Honolulu, HI - June 7, 2000 Inovaware Corporation, a premier supplier of real-time billing and customer management infrastructure for providers of Internet and IP-based services, today announced that it has joined Funk Software's Partner Program. Funk Software is the developer of Steel-Belted Radius, an award-winning RADIUS server software that allows Service Providers to centrally manage the authentication, authorization and accounting of all remote users.

"We're excited to be part of Funk Software's Partner Program and look forward to the many synergies between our two products," said Michel Floreani, Marketing Manager at Inovaware. "This new partnership will promote a higher degree of integration between Steel-Belted Radius and PRISM, Inovaware's award-winning billing and customer management software." 

As a Funk Software Partner, Inovaware will also become a reseller of Funk Software's Steel-Belted Radius Enterprise edition and Steel-Belted Radius Service Provider edition. The enhanced integration and high level of support is expected to make it easy for companies to use the two products together to perform all RADIUS and billing-related tasks.

"Service Providers using the Inovaware PRISM /Funk Steel-Belted Radius combination will find that they have an unprecedented depth of automation and integration when using the two products together," added Jerry Tardif, OEM Account Manager at Funk Software.

Inovaware intends to actively promote the use of Steel-Belted Radius among its clients as the added efficiency and reliability between the two products comes at no additional cost.

ABOUT FUNK SOFTWARE
Based in Cambridge, Massachusetts, Funk Software is the developer of the award-winning Steel-Belted Radius family of RADIUS authentication solutions. In use on thousands of enterprise and service provider network worldwide, Steel-Belted Radius delivers a RADIUS solution on the scale required by the largest carriers and service providers, and scales easily to meet the centralized authentication needs of the enterprise. For more information, Visit Funk Software's web site at www.funk.com

INOVAWARE CORPORATION
Inovaware Corporation (www.inovaware.com) is a leading business systems provider in the Internet industry.  The company supplies real-time Billing and Customer Management solutions for ISPs, ASPs, Web hosters, backbone providers and other next-generation communications providers. Based in Honolulu, Hawaii, the company continues to provide innovative solutions for its corporate clients worldwide.