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Broadvision Announces Profitable, Record-setting First Quarter 2000.


Business Editors/High-Tech Writers

REDWOOD CITY Redwood City, city (1990 pop. 66,072), seat of San Mateo co., W Calif., on San Francisco Bay; inc. 1868. Manufactures include commmunications, electrical, electronic, and medical equipment. , Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 26, 2000

BroadVision, Inc. (Nasdaq:BVSN BVSN Broadvision, Inc. (stock abbreviation, AMEX) ), a leading worldwide supplier of personalized per·son·al·ize  
tr.v. per·son·al·ized, per·son·al·iz·ing, per·son·al·iz·es
1. To take (a general remark or characterization) in a personal manner.

2. To attribute human or personal qualities to; personify.
 e-business applications, today reported financial results for the quarter ended March 31, 2000.

Key financial results for the quarter and comparisons versus prior quarters are as follow:


             Q1'00         Q1'99           Growth   Q4'99       Growth

Revenues    $61.5 million  $18.5 million   232%     $43.7 million  41%
EBIT
(Earnings
 Before
Income Tax) $16.4 million  $3.1 million    429%     $8.5 million   93%

Net Income  $10.0 million  $2.9 million    245%     $8.1 million   23%
Diluted
EPS(1)
(post-split)        $0.04         $0.01    300%            $0.03   33%

(1) Incorporates both the November, 1999, 3 - for - 1 stock split and
    the February, 2000, 3 - for - 1 stock split


"Once again our strong and profitable first quarter results set the stage for BroadVision to move forward aggressively in the coming year," said Dr. Pehong Chen, president and CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board.  of BroadVision, Inc. "Our goal is to help enterprises create profitable e-relationships with their customers, suppliers and employees using our complete suite of personalized e-business applications. In essence, these enterprises rely on BroadVision to solidify so·lid·i·fy  
v. so·lid·i·fied, so·lid·i·fy·ing, so·lid·i·fies

v.tr.
1. To make solid, compact, or hard.

2. To make strong or united.

v.intr.
 the company's entire value chain, known as `B2B (Business to Business) Refers to one business communicating with or selling to another. See B2B e-commerce, B2C and B2G.

B2B - business to business
2C', so that they can become serious players in the New Economy. The market adoption of our solutions around this B2B2C B2B2C Business to Business to Consumer  value chain has accelerated since the beginning of this year."

New Customers

During the quarter, BroadVision signed 110 new licensed customers (102 end-user customers and 8 partner organizations) -- a record number. The company not only continued to garner market share in its core verticals -- financial services The examples and perspective in this article or section may not represent a worldwide view of the subject.
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, retail/wholesale, manufacturing/high-tech, travel/tourism, and telecommunications Communicating information, including data, text, pictures, voice and video over long distance. See communications.  -- but also significantly expanded its presence into new industries such as energy, healthcare, media/entertainment, government and B2B digital marketplaces.


    A sampling of new BroadVision customers includes:

--  Financial Services-- AGF Banque, Answer Financial, Banca Populare
    di Verona, Banca Profilo, ICICI Ltd., Frost Bank, Motability
    Finance,

--  Retail and Wholesale -- Carboulevard, CiaoWeb (Fiat Group),
    Dixons, Epson, e-Stamp.com, Fashion500.com, Long's Drug Stores,
    OfficeFurniture.com, RedEnvelope, ShopNow.com, Wine & Co.,

--  Manufacturing/High-Technology -- Across Media Networks, Apar
    Infotech, Cybertouch, Dade Behring, Inc., Groupe Renault, Legend
    Technology, Molex, NEC PC Group, NetShop, NextNordic, Nihon
    Unisys, Promon, Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, Xerox
    do Brasil,

--  Travel and Tourism -- Aer Lingus, Airtours, China Travel, ClubMed,
    Liberty Channels, Rail Europe,

--  Telecommunications/ISP -- Equinix, GTE, iABC, Mannesmann,

--  Energy -- Cooper Cameron, Tosco Corporation,

--  Healthcare -- Blue Shield Blue Cross (Highmark), MediMania,
    MCY.com (Mediacity), myskinMD, YourDoc.com,

--  Media/Entertainment -- Across Media Networks, billboardlive.com,
    Haowan.com, MyAlert.com, Ontempo.com, Televisa, YouBet.com,

--  E-Government -- General Services Administration, San Diego
    Workforce; and

--  B2B Digital Marketplaces -- idmarket.com, FuelQuest.com, Planet
    Salvage, Planetsat, TheDock.com, WellNet.


Additionally, the company received significant repeat business in new license revenue during the quarter from a number of existing customers including: Agilent Technologies This article needs sources or references that appear in reliable, third-party publications. Alone, primary sources and sources affiliated with the subject of this article are not sufficient for an accurate encyclopedia article. , Air Canada, American Airlines American Airlines

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New Product Offerings

During the first quarter BroadVision shipped three new products. BroadVision One-To-One(TM) Billing is the newest offering in the BroadVision One-To-One applications family. One-To-One Billing is one of the first personalized bill presentment/payment application available that enables one-to-one relationship management with customers while reducing the costs associated with customer care and paper-based billing.

Along with Enterprise Application Integration (EAI (Enterprise Application Integration) Refers to various techniques used to share data and business processes in large enterprises. When companies acquire another organization, disparate information systems have to be made to work together. ) partner Software Technology Corporation (STC STC Supplemental Type Certificate (FAA)
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), BroadVision developed the SAP One-To-One Intelligent Bridge for Business Commerce providing BroadVision and its customers a solution with strong visual tools for integrating BroadVision One-To-One Commerce with SAP R/3.

Finally, Version 5 of BroadVision One-To-One Enterprise, the company's flagship e-business application for personalized e-business, was made generally available. BroadVision One-To-One Enterprise is a robust foundation for real-time, individualized in·di·vid·u·al·ize  
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1. To give individuality to.

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3.
 targeting; easy, flexible content management; and, a foundation for the next-generation of BroadVision applications deployable in both Web and wireless environments. Advanced load balancing The fine tuning of a computer system, network or disk subsystem in order to more evenly distribute the data and/or processing across available resources. For example, in clustering, load balancing might distribute the incoming transactions evenly to all servers, or it might redirect them , caching and other performance features keep BroadVision sites running in the most demanding environments. BroadVision One-To-One Enterprise is designed to provide an open, extensible architecture for rapid development and deployment of distributed applications An application made up of distinct components running in separate runtime environments, usually on different platforms connected via a network. Typical distributed applications . BroadVision One-To-One Enterprise adds extended support for Java, XML XML
 in full Extensible Markup Language.

Markup language developed to be a simplified and more structural version of SGML. It incorporates features of HTML (e.g., hypertext linking), but is designed to overcome some of HTML's limitations.
, and WAP (1) (Wireless Access Point) See access point.

(2) (Wireless Application Protocol) A standard for providing cellular phones, pagers and other handheld devices with secure access to e-mail and text-based Web pages.
 to existing support of JavaScript, COM (1) (Computer Output Microfilm) Creating microfilm or microfiche from the computer. A COM machine receives print-image output from the computer either online or via tape or disk and creates a film image of each page. , LDAP (Lightweight Directory Access Protocol) A protocol used to access a directory listing. LDAP support is implemented in Web browsers and e-mail programs, which can query an LDAP-compliant directory. , and CORBA (Common Object Request Broker Architecture) A software-based interface from the Object Management Group (OMG) that allows software modules (objects) to communicate with each other no matter where they are located on a private network or the global .

Acquisition

In the first quarter, BroadVision announced a definitive agreement to acquire Interleaf Desktop publishing software that was widely used for DOS, Windows 95/98, NT, and a variety of Unix-based computers from Interleaf, Inc., Waltham, MA. Interleaf's full-featured program supported a large number of document and image types, including its ability to handle extremely long , Inc. including Interleaf's e-content(TM) business dedicated to the development, marketing and sale of XML-based content management tools and WAP technology for wireless delivery of content. Key to the acquisition was the e-content company, a separate Interleaf business unit dedicated to the development, marketing and sale of XML-based content management tools. These tools enable the creation, publication, management and re-use of dynamic, intelligent content for Web and wireless applications. The acquisition was completed on April 14.

Patent Litigation An action brought in court to enforce a particular right. The act or process of bringing a lawsuit in and of itself; a judicial contest; any dispute.

When a person begins a civil lawsuit, the person enters into a process called litigation.
 Settlement

During the quarter, BroadVision settled its patent infringement patent infringement n. the manufacture and/or use of an invention or improvement for which someone else owns a patent issued by the government, without obtaining permission of the owner of the patent by contract, license or waiver.  suit against Art Technology Group, Inc., filed by the company in December 1998. As part of the settlement, Art Technology Group agreed to pay an up-front licensing fee as well as payments over a period of three years to BroadVision and receives a license to BroadVision's United States United States, officially United States of America, republic (2005 est. pop. 295,734,000), 3,539,227 sq mi (9,166,598 sq km), North America. The United States is the world's third largest country in population and the fourth largest country in area.  patent number 5,710,887. The total fees will be recognized by BroadVision as licensed revenue ratably over this three year term. This patent protects certain elements of BroadVision's core technology, which is the foundation for BroadVision One-To-One applications, tools and services.

The Latest Live Sites

During the first quarter, 56 BroadVision customers went "live," employing robust and innovative e-business applications. A sampling of the sites that went live during the quarter illustrate the power of BroadVision One-To-One applications:


--   WellNet Holdings Limited, headquartered in Taiwan, launched
     Worldmetal.com, an online metal exchange portal enabling metal
     manufacturers and traders around the world to participate in
     auctions and procure supplies. Using BroadVision One-To-One
     Business Commerce, their Web sites enable registered members to
     access industry news and online trading services in English and
     Chinese languages. The online exchange has trading in ferrous
     products, including steel, and by the end of the year it will
     expand into non-ferrous metals such as copper and aluminum. In
     addition to a worldwide network of metal manufacturers and metal
     traders, other participants providing services will include
     banking, insurance, shipping and inspection companies as well as
     energy suppliers.

--   Postage meter maker Pitney Bowes is now able to sell stamps over
     the Internet using BroadVision One-To-One Retail Commerce. Aimed
     primarily at small business owners, their Web site,
     www.pitneyworks.com, allows customers to download and print
     postage from their personal computers via ClickStamp, a branded
     feature on the pitneyworks site. ClickStamp is the first in a
     series of Internet postage products to be introduced for the
     small business and small office of home office markets by Pitney
     Bowes. With a personal computer, an Internet connection and an
     inkjet or laser printer, users can print First Class Mail,
     Priority Mail, Express Mail and Parcel Post. It allows business
     owners to customize their letters and packages with logos and
     messages. ClickStamp also has a mail management function to
     verify addresses and calculate postage. Pitney Bowes will soon
     launch ClickStamp Plus, which will allow customers to download
     postage from the Internet to a secure vault attached to their
     computer and print as needed without connecting to the Internet.

--   The Sony U.K. Web site www.sonypresentation.com is powered by
     BroadVision One-To-One Enterprise and One-To-One Retail Commerce,
     delivering personalized information tailored to users'
     interest/needs and provides the opportunity to buy or lease a
     range of Sony projectors. The site's creative design presents
     images targeted to users' profiles and a solutions agent
     intelligently guides the user to a suggested product, based on a
     series of questions and answers created in the BroadVision
     One-To-One Command Center. The site offers multi-lingual and
     multi-currency services with live integration into Sony's SAP
     system to handle order processing to existing dealers or the
     finance leasing company.


New Partnerships and Channel Sales

During the quarter, BroadVision expanded its strategic partnership with Sun Microsystems Sun Microsystems, Inc. (NASDAQ: JAVA[3]) is an American vendor of computers, computer components, computer software, and information-technology services, founded on 24 February 1982. . This new global collaboration allows the companies to join forces on engineering, marketing and sales initiatives to develop next-generation commerce applications based on Sun's industry-leading standard J2EE (Java 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition) A platform from Sun for building distributed enterprise applications. J2EE services are performed in the middle tier between the user's machine and the enterprise's databases and legacy information systems.  technology. With the purpose of incorporating next-generation J2EE platform functionality into the BroadVision applications and enabling the delivery of e-commerce information to any device, anywhere, both companies have committed design and technical resources to support product development on the Sun(TM) platform.

BroadVision also established relationships with leading Enterprise Application Integration (EAI) vendors Software Technologies Corporation and New Era of Networks, Inc. to create out-of-the-box integration applications to link legacy, back-end applications like SAP, PeopleSoft and Oracle to BroadVision One-To-One applications.

With momentum growing worldwide especially in Europe, India, Japan, South America South America, fourth largest continent (1991 est. pop. 299,150,000), c.6,880,000 sq mi (17,819,000 sq km), the southern of the two continents of the Western Hemisphere.  and Australia, BroadVision continues to leverage its relationship with its largest consulting services Noun 1. consulting service - service provided by a professional advisor (e.g., a lawyer or doctor or CPA etc.)
service - work done by one person or group that benefits another; "budget separately for goods and services"
 partner, PricewaterhouseCoopers. Together, the two organizations are focusing on several key industries with industry prototype solutions built for Telecommunications, Consumer Packaged Goods Noun 1. packaged goods - groceries that are packaged for sale
foodstuff, grocery - (usually plural) consumer goods sold by a grocer

plural, plural form - the form of a word that is used to denote more than one
, Retail and Energy & Utilities and Entertainment. PricewaterhouseCoopers, with more than 550 consultants trained worldwide on BroadVision, continues to expand its relationship with BroadVision, as a key strategic e-business vendor.

During the quarter, BroadVision worked closely with its network of 28 systems integration, consulting and reseller An organization that sells hardware and software to the general public. Resellers purchase products from software publishers and hardware manufacturers.  partners. To date more than 5,000 external consultants have been trained from companies including Hewlett Packard, Xpedior, PricewaterhouseCoopers, Deloitte Consulting, KPMG KPMG Klynveld Peat Marwick Goerdeler (accounting firm)
KPMG Kaiser Permanente Medical Group
KPMG Keiner Prüft Mehr Genau (German)
KPMG Kommen Prüfen Meckern Gehen
, and Andersen Consulting See Accenture. , to help continue the momentum and positive results of the company's focus in partnerships. More than 75 percent of BroadVision's first quarter revenues were either heavily influenced by our systems integrator An individual or organization that builds systems from a variety of diverse components. With increasing complexity of technology, more customers want complete solutions to information problems, requiring hardware, software and networking expertise in a multivendor environment.  partners or directly produced by resellers.

Industry Accolades

Adding to its list of awards and accolades, BroadVision was ranked number 365 in the Forbes 500 Companies in America directory published April 17 and listed number 34 in the Barron's 500 annual report in the April 24 issue. In the April 24 issue of Network World, BroadVision was ranked 143 in the NetworkWorld 200 with recognition for having the largest increase in profits 1998-1999 and the fastest growing company in terms of employee hires. In addition, the company was recognized by Inter@ctive Week as one of the Top 10 Companies To Work For in the April 6 issue.

3-For-1 Stock Split

On February 9, 2000, the company announced a 3-for-1 stock split in the form of a stock dividend. The record date of the split was February 21, 2000, the payment date was March 13, 2000, and the ex-dividend date Ex-dividend date

The first day of trading when the buyer of a stock is no longer entitled to the most recently announced dividend payment ( i.e. the trade will settle the day after the record date, too late for the buyer to appear on the shareholder record and receive the dividend.
 was March 14, 2000.

Forward Looking Statements

The company noted that each of the above forward-looking statements forward-looking statement

A projected financial statement based on management expectations. A forward-looking statement involves risks with regard to the accuracy of assumptions underlying the projections.
 is subject to change, based on various important factors, including, without limitation, changes in the market and competition. Additional information on potential factors that could affect the company's financial results is included in the company's prospectus, Forms 10-K and 10-Q, and other documents filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission.

About BroadVision

BroadVision, Inc. (Nasdaq:BVSN) (Neuer Markt:BDN BDN Borland Developer Network
BDN Bangor Daily News (Maine, USA)
BDN Business Development Network
BDN Bell Data Network
BDN Bulk Data Network
BDN Busy Doing Nothing (band)
BDN Buffered Delta Network
) is a leader in personalized e-business applications. BroadVision's comprehensive suite of integrated applications is built for delivery via the Web and wireless devices. Companies using BroadVision's proven applications get to market quickly, launching innovative e-commerce, self-service and enterprise information sites. These sites enable personalized interactions and transactions with customers, partners, suppliers and employees. BroadVision One-To-One(TM) applications power innovative business-to-consumer sites and business-to-business exchanges for the world's top companies in financial services, telecommunications, retail and travel. BroadVision applications are available in more than 120 countries worldwide. Headquartered in Redwood City, Calif., USA, the company can be reached at 650/261-5100 or at www.broadvision.com.

Note to Editors: BroadVision is a registered trademark and BroadVision One-To-One is a trademark of BroadVision, Inc. in the United States and other countries. Other names herein may be the property of their respective owners.



                  BROADVISION, INC. AND SUBSIDIARIES
                      CONSOLIDATED BALANCE SHEETS
                            (In thousands)

                                        March 31,         December 31,
                                          2000               1999

ASSETS

Current assets:
 Cash and cash equivalents            $  283,908          $  279,823
 Short-term investments                   86,581              68,758
 Accounts receivable, less
  doubtful accounts allowances
  of $1,746 and $1,446 for
  2000 and 1999, respectively             38,006              26,540
 Prepaids and other                        9,496               5,085

    Total current assets                 417,991             380,206

Property and equipment, net               21,982              16,751
Long-term investments                     13,208               4,414
Other assets                               5,673               4,757

    Total assets                      $  458,854          $  406,128


                 LIABILITIES AND STOCKHOLDERS' EQUITY

Current liabilities:
 Accounts payable                     $   10,484          $    5,754
 Accrued expenses                         13,826              13,156
 Unearned revenue                         17,315               3,896
 Deferred maintenance                     24,157              15,228
 Income taxes                             23,597                 151
 Current portion of lease obligations        145                 270
 Current portion of long-term debt           977                 977

    Total current liabilities             90,501              39,432

Long-term debt                             4,615               4,890
Deferred income taxes                         --              16,618

    Total liabilities                     95,116              60,940

Stockholders' equity:
 Common stock                                 25                  24
 Additional paid-in capital              326,174             320,259
 Deferred compensation                      (147)               (226)
 Accumulated other comprehensive
  income, net of tax                       28,444              25,925
 Retained earnings
  (accumulated deficit)                     9,242                (794)

    Total stockholders' equity            363,738             345,188

    Total liabilities and
     stockholders' equity             $   458,854         $   406,128


                  BROADVISION, INC. AND SUBSIDIARIES
                 CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF OPERATIONS
               (In thousands, except per share amounts)




                                                Three Months Ended
                                                     March 31,
                                      -------------------------------
                                             2000               1999
Revenues:
 Software licenses                       $  40,713         $   12,783
 Services                                   20,788              5,681

    Total revenues                          61,501             18,464

Cost of revenues:
 Cost of license revenues                    2,064                747
 Cost of service revenues                   15,673              3,322

    Total cost of revenues                  17,737              4,069

Gross profit                                43,764             14,395

Operating expenses:
 Research and development                    5,759              2,901
 Sales and marketing                        25,200              7,664
 General and administrative                  3,611              1,271

    Total operating expenses                34,570             11,836

Operating income                             9,194              2,559

Other income, net                            7,248                516

    Income before income tax provision      16,442              3,075

Income tax provision                         6,406                138

    Net income                           $  10,036         $    2,937


Basic earnings per share                 $    0.04         $     0.01

Diluted earnings per share               $    0.04         $     0.01

Shares used in computing:

    Basic earnings per share               245,495            222,030

    Diluted earnings per share             284,688            250,020
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