BenefitsXML provides innovative data exchange service to OnlineBenefits Collaboration provides HR-XML data exchange for employee benefits administration service providers. Glastonbury, CT (January 25, 2005) – BenefitsXML, a leading provider of e-benefit and HR-XML enabling technology solutions, announced that OnlineBenefits has become a channel partner for BenefitsXML’s new BenefiX service - a data exchange hub for transmitting information to employee benefit plan providers and payroll companies. The BenefiX service allows OnlineBenefits to transmit enrollment specifications in a single HR-XML format to BenefitsXML where the BenefiX service translates, transforms and routes that data into the health and welfare carriers’ proprietary formats. “

OnlineBenefits is very pleased with the results of the BenefiX implementation,” said Alan Cohen, CEO of OnlineBenefits. “Moving our benefits administration data feeds from Benergy to the HR-XML industry standard and utilizing the BenefiX service has increased our focus on customer-facing activities and lowered the cost of operations. It’s clearly improving the timeliness and accuracy of data for our clients and their carriers.

With its vast library of carrier translation adaptors, the BenefiX service will accelerate new client and carrier implementation as well as ease OnlineBenefits’ administrative workload,” states David Donahue, CEO of BenefitsXML. “The BenefiX service is now available to other benefits administration and HR outsourcing companies as well as large employers who want an economical, secure and scalable solution to outsource their carrier and payroll data exchange “

The ultimate goal of the HR-XML Consortium is to have all participants in the HR value chain natively exchange the HR-XML standard specifications,” states Chuck Allen, Executive Director of the HR-XML Consortium. “An HR-XML-based data exchange hub, like BenefitsXML’s BenefiX service, is a very important step towards wide-spread acceptance. HR-XML is pleased to have innovators such as BenefitsXML among its member companies.”

About BenefitsXML
BenefitsXML is a leading provider of HR-XML and e-benefit enabling technology solutions and consulting services for employee benefit service providers including group insurance brokerages, TPAs, health and welfare carriers, and HR Outsourcing firms. Founded in 2000, BenefitsXML has worked with some of the largest HR, payroll and benefits administration companies in the business process outsourcing (BPO) industry.

About OnlineBenefits
OnlineBenefits, Inc. is the HR solutions company behind the well-known Benergy™ family of communication, administration and intelligence products. Its market-proven solutions enrich the benefits and HR experience for employers, employees and brokers in innovative, cost-effective ways. The company designs, implements and hosts its award-winning Internet-based applications and distributes them in partnership through its network of over 400 of the nation's leading brokers and consultants. About The HR-XML Consortium The HR-XML Consortium is an independent, non-profit organization dedicated to the development and promotion of a standard suite of XML specifications to enable e-business and the automation of human resources-related data exchanges.

Contact
Robert Flynn, BenefitsXML, 860.657.8835 x320 sales@benefitsxml.com
Andrew Ceccon, OnlineBenefits, 516.414.7008 aceccon@onlinebenefits.com

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