Actional and BEA Systems to Offer Standards-Based, End-to-End Integration Connectivity.

Business Editors/High-Tech Writers

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 10, 2001

Actional Control Broker Combines With BEA WebLogic Integration to

Offer Out-of-the-Box Integration to SAP, and PeopleSoft

Actional(TM) Corp., the leading developer of next generation application integration software, and BEA Systems, Inc. (Nasdaq:BEAS), one of the world's leading e-business infrastructure software companies, today announced that Actional's Control Broker adapter technology will be integrated as a component in BEA WebLogic Integration 2.0. The joint solution will help lower the cost of integration and speed time-to-value for BEA WebLogic Integration customers integrating with SAP and PeopleSoft enterprise resource planning systems. BEA WebLogic Integration will offer businesses out-of-the-box, real-time integration to multiple disparate enterprise applications and standards. Actional's Control Broker for BEA WebLogic Integration 2.0 is scheduled to ship in Fall 2001.

As a charter member of the BEA Integration Star Solution, Actional will tightly integrate WebLogic Integration to multiple software environments, from packaged applications and middleware, to custom and legacy applications. Additional WebLogic Integration connectivity to Siebel, COM, and CORBA is expected to be available from Actional in Fall 2001. Actional's Control Broker will complete the WebLogic Integration standards-based integration solution by offering connections to more applications and technologies, without adding any middleware and without duplicating business process management.

"BEA WebLogic Integration addresses customers' demands for a complete, standards-based, integration framework," said Ivan Koon, president of the BEA E-Commerce Integration Division. "The integration with Actional Control Broker assures instant connections to multiple applications, and a future-proof, scalable and reliable end-to-end, process-oriented system based on standards. Customers will be well-positioned to realize a reduction in integration deployment time and training costs, and an increased return on investment."

BEA WebLogic Integration provides sophisticated business process management to help manage process flows across applications. Actional performs single step transformation from WebLogic Integration to enterprise applications such as SAP, PeopleSoft and Siebel. Because Actional Control Broker runs in process with BEA WebLogic Integration, deployment and processing speed are greatly enhanced. Software developers familiar with BEA WebLogic Integration will no longer need to learn additional software language environments because Actional Control Broker enables any disparate application to appear native to BEA WebLogic Integration. Actional Control Broker integration products are bi-directional and integrate multiple applications within or across the enterprise for BEA WebLogic Integration.

"In today's market, it's critical to deliver reliable, high-performance e-Business integration solutions," said John Orcutt, CEO of Actional. "Actional's Control Broker for BEA WebLogic Integration offers a complete connectivity solution for building and integrating new and existing applications. We are pleased to work with BEA to deliver rapid deployment integration across multiple environments. This partnership signifies an essential element in developing comprehensive integration solutions by offering an end-to-end standards-based integration platform."

About Actional

Actional develops next generation application integration software that uniquely solves integration requirements by leveraging your existing applications, systems and skill sets. It does this by allowing you to integrate from your Point-of-View. This means Actional's patented Point-of-View Browser, the fastest, easiest way to connect enterprise applications, allows developers to view, manage and connect functions, components and services from other applications, as if they were native to their development environment. This unique approach speeds the delivery of new functionality (e.g., Web Services), making them sharable across all applications in the IT infrastructure, in the native format of choice (i.e., your Point-of-View).

The company's customers include leaders in the Global 2000, with a focus on financial services, telecommunications, energy and utilities, manufacturing and the travel industry. The company's flagship product, the Actional Control Broker, was recently selected by eAI Journal as the 2001 Integration Product of the Year. The company is backed by New Enterprise Associates, NeoCarta Ventures, and International Capital Partners. Actional can be contacted at 800/808-2271 or [e-mail]. More information about the company can be found at www.actional.com.

Note to Editors: Actional and Control Broker are trademarks of Actional Corp. All other names mentioned above may be trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective owners.