Contivo Announces Support of TIBCO BusinessWorks Integration Platform; Contivo Extends Commitment to Support the Industry's Leading Integration and Middleware Platforms.

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MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 16, 2003

Contivo(R), Inc., the leading provider of automated data integration, today announced that the Contivo Enterprise Integration Modeling (EIM) Solution now provides native support for TIBCO(TM) BusinessWorks, the latest integration platform released by TIBCO Software Inc. Contivo's support of TIBCO BusinessWorks provides TIBCO's customers, including organizations upgrading from TIBCO Message Broker(TM) or IntegrationManager(TM), with an automated solution for data integration across the enterprise to significantly reduce the time and costs of integration projects.

"Contivo's support for TIBCO BusinessWorks demonstrates our commitment to supporting all of the leading integration and middleware platforms and offers the greatest flexibility for enterprises seeking to automate the data transformation process," said Larry Lenhart, president and CEO of Contivo. "We will continue to work closely with industry leaders such as TIBCO to ensure our customers can leverage their existing IT investments while providing them with an upgrade path as their enterprise integration infrastructure evolves in the future."

Contivo dramatically reduces the cost and time associated with the implementation and maintenance of integration projects by capturing, modeling and managing the metadata and data semantics used for data integration. Comprised of the Contivo Analyst(R) and the Contivo EIM Server(TM), Contivo's platform independent semantic modeling approach does not require the installation of additional runtime software and works with existing enterprise infrastructure and middleware, enabling data integration across the enterprise, extending to legacy systems and Web services.

With Contivo's support for both XSLT and Java transform generation, enterprises now have the maximum flexibility in implementing integration solutions with TIBCO BusinessWorks. BusinessWorks customers can choose to have Contivo automatically generate their data integration transforms in XSLT to run as a Transform XML activity of BusinessWorks. Using the same data integration design, BusinessWorks customers can have Contivo automatically generate their transform as a BusinessWorks Java code activity. In some cases, Java code activity transforms can provide additional performance and functionality over XSLT data transforms.

About Contivo

Contivo provides solutions that enable enterprises to quickly and dramatically reduce the implementation and maintenance time, costs and complexity of their integration projects. Contivo's customers have experienced 40% reductions in implementation costs and have seen investment paybacks in less than 90 days. Customers and partners achieve these significant savings by utilizing Contivo's integration metadata modeling tools and repository bringing reuse, automation, and collaboration to a previously hand coded task. Contivo's products work with existing integration and middleware technologies, including emerging Web services technologies, providing our customers and partners with the ideal platform to enable an Integration Competency Center (ICC) or Integration Center of Excellence (COE).

Contivo was founded in 1998 and has enterprise customers including Agilent Technologies, Hitachi America and HP. Contivo's partners include Actional, BEA Systems, Commerce One, Grand Central Communications, TIBCO Software and webMethods. Contivo is privately held and headquartered in Mountain View, CA. More information about the company can be found at http://www.contivo.com/