Connectria Provides Online Appointment Scheduling To America's Best Contacts & Eyeglasses

ST. LOUIS, MO (November 30, 2001) - Connectria Corporation today announced that it has been awarded a multi-year contract by America's Best Contacts & Eyeglasses (ABCE) to provide online appointment scheduling using its sophisticated eService Manager appointment scheduling system. Having been in pilot at America's Best for many months, eService Manager has been proven to allow America's Best's customers to accurately perform self-service appointment scheduling using the same scheduling rules that ABCE's internal employees use. eService Manager's sophisticated scheduling algorithms ensure that online appointments at ABCE get booked at the right time to the person and facility with the right skills and the right capabilities.

About America's Best Contacts & Eyeglasses
One of the ten largest optical companies in the nation, Consolidated Vision Group owns and operates America's Best Contacts & Eyeglasses as well as Texas State Optical, a primarily franchised chain with 112 locations, mostly in Texas. With more than 100 company-owned locations, New Jersey-based America's Best also owns its own eyeglass manufacturing which is one of the highest volume eyeglass production facilities in the country. This allows the company to provide exceptional consumer value as a low-cost leader. More information can be found at www.twopair.com or by calling 1-800-TWO-PAIR (1-800-896-7247).

About Connectria
Connectria is a profitable, growing and privately held provider of world-class IT Infrastructure Solutions targeted to large and Midsized organizations worldwide. Connectria's business has been built through reinvesting profits and without any debt or equity financing. Thus, Connectria is beholden to no one except our customers. Connectria operates world-class Data Centers, Network Operations Centers, and Engineering Centers located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA and St. Louis, Missouri, USA. From these facilities, Connectria operates as a virtual extension of our clients' IT organizations.

Connectria's services allow our clients to do more and spend less on their IT infrastructures, typically by 25 - 60% or more. Connectria is staffed 24 hours, 365 days per year to build, monitor and manage mission critical IT environments for our clients. Connectria offers an array of services including full outsourcing of IT infrastructures, managed hosting, disaster recovery, remote monitoring, onsite facilities management, and custom software development and engineering services. For more information, please contact Connectria at 1-800-781-7820 or visit us online at www.connectria.com.

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