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Success Skills Educator Standardizes Message Archiving and Content Management on Overtone Software’s AbilitySuite™ for Lotus Notes

Bethesda, MD (January 15, 2007) — Overtone Software Inc., a leader in data lifecycle management solutions, announced today that success skills provider Verbal Academy, has chosen Overtone Software’s Ability Suite ™ for Lotus Notes to automate the company’s email archiving, content and knowledge management requirements.

Verbal Academy teaches skills for success in school, work, and life for students at all levels, elementary through adult. Classes are taught in a variety of settings, and focus on a team approach to learning and using the skills necessary to communicating knowledge and experience in ways that win recognition, respect, and opportunity.

“Verbal Academy was created to centralize communications and success skills into one, package“, explains CEO Sandra Tanabe. “Few public schools have resources or instructors available to teach them. And they are not taught in colleges, law, or medical schools. Most individuals learn them informally, indirectly, and often too late. The fortunate few usually acquire them through a lucky series of unrelated experiences: a drama class, a school or club sport, a debating competition, a speaking or writing contest, or a company sales training program. Verbal Academy makes these skills available easily, locally, affordably available to all individuals regardless of prior experience or background.”

Verbal Academy uses Lotus Notes for its messaging and content platform, and needed a centralized archiving solution that would not only keep the servers running at peak performance, but would also allow instructors and students an archive platform that was flexible to share success skills across the enterprise.

“Overtone Software’s AbilitySuite™ for Lotus Notes was the logical extension of our mission to make success skills available to everyone. With the Internet, knowledge is no longer dispersed among geographical locations. The same should go for success skills. The AbilitySuite’s™ solution allows us to enhance the value of the archive over time, and create a true online knowledge base available for students and instructors.”

About Verbal Academy

Verbal Academy is founded by a group of professionals and businesspeople committed to sharing what we have learned about success in school, in the workplace, and in life. The verbal skills that ensure real success in the classroom, in career, and in life are the same. Our mission is simple: make these skills easily, locally, and affordably available. Our schools, our workplaces, our communities, and our world will all be better for it.

For more information, please call 206-312-0123 or visit www.verbalacademy.com

About Overtone Software

Overtone Software, Inc. offers enterprise-level archiving systems and Intelligent Information Management solutions for multiple platforms and data structures, including file systems, email, and database volumes. Overtone Software was founded in 1998 by storage-experienced engineers and entrepreneurs. Overtone Software is the leader in XML Archiving Systems for Information Governance™.

Contact Overtone Software at: Overtone Software, Inc., 3 Bethesda Metro Center, Bethesda, MD 20814; Phone 301-280-5902, or visit the company's website at: www.overtonesoftware.com.

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