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Aliant Chooses Sant to Streamline the Proposal Process

Telecommunications leader will use Sant Suite^TM to create compelling sales proposals and RFP responses

CINCINNATI; January 7, 2005... The Sant Corporation, a world leader in sales proposal software, today announced that Aliant Inc. (TSX: AIT), Atlantic Canada's leading telecommunications company, has selected Sant software to automate the creation of sales proposals throughout the enterprise. Aliant's sales professionals will use Sant SuiteTM to improve productivity and increase sales.

Aliant is a TSX 100 company with a market capitalization of approximately $3.5 billion. They deliver a wide variety of innovative and traditional communications services to more than two million consumers and over 80,000 enterprises. Aliant needed a solution that would allow their sales professionals to deliver high quality proposals that focus on the customer's key needs.

"Sant Suite will enable our sales professionals to create compelling sales documents that are consistent in format and quality across the entire sales organization, tailored to meet the needs of our customers, and clearly articulate the value of our services," said Judie Domokos, Manager, Customer Response Team for Aliant. "Equally important, Sant Suite will allow our sales professionals to spend more time with our customers fostering relationships and integrating Aliant's technology solutions into their business plans."

Aliant will use Sant Suite software to automate the process of creating proactive sales proposals, Requests for Proposals (RFPs) and other sales documents. Sant Suite's Unified Architecture Design (UAD) will allow Aliant's end-users and administrators to access all Sant Suite modules from a single interface.

"We are pleased that Aliant chose Sant to partner in this very important process," said Lewie Miller, President of The Sant Corporation. "This not only broadens our position in the telecommunications market, but reinforces the use of our best practices and automation in an already solid proposal environment."

About Aliant

From its home base in Atlantic Canada, Aliant (TSX: AIT) delivers a wide variety of innovative and traditional communications services, including local and long distance telephony, wireless, Internet, e-commerce, interactive multimedia, data and managed network services, to more than two million consumers and over 80,000 enterprises. Aliant complements its industry-leading telecommunications business with strengths in information technology solutions and knowledge-services applications. The company's approximately 8,600 employees build on Aliant's 100-plus year history by collaborating to deliver the highest quality of customer service, choice and convenience. Aliant is a TSX 100 company with a market capitalization of approximately $3.5 billion. For more information, please visit www.Aliant.ca.

About The Sant Corporation

The Sant Corporation is the leading provider of enterprise-strength tools for automatically generating proposals, sales letters, RFP responses, and sales presentations. The award-winning Sant SuiteTM software is available for desktop, network, and Web installations. Sant's mission is to help companies increase revenues by improving win ratios through the use of structure in proposals.

Sant software and services have been adopted by leaders in a variety of industries. Sant is a privately-held corporation headquartered in Cincinnati, Ohio, and has sales offices in North America, Australia, and the United Kingdom. For more information, please visit www.santcorp.com.