata solutions for knowledge management, web site promotion, and e-business intelligence are comprised of essential solutions for the new digital organization.

 About Journey Education, Inc.
Journey Education Marketing is the leading software marketer to the post-secondary academic market, which includes students, faculty, staff and educational institutions.  Journey offers more than 4,000 academic software and technology products at deep discounts to verified academic buyers.  For more on Journey Education, visit www.JourneyEd.com.

ABOUT HISOFTWARE
HiSoftware Company, the leader in enterprise content quality management solutions, provides innovative products that empower quality assurance teams, content developers, Web site architects, and company executives to work collaboratively on their efforts to create and manage corporate Web standards for Accessibility, Privacy, Searchability, Usability and custom guidelines and policies. HiSoftware’s integrated, full lifecycle solutions dramatically reduce the time required to test, manage and deploy e-business Web sites.

HiSoftware works closely with industry leaders and visionaries to provide solutions for today's information accessibility, content quality, search and retrieval needs. HiSoftware’s customers represent Fortune 500 companies, and many of the largest e-commerce, government, and educational sites in North America and around the world and include ChevronTexaco, Commerce One, Mercury Interactive, and Microsoft Government.

Founded in 1998, HiSoftware Company maintains North American corporate headquarters in Concord, New Hampshire. Further information about HiSoftware can be found online at www.hisoftware.com

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