QBU™, BIS latest software solution, enables ISPs to offer online backup and restore services to its subscribers. Online backup and restore services are among the most attractive added value services to be offered by ISPs, as the transition to broadband infrastructures nears its end. With minimal investment, an ISP with a broadband infrastructure can offer private and business subscribers a Disaster Recovery Plan (DRP) for their critical data. Essentially, every user can backup their personal files to the ISPs remote servers and recover individual files or the entire database in a matter of minutes. QBU™ differentiates itself from other backup services by offering a new byte-comparison technology that creates unusually small delta files, thus requiring substantially less storage space than alternative solutions. In addition, QBU™s high level of security, reliability and user friendliness ensures that it will become a major player in the ISP backup service market.

During the beta trial period at Freeserve, special attention was given to the ability to concurrently serve hundreds of thousands of subscribers, as per the needs of the worlds leading ISPs. The following capabilities and features were tested and validated:
• Progressive delta technology.
• Transmission of backup and restore files over IP lines.
• Ability to serve millions of clients with a standard servers farm configuration.
• Advanced security tools and capabilities that ensure 100% privacy of subscriber data.
• Independent backup and restore given intuitive client user interface.
• Backup of a heterogeneous subscriber base – residential, SMB and enterprises.
• Powerful and flexible ISP management tools that control and maintain the backup service.
• Connection between the QBU™ server management system and the ISPs Billing and CRM systems.

Moti Miron, CEO of BIS Advanced Software Systems, "The beta trial at Freeserve is of monumental importance to BIS, since it proves that QBU™ is effective and reliable at an ISP that serves millions of subscribers. This trial proves that our solution is suitable even for the largest ISPs in the world, and it is ready for deployment and use." He further added that "I want to personally thank Freeserve for this opportunity and for their initial vote of confidence in our product and our company."

About BIS
BIS Advanced Software Systems Ltd. has been developing and marketing powerful high-end data management solutions since 1987. BIS is currently developing solutions that revolutionize information disaster recovery and data distribution processes based on the Companys revolutionary delta technology. BIS achieved global exposure from its deployment and marketing of InterEST™, an open-standard e-Business integration tool, and Net-Pass™, a fast and efficient legacy data access solution. The Companys customer base includes hundreds of satisfied corporate customers worldwide, including Sony, Phillips, General Electric, General Motors, Prudential, Chemical Bank, BP Oil, the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation, SAP and Hewlett Packard, to name a few.

About Freeserve
Freeserve is the leading UK ISP-portal, with an integrated offering of UK-focused content, e-commerce and services and Internet access. Freeserve has 2.478 million active registered accounts and 5.352 million unique users. In February 2002, Freeserve was named Best National Consumer ISP by the UKs Internet Service Provider Association. Freeserve is part of Wanadoo SA, a leading European online media and services company which has as its major shareholder France Telecom, one of the worlds leading telecommunications companies. Wanadoo SA has operations in France, UK, Spain, the Netherlands, Belgium and Morocco. Including Freeserve, Wanadoo S.A has over 6 million active registered users. Freeserve was launched in September 1998 as part of Dixons, Europes leading consumer electronics retailer. Dixons Group remains a minority shareholder in Wanadoo S.A and Freeserve distributes its access software in the UK through Dixons network of over 1,000 Dixons, Currys, PC World and The Link stores.