360Commerce Joins BEA Partner Program Extending Retailer's Freedom-of-Choice Among Technology Providers; Central Office Application Supports BEA WebLogic Platform 8.1.

Business Editors/High-Tech Writers

AUSTIN, Texas--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 7, 2004

360Commerce, the leading provider of Java-based store optimization software, today announced that it has joined the growing list of companies in BEA Systems' (Nasdaq:BEAS) Partner Program. By partnering with BEA, 360Commerce offers customers another flexible integration option to support retail enterprise products. 360Commerce's 360Enterprise(R) Central Office application is currently being deployed on BEA software at a leading retailer.

"We're pleased to have 360Commerce join the BEA Partner Program," said Mercedes Ellison, senior vice president of alliance marketing, BEA Systems Inc. "The BEA Partner Program is designed to offer our partners a continuum of essential technology, marketing, sales and support resources which can enable faster time-to-value. We look forward to a lasting, productive partnership with 360Commerce."

As one of the first steps in the new partnership, 360Commerce's 360Enterprise(R) Central Office application now supports BEA WebLogic Platform(tm) 8.1, a platform from BEA Systems that is designed to provide superior business integration through the convergence of application development and integration. By supporting the BEA WebLogic Enterprise Platform(tm), 360Commerce offers customers another flexible integration option for retail enterprise products.

"IT organizations are looking for technology that helps them to respond quickly to new business initiatives," said Eric Stahl, director of product marketing, BEA Systems. "The combination of 360Commerce and BEA WebLogic can help developers in an organization become much more productive and work on higher value tasks. This can eliminate much of the complexity of enterprise application development and can enable information applications to efficiently serve ever-changing developer and user requirements."

"Leveraging key technologies such as Web services, standards such as ARTS and IXRetail, and the J2EE platform in the development of Central Office gives our customers the freedom-of-choice to run this new solution on the platform that best fits their business needs," said Christopher Brown, director of enterprise products for 360Commerce. "We are pleased to be able to support our customers who choose BEA WebLogic. Since we work with retailers whose sizes and formats vary greatly, we feel it is crucial that we provide our customers with options. Those retailers who need a solution that is rapid and easy to implement want the peace of mind that comes with knowing that our application has been tried and tested on this platform. Our customers who prefer to customize and extend the solution to best work with their preferred business model can leverage our advanced technology, extensive retail knowledge and even our source code to accomplish their goals."

360Commerce's Central Office application offers retailers the ability to dramatically improve operational efficiency throughout their stores and enterprise. Built on an adaptive J2EE and Web services platform, this centralized, browser-based application enables retailers to manage the flow of information across their enterprise. Utilizing role-based views, managers at all levels can make and execute decisions based on actionable data -- in real time.

BEA WebLogic Platform can simplify enterprise computing by enabling IT to evolve application infrastructure on a project basis, and can provide greater responsiveness to line-of-business needs, lower costs and increase returns on IT assets -- creating overall faster time-to-value.

On the Net

360Commerce site: http://www.360Commerce.com

BEA Systems Inc. site: http://www.bea.com

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