Attunity Powers B2B Transactions for China's Largest Steel E-Marketplace; Legacy Applications and Data Integrated for Automated B2B.

Business/Technology Editors

BURLINGTON, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 27, 2001

Attunity Ltd. (NASDAQ: ATTU), a leader in business process, application and data integration solutions for the extended enterprise, today announced that BSteel Company, one of the largest steel manufacturers in the world, has selected Attunity to provide B2B integration and automate business processes for its suppliers and partners over the Internet.

Using the Attunity eBusiness Integration Suite, BSteel has enabled individual suppliers, partners and customers to perform online B2B transactions via its e-marketplace. To realize the benefits of an automated e-marketplace, BSteel needed to provide the flexibility for all participants to define their unique business processes and exchange information with BSteel in real-time. BSteel's eighteen sub-companies, each with proprietary applications and legacy data sources, were transformed with Attunity into a unified integration solution that provided the real-time access along with transaction and business process management capabilities required in conducting e-business.

"Attunity is the best choice for BSteel because its solution allows us to leverage our existing applications and extend them directly to our e-marketplace," said Yang Jian-Xia, chief technical officer at BSteel. "Attunity's advanced integration capability also enables our marketplace participants to get online faster and achieve greater ROI through business process automation."

"Establishing the largest e-marketplace in China required complex internal and B2B integration," said Paul MacKay, chief executive officer of Attunity. "Attunity delivers robust integration capabilities to enable BSteel to conduct real-time B2B e-commerce with confidence."

Attunity enables enterprises to unite applications and data from more than 30 data sources on more than 20 different computing platforms including 0S/390, 0S/400, Tandem, OpenVMS, UNIX and Windows. Attunity Connect delivers a more intuitive and easier way to integrate diverse applications and data using industry-standards such as J2EE CA and XML in addition to data access interfaces such as JDBC, ODBC, SQL and ADO/OLE DB. Attunity Connect also enables customers to encapsulate 3GL and custom-built application logic and make it accessible using the same standard interfaces.

Working in the graphical drag-and-drop environment, users can create, share, automate and manage distributed business processes and expose these as reusable services internally or externally as a Web service. With a modern peer-to-peer architecture based on current J2EE and XML standards, the Attunity Business Process Integrator ensures the highest levels of performance, scalability and reliability.

About BSteel

eBusiness is changing the way people work and communicate. In an effort to build a steel e-marketplace in the People's Republic of China for suppliers, partners and consumers to make transactions through an Intranet and the Internet, Baoshan Steel and 11 other shareholders and investors formed BSteel to be the first and largest e-marketplace in the People's Republic of China's steel industry.

About Attunity Ltd.

Attunity(TM) is a leading provider of eBusiness solutions that deliver dynamic business process, application and data integration within and across enterprises. Attunity gives organizations the power to leverage their IT investments by automating and managing business processes within the enterprise and with partners, suppliers and customers over the Internet.

The company's portfolio of software and services work in concert. Its eBusiness Integration Suite utilizes the standards-based technologies of Attunity Connect(TM) and Attunity BPI(TM) to insure rapid ROI while maintaining business agility for the future.

Attunity delivers production-proven software and services to more than 1,000 companies worldwide 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 www.attunity.com or send email to [e-mail].

Copyright (c) 2001 Attunity Ltd. All rights reserved.

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(Except for the historical information contained herein, the matters discussed in this news release include forward-looking statements that may involve a number of risks and uncertainties. Actual results may vary significantly based upon a number of factors, including but not limited to risks and product technology development, market acceptance of the products and continuing product demand, the impact of competitive products and pricing, changing economic conditions, both here and abroad, release and sales of new products by strategic resellers and customers, and other risk factors detailed in the company's most recent annual report and other filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission.)