Bluestone Joined by Systems Integrators to deliver Total-e-Business Services; Bluestone's Integrated E-Business Platform Empowers Systems Integrators to Meet Customer Demand for Unified Approach to Online Activities including B2B, B2C, Information Publishing, and Legacy-to-Web Integration Efforts.

PHILADELPHIA--(BUSINESS WIRE) and implementation practices. Each organizatioations, sales, marketing, and finance, while addressing the IS technology mandate for excellence in a non-stop, high-performance platform to support mission-critical applications.

By aligning with Bluestone, the Total-e-Business Services providers will be trained and certified on the comprehensive integrated e-business platform that combines best-of-breed components for content management, personalization, integration, and e-commerce with Bluestone's award-w design and deploy Total-e-Business Services smerce, Web-based information publishing, and legacy-to-Web application integration.

"Our Total-e-Business Services providers address a wide range of industries ess creates the platform on which a company can consolidate all e-business interactions with business partners, suppliers, vendors, customers, and employees, making the company's e-business a vital and seamless extension of its overall business strategy."

Empowering Service Providers and Systems Integrators to Meet Customer Demands

The Enterprise Solutions practice of Grant Thornton LLP is widely focused on e-business. As one of the nation's largest accounting and management consulting firms providing a broad range of professional services to growth-oriented, entrepreneurial organizations, Grant Thornton works with manufacturing, retail, financial services, and other industry clients that average between $200 million and $1.5 billion in annual sales. Nevertheless, the concerns facing Grant Thornton clients are common to all organizations in any industry - how to take advantage of e-business opportunities to become more competitive. Working with the Total-e-Business platform, Grant Thornton will offer a complete e-business solution that addresses the strategic demands of its clients' technology and business departments.

"Total-e-Business takes infrastructure and integration components that have proven to be scalable, secure, and robust and combines them with best-of-breed tools for one-to-one marketing and information publishing. The resulting platform creates a complete e-business solution that we can extend throughout an enterprise - back into the supply chain or forward out to the customer," said Bob Buono, senior manager with Grant Thornton's Advanced Technology Solutions practice. "Our clie addition to technical expertise."

modisoperations throughout the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, and continental Europe. Through its IDeA practice (Internet Development and e-business Applications), modis plans to implement Bluestone Total-e-Business solutions fete e-business solution. Companies may start with an enterprise-class foundation that can be extended to support Web-enabled legacy applications, electronic storefronts with e-commerce capabilities, supply chain management, and precishat withstand the rigors of e-business," said Geoff Kitson, chief technologist for modis. "Total-e-Business takes that solid foundation and builds a complete, highly-integrated e-business offering that we can tailor to each client's specific needs. By providing a comprehensive solution that works out of the box, Total-e-Business creates ton. After all, business is what's driving e-bss consulting and systems integration firm. As echnology throughout the enterprise. With itsloyees, while maintaining a common look-and-feel for all user interaction. Key to meeting that demand are rgle point of information access to all users, yet display select information to users based on their own unique profiles.

"Information is a very powerful force right now, and the financial services industry is probably investing more than any other industry to generate sales through the distribution of information. The winners in that game will be the ones that can bring that information to the consumer and transact business in an efficient, broad environment with partners, vendors, customers, and employees," said Charles Surry, senior vice president, TSC Global Financial Services. "Total-e-Business is going to enable our clients, especially our financial services clients, to create a Web profile that lets them share information, transact business, and project and sell their competitive advantage - their value and benefit to the marketplace."

About Bluestone Software

Bluestone Software Inc. is a leading provider of Enterprise Interaction Management software. Companies deploying Internet Commerce application. depend on Bluestone Sapphire/Web and Bluestone XML Suite Application Server frameworks to integrate business applications into Web-enabled environments, manage information interactions, and exchange data with employees, partners, ate forward looking statements as such term is defined in the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Forward looking statements involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors which may cause Bluestone's actual results, performance, or achievements or those of its customers or its industry to be materially different from the future results, performance or achievements expressed or implied by these forward looking statements. Specifically, the Cties inherent in these forward looking statements, the information in this press release should not be considered a representation by the Company or any other person that Bluestone's objectives and plans will be achieved.