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ADAYTUM SELECTS XPEDITE'S messageREACH SERVICE FOR E-NEWSLETTER DISTRIBUTION
Leading Business Planning Software Provider Delivers Thousands of Opt-in E-Newsletters to Current and Potential Customers

TINTON FALLS, N.J. (February 21, 2002) - Xpedite (www.xpedite.com), a global leader in multimedia messaging and a business unit of Ptek Holdings, Inc. (NASDAQ: PTEK; www.ptek.com), today announced that Adaytum, the leading business planning software provider, is using Xpedite's messageREACHSM outsourced e-mail service to distribute Adaytum's opt-in e-newsletter to thousands of recipients. The newsletter, Planning Perspectives, contains information regarding business planning best practices, case studies, new product offerings and links to stories in online publications.

"Putting together a newsletter is a lot of work, but using messageREACH alleviates the technical headaches associated with the distribution process, allowing us to focus on providing fresh and interesting content to our subscribers," said Pat Davis, Direct Marketing Manager, Adaytum. "Xpedite's messageREACH service provides us with a simple end-to-end solution to deliver information to our current and potential customers quickly and effectively."

"We've seen a great response for our messageREACH service from companies like Adaytum looking to communicate with a large volume of recipients," said Joe Merces, Xpedite's Vice President of Product Management. "messageREACH offers these companies a reliable, cost-effective way to reach all of their target audiences with a wide array of value-added features, including list management, tracking, personalization, and reporting. We look forward to working with other companies using permission-based e-newsletters to strengthen and expand their customer relationships."

About Xpedite

Xpedite (www.xpedite.com) is a global leader in multimedia messaging and a business unit of Ptek Holdings, Inc. (NASDAQ: PTEK). Xpedite offers a full range of value-added multimedia messaging services worldwide that manage and facilitate the electronic distribution of information to all types of electronic addresses including fax, e-mail, wireless and voice. Xpedite processed approximately 1.6 billion messages in 2000, and was named by IDC as the worldwide leader in fax-based messaging. The company's messageREACHSM (www.messagereach.com) service offers the most robust outsourced e-mail applications available, providing control, tracking, security, personalization and automated administration for high volume e-mail distribution. Xpedite's diverse client base includes almost half of the Fortune 500 companies, including such industry leaders as Boeing, Bank One, Marriott, Merck, Xerox and Chase Manhattan. Xpedite has sales offices in 30 locations throughout the United States and 25 international offices, including Tokyo, London, Sydney, Seoul, Singapore, Brussels, Munich, Paris, Milan, Hong Kong, Taipei, Geneva, Zurich and Kuala Lumpur.

About Ptek Holdings, Inc.

Ptek Holdings, Inc. (NASDAQ: PTEK) is a leading provider of communications and data services, including conference calling and Web-based collaboration; high-volume fax, e-mail and voice message delivery; and personal communications management systems that handle voice mail, e-mail and personal content. Ptek's business units include Premiere Conferencing, Xpedite and Voicecom.

Ptek Holdings corporate headquarters is located at 3399 Peachtree Road NE, The Lenox Building, Atlanta, GA 30326. Additional information can be found at www.ptek.com.

For Investor Relations-related inquiries, please contact Eric Martin at 404-504-2461.

About Adaytum

Adaytum - named to UPSIDE Magazine's "Hot 100 Private Companies" for 2001 - provides Web-based enterprise business planning solutions that enable a single view of future operating performance. The choice of many of the Fortune 500, Adaytum is headquartered in the U.S., with offices in the U.K., the Netherlands, and Australia, and partners in more than 35 countries worldwide.

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Statements made in this press release, other than those concerning historical information, should be considered forward-looking and subject to various risks and uncertainties. Such forward-looking statements are made pursuant to the 'safe harbor' provisions of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995 and are made based on management's current expectations or beliefs as well as assumptions made by, and information currently available to, management. A variety of factors could cause actual results to differ materially from those anticipated in Ptek's forward-looking statements, including the following factors: competitive pressures among communications and data services providers, including pricing pressures, may increase significantly; Ptek's ability to respond to rapid technological change, the development of alternatives to its products and services and the risk of obsolescence of its products, services and technology; market acceptance of new products and services; development of effective marketing, pricing and distribution strategies for new products and services; strategic investments in early stage companies, which have limited operating histories and are subject to significant risks, may not be successful and returns on such strategic investments, if any, may not match historical levels; the value of Ptek's business may fluctuate because the value of some of its strategic equity investments fluctuates; Ptek's strategic investments in companies that are subject to the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 are subject to the risks disclosed by those companies in their public filings; Ptek may incur significant costs and may be forced to make disadvantageous business decisions to avoid investment company status, and Ptek may suffer adverse consequences if it is deemed to be an investment company; Ptek's ability to manage its growth; costs or difficulties related to the integration of businesses and technologies, if any, acquired or that may be acquired by Ptek may be greater than expected; expected cost savings from past or future mergers and acquisitions, may not be fully realized or realized within the expected time frame; revenues following past or future mergers and acquisitions may be lower than expected; operating costs or customer loss and business disruption following past or future mergers and acquisitions may be greater than expected; Ptek may not realize the full extent of the cost savings expected from announced workforce reductions; the success of Ptek's strategic and other distribution relationships, including the amount of business generated and the viability of the strategic relationships, may not meet expectations; possible adverse results of pending or future litigation or adverse results of current or future infringement claims; risks associated with interruption in Ptek's services due to the failure of the platforms and network infrastructure utilized in providing its services; risks associated with expansion of Ptek's international operations; general economic or business conditions, internationally, nationally or in the local jurisdiction in which Ptek is doing business, may be less favorable than expected; legislative or regulatory changes may adversely affect the business in which Ptek is engaged; and changes in the securities markets may negatively impact Ptek.

For a detailed discussion of these and other cautionary statements and factors that could cause actual results to differ from the Company's forward-looking statements, please refer to the Company's filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission, especially in the "Factors Affecting Future Performance" included in the Management's Discussion and Analysis section of the Company's Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2000 and in subsequent filings filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission.

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