Adaptive Announces Major Release of its Enterprise Architecture Repository Product.

RICHMOND, Va. -- Adaptive, Inc.:

New Release Supports Building a More Complete Picture of an
         Enterprise Using the Latest "Enterprise Architecture"
        Concepts. It Also Incorporates Enhanced Capabilities to
      Import and Integrate Existing Knowledge about Key Elements
            of an Enterprise from a Wide Range of Sources

Adaptive, Inc., a leading provider of Enterprise Architecture Knowledge Repository solutions, today announced the next major release of its powerful Adaptive Enterprise Architecture Manager(TM) (Adaptive EA Manager) product, which is increasingly being selected by federal government agencies and global corporations as the preferred solution for building and maintaining their enterprise architectures.

Version 3.0 of the Adaptive software provides significantly enhanced capability to manage, in a tightly integrated fashion, the full breadth of knowledge about the enterprise from strategy, to business processes, to information technology and other key resources. It also provides for better information accessibility and collaboration. With Adaptive EA Manager, organizations can easily and securely capture and share the knowledge required to align and manage business changes to maintain competitive advantage, to get the best returns on investments, and to consolidate IT and other resources to reduce operating costs.

New product features and enhancements include:

--Full support for the 11 Adaptive Reference Model(TM) domains

--43 new types of repository element

--Extended use of Microsoft(R) Visio(R), with Visio stencils integrated into the repository to support 17 different Enterprise Architecture techniques

--The ability to easily create new stencils for custom techniques

--A new data integration architecture (Adaptive Integrator(TM)) providing reusable components that can be linked together to create customer-specific "data harvesting" processes

--More powerful data import / export capability, through integration with over 80 tools out of the box

--Organization-focused views that enable the Enterprise Architecture to be managed from multiple organizational perspectives

--Support for IBM(R) WebSphere(R) Application Server

--Enhanced graphical navigation

--The ability to produce reports in Adobe(R) PDF format

Enterprise Architecture encompasses many disciplines and techniques being used in today's Global 2000 companies and major government agencies to enable them to adapt their business capabilities to respond to changing needs and opportunities. Through its robust enterprise architecture knowledge repository, Adaptive can help these organizations cope with the complexity of aligning business strategies, processes and resources, especially IT resources.

"Adaptive is tremendously excited at the significant benefits that this powerful tool brings to the Enterprise Architecture space," says Jeff Goins, Adaptive CEO. "Adaptive EA Manager is aimed at helping both IT and business professionals to manage the relationships, context and connectivity that give meaning to the business. In particular, it enables enterprise architects and metadata managers to create the 'big picture' they have been striving for."

Adaptive EA Manager is built on the open, standards-based, powerful and scalable Adaptive Foundation(TM) repository platform, deployed via an impressive web-based browser interface that is easily integrated into the way users already work. It enables them to describe and visualize the enterprise architecture in terms of the inter-dependencies among strategic direction, organization structure, business processes, and key resources including IT applications, data, and infrastructure assets.

Adaptive EA Manager enables organizations to manage metadata that spans from corporate strategy and business requirements, through data and applications to IT operations. By providing a holistic view of the enterprise, Adaptive EA Manager exposes complex relationships and dependencies that enable an organization to identify impacts, risks and potential costs of any changes. It also enables the organization to identify underutilized capability, bottlenecks, and redundancies. Its unique capability to bring data from various sources into a holistic secure environment provides management the ability to plan, organize, lead and monitor corporate capabilities in a much more effective manner than has previously been possible.

About Adaptive, Inc.

Adaptive is an international corporation providing a web based and industry standards compliant Enterprise Knowledge Repository and related "Adaptations" to enable Enterprise Architecture management. The company works with many large organizations and governments around the world to support their enterprise architecture initiatives and specific management challenges such as Business Process Management and IT Portfolio Management.

Adaptive's technology enables organizations to understand and align critical enterprise assets and capabilities with objectives and strategies, and to reduce the time, cost and risk of adapting to continuous environmental change. For more information, please visit: www.adaptive.com