Alventive Integrates WebEx Interactive Platform into Next Solution Release; Quick Conferencing Feature Enables Real-Time Design Collaboration Via the Web.

Business Editors/High Tech Writers

SANTA CLARA, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 12, 2001

Alventive, Inc., an innovator of collaborative design software, and WebEx Communications, Inc. (Nasdaq:WEBX), the company that powers real-time communications on the Web, today announced an agreement to integrate the WebEx platform into Alventive Quick Collaboration(TM) Release 3.0. This new release, due out this Spring, will include a feature called Quick Conferencing, which will provide real-time design collaboration capabilities powered by WebEx.

By seamlessly integrating the WebEx Interactive Platform, Quick Conferencing will provide real-time data and application sharing, improving the new product introduction process by enabling internal employees, suppliers, partners and customers to instantly provide feedback into product design and sourcing decisions. As a result, customers are able to reduce product costs, reduce time to value and deliver better products faster.

"By integrating the WebEx platform into our Quick Collaboration, we're able to provide an extremely comprehensive design collaboration solution, giving customers the ability to provide instant feedback on design-related issues," said Gary Stoll, Vice President of Product Management, Alventive, Inc. "With these real-time collaboration capabilities, design team members in different locations can resolve design issues without the need for face-to-face meetings."

Alventive will make available to its customers the WebEx communications platform, which integrates data, and video to provide an online meeting environment that stimulates the full spontaneity of face-to-face meetings. Alventive Quick Collaboration users will have access to the following features:

-- Application Sharing enables participants to run a software application on
their desktop and have others view and control the application.

-- Presentation Sharing allows meeting participants to spontaneously share
presentations without uploading the file to a server.

-- Document Sharing allows meeting attendees to jointly view a document or
graphic independent of the software application.

-- Web Co-Browsing allows participants to co-navigate the Web.

-- Desktop Remote Control allows users to control a remote desktop.

-- File Transfer enables file transfer to all participants within a meeting.

-- Live Chat allows participants to chat publicly and privately.

-- Live Video supports a desktop video camera, enabling easy video conferencing
through a standard Web browser.

"WebEx's integrated data and video communications infrastructure integrates seamlessly with Alventive's technology," said Glenn Reinus, Vice President, Worldwide Sales and Business Development for, WebEx Communications, Inc. "This will provide what manufacturers need to collaborate with suppliers, customers, and partners in order to design and deliver innovative products more quickly and efficiently."

About WebEx Communications, Inc.

Founded in 1996, WebEx Communications, Inc. (Nasdaq: WEBX) is the leading provider of interactive communications infrastructure for Web meetings. WebEx's interactive platform meeting enables the Web sites, applications and service offerings of customers and partners. End-users access these interactive services through the co-branded offerings of customers and partners as well as at www.webex.com. WebEx's services enable end-users to share content and applications spontaneously in a seamless environment with integrated audio, voice and video. With its modular framework and standards-based APIs, WebEx's real-time communications platform is the "dial-tone" for meetings on the Web. Please call [phone] or visit http://www.webex.com for more information.

About Alventive

Alventive enables the creation of online collaborative product communities that bring manufacturers and members of extended supply chains together to participate early in the innovation of new products. Using Alventive Collaborative Design Solutions, companies can unleash the supply chain's intellectual capital to deliver market-relevant products faster, and at lower cost. Alventive is headquartered in Santa Clara, Calif., with offices throughout the United States and Canada. For additional information, please contact Alventive at 1-888-273-3393 or www.alventive.com.

This press release contains forward-looking statements within the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended. These forward-looking statements may be identified by use of the terms anticipates, believes, continue, could, estimates, expects, intends, may, plans, potential, predicts, should or will, or the negative of those terms or similar expressions. These forward-looking statements are subject to significant risks and uncertainties. Actual results may differ materially from those described in such statements as a result of these risks and uncertainties. In particular, these forward looking statements include, but are not limited to, statements that the WebEx platform will reduce product costs, reduce time to value, and deliver better products faster and will allow manufacturers to design and deliver innovative products more quickly and efficiently. Factors which could contribute to risks and uncertainties include, but are not limited to, the failure of customers to adopt the WebEx service and use it effectively in their business and the failure of WebEx customers to decrease their other expenses. A fuller discussion of the risks and uncertainties that could affect WebEx Communications, Inc. are more fully set forth in WebEx's filings the Securities and Exchange Commission, including WebEx's Form 10-Q filed on November 14, 2000. WebEx Communications, Inc. assumes no obligation to update forward-looking information contained in this press release.