FNF Fidelity National Financial Inc

Fidelity Real Estate Systems Unit Announces Successful Northern California Installation of 12,000 Real Estate and Agent Customers Over 12,000 Real Estate Agents in Northern California Region Cutover to Latest Fidelity MLS Property Search Platform JACKSONVILLE, Fla., May 10 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Fidelity Business Systems Group, a division of Fidelity National Financial, Inc. , is pleased to announce that MAX/EBRD, a cooperative of MLS Boards and Associations located in the California Bay area, has successfully launched the Internet-based Paragon(TM) MLS v3.0 system provided by Fidelity Real Estate Systems. The new system went live and is replacing two legacy MLS search systems. Now serving over 12,000 California real estate professionals, MAX/EBRD is the largest MLS utilizing the Fidelity Paragon v3.0 MLS property search system and is one of the largest MLS databases in the United States. "I am very pleased to announce that our cutover to Paragon 3.0 was quite smooth and the new Paragon system has been well received by our membership," stated Becky Tobin, President and CEO, East Bay Regional Data. "The Fidelity team should be congratulated for all their hard work and effort in helping us to meet our goal. With Paragon 3.0, Fidelity was able to facilitate the combining of MLS Listing Data for three individual MLSs into one common database -- not an easy task." "The cutover to the Fidelity Paragon MLS platform was the smoothest MLS conversion the Bay East Association of REALTORS(R) has ever had," said Tricia Thomas, Executive Vice President, Bay East Association of REALTORS(R). "Fidelity's project managers, regional support team, trainers, and customer support representatives provided outstanding support leading up to the cutover. I was especially pleased with the on-site support that followed. Fidelity Regional Support Representatives assisted our staff in answering agent questions, both at the Association office and at broker/office meetings," continued Thomas. "We are very pleased with Paragon and the commitment Fidelity made to the conversion process, particularly since we combined the data for more than twelve thousand agents in seven associations on this single platform," said Chuck Lamb, Chief Executive Officer, Contra Costa Association of REALTORS(R). "Our conversion went very well because the Fidelity staff, from Dwayne Walker to the Regional Service Representatives and Trainers, act more like partners than vendors. Fidelity knew what they were doing and gave us 100% effort; they deserve to be proud of this product and their whole team," finished Lamb. "Agents have been thrilled with Fidelity Paragon's functionality," concluded Thomas. "The system's expanded functionality enables them to be more productive and offer a higher level of service to their clients." "The whole Fidelity MLS Real Estate Systems team worked extremely hard to ensure the MAX/EBRD membership would notice minimal disruption during cutover," said Beverly M. Faull, Vice President and General Manager of Fidelity Real Estate MLS Solutions. "We have developed outstanding processes for every aspect of our business, beginning with development of a state-of- the-art MLS system to project implementation, all the way through to the training, cutover, and system support. Our clients recognize that we provide excellent MLS Technology for their membership and that we are committed to their success. Our goal is to be a true business partner not only by delivering the very best MLS products in the industry, but also the very best service and support in the long term," concluded Faull. "I am extremely proud of our Fidelity MLS Real Estate team," said Dwayne Walker, President of Fidelity Business and Real Estate Systems. "This successful conversion is proof positive that Fidelity is dedicated to our customers' success, regardless of size. We are dedicated to the real estate industry, from MLS to broker to agent, and we will continue to provide the most innovative solutions possible," concluded Walker. The Fidelity Paragon MLS property search platform provides significant state-of-the-art technology utilizing the Microsoft.NET architecture. Innovative advances within the Paragon platform, including the Paragon Competitive Market Analysis (Paragon CMA) wizard, Paragon Report Builders, Custom User Preferences, flexible spreadsheet views and much more, make it the most MLS-configurable, user-customizable MLS system available today. For more information about the full line of MLS products and services offered by FNIS Real Estate Division, please call 800-468-6221, or visit our Web site, http://www.realestate.fnf.com/ . About Fidelity National Financial Fidelity Real Estate Systems is a unit of Fidelity Business Systems Group, a division of Fidelity National Financial, Inc. (FNF). Number 262 on the Fortune 500, FNF is a provider of products, services and solutions to the real estate and financial services industries. The Company had total revenue of $7.7 billion and earned more than $860 million in 2003, with cash flow from operations of $1.3 billion for that same period. FNF is the nation's largest title insurance company and also provides other real estate-related services such as escrow, flood certifications and life of loan monitoring, tax certificates and life of loan monitoring, merged credit reporting, property valuations and appraisals, default management, relocation services, flood, homeowners and home warranty insurance, exchange intermediary services, mortgage loan aggregation and fulfillment, multiple listing services software, mortgage loan origination software, collateral scoring, and analytics and real property data. FNF is also one of the world's largest providers of information-based technology solutions and processing services to the mortgage and financial services industries through its subsidiary Fidelity Information Services. It processes nearly 50 percent of all U.S. residential mortgages, with balances exceeding $2.5 trillion, has processing and technology relationships with 48 of the top 50 U.S. banks and has clients in more than 50 countries who rely on Fidelity Information Services' processing and outsourcing products and services. More than 34 percent of the total dollar volume of all outstanding consumer loans in the country is processed on Fidelity Information Services software applications. More information about the FNF family of companies can be found at http://www.realestate.fnf.com/ , http://www.fnf.com/ and http://www.fidelityinfoservices.com/ . Forward-Looking Statements This press release contains statements related to future events and expectations and, as such, constitutes forward-looking statements. These forward-looking statements are subject to known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors that may cause actual results, performance or achievements of the Company to be different from those expressed or implied above. The Company expressly disclaims any duty to update or revise forward- looking statements. The risks and uncertainties which forward-looking statements are subject to include, but are not limited to, the effect of governmental regulations, the economy, competition and other risks detailed from time to time in the "Management Discussion and Analysis" section of the Company's Form 10-K and other reports and filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission. http://www.realestate.fnf.com DATASOURCE: Fidelity National Financial, Inc. CONTACT: Helki McLeod, Director of Marketing, Fidelity Business Systems Group, +1-949-477-1176, or Web site: http://www.fnf.com/

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