ADVISORY/Industry Expert to Speak at Technology Performance Management Summit 2004.

Business Editors/Assignment Desks/High-Tech Writers

ADVISORY...for Wednesday (March 24)

--(BUSINESS WIRE)

Snapbridge Chairman and CTO Benjamin Chen to Discuss How Powerful

XML Solutions Can Optimize Today's Enterprise Information Integration

Solutions

WHO:            Benjamin Chen is a 20-year veteran of starting
                companies in the high tech sector. Prior to founding
                Snapbridge Software, Mr. Chen was a founder of
                AppGenesys, a leading managed services provider
                servicing Fortune 500 clients, where he was Chairman,
                CEO & CTO. Previously, Mr. Chen was the CIO and CTO at
                iXL, a strategic e-business consulting firm. At iXL,
                he helped grow the company from 100 to 3,000 employees
                worldwide and from $2M to $120M revenue per quarter.
                During Mr. Chen's tenure, iXL was known for delivering
                innovative technology solutions to the F500, closing
                some of the largest engagements at that time, a $50M
                contract with Delta Airlines and $100M contract with
                General Electric. Mr. Chen also conducted due
                diligence for acquisitions and new venture investments
                for iXL Ventures. Mr. Chen was part of the executive
                management team that helped take iXL public in 1999.
                Mr. Chen has also served on the advisory boards of
                Teralytics and Exodus/Digital Island, a Cable and
                Wireless Company. He received a B.S. in International
                Finance from the University of Southern California and
                is an avid martial artist with a Black Belt in Tae
                Kwon Do.

WHAT:           Mr. Chen's session will discuss how today's critical
                enterprise initiatives rely on federating data or
                integrating information from a wide range of different
                data sources (i.e., relational databases, flat files,
                mainframe data, etc). However, accomplishing data
                federation is one of the toughest challenges facing
                any IT organization. This session will assist
                developers building, testing and deploying information
                integration solutions to optimally apply the power of
                XML.

WHEN:           Session title: "Applications Development Support:
                Model IT Performance Measurements"
                Wednesday, March 24, 2004 at 1:15 p.m. PT

WHERE:          Technology Performance Management Summit 2004
                http://managementweb.org/events/b/b103/b103.htm
                March 22, 2004 - March 24, 2004
                Wyndham Buttes Resort
                Phoenix, AZ

About Snapbridge Software

Snapbridge provides the FDX Information Server and XStudio 2.5 development environment for information integration, content publishing and XML development. Patent-pending Snapbridge FDX data federation technology delivers unprecedented performance, flexibility, and scalability by federating multiple data sources to create composite objects that can be viewed, or updated as part of a transaction. Founded in 2001, the Snapbridge team consists of world-class engineers and management from top companies including SUN, TIBCO, BEA, SAP, iXL -- including members of the teams that defined XML and Java. Snapbridge is working with a number of leading companies in financial services, telecom, travel, media and other industries. The company is headquartered in San Diego and is privately held, with investment backing from JP Morgan Partners and Mission Ventures. For more information, please visit www.snapbridge.com.