Axway Receives 'Positive' Rating in Leading Analyst Firm's Business Activity Monitoring Platforms MarketScope Report.

SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. & PARIS -- Axway (PARIS:SOP) today announced that it received a "Positive" rating in Gartner's "MarketScope for Business Activity Monitoring Platforms, 3Q06,"(1) an evaluation of business activity monitoring (BAM) platform solutions from nine vendors. Axway's solution, Synchrony BAM, enables supply chain monitoring, policy compliance and transaction track and trace. Synchrony BAM provides businesses with a global surveillance solution, which tracks processing chains at both technical and business levels.

"We believe our position in Gartner's MarketScope for Business Activity Monitoring Platforms confirms that we are continuing to meet the needs of organizations looking to implement collaborative business solutions," says Dave Bennett, chief technology officer, Axway. "During the first half of 2006, our business monitoring products and solutions were a key part of the license sales at two-thirds of our top 25 accounts worldwide. This validates the industry demand for our end-to-end technology. We believe the success is not only due to our strong business monitoring capabilities, but also because of our interoperable Synchrony platform."

According to the MarketScope, which was written by Gartner Research Director Bill Gassman, "A promising business activity monitoring market exists for organizations looking to deploy these platforms, and many good products are available... Leading products are able to connect to multiple event sources, address complex monitoring requirements and perform well enough to handle heavy streams of events... By 2010, the adoption of BAM platforms will grow at least 200 percent from 2006 levels (0.7 probability)." Additionally, Gassman writes, "The market demand for BAM platforms will continue initially driven by the need for availability and broader access to events outside of a specific application."

Axway's Synchrony BAM enables organizations to monitor, correlate and analyze transactions and events in real-time, allowing exception-based management of business activities. The ability to view transactions in the context of the lifecycle of a business process, such as purchase order to invoice to payment, gives organizations proactive visibility into the health of its business.

Each BAM solution was evaluated based on market understanding, marketing strategy, vertical/industry strategy, innovation, product/service, responsiveness and customer experience.

According to the report, "A BAM platform is a separate and complete software product, designed and marketed to develop and deploy a broad set of BAM applications." As a result of Axway's merger with Cyclone Commerce in June 2006, the two companies offer Synchrony BAM, which is comprised of:

--Synchrony Sentinel - a solution for end-to-end process and flow supervision and monitoring;

--Synchrony Sentinel: Director - a solution providing operational visibility for all transactions going through the B2B gateway; and

--Synchrony Sentinel: Insight - a powerful analytics and intelligence solution for the management of Trading Partner Relationships (TPRs) and key performance indicators.

For additional information on Synchrony BAM, please visit: http://www.axway.com/products/synchrony_bam.php.

About Axway

Axway, now merged with Cyclone, is the leading global provider of collaborative business solutions. Axway establishes the dynamic connections - within and among enterprises - that make companies easier to do business with. Over 7000 organizations worldwide depend on Axway to manage and control their business-critical information in motion - improving value chain efficiency, regulatory compliance and quality of service. Axway's solutions feature a highly flexible integration and B2B framework, analytics, services, and customized applications for the financial services and life sciences industries. A division of Sopra Group, SA, Axway has dual headquarters in Paris, France and Scottsdale, Arizona, and offices in 19 countries.

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(1) Gartner Research "MarketScope for Business Activity Monitoring Platforms, 3Q06"