AMISYS Selects Transoft as Application Transformation Partner for New HP-UX Product.

Business Editors

ROCKVILLE, Md.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 1, 2002

AMISYS LLC, which offers information management solutions for health care payers, has selected Transoft Inc. as an application transformation provider for its new HP-UX product, AMISYS Advance.

Following an extensive investigation of transition options, AMISYS selected Transoft, a leading application transformation company, because of its established record of providing efficient tools-based migration solutions, Al Gain, AMISYS vice president of product development, said.

With 75 current installed customers and 22 timeshare customers on AMISYS 3000(R), AMISYS has one of the largest customer bases in the healthcare IT industry. Working with its customers, AMISYS recently announced its strategy to transition its AMISYS 3000 product to the HP-UX platform. The transition plan focuses on maintaining the product's extensive functionality and scalability.

Transoft is a leading expert in application transformation, with more than 15 years experience in COBOL migration. Having developed a tools-based approach for platform migrations, Transoft provides a rapid redeployment of applications from the HP e3000 to a choice of UNIX or NT environments.

"AMISYS is one of the largest independent software vendors (ISVs) for the HP e3000, and a key customer in the healthcare industry for Hewlett-Packard," Gain said. "We sought a leading partner who could help us quickly and successfully transition our COBOL programs and jobs to an open systems environment. It was clear that Transoft, with its 'open technology road map' and 'can do' approach, would be the perfect partner to enable us to meet our timeline and satisfy our customers' needs."

"We were delighted that AMISYS chose Transoft to help them with this very important transition project," commented Paul Holland, Transoft's chief executive officer. "We have been honing our proven migration tools to meet the specific needs of this market. That is why today we are the only company that offers a complete transformation solution based on the promise of 'don't just move - improve!'"

Transoft is the only company that offers a complete migration solution. Its unique approach means that applications can be transitioned from the HP e3000 without risk and at a fraction of the cost of redeveloping the application. Transoft goes beyond a migration by giving customers the option to move their application into new technologies - either Windows or browser-based user interfaces, or a Web Services architecture within a Java or Microsoft.Net environment.

AMISYS plans to have a prototype of Release 1 of AMISYS Advance available to demonstrate in September. Beta testing is scheduled for March 2003, with general availability expected in June 2003.

AMISYS

AMISYS LLC (www.amisysllc.com) offers comprehensive information management solutions to health care payers. One product, AMISYS 3000, is a highly evolved suite that offers a comprehensive, robust and flexible solution to meet the information needs of a virtually unlimited variety of health care payer delivery models.

It is very efficient, achieving high auto adjudication rates, and it provides extensive health care payer functionality. AMISYS 3000 automates all critical business functions, including membership enrollment and eligibility, claims adjudication and payment and provider contract management and pricing.

AMISYS Advance, a product under development, will retain the functionality of AMISYS 3000 on the HP-UX operating system. A client/server product, AMISYS C/S, is a cost-effective health care payer information management solution that supports HMOs, provider-based payers, employers, unions and carve-out entities.

Its applications help health care payers control their financial exposure while focusing on effective health care management.

Transoft

Transoft is a leading international provider of application transformation, integration and assembly solutions. The Transoft Intelligent Adapters enable existing critical business application functions to be easily exposed and re-used as application and Web services, to build new scalable, integrated (e)business applications faster and with less risk.

This product set is supported by Transoft's Professional Services Group, whose unique mix of experience and skills in Web and Windows development, the legacy and middleware, enable it to provide consulting solutions few other organizations can offer.

Transoft customers include Fortune 500 and Times 100 companies, hundreds of small to mid-sized corporations, as well as a network of more than 300 resellers in 44 countries. More than 60 percent of its sales are in North America.

The company has US headquarters in Atlanta, GA, with additional US offices in Dayton, OH and San Diego CA. Its international headquarters are in Slough, England. For more information on Transoft, visit www.transoft.com or telephone (UK) 01753 778000 or (US) 770 933 1965.