BroadVision Extends E-Government Portal Leadership; State of Minnesota's New North Star Portal Reduces IT Costs and Provides One-Stop Access to State Services.

Business Editors/High-Tech Writers

REDWOOD CITY, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dec. 11, 2002

BroadVision, Inc. (Nasdaq:BVSN), the leading provider of enterprise business portal applications, today announced that the State of Minnesota is the latest BroadVision(R)-powered e-government site to go live. The new North Star portal (www.northstar.state.mn.us) provides centralized access to multiple state agencies and gives citizens easier access to Minnesota government services and information. In addition to providing a broad range of services to users, the new portal reduces state costs for web development, leverages technologies developed within a variety of settings and enables collaboration across state agencies.

Minnesota's North Star portal provides citizens with convenient, self-service access to consolidated information and services from more than 250 providers.

"People don't know or care where they get the information and services they need -- they simply want to be able to get them," said David Fisher, Commissioner of the Department of Administration. "The North Star portal's theme categories are based on a citizen's 'life experiences' and will help break down the barriers people face when they want to do business with their government. Whether people are looking for information on road conditions around the state, want to renew their real estate license online, or need to find out how to apply for veterans' benefits, government services and information will be easy to find and easy to use. With the new North Star, more people will be able to find more information -- and more specific information -- in less time with less effort."

Other BroadVision customers in the government sector include over 60 government agencies such as the U.S. General Services Administration, the state of California, the city of Chicago and Gwinnett County in Georgia. Forrester Research expects 4,000 e-government systems to be deployed in the United States by 2006. BroadVision has seen the rapid adoption of web-based self-service applications in government to meet internal objectives and to respond to regulations mandating improved efficiency. Governments are also responding to demands for the type of streamlined Internet interactions they have become accustomed to on private-sector portals.

BroadVision's enterprise business portal solutions help government agencies effectively and efficiently manage constituent relationships with one-stop, personalized self-service access to information, transactions and business processes. BroadVision's integrated suite of e-business solutions support the complex relationships, processes and interactions necessary for e-government and make it possible for government to reach its goals for 24/365 availability, paper reduction, citizen participation in governance, knowledge transfer and cost reductions.

The largest government e-commerce site is run by the U.S. General Services Administration Federal Supply Service (GSA), a centralized federal procurement and property management agency that acquires office space, equipment, telecommunications, information technology, supplies and services for the federal government. Average daily sales on the GSA Advantage! (www.gsaadvantage.gov) system are $750,000, with peak periods reaching as much as $1.5 million. The site has over 3.2 million products/services and more than 7,300 vendors with 8,000-plus contracts. During the past year, over 342,000 orders were processed for more than $163 million. The site has over 127,000 registered users, with approximately 400 new users registering each day. The site was also awarded an e-Gov 2002 Explorer award.

The California state government site (www.myca.gov) is the portal for all state agencies and services with an online presence. It serves the 34 million people who live in California, or 12.5 percent of the U.S. population. California Governor Gray Davis, who wants his administration to adopt the best practices of the private sector, saw an opportunity to create a web site that could provide that for information exchange and customer service. The overriding goals were to make the government and its services more accessible and to save citizens time. Other goals were to preserve the investment state agencies have made in existing IT systems and integrate them with the new site, standardize the look and feel of government sites and create a portal to sites that citizens may previously have visited directly.

The third largest city in the United States, Chicago has an annual budget of $4 billion and has more than 40,000 employees serving more than 3 million residents. The city rolled out its BroadVision-powered e-government initiatives beginning in Q4 of 2001. The first initiative was an online bill payment system that allows citizens and businesses to easily pay a variety of fees and debts owed the city. The next initiative was an on-line permitting center application, which enables citizens and businesses to renew their city permits online, substantially reducing application turnaround times. It also increases the efficiency of business processes that span city departments by connecting to the city's back-end systems, and facilitates content management by using BroadVision's IP forms.

The Gwinnett County government launched its enhanced BroadVision-powered site as part of a five-year IT initiative to offer residents access to county government services via the Internet. According to a recent Horizon poll conducted by the Atlanta Journal Constitution, 85 percent of Gwinnett County residents are online. At present, county residents utilize the web site as a resource for government and county information, news, careers and calendar of events. The new web site provides more than 618,000 residents with self-service access to information and services including online property tax payment and status of building permits for local companies.

"BroadVision enterprise portal technology allows government agencies to address legislative policies while building and maintaining closer relationships with their constituencies," said Sanjay Gupta, senior vice president of marketing and alliances for BroadVision. "More and more government agencies are recognizing that they can harness the power of BroadVisions' enterprise portals to provide a higher level of service at a lower cost to their constituents, while meeting the aggressive timelines expected for implementing policy and delivering new services."

About BroadVision

BroadVision's (Nasdaq:BVSN) enterprise business portal applications create immediate bottom line value by transforming the way organizations do business -- moving relationships with employees, partners and customers to a personalized, self-service model that increases revenues, reduces costs and improves productivity. BroadVision is the leading provider of portal software to Fortune 500 companies that use BroadVision to power their enterprise business portal initiatives -- leveraging the web and wireless devices to unify and extend their enterprise applications, information and business processes, to collaborate with over 50 million users.

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