AMI Partners, the Leading Technology Analyst in New York, Recognizes Smart Online as a Top Vendor in Software-as-Services Market

AMI Partners, the Leading Technology Analyst in New York,
Recognizes Smart Online as a Top Vendor in Software-as-Services Market 


RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, N.C., April 19  /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Smart
Online(R), Inc. (OTC:SOLN) (BULLETIN BOARD: SOLN)  announces AMI Partners has
acknowledged the company as a top vendor in the in Small-to-Medium business
Software-as-Services (SaS) market in their recent report written by Laurie
McCabe, VP SMB Insights and Business Solutions titled "Software-as-Services:
Moving On Demand To In Demand With SMBs."

Ms. McCabe report further indicates, "Smart Online is leveraging their channel
strategy by partnering with several banks and publishers, such as INC Magazine,
Fast Company, BusinessWeek Magazine, JP Morgan, Union Bank of California and
Bank One. On the back-end, Smart Online uses its open standards framework and
distribution platform, OneBiz Conductor, to integrate its own online financial,
legal, human resources, CRM and other applications with its partners' online
services. On the front-end, partners provide their SMB customers with
integrated, tailored offerings via their OneBiz Conductor dashboard."

About Smart Online

Smart Online, Inc., http://www.smartonline.com/ , is one of the pioneers of
Web-native applications and is the first vendor to offer a private label
syndicated online business platform that enables Web delivery of critical
applications and services for small-to-medium businesses. Smart Online led the
industry by converting to Software-as-Service (SaS) Web delivery in 1999.
Today, the company markets Web-based applications to customers via Smart
Online's Web site and by private labeling its syndicated software services for
use on large corporate Web sites in the financial services, media,
manufacturing and telco industries.

Further Information

For further information regarding risks and uncertainties associated with Smart
Online's business, please refer to the Risk Factors Section of Smart Online's
SEC filings, including, but not limited to, its Annual Report on Form 10-K for
the year ended December 31, 2004, copies of which may be obtained on the
website of the Securities and Exchange Commission.  All information in this
press release is as of April 19, 2005. Smart Online undertakes no duty to
update any forward-looking statement or to conform the statement to actual
results or changes in Smart Online's expectations. 

DATASOURCE: Smart Online, Inc.



CONTACT:  Thomas Furr of Smart Online, Inc., [phone], or

 



Web site:  http://www.smartonline.com/ 

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