Adexa and Vitria Form Strategic Alliance.

Business Editors

LOS ANGELES--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 9, 2000

Partnership Enables Companies, Portals, Trading Exchanges and

ASPs to Intelligently Collaborate with Trading Partners

Adexa, Inc., the leading provider of collaborative planning solutions critical to e-business (formerly Paragon Management Systems), and Vitria Technology, Inc. (Nasdaq:VITR), a leading eBusiness platform provider, today announced the formation of a strategic alliance to enable the rapid and cost-effective deployment of collaborative business processes between trading partners. Adexa and Vitria will work together to address the portal needs of their mutual customers by integrating Adexa's iCollaboration product with Vitria's BusinessWare(R) eBusiness platform.

Adexa's solution suite, iCollaboration, delivers a competitive advantage by helping companies collaborate more effectively with their trading partners - improving the level of value-added services they provide to their customers and suppliers. Organizations that are helping to define the eBusiness market place count on Adexa to provide them with the adaptability and flexibility required to compete in eBusiness by enabling their extended supply chain to respond quickly and accurately - to changing customer demands.

By integrating iCollaboration with BusinessWare, Adexa and Vitria provide a robust business-to-business collaborative planning solution for hub-centric portals and Independent Trading Exchanges based on Vitria's BusinessWare platform, including those offered by Application Service Providers (ASPs). BusinessWare provides the essential infrastructure for these portals or exchanges -- also known as eCommunities -- using established messaging standards, such as XML and RosettaNet. Adexa' s iCollaboration enables buyers and sellers to intelligently collaborate across trading exchange environments as well as provide customers with accurate Available-to-Promise information by seamlessly linking critical order fulfillment and procurement processes.

&uot;With the rise of portals and Independent Trading Exchanges, companies are facing a new issue of how to effectively manage the complex flow of information between their trading partners,&uot; said Dr. K. Cyrus Hadavi, president and chief executive officer of Adexa, Inc. &uot;Adexa will leverage Vitria BusinessWare to help companies filter, route and intelligently manage information between trading partners. Our approach to inter-enterprise information management is unique, making use of business rules and secure, role-based information access to speed collaboration and decision making.&uot;

Adexa has focused its efforts on providing customers with the vital missing element they require to successfully execute their eBusiness initiatives collaborative planning. Adexa and Vitria will provide customers with best-of-breed tools to manage their interactions and collaborations, enabling trading networks to scale as rapidly as possible.

&uot;The combination of Vitria BusinessWare and Adexa iCollaboration will allow organizations to greatly reduce the total cost of ownership of their eBusiness solutions, speed time-to-market and create true competitive advantages for their trading partners,&uot; said Dr. JoMei Chang, CEO and president of Vitria.

About Vitria

Vitria Technology, Inc. is a leading eBusiness platform provider. Vitria's eBusiness platform, BusinessWare, automates mission-critical business processes across the extended enterprise, reducing time to market, shortening lead times, lowering operating costs, and increasing customer satisfaction. Vitria is a publicly traded company (Nasdaq: VITR) based in Sunnyvale, California. For more information, call 408/212-2700, visit the company's Web site at www.vitria.com/, or send email to [e-mail].

About Adexa

Headquartered in Los Angeles and with sales and support offices worldwide, Adexa (formerly Paragon Management Systems) develops and markets collaborative planning solutions critical to e-business. Adexa's solutions enable customers, trading partners, portals and application service providers to collaborate intelligently and deliver value-added services to customers and suppliers more quickly and profitably. Adexa's software and professional services enhance the value of complementary enterprise applications and reflect the company's unmatched understanding of - and experience in solving - the unique business needs of the Semiconductor, Electronics, Textile, Apparel and Automotive industries. To learn more about Adexa and its solutions, please visit www.adexa.com.