Active Software Announces Contract with National Security Agency; Active Software's Integration System Serves as an Integration Platform for Department of Defense Agency.

SANTA CLARA, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 1, 1998--Active Software, Inc., the leading provider of Enterprise Application Integration (EAI) software products, today announced that the company's Integration System is being used within the National Security Agency (NSA).

The NSA is deploying Active Software's Integration System in several projects to integrate the agency's disparate applications. Principal use focuses on revamping existing homegrown middleware systems and replacing them with a uniform commercial solution. The expectation is that deployment, as well as operating and maintenance (O & M) costs, will be significantly reduced by using the Integration System. Overseen by the U.S. Department of Defense, NSA is one of the nation's largest intelligence agencies.

NSA has multiple Integration System projects in process. The projects provide database integration, back-end processing and notification, information distribution, and rule-based systems. Active Software's Integration System was first installed at NSA in the summer of 1996. It is being deployed in an effort to reduce the cost of internal development and apply standard commercial solutions to the agency's integration needs.

"Our contract with NSA marks our second major installment within the federal government, following last year's announcement with the U.S. Department of Transportation," said Jim Green, president and CEO at Active Software. "The NSA staff clearly understands the importance of integrating diverse application systems and the benefits that can be derived in streamlining information distribution internally and to external customers of the agency."

Active Software's Integration System

Active Software's Integration System is the first product to significantly reduce the complexity of integrating corporate computing resources, such as packaged applications, databases, legacy systems and Internet applications. The System is based on events-messages that reflect a customer's business processes.

It includes "Information Brokers" that store, queue and route events; "Adapters" to map native information formats to events; "Agents" that enable business processes to be mirrored in the system; "GUI Tools" for developers to define events and interactions between applications and for administrators to configure, manage, and monitor the system.

The National Security Agency

The National Security Agency (NSA) was established by Presidential directive in 1952 as a separately organized agency within the Department of Defense. It is under the direction, authority, and control of the Secretary of Defense, who acts as Executive Agent of the U.S. government for the production of communications intelligence (COMINT) information.

The NSA, together with the Central Security Service (CSS) is responsible for the centralized coordination, direction, and performance of highly specialized technical functions in support of U.S. Government activities to protect U.S. communications and produce foreign intelligence information.

NSA was charged with an additional mission, information systems security for national security systems, in a 1984 Presidential directive, and with an operations security training mission in a 1988 Presidential directive. Under a 1986 law, NSA became a combat support agency of the DoD. For more information, visit NSA's website at www.nsa.gov.

Active Software

Founded in 1995, Active Software is the leading supplier of network-based integration software products that help enterprises integrate disparate information resources. A pioneer in the emerging category of enterprise application integration (EAI), Active Software provides a simple, flexible, scalable and manageable suite of products that offers the broadest scope of integration in the industry.

Privately-held Active Software is funded by Enterprise Partners, Kleiner Perkins Caufield and Byers, Sierra Ventures, the KPCB Java Fund, Lehman Brothers, and BancAmerica Robertson Stephens. It is headquartered in Santa Clara, Calif. For more information, visit the company Web site at www.activesw.com. -0-

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