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ADAYTUM SELECTS XPEDITE'S messageREACH SERVICE FOR E-NEWSLETTER DISTRIBUTION
Leading Business Planning Software Provider Delivers Thousands of Opt-in E-Newsletters to Current and Potential Customers

TINTON FALLS, N.J. (February 21, 2002) - Xpedite (www.xpedite.com), a global leader in multimedia messaging and a business unit of Ptek Holdings, Inc. (NASDAQ: PTEK; www.ptek.com), today announced that Adaytum, the leading business planning software provider, is using Xpedite's messageREACH^SM outsourced e-mail service to distribute Adaytum's opt-in e-newsletter to thousands of recipients. The newsletter, Planning Perspectives, contains information regarding business planning best practices, case studies, new product offerings and links to stories in online publications.

"Putting together a newsletter is a lot of work, but using messageREACH alleviates the technical headaches associated with the distribution process, allowing us to focus on providing fresh and interesting content to our subscribers," said Pat Davis, Direct Marketing Manager, Adaytum. "Xpedite's messageREACH service provides us with a simple end-to-end solution to deliver information to our current and potential customers quickly and effectively."

"We've seen a great response for our messageREACH service from companies like Adaytum looking to communicate with a large volume of recipients," said Joe Merces, Xpedite's Vice President of Product Management. "messageREACH offers these companies a reliable, cost-effective way to reach all of their target audiences with a wide array of value-added features, including list management, tracking, personalization, and reporting. We look forward to working with other companies using permission-based e-newsletters to strengthen and expand their customer relationships."

About Xpedite

Xpedite (www.xpedite.com) is a global leader in multimedia messaging and a business unit of Ptek Holdings, Inc. (NASDAQ: PTEK). Xpedite offers a full range of value-added multimedia messaging services worldwide that manage and facilitate the electronic distribution of information to all types of electronic addresses including fax, e-mail, wireless and voice. Xpedite processed approximately 1.6 billion messages in 2000, and was named by IDC as the worldwide leader in fax-based messaging. The company's messageREACHSM (www.messagereach.com) service offers the most robust outsourced e-mail applications available, providing control, tracking, security, personalization and automated administration for high volume e-mail distribution. Xpedite's diverse client base includes almost half of the Fortune 500 companies, including such industry leaders as Boeing, Bank One, Marriott, Merck, Xerox and Chase Manhattan. Xpedite has sales offices in 30 locations throughout the United States and 25 international offices, including Tokyo, London, Sydney, Seoul, Singapore, Brussels, Munich, Paris, Milan, Hong Kong, Taipei, Geneva, Zurich and Kuala Lumpur.

About Ptek Holdings, Inc.

Ptek Holdings, Inc. (NASDAQ: PTEK) is a leading provider of communications and data services, including conference calling and Web-based collaboration; high-volume fax, e-mail and voice message delivery; and personal communications management systems that handle voice mail, e-mail and personal content. Ptek's business units include Premiere Conferencing, Xpedite and Voicecom.

Ptek Holdings corporate headquarters is located at 3399 Peachtree Road NE, The Lenox Building, Atlanta, GA 30326. Additional information can be found at www.ptek.com.

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About Adaytum

Adaytum - named to UPSIDE Magazine's "Hot 100 Private Companies" for 2001 - provides Web-based enterprise business planning solutions that enable a single view of future operating performance. The choice of many of the Fortune 500, Adaytum is headquartered in the U.S., with offices in the U.K., the Netherlands, and Australia, and partners in more than 35 countries worldwide.

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