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Cambridge, MA, May 22, 2006 – Jenzabar, Inc., the pioneer of Total Campus Management (TCM), announced that the Software Information Industry Association has honored its Jenzabar Internet Campus Solution (JICS) with a 2006 CODiE Award as the “Best Postsecondary Educational Portal Solution.” The 21st annual CODiE Awards were announced at a gala event on May 16 that was part of SIIA’s annual EdTech conference. This prominent recognition confirms the value of JICS as a compelling solution for institutions of higher education, delivering a powerful, attractive “hub” for the campus community, with constituent-specific content and other customizable features.

Established in 1986, the CODiE Awards remains the standard-bearer for recognizing outstanding achievement and vision in the software, digital content and education technology industries. Through a unique combination of journalist and peer review, the CODiE Awards recognize outstanding products and services, as well as corporate excellence and philanthropy. This year’s finalists represented a wide and impressive array of technology and business excellence, passion and success. They were chosen from more that 1,026 nominations submitted by more than 500 companies.

“This 21st Annual CODiE Awards continues our tradition of celebrating the best products in the software and information industry,” said Ken Wasch, President of SIIA, “Being a winner among so many fine nominees is a solid achievement. I congratulate all of the companies.”

Jenzabar is honored to be recognized as the winner over other notable competitors including: Macromedia Studio 8, Hobsons EMT Connect, and Sungard’s SCT Luminis Platform III.

“This award recognizes Jenzabar as leading the way in community building and constituent relationship management solutions for higher education,” said Robert A. Maginn, Jenzabar’s Chairman and CEO. “This announcement, along with the accolades we’ve received from clients using the enhanced functionality we recently released, positions JICS as a breakthrough platform for building and extending the campus community via the Internet. We will treasure this CODiE as an important milestone in our march to be the portal and constituent relationship management solution of choice for all Institutions of Higher Education.”

JICS provides constituents inside and outside the institution with the information they need, when they need it. It unifies the user interface and point-of-entry for institution-wide applications and content, along with customizable views of
department-specific,
group-specific, and personalized information based on each user’s defined role(s). JICS – in conjunction with its Constituent Relationship Modules and optional Learning Management System – is the gateway that provides controlled data access, transaction and interaction capabilities to all constituents, from prospects to alumni, becoming the web-based “campus common” that ties campus communities together.

Among the many benefits delivered to the institution, JICS:

* Facilitates a continuous flow of mission-critical information between departments;
* Fosters a sense of community across the institution with group, bulletin board and chat-related functionality;
* Supports an institution’s efforts to increase student retention and alumni involvement; facilitating many variations of Learning Communities as well as social communities;
* Allows staff to spend less time acquiring data, as well as reducing duplication and avoiding the possibility of inconsistencies; and
* Delivers timely information to drive strategic and tactical decisions.

Built on the Microsoft(r) .NET platform, in accordance with industry-standard protocols, JICS takes the higher education institution’s portal to a new level through interconnected Web services. Significantly, every user has the experience of accessing all portal-based applications from within an intuitive, uniform user interface.
Additionally, JICS provides:

* Secure, role-based access to mission-critical applications and data;
* Integration with ERP systems via constituent relationship modules (CRMs); and
* Flexible, single sign-on to Jenzabar and other third party applications

About Jenzabar, Inc.
Jenzabar, Inc. is a leading provider of enterprise software and services developed exclusively for higher education. With more than 30 years of combined experience offering technology solutions to colleges and universities, Jenzabar is the trusted partner of choice to 700 campuses worldwide, including private liberal arts, state, and community colleges and business, medical, law and other graduate schools. Jenzabar is headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts, with regional offices located across the United States. For further information, please visit http://www.jenzabar.net.

Jenzabar, Jenzabar.com, i3 and Total Campus Management are trademarks or registered trademarks of Jenzabar, Inc. Microsoft and the .NET logo are registered trademarks or trademarks of Microsoft Corporation in the United States and/or other countries All other company/product names and service marks may be trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective companies.

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Best Regards,
John

John A. Beahm
External Communications Manager
Jenzabar, Inc.

Phone: 617.492.9099 ext 512
Fax: 617.492.9081
john.beahm@jenzabar.net
http://www.jenzabar.net

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