CommerceQuest Recognized in META Group's Evaluation of Business Process Management Suites.

TAMPA, Fla. -- CommerceQuest's TRAXION EnterpriseBPMS Cited in First-Time METASpectrum Review of BPMS Presence and Performance

CommerceQuest Inc. today announced that its product, TRAXION(SM) Enterprise Business Process Management Suite (TRAXION EnterpriseBPMS), has been recognized as a "Challenger" in the META Group's METAspectrum(SM) report for Java/J2EE-centric Business Process Management suites.

META Group is a leading provider of information technology (IT) research, advisory services, and strategic consulting. The new METAspectrum evaluation provides an objective analysis of thirteen vendors that go to market as Java/J2EE-centric BPMS product providers. The vendors chosen had to meet specific criteria such as, a customer roster of at least 20 end-users, an offering that spans multiple vertical industries, and an expressed interest in the vendor from META Group clients.

META Group defines BPM suite (BPMS) technology as a set of interlocking components that integrate human activities with required data and systems to automate and manage the end-to-end flow of work as it progresses across boundaries (application, functional, and company). CommerceQuest was positioned in the "Challenger" segment of the METAspectrum analysis and was recognized for TRAXION EnterpriseBPMS' market presence and performance. According to META Group, the depth of product offerings, technology vision/strategy and overall technology performance positively influenced its scoring.(a)

"We developed METAspectrum to enable IT professionals to quickly evaluate vendors based on their ability to deliver on the presence and performance criteria that matter most in a given market," said Hollis Bischoff, Vice-President, Technology Research Services, META Group. "As BPM continues to evolve and align with other technologies, such as business process analysis (BPA), companies will continue to look for vendors offering a comprehensive BPM suite to further leverage their IT investments and gain a greater return on investment."

By combining process modeling, workflow, simulation, integration, and extensive activity monitoring and management technologies, CommerceQuest's TRAXION Enterprise BPMS enables companies to increase value and productivity, which benefit its bottom line. Version 8.1 of TRAXION EnterpriseBPMS was released in November 2004 with offerings to truly unify and create a closed loop process creation and execution environment, as well as create a system that is easy and flexible enough for departmental solutions, but that can also scale to the demands of the enterprise.

"CommerceQuest is honored to participate in this new evaluation by META and to be recognized as a BPMS challenger in the marketplace," said Michael Forster, CommerceQuest CEO. "By distinguishing TRAXION EnterpriseBPMS' depth of offerings and overall performance, META validates the product's customer benefits, such as gaining more organizational control over business processes by enabling users to accurately identify and swiftly respond to problem areas."

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About CommerceQuest (www.commercequest.com)

Founded in 1991, CommerceQuest is the only enterprise solutions provider that enables its customers to rapidly turn business strategy into business processes by fully integrating the work that people do with software systems that optimize business performance. CommerceQuest delivers a complete set of scalable enterprise business process management (EBPM) solutions that leverage existing IT investments to unite people, processes and technology in a service-based architecture that spans the extended enterprise, from the mainframe to the Internet and everything in between. More than 500 industry-leading companies rely on CommerceQuest to help them integrate heterogeneous workflow and IT systems, including many of the Fortune 500 companies such as The Home Depot, Coca-Cola Bottling, Ahold, and American Express.

For more information about CommerceQuest, please call us at 813.639.6300 or visit us on the Web at www.commercequest.com.

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(1)Source: METAspectrum market assessment, 15 October 2004, (c)2004 META Group Inc., Stamford, CT-USA, [phone], metagroup.com.