Kintera Launches a Paperless Open Enrollment Program and Saves Substantial Time and Costs with Ascentis HR (formerly HROffice)

Bellevue, Washington – Oct. 3, 2007 –Ascentis Corp., a market leader in easy-to-use human resources management systems (HRIS/HRMS) technology for small to mid-sized organizations, announced today that Kintera, a nationwide software-for-service company for non-profit and government organizations, has realized substantial cost and time savings, along with increased accuracy, after implementing Ascentis HR (formerly HROffice).

Prior to using Ascentis HR, Kintera had been manually managing benefits through a paper-based open enrollment process. Employees were required to fill out multiple forms, and the data was entered into carrier Web sites by Kintera’s benefit administrators. This manual process resulted in frequent and costly mistakes because of the sheer volume of paperwork and input required.

Kintera decided to implement Ascentis HR to address these and other issues such as accurate reporting, a seamless payroll connection, and tracking and storing data. In addition, Kintera purchased Ascentis’ electronic Carrier Connect service to eliminate the need to send physical forms to their carriers. This enabled Kintera’s HR staff to launch a truly paperless open enrollment process.

As a result, Ascentis HR has completely eliminated the need for Kintera to use enrollment forms for new hires and open enrollment. Employees can now enroll for their benefits online using Ascentis Employee Self-Service and their elections are electronically sent to their carriers. Kintera’s HR staff no longer manually enters information on their carrier Web sites. Trish Templeton, Kintera’s Sr. HR Manager said, “We know the data entered into Ascentis HR matches the carrier Web sites exactly. In addition, we are able to reconcile our benefit data from our payroll program, ADP® PC Payroll for Windows®. With the data entered into the benefits system, we eradicated several errors made in the past. Now, all data in our systems match 100%. We save approximately one hour of work per employee using Carrier Connect versus our old paper enrollment and manual data entry process.”

By using Ascentis HR to support hr workflow automation, Kintera has cut completion time in half, allowing them to devote more time to strategic issues and decrease headcount in the HR department. “Ascentis HR has increased our reporting capabilities, reduced our exposure to liability, streamlined our new hire processes and employee orientations, and has created less intrusive open enrollment periods. With Carrier Connect, we enjoy more accurate, easier and faster reconciliation of carrier invoices. All of these factors combine to provide better service to our employees and increase employee satisfaction,” Templeton said.

"Ascentis is thrilled that Kintera is experiencing so many benefits in terms of time, money and accuracy,” said Kristen Hayer, Ascentis sales and marketing director. “By providing the tools and technologies that support a seamless, and paperless, open enrollment environment, we continue to demonstrate our commitment to providing the right HRIS/HRMS solutions for the small to mid-sized market. Ascentis continues to be an industry leader in easy-to-use, set-up and deploy HR software technologies.”

About Ascentis

Ascentis Corporation provides medium-sized businesses with fully integrated HRIS and online payroll services. Ascentis’ easy-to-use solutions offer robust employee benefits management, electronic connections to carriers, employee self-service and real-time, online payroll processing. For more information about Ascentis HR (formerly HROffice®) and Ascentis Payroll (formerly EBS On Line’s InstaPay), visit www.Ascentis.com.

For more information about Ascentis send inquires to marketing@ascentis.com.

About Kintera

Kintera®, Inc. (NASDAQ: KNTA) provides software as a service to help organizations quickly and easily reach more people, raise more money and run more efficiently. The Kintera Sphere® technology platform empowers The Giving Experience™, and features a social constituent relationship management (CRM) system, enabling donor management, e-mail and communications, Web sites, events, advocacy programs, wealth screening and accounting.

Ascentis is a registered trademark of Ascentis Corporation. Kintera, Kintera Sphere, Kintera Connect, and The Giving Experience, are either registered trademarks or trademarks of Kintera, Inc. in the U.S. and/or other countries. ADP is a registered trademark of ADP of North America. Microsoft is a registered trademark of Microsoft Corporation in the United States and other countries.