ADVISORY/SAGA Canada presents the 'Enabling the E-conomy: E-Business Integration Simplified' Executive Briefing.

Assignment/News Editors

ADVISORY...for Thursday, Tuesday-Wednesday (May 11, May 16th-17th)

--(BUSINESS WIRE)

Who:    SAGA SOFTWARE (NYSE:AGS)(Canada) Inc. (SAGA(TM)) today
        announced a four city Executive Briefing, "Enabling the
        E-conomy: E-Business Integration Simplified", designed to
        address e-business challenges that IT decision-makers face.

What:   Attend SAGA Canada's "Enabling the E-conomy: E-Business
        Integration Simplified" executive briefing and hear industry
        experts from SAGA and GartnerGroup(R) discuss the latest
        strategies and solutions for integrating applications within
        your organization and across the extended enterprise.

Speakers:

      Ross Altman, GartnerGroup's Research Director of Application
Integration and Middleware Strategies, together with SAGA CTO, David
Linthicum, will present their views on Enterprise Application
Integration as the foundation of e-business.

      --  David Linthicum will address the following topics:

          --  The state of EAI: as it is today, its evolution and where
            it is going

          --  The new breed of Integration Brokers

          --  An overview of Sagavista(TM), SAGA's "best of breed"
            integration solution

      --  Ross Altman will address the following topics:

          --  EAI as a critical technology for e-business

          --  How and why the Integration Broker is fast becoming a
            "must have" for major enterprises

          --  Highlight "build vs. buy" considerations

          --  An overview of the integration broker supplier arena and
            vendor selection guidelines

When:

Thursday May 11th, 2000                   Thursday May 11th, 2000
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Ottawa, Ontario                           Montreal, Quebec
Westin Ottawa                             The Queen Elizabeth Hotel
Les Saisons Room, Third Floor             Salon St-Laurent
11 Colonel By Drive                       900 Rene-Levesque Blvd. West
Ottawa, Ontario                           Montreal, Quebec

8:15- 11:45 a.m.                          12:45 - 4:15 p.m.

Tuesday May 16th, 2000                    Wednesday May 17th, 2000
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Calgary                                   Toronto
Telus Convention Centre                   Four Seasons Yorkville Hotel
Glengarry Room                            Tudor-Stuart-Orange Room
120 Ninth Avenue Southeast                21 Avenue Road
Calgary, Alberta                          Toronto, Ontario

8:15 - 11:45 a.m.                         8:15 - 11:45 a.m.

About Sagavista

Sagavista is a premier e-business integration software solution designed to help businesses deliver on the promise of the new Internet economy. It is able to intelligently link front office web applications with virtually any and all desired enterprise information -- integrating virtually all operating environments within any enterprise.

Sagavista further allows businesses to extend mission-critical integration to their customers, suppliers and partners helping expand its reach throughout the enterprise.

Through Sagavista's Intelligent Agent Adapters, Integration Broker and Integration Workbench, a company can now integrate their web applications with any packaged, custom-developed or legacy applications - up to ten times faster than it typically takes using traditional means.

About SAGA SOFTWARE, Inc.

SAGA, based in Reston, Virginia, offers a full suite of e-business integration and enterprise systems software that extend and support billions of mission critical transactions daily for some of the world's largest organizations.

SAGA's products and services leverage existing IT investments by connecting customers' existing and packaged applications with the newest e-business processes and applications--thereby enabling its customers to free their information from the heart of the enterprise to the desktop.

(1) SAGA's parent company is traded on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol AGS. For further information, please visit the Company's Web site at www.sagasoftware.com.