Metamor Worldwide's VSI Communications Group Introduces Mentor™ for Netscape Navigator

Mentor Delivers Just-in-time Multimedia Learning So Employees Can Quickly Master the Web To Boost Enterprise-Wide Productivity.

Norwalk, CT, May 25, 1999 — VSI Communications Group, a subsidiary of Metamor Worldwide, Inc. (Nasdaq: MMWW),announced a new communication, learning, and support (CLS) system called Mentor™ for Netscape Navigator that shows employees exactly how to use the Netscape browser without going to a class or taking a computer-based course.

Mentor is embedded into the Netscape toolbar where users can click to play short sight-and-sound demos on over 60 topics, and see by example how to work with everything from Mail, Web searches and graphics, to downloads and plug-ins. Even operations such as syncing for Palm Pilots or enabling Java are spotlighted in Mentor's index of nearly 400 entries.

"The key is to give employees an easy way to instantly master the Web," said VSI chief executive officer Dan Gallo. "Ironically, companies devote major resources to building Web-based environments, but they spend little if any time on helping employees become more productive, power users of the Web," added Gallo. Mentor delivers its rich content (including high-quality graphics, audio, text and animation) either from a hard drive, CD-ROM, across a LAN, intranet or Internet.

Mentor™ for Netscape Navigator differs from traditional computer-based training (CBT) by giving users just the answers they ask for. The learning system uses no curriculum; instead it provides pertinent, just-in-time help as the user is working and has a question about how to do something. Mentors can be created for any kind of eCommerce application. To see Mentor™ for Netscape Navigator in action, visit www.netscapementor.com.

Metamor's subsidiary, VSI Communications Group, headquartered in Norwalk, CT, is a business communications company specializing in learning and performance support. VSI is an IBM Business Partner and a Lotus Business Partner.

Metamor Worldwide, a diversified global IT solutions provider, offers clients project management, project support and project outsourcing capabilities for a broad range of technology solutions including eBusiness applications, custom application development, data warehousing, ERP package implementation, systems integration, software engineering, application support and training. With IT professionals and development centers located domestically and abroad, Metamor Worldwide's flexible delivery of value-added services is provided through a combination of geographic presence, industry focus and specialized technology practices.

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