BroadVision Powers Northern Trust ``Private Passport'' Personal Financial Services Portal.

Business Editors/High-Tech Writers

REDWOOD CITY, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 11, 2001

Personal Finance Initiative, Built with BroadVision

InfoExchange Portal, Serves 35,000 Customers

BroadVision, Inc. (Nasdaq:BVSN), a leader in personalized e-business applications, announced today The Northern Trust Company has launched its personal financial services portal, dubbed "Private Passport" (www.northerntrust.com), powered by BroadVision's suite of e-business applications, including BroadVision(R) InfoExchange Portal(TM). The new site, which went live in seven months, is the first in a series of BroadVision-based portals planned by Northern Trust. This implementation will serve a variety of business units within the financial services company.

Northern Trust Private Passport currently serves 35,000 retail banking clients, allowing them to personalize the portal to view stock quotes and real-time financial news, manage account activity and access Northern Trust's research and financial planning tools from any device that has Internet access, 24 hours a day, seven days a week.

"We selected BroadVision InfoExchange Portal because it integrates well with our other technologies and because of BroadVision's proven track record in powering e-business solutions for the financial services industry," said Tim Theriault, chief technology officer of The Northern Trust Company. "BroadVision software allows us to provide our clients with convenient, self-service access to the information and resources they need to manage their finances."

"By standardizing on BroadVision InfoExchange Portal, Northern Trust will be able to use a single architecture to launch a variety of enterprise portal initiatives," said Chris Grejtak, chief marketing officer for BroadVision. "We're confident that Northern Trust's portal initiatives will help them better serve their customers while decreasing costs."

According to industry analysts at Gartner Group, Inc., 27.5 million adults, or 22 percent of Internet users, have conducted banking online as of March 2000, up from only nine million in 1999. BroadVision is driving this online financial services revolution, powering online initiatives for leading customers worldwide in the retail banking industry.

About The Northern Trust Company

The Northern Trust Company is the principal subsidiary of Northern Trust Corporation (http:www.northerntrust.com), a multi-bank holding company headquartered in Chicago with a growing network of offices in 12 states, international offices in five countries and over 9,400 employees worldwide. At March 31, 2001, Northern's banking assets totaled $35.7 billion. Trust assets under administration were $1.65 trillion and assets under management totaled over $337 billion.

Northern Trust has earned distinction as a leading provider of personal fiduciary, asset management, personal and private banking, and master trust/custody, global custody and treasury management services.

About BroadVision

BroadVision (Nasdaq:BVSN)(Neuer Markt: BDN) develops and delivers an integrated suite of packaged applications for conducting e-commerce interactions and transactions. Global enterprises and government entities use these applications to sell, buy and exchange information over the web and on wireless devices. The BroadVision e-commerce application suite enables a corporation to become more competitive and profitable by establishing and sustaining high-yield relationships with customers, suppliers and employees. BroadVision services professionals, supported by over 100 partner organizations worldwide, transform these applications into business value for our customers through consulting, education, and support services in more than 34 countries.

BroadVision -- founded in 1993, public since 1996 -- has more than 1,200 customers. IDC ranks BroadVision as the world's leading provider of e-commerce software applications (International Data Corp., E-Commerce Software Applications Market Forecast and Analysis, 2000-2004). BroadVision is headquartered in Redwood City, Calif. and can be reached at 650/261-5100 or [e-mail].

Note to Editors: BroadVision, BroadVision One-To-One and BroadVision InfoExchange Portal are trademarks or registered trademarks of BroadVision, Inc. in the United States and other countries.