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MALVERN, PA., August 21, 2000 — SCT (Nasdaq: SCTC) announced today that it is acquiring the EnerLink business unit, a complex billing and rates management software developer, from SAIC. This acquisition gives SCT – and its clients – increased charge handling and billing capabilities, including interval data collections and calculations, which supports real time energy pricing and meter data acquisition. These capabilities exist in very few energy billing systems.

Such capabilities are important to utilities facing deregulation, according to Bill Mahoney, president of SCT energy, utilities and communications solutions business, because increasing numbers of large commercial and industrial customers now have a choice of energy providers. The highly competitive environment of deregulation requires that utilities offer these companies, who account for more than half of their annual revenue, value-added services in order to retain them as clients. With the addition of the EnerLink product line to SCT’s robust portfolio of energy enterprise solutions, SCT’s clients will be able to Bill for practically any energy rate for various time periods including 5, 15, 30 and 60 minutes. This provides SCT’s clients the flexibility to create a vast number of rates offering their customers more choices.

“Utilities that can offer complex billing and rate management to large companies have a competitive edge, because they enable their customers to better manage their energy consumption,” said Mahoney. “For large commercial and industrial customers who annually spend hundreds of thousands to millions of dollars on energy, managing consumption is a critical profitability and planning process. Utilities facilitating this capability for their customers through tools such as EnerLink software and services make much more attractive business partners.”

Guerry Waters, vice president of Energy Information Strategies for the META Group, said, “We believe a key to success in the competitive energy space is a flexible CIS system that can accommodate business-enabling application components. One of the more important component types will be billing engines capable of being rapidly reconfigured to Handle complex algorithms and market variables and be integrated with multiple CIS systems.”

In addition to being flexibly integrated into the SCT Banner and Synchro product lines, the SCT EnerLink product line will continue to be available to utilities as a stand-alone solution, or as a valuable add-on to non-SCT customer solutions.

“The EnerLink product line met our expectations for quality, but SAIC has determined that it could achieve greater success if it were placed in the hands of a software products company,” said Owens Alexander, senior vice president of SAIC’s Utility Practice. “We anticipate having a relationship with SCT whereby we can employ their products in solutions that we integrate in the energy marketplace.”

“The combination of SCT and EnerLink provides the ideal solution for utilities, particularly at a time when the power of the Internet and deregulation are converging,” said Frank Hyde, business director and founder of EnerLink. “We believe SCT’s newly expanded offering will allow energy companies to take full advantage of these trends, to the benefit of both themselves and their biggest customers. "EnerLink combined with SCT will provide the most dynamic billing capabilities regardless of a utility’s size or energy commodity.”

About EnerLink:
EnerLink has been on the forefront of providing enabling software products to the energy market for more than eight years. EnerLink is an experienced provider of interval data management, complex billing and contract settlement solutions for utilities and other energy suppliers. EnerLink offers a full complement of products that enable the design, marketing, administration and billing of new pricing products. For more information about EnerLink, visit their Web site at www.enerlink.com.

About SAIC:
SAIC is the nation's largest employee-owned research and engineering company, providing information technology and systems integration products and services to government and commercial customers. SAIC scientists and engineers work to Solve complex technical problems in telecommunications, national security, health care, transportation, energy, the environment and financial services. With annual revenues exceeding $5.5 billion, SAIC and its subsidiaries, including Telcordia Technologies, have more than 41,000 employees at offices in more than 150 cities worldwide. For more information about SAIC, visit their site at www.saic.com.

About SCT:
SCT is a recognized leader in providing advanced technology solutions designed to meet the global needs of utilities, energy service, and communication companies. Its leading-edge software and services enable comprehensive customer aggregation and fulfillment strategies for clients moving aggressively into the age of deregulation.

SCT enables clients to achieve breakthrough results by leveraging e-business solutions. SCT's unique and powerful e-business solutions combine application software and services to Deliver benefits rapidly. SCT operates globally, providing specific solutions for four industry markets: education; energy, utilities and communications; process manufacturing and distribution; and courts and state & local government. SCT has more than 3,300 employees and serves approximately 2,500 clients worldwide. The company is headquartered in Malvern, Pa. For more information, visit the SCT Web site at www.sctcorp.com.

The matters discussed in this press release that are forward-looking statements are based on current management expectations that involve risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from those anticipated. Potential risks and uncertainties include, without limitation, the ability of SCT to successfully integrate the EnerLink product line with SCT's other energy enterprise solutions, SCT's ability to successfully enhance and market the EnerLink product line, market acceptance of the EnerLink product line, the impact on the Company of emerging areas such as the Internet, online services and electronic commerce; the timing of the receipt of software licenses; competitive and pricing pressures in the markets that the Company serves; the Company's ability to develop and market innovative products and enhancements cost-effectively and on a timely basis; market acceptance of SCT's energy enterprise solutions; general economic conditions; and other risks and uncertainties more specifically set forth in the Company's filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission.

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