AGEA Corporation Announces the Release of Enhanced Business Acceleration Suite 3.2.

Business Editors & High-Tech/Energy Writers

AUSTIN, Texas--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 11, 2002

Significant Enhancements to Features and Functionality

Will be Translated Into Solutions Designed Specifically

for the Energy Industry

AGEA Corporation, a provider of real-time, enterprise communication solutions, today announces the release of its Business Acceleration Suite 3.2 (BAS).

BAS is a robust framework coupled with a set of modules that combine to deliver integrated solutions that ensure that any employee in an organization is fully informed about critical, time-sensitive information and is able to act, resolve, or collaborate on the information. New features and enhancements added to the suite, including an easy to use Business Management Console, Collaboration Manager, and Performance Analyzer, will enable AGEA to deliver solutions designed to meet the competitive information needs of today's business and the specific needs of the energy industry.

AGEA's BAS is designed to meet the needs of companies with complex information issues. The company sees the opportunity for high impact in the energy industry, particularly for those companies focused on energy trading. These organizations have a key sensitivity to time-critical information, must coordinate multiple parties to complete a transaction, and must mitigate the risk and exposure caused by paper-based errors. Visibility into the process and tracking of transactions is also a critical priority for managers and analysts. AGEA believes that BAS is uniquely positioned to help these companies be more effective and more competitive.

"Companies recognize that they can no longer afford to suffer from poor information flow, either internally or with their partners and customers," said Russell Glass, President of AGEA Corporation. "AGEA's BAS greatly improves the method and rate of information transfer, enabling companies to take advantage of time-sensitive data -- turning it into increased revenue, higher systems' ROI, and increased customer satisfaction."

By capturing the information collected by and housed in back-office systems, and transferring it, in real-time, directly to the individuals who need it most, AGEA's BAS allows companies to:

-- Pre-defined, customizable reports

-- Real-time visibility into business metrics around process and problem
resolution

-- Bottleneck identification in event flow and decision making

-- Problem trend reports

-- ROI metrics and analysis

BAS is designed to enable organizations to:

-- Pre-defined, customizable reports

-- Real-time visibility into business metrics around process and problem
resolution

-- Bottleneck identification in event flow and decision making

-- Problem trend reports

-- ROI metrics and analysis

Since the initial release of BAS 3.0 in November 2001, AGEA has made several significant enhancements to the features and functionality of the suite. These enhancements are designed to ensure that BAS 3.2 is easier to implement, easier to use, and drives greater ROI across an organization.

Business Management Console

The Business Management Console is a tool that allows AGEA customers to easily create and manage business rules and ensure that as a business changes, BAS can quickly adapt for continued value and ROI. Through the easy-to-use Web interface, administrators will be able to:

-- Pre-defined, customizable reports

-- Real-time visibility into business metrics around process and problem
resolution

-- Bottleneck identification in event flow and decision making

-- Problem trend reports

-- ROI metrics and analysis

Collaboration Manager

The BAS Collaboration Manager gives the user the capability to interact with information and other employees to resolve business problems and the ability to pull information from systems when needed. The Collaboration Manager provides users with:

-- Pre-defined, customizable reports

-- Real-time visibility into business metrics around process and problem
resolution

-- Bottleneck identification in event flow and decision making

-- Problem trend reports

-- ROI metrics and analysis

Performance Analyzer

The BAS Performance Analyzer provides comprehensive reporting on the flow of alerts and the responsiveness of systems, allowing employees to measure the effectiveness of business processes and communications. These reports include detailed information at every step along the process including alerts, response to events, specific interactions and data access. The Performance Analyzer delivers:

-- Pre-defined, customizable reports

-- Real-time visibility into business metrics around process and problem
resolution

-- Bottleneck identification in event flow and decision making

-- Problem trend reports

-- ROI metrics and analysis

Unlike many enterprise software platforms, BAS is easy to install and comes with the Business Management Console for business managers to create and manage the real-time communication. The system provides interfaces based on XML, HTTP, JMS, JCA and other standard data interchanges, making integrations to enterprise systems quick and extremely manageable. BAS was built from the ground up using the J2EE standard for scalability and reliability, and has integrated with LDAP to provide secure user authentication. The 2-factor security capability ensures an additional authentication mechanism for the highest levels of security.

About AGEA Corporation

AGEA Corporation(tm) provides real-time communication solutions for the enterprise. AGEA's mission is to develop software solutions that increase the responsiveness of our customers by providing access to enterprise information and facilitating real-time interaction between systems, employees, partners and customers. With AGEA, companies can speed decision making and event resolution by seeking the appropriate individuals, providing them with options to respond, and enabling them to interact with enterprise systems. AGEA is a Sun Microsystems(tm) portfolio company.