Captiva Bolsters Sales Management Team with Software Veterans; New Executives to Help Expand the Company's Market Presence.

SAN DIEGO -- Captiva Software Corporation (NASDAQ:CPTV), a leading provider of input management solutions, today announced the addition of two new executives to its sales management team. Both possess an abundance of enterprise-level software sales experience, which should help Captiva accelerate revenues, strengthen customer relationships and expand indirect sales through its alliance and channel partners.

Don Foster has joined Captiva as its Vice President of America Field Sales and will be responsible for all sales activities throughout the Americas. Mr. Foster is a seasoned executive with more than 16 years of experience in successfully leading sales and service functions at innovative enterprise software companies. He comes to Captiva from VERITAS where, as Vice President of America Partner Sales, he drove indirect software license and service revenues to more than $300 million in North America. Prior to that, Mr. Foster was Vice President of Worldwide Sales for Hitachi Data Systems' Storage Business Unit, and he held executive sales positions at Data General Corporation, R-Byte, Dataproducts Digital Equipment and Computervision.

Wayne Ford has joined Captiva as its Vice President of Strategic Alliances and Channel Development. In this new position, Mr. Ford will lead Captiva's partnering strategies and programs, leveraging strategic alliances and channel partners to advance the company's growth initiatives. Most recently serving as Senior Director of Solutions Sales at VERITAS, Mr. Ford led a team of solutions sales specialists focused on emerging business solutions. Prior to that, he ran VERITAS' Global Platform Alliances organization, managing relationships with partners such as Hewlett-Packard, IBM and Sun Microsystems. Prior to VERITAS, Mr. Ford served as Director of Western U.S. OEM Sales for Quantum Corporation, and he held both direct and indirect sales positions of increasing responsibility over a 13-year tenure with Hewlett-Packard.

"We're extremely pleased to welcome these outstanding professionals to our sales organization. Both Don and Wayne bring an abundance of direct and indirect sales experience to Captiva, and both have impressive track records of aligning companies with customer needs in order to maximize business potential," said Howard Dratler, Captiva's Executive Vice President of Field Operations. "We believe these additions help position Captiva for accelerated growth and will help make our products available to a wider range of customers."

"I'm excited to join Captiva at a time when the company is aggressively expanding its presence in the input management segment of the enterprise content management (ECM) market," said Mr. Foster. "I look forward to helping Captiva leverage its strong North American sales team to better serve the needs of its expanding customer base."

Mr. Ford said, "As a leader in input management solutions, Captiva is well positioned to bring value to both resellers and end users in the ECM space. I'm excited to join Captiva to help drive strategic partnering opportunities that allow the company to expand its market reach and enter complementary vertical markets. With the new Captiva Connected Partner Program, we plan to develop strong relationships with our strategic channel and alliance partners, creating a competitive advantage for Captiva and bringing a unique value proposition to our customers."

In connection with these and other non-officer hires, Captiva has issued a total of 80,000 options to purchase shares of common stock of the company under its 2003 Recruitment Equity Incentive Plan, at the market price as of the date of grant and vesting over either two or four years.

About Captiva

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, direct marketing and other markets. For more information, visit www.captivasoftware.com.

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