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Edict Systems Announces New Capabilities to Connect, Integrate, Manage, and Expand the use of e-Business within Trading Communities


Dayton, OH - March 6, 2003 - Edict Systems, Inc., a wholly owned and sole operating subsidiary of Advant-e Corporation (OTC Bulletin Board: ADVC - News) and a leading provider of Business-to-Business Trading Community solutions, today announced it has augmented its service offerings with new capabilities to provide enhanced e-Business Connectivity, Integration and Professional Services.

The expanded capabilities allow Edict Systems to market a full range of e-Business solutions that connect, integrate, manage, and expand the use of e-Business within and between enterprises. The new capabilities include:

As part of the IBM Business Partnership announced February 4, 2003, EnterpriseEC®, the company's Hosted Trading Community Management platform, has been enhanced to include access to IBM Business Exchange Services for interconnectivity to other e-Business trading communities. IBM's Business Exchange Services have been added as both a stand-alone service as well as an extension of EnterpriseEC to allow our customers to connect to other e-Business networks, including Value-Added Networks (VANs) which are used for conducting Electronic Data Interchange (EDI).

EnterpriseEC® is an Electronic Trading Network (ETN) that provides customers with a web-based interface to track and manage trading communities and transactions. Documents can be searched by technical information or by entering pertinent business information such as purchase order or invoice numbers. Individual transactions can be automatically mapped into human-readable form using a dynamic XML conversion feature to give non-technical personnel access to critical business documents in order to extend the value of EnterpriseEC® within an organization. In addition to providing the added document management features and functionality not currently available with other ETNs or VANs, EnterpriseEC® uses the Internet to reduce the cost of sending and receiving e-Business transactions.

Commenting on the expansion of Edict Systems capabilities, Kevin Johnson, Vice President of Business Development stated: "Our new capabilities, combined with our existing industry-leading web-EDI and Trading Community Management solutions, position Edict Systems to provide end-to-end solutions for our customers and their trading partners regardless of their size, technical capabilities, or internal resources."

"As we expand our relationships with strategic customers, they look to us for a more comprehensive portfolio of solutions to address connectivity standards, integration, and improved productivity in managing the ever growing number of e-Business enabled transactions and trading partners," continued Mr. Johnson. "We are looking forward to working with our customers to increase the value of their e-Business capabilities, and contributing to their success."

For more information please contact Edict Systems sales at solutions@edictsystems.com or contact the following company executives:

Contact Advant-e Investor Relations

Kevin Johnson
Vice President of Business Development (800) 443-3428
Edict Systems, Inc.
(614) 846-0588
Kevin.Johnson@edictsystems.com

Edict Systems, Inc., a wholly owned and sole operating subsidiary of Advant-e Corporation, headquartered in Dayton, Ohio, is a leading provider of Hosted Trading Community Management Solutions. Edict System's services connect, integrate, manage, and expand the use of e-Business transactions within and between enterprises. Such services include Hub Services that assist large companies with expanding connections to more suppliers while increasing the integration of the transactions into internal systems.

The ongoing Hub Services provide companies with application tools for document tracking, management, and reporting of the enabled transactions using EnterpriseEC®, an Electronic Trading Network (ETN). EnterpriseEC® also provides managed connectivity, VAN connectivity, Web EDI enablement, and support for emerging e-Business standards such as EDI-INT. Edict Systems also supports e-Business Integration technologies such as Data Translation and Application Integration both as hosted services and as software solutions. To implement the various software and services, Professional Services are also available to customers. For more information, please visit www.edictsystems.com.



About Advant-e

Advant-e, via its wholly owned and sole operating subsidiary Edict Systems, Inc., is a provider of Business-to-Business electronic commerce software and Internet-based applications specializing in Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) and XML-based solutions for recurring transactions. Advant-e specializes in horizontal transaction services via EnterpriseEC®, an Internet-based Trading Community Connectivity, Management, and Integration solution, and within specific industries via web-based EDI services including www.GroceryEC.com, www.RetailEC.com, www.AutomotiveEC.com, www.CPGSupplier.com, and www.WebEDI.com.

Additional information about Advant-e Corporation can be found at www.Advant-e.com and www.edictsystems.com or by contacting investor relations at (937) 429-4288. The company's email is info@edictsystems.com.

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