Active Software Announces Licensing Agreement with Cisco Systems.

SANTA CLARA, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 27, 1998--

Cisco to Use Active Software's Integration System as Key Component in Next-generation Internetworking Product

Active Software(tm), Inc., the leading provider of integration software products, today announced that Cisco Systems(R) (NASDAQ: CSCO), the worldwide leader in networking for the Internet, has signed a licensing agreement for Active Software's Integration System. Cisco will use Active Software's integration technology and products to serve as the backbone for network service and management products.

The Cisco User Control Point (UCP) is a carrier-class service policy administration system that enables personalized IP services. The Cisco UCP is based upon a distributed, fault-tolerant architecture that integrates authentication, authorization, accounting, roaming and address-management services into service providers' existing operations support systems (OSSs).

"Licensing Active Software's Integration System allowed us to accelerate our product development and deliver an industry leading solution," said David Gudmundson, director and general manager, Network-to-User Business Unit, Cisco Systems.

Jim Green, president and CEO of Active Software added, "Cisco's decision to license Active Software's products as a key component in their new product line represents a unique application of our Integration System. It indicates the flexibility and breadth of our software, which is most often used for enterprise application integration, but is equally valuable as an embedded technology."

Active Software's Integration System provides an open platform for systems integrators and enterprise developers, which will enable Cisco's UCP to be easily integrated with Telecomm back office operations. Active Software provides the ability for customers to integrate enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems, as well as mainframe applications.

Active Software's Integration System

Active's Integration System is the first product to significantly reduce the complexity of integrating corporate computing resources, such as packaged applications, databases, heritage 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.

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.

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