Attunity Named Advisory Member to UDDI B2B Standards Consortium; Attunity Joins IBM, Ariba, Microsoft to Create Universal Directory Service.

Business/Technology Editors

BURLINGTON, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 27, 2000

Underscoring its leadership role in defining and developing B2B processes, Attunity Ltd. (International Software Group, Ltd., d/b/a Attunity Ltd.), (NASDAQ:SISG), a leading provider of B2B software solutions, today announced that it has joined the Universal Description, Discovery and Integration (UDDI) group as an advisory member.

Attunity will be working with IBM (NYSE:IBM), Microsoft (Nasdaq:MSFT), and Ariba (Nasdaq:ARBA) -- who founded the UDDI B2B initiative -- and others to create standards for locating and using eBusiness services across the Internet.

"By working with organizations, such as UDDI, Attunity is taking a leadership role in helping to define and develop business-process standards that are the foundation of B2B commerce," said Arie Gonen, Chairman and CEO of Attunity. "We are pleased to join IBM, Microsoft, Ariba, and other leading companies in supporting UDDI standards development."

UDDI is an industry initiative to create a platform-independent, open framework for describing services, discovering businesses, and integrating business services using the Internet. It is the first cross-industry effort driven by platform and software providers, marketplace operators and eBusiness leaders.

"Attunity B2B empowers enterprises to create, share, automate, and manage dynamic B2B processes in many-to-many environments over the Internet," said Motti Vaknin, Vice President of Market Development at Attunity Ltd. "As an innovative advisor and technology leader in the UDDI community, Attunity will extend this fully distributed environment, enabling our customers to mix and match eServices more easily. Only through standards-based, interoperable B2B solutions can enterprises compete at today's Internet-driven speed -- creating value-added business processes, reducing costs, increasing revenue, and advancing new business models. Attunity looks forward to actively supporting and promoting the UDDI initiative."

Attunity also recently added its support and expertise to the Business Process Management Initiative (BPMI), an organization that is defining standards for the management of mission-critical business processes that span multiple applications, corporate departments, and business partners. The XML-based standards generated from UDDI and BPMI will support and complement existing business-to-business collaboration protocols, such as RosettaNet, BizTalk, and ebXML, as well as technology integration standards, including J2EE and SOAP.

About Attunity B2B

Attunity B2B is a fully distributed software solution that powers B2B process integration and automation. The software is based on accepted industry standards, such as XML and J2EE, and powered by Attunity's unique approaches for achieving high performance, secure, scalable, and manageable business process automation across the Internet.

The key components of the solution are Attunity B2B Engine and the Attunity B2B Designer. The B2B Engine provides a Business Rules Engine and a collection of services that together drive B2B process integration. The Attunity B2B Designer is an independent, Java-based client application that provides an intuitive, graphical development environment so that IT specialists and business experts can quickly configure integration services and also design and implement dynamic business processes.

Another offering -- Attunity Connect -- enables companies to integrate their back-office applications with their Internet-based B2B network.

About Attunity Ltd.

Attunity is a leading provider of B2B solutions that deliver dynamic business process integration. Attunity gives enterprises the power to create, share, automate, and manage business processes with partners, suppliers, customers, and eMarketplaces over the Internet. Attunity solutions enable companies to simplify supply-chain interaction, improve customer relationships, and expand the reach of their business.

The company's portfolio of software and services work in concert. Its B2B solutions leverage standards-based (XML, J2EE, DCOM, CORBA, etc.) technologies of Attunity B2B and Attunity Connect.

Attunity delivers production-proven software and services to more than 1,000 companies and has strategic alliances with Oracle, Compaq, and other world-class partners. Attunity products are available through direct sales and support offices in the United States, Israel, the United Kingdom, France, the People's Republic of China and Australia, as well as a full-service distributor, Mitsui, in Japan. For more information, visit the Attunity web site at www.attunity.com.