Aspelle Introduces Aspelle Everywhere for Medium and Large Businesses Across the Globe.

Business Editors and Technology Writers

NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--July 22, 2002

Aspelle

Provides "Anytime, Anywhere" Access to Corporate Applications and

Data Without Compromising Security or Ease-of-Use

Aspelle, a provider of secure enterprise access solutions, today announced its flagship product, Aspelle Everywhere, the first Internet-based solution specifically designed to help businesses provide employees, customers and partners secure anytime, anywhere access to internal corporate resources.

Based on Microsoft's .NET framework and already the winner of two industry awards, Aspelle Everywhere is currently in use at a number of companies throughout the world, including agricultural, financial and industrial leader Cargill. (For more information on Cargill's use of Aspelle Everywhere, see separate press release at www.aspelle.com.)

"When we developed Aspelle Everywhere, we took a hard look at the needs of our target customers and the limitations of products already on the market," commented Simon Johnson, Vice President of Technology and Co-founder of Aspelle. "We quickly realized that many businesses were still struggling to find a solution that could provide secure, comprehensive access to all corporate applications and data, without further complicating their existing infrastructure. As our customers can surely attest, Aspelle Everywhere's ability to address all of these problems sets it apart from other products."

Aspelle Everywhere is the first product on the market capable of providing secure access to all corporate resources, without any of the limitations found in VPN, thin client, remote access or other existing technologies. Requiring only a Web browser and an Internet connection, the Aspelle Everywhere software platform securely enables access to a full range of applications and data including Web, Unix, Windows and legacy systems. Streamlining the management and delivery of applications and data to users, Aspelle Everywhere increases an organization's overall operational efficiency and productivity, while decreasing management, support and maintenance overhead.

"With the rise of the Internet, enterprises now have the opportunity to leverage anywhere, anytime access to critical information and systems, resulting in a positive impact to their bottom line. However, for enterprises that have highly disparate and mobile workforces, the ability to actually access complex application infrastructure, which is oftentimes based on both new and legacy systems, is difficult to achieve," added Jeff Phillips, Director at TeleChoice, a highly regarded telecommunications analyst firm. "Aspelle Everywhere's focus on secure, easy-to-manage access to applications, regardless of underlying technology or user location, provides enterprises with a very compelling value proposition."

About Aspelle Everywhere

Unlike other products, which are often limited in terms of overall capability, scalability and flexibility, Aspelle Everywhere is well suited to a company's short- and long-term needs. Designed specifically for the requirements of organizations with even the most disparate workforces, Aspelle Everywhere is based on a wide range of established and emerging industry standards and protocols including .NET, XML, SSL, SOAP, X.509 Digital Certificates, RSA SecurID, HTTP, HTTPS, SOCKS, RDP, ICA, 3270, 5250 and Telnet. Aspelle Everywhere supports hardware and software load balancing, and can handle even the most demanding 24x7 user environments.

Secure

In addition to RSA SecurID, Aspelle Everywhere features RSA BSAFE 128-bit SSL encryption, and support for Digital Certificate authentication (X.509) via Smartcards, USB tokens or a browser certificate store. Aspelle Everywhere's integrated Active Directory authorization mechanism ensures that users are authenticated and validated against their permissions, certifying that no user can access resources inappropriately.

Moreover, Aspelle Everywhere does not impact the effectiveness or performance of firewalls. Aspelle Everywhere ensures all corporate resources are kept safely behind a company's existing firewalls, and only uses standard ports 80 and 443. Aspelle Everywhere has been independently assessed by third-party security experts Internet Security Systems (ISS) to certify its reliability and security.

Hassle-Free Integration

Aspelle Everywhere extends a company's `n'-tier architecture to deliver all resources to all users on Internet-enabled devices. Functioning as a "secure access layer," it sits between existing infrastructure and the Internet, providing a single passageway for the delivery of resources to users and devices. With this non-invasive approach, Aspelle Everywhere minimizes impact on infrastructure and maximizes a company's previous technology investments. Aspelle Everywhere doesn't require client-side software, a dedicated device, system re-architecture, application re-engineering or significant hardware expenditure.

Easy to Manage

Aspelle Everywhere allows users to access and interact with applications and data in a manner they are already familiar with, so it requires virtually no training for end-users. For IS staff, training is also minimal since Aspelle Everywhere leverages existing Microsoft-based infrastructure as opposed to requiring the installation of complex application-specific management tools. Aspelle Everywhere requires very little ongoing maintenance and was designed so that users and resources can be easily managed via a company's existing Active Directory.

Future Proof

Aspelle Everywhere also provides a solution for business critical application deployment, delivering must-have resources into the right users' hands, efficiently and cost effectively, and provides full corporate ASP functionality. Moreover, Aspelle Everywhere offers an excellent solution for business continuity planning and serves as the foundation for next generation 3G and wireless Internet access solutions.

Pricing and Availability

Aspelle Everywhere is available now. For more information, please visit www.aspelle.com or call Aspelle at [phone].

About Aspelle

The industry's premier provider of secure enterprise access solutions, Aspelle is dedicated to helping businesses deliver vital information to customers, partners and employees faster and more efficiently than ever before. The company's award-winning Microsoft.NET-based software platform, Aspelle Everywhere, provides secure individualized access to corporate applications and data -- anytime and anywhere. Embracing open standards as well as advanced security measures, Aspelle Everywhere offers a wide range of benefits to companies including unparalleled return on existing technology investments, a significant reduction in technology-related overhead costs, and improved response time to customer needs. Founded in 2001, Aspelle has offices in New York, Seattle and London. For more information, please visit www.aspelle.com.