Belgium Government Goes Open Source with Intalio.

Bull Belgium and Intalio Partner to Manage One Million Student Records

PALO ALTO, Calif. -- Intalio, Inc., the Open Source BPMS Company, today announced that its open source Business Process Management Suite has been successfully deployed by the Belgium Ministry of Education in order to manage over one million student records. The project was led by the Belgium subsidiary of Bull Group and by ETNIC, the Information Technology agency of the Belgium French Community.

"Intalio understood our objectives rapidly. They satisfied our requirements for functionality, performance, and technical integration," said Pierre Mine, Bull Belgium sales manager. "Intalio|BPMS was the tool we needed to handle our most complex processes, and Intalio provided remarkable support for problem solving on a daily basis."

The application developed by Bull connects nearly 3,000 schools to a centralized administration system in order to facilitate student registrations. It is now deployed in production and is one of the largest deployments of Intalio|BPMS, the leading open source BPM suite. Students can expect a dramatic decrease in registration response time, with support for real-time validation processes. More details on the project can be found at http://enterpriseservicebus.blogspot.com.

In order to support such a project, Bull and Intalio worked together to make Intalio|Server the fastest BPEL engine currently available on the market, capable of handling over 10 million transactions per day on a single CPU.

"Intalio initially joined this project as a support player, but quickly became a major actor. Intalio|BPMS tied our ESB to our business application. Their help was crucial in this mission critical environment," said Lilian Duchene, ETNIC technical support SOA manager. "As far as I know, Intalio's level of service is unprecedented."

"Following our landmark success with the Dutch Government, this new BPM project confirms Intalio's leadership in the public sector," said Ismael Ghalimi, Intalio founder and CEO. "The combination of an open source business model and the unmatched scalability of our standards-based BPM suite makes Intalio|BPMS the obvious choice for large and complex government processes."

About Bull

Bull designs and develops servers and software for an open environment, integrating the most advanced technologies, and proposes a wide range of services, from system integration consulting to outsourcing. Bull brings its customers its expertise and know-how to help them in the transformation of their information systems and optimize their IT infrastructure and their applications. Bull is particularly present in the public sector, banking, finance, telecommunication and manufacturing sectors. Capitalizing on its wide experience, the Group has a thorough understanding of the business and specific processes of these sectors. Its distribution network spreads to over 100 countries world-wide.

About ETNIC

ETNIC, the Information Technology agency of the Belgium French Community, is responsible for the IT infrastructure used by a wide range of applications it designs, develops, maintains, and supports. Founded in 2002, it mobilizes 130 IT specialists, and is annually allocated a budget of EU24 million. ETNIC provides high quality solutions to the various public services of the French Community: education, culture, health, youth and sports.

About Intalio, Inc.

Intalio is the leading vendor of Open Source BPMS and helps over 10,000 organizations around the world get the most return on investment from their Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) by developing and deploying new business processes without having to write code. Founded in July 1999, Intalio is a privately-held, venture-backed company located in Palo Alto, California. For more information on Intalio, please call 650-596-1800 or visit www.intalio.com.

Intalio|BPMS and Intalio|Server are trademarks of Intalio, Inc. All other names, brands or products may be trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective owners.

Note to Editors: In the names Intalio|BPMS and Intalio|Server noted in this news release, there is a pipe symbol between Intalio and BPMS and Intalio and Server.