Captiva Accelerates Vesting of Certain ``Out-of-the-Money'' Stock Options; Action Will Reduce as Much as $2.2 Million of Compensation Expense.

SAN DIEGO -- Captiva Software Corporation (NASDAQ:CPTV), a leading provider of input management solutions, announced today that it has accelerated the vesting of certain unvested and "out-of-the-money" stock options previously awarded to employees and officers under certain of its stock option plans. An option was considered "out of the money" if the stated exercise price was greater than $11.51 per share, the closing price of Captiva's common stock on February 9, 2005, which was the effective date of the acceleration. Outstanding unvested options that had an exercise price equal to or less than $11.51 on February 9, 2005, will continue to vest on their normal schedule.

As a result of this action, options to purchase approximately 500,000 shares of Captiva common stock that would otherwise have vested over the next 39 months became fully vested. Options held by non-employee directors were not affected. In addition, all affected executive officers of the Company have entered into agreements not to sell shares acquired through the exercise of an accelerated option prior to the date on which exercise would have been permitted under the options' original vesting terms, other than shares sold for payment of taxes resulting from the exercise or in the case of termination of employment.

The decision to accelerate the vesting of these options was made primarily to reduce compensation expense that might be recorded in future periods following the company's adoption of Financial Accounting Standard Board Statement No. 123, "Share Based Payment (revised 2004)" (FAS 123R), which Captiva believes to be in the best interest of shareholders. The company will be required to apply the expense recognition provisions of FAS 123R beginning in the third quarter of 2005. Because it accelerated these options, Captiva expects to reduce its non-cash compensation expenses related to these options by approximately $775,000 in 2005, $970,000 in 2006, $450,000 in 2007 and $25,000 in 2008, or a total of approximately $2.2 million, based on estimated value calculations using the Black-Scholes methodology.

Captiva also announced that on February 9, 2005, the Compensation Committee of the Board of Directors approved the grant of an aggregate of 46,500 stock options to four non-officer new employees under the company's 2003 Recruitment Equity Incentive Plan, vesting over two years, commencing on the first day of the month following commencement of employment, at an exercise price equal to the closing market price on the date of grant.

About Captiva Software Corporation

Captiva Software Corporation (NASDAQ:CPTV) is a leading provider of input management software solutions. Since 1989, the company's award-winning products have been used to manage business-critical information from paper, faxed and scanned forms and documents, Internet forms, and XML data streams into the enterprise in a more accurate, timely and cost-effective manner. These products automate the processing of billions of forms and documents annually, converting their contents into information that is usable in database, document, content and other information management systems. Captiva's technology serves thousands of users in insurance, financial services, government, business process outsourcing, manufacturing and other markets. For more information, visit www.captivasoftware.com.

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