Banca Popolare di Milano Consolidates Banking Channels with Jacada; New Linux-based Architecture Reduces Cost of Ownership and Increases Business Agility.

Business Editors

ATLANTA--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 23, 2004

Jacada Ltd. (NASDAQ: JCDA), a leading provider of software that accelerates business process improvement, today announced that Banca Popolare di Milano (BPM), one of Italy's largest banks, has successfully deployed Jacada. Jacada software was used as part of a project to consolidate multiple channels within BPM's banking system onto a unified Linux platform with a Web-based application interface.

The new system provides bank employees with a single, comprehensive view of customer account information, which simultaneously improves the customer experience, lowers operational costs and reduces the complexity of the underlying information technology.

"Our main goal was to integrate all of our channels so we could have a single view of our customers," said Clive Whincup, CIO at BPM. "Channel integration gives us a competitive advantage because we can be more reactive to business demands and cut the cost of implementing and maintaining the system."

About 70% of the bank's branches are based in Northern Italy, with the rest located around Rome and southern Italy. "By moving from client/server to the Web, we do not have expensive software distribution costs to the branch, and implementation is much easier," explained Whincup.

In addition, the new infrastructure helps BPM lay a foundation for the future. Going forward, BPM expects to be able to offer new services - such as support for financial advisors - with minimum investment and a streamlined approach to managing and distributing upgrades to bank branches.

Jacada now serves as the primary link between the bank's mainframe applications and the IBM WebSphere e-commerce application that acts as the main interface for employees at over 700 bank branches. "Jacada was chosen because we saw it as the best product for the job," said Whincup. "It is easy to use and provides the performance needed to connect to our IMS and CICS applications. In addition, BPM was particularly impressed with Jacada's commitment to the new Linux environment."

About Jacada - Jacada Ltd. provides software solutions for accelerating business process improvement through a full range of integration, Web-to-host, and legacy access solutions. Jacada conforms to any architecture style including J2EE, .NET, and Web Services and is the preferred and certified legacy connection solution for BEA, Computer Associates, Oracle, PeopleSoft, SeeBeyond, and Siebel Systems. Jacada solutions are in use today at major corporations and government organizations such as AIG, Bank of America, Caterpillar, Citibank, Delta Air Lines, The Federal Reserve Bank, Porsche Cars North America, Prudential, and the US Department of Interior. Jacada operates globally with headquarters in Atlanta, Georgia; Herzliya, Israel; and London, England. Jacada can be reached at www.jacada.com or at 1-800-773-9574.

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