Contivo Selected as Crossroads 2003 A-List Award Winner; Award Honors Contivo for Delivering Value and Business Results to Customers.

Business Editors/High-Tech Writers

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 27, 2003

Contivo, Inc., the leading provider of automated data integration solutions, is honored to have been chosen by Open Systems Advisors, Inc. as a recipient of a Crossroads 2003 A-List Award. The Crossroads A-List Awards, now in their tenth year, recognize the technology products and services that bring the strongest contributions to business results. Contivo's Enterprise Integration Modeling (EIM) Solution, which is comprised of the Contivo Analyst(TM) and the Contivo EIM Server(TM) was selected for providing customers with a comprehensive and cost-effective solution to data modeling and transformation for automating data integration.

"The Crossroads 2003 A-List Award winners reflect the innovative technologies that significantly impact business goals," said Nina Lytton, president of Open Systems Advisors, Inc. "Contivo's EIM Solution brings benefits to enterprises seeking a more effective way to integrate data both internally and with business partners because it reduces both time and cost while improving accuracy and flexibility."

The Crossroads 2003 A-List Awards identify the technology products that are best able to combine three elements critical to mainstream adoption: strategic focus; a viable product or service offering; and, most importantly, consistent business results for its customers. Winners are determined after a detailed review of a vendor's product, technology or service along with comprehensive interviews with four customers.

"We are honored to be chosen for the Crossroads A-List Award. This award is further validation of the strength of Contivo and that more companies are recognizing the need for an automated solution to solve one of IT's biggest challenges -- integrating data across multi-platform applications and systems, while ensuring a return on existing technology investments," said Larry Lenhart, president and CEO of Contivo.

Contivo's EIM Solution dramatically reduces the implementation and maintenance costs of enterprise-wide integration by helping enterprises integrate data faster and more effectively than traditional hand coded, manual methods. The EIM Solution automates data transformation for application integration across multiple platforms and enables management and control of integration projects. The recently expanded capabilities and platform support of the EIM Solution enables data integration across the enterprise, extending to legacy systems and Web services.

About Open Systems Advisors, Inc.

Founded in 1989, Open Systems Advisors, Inc. (OSA) helps organizations understand and align business priorities with technology investments. OSA provides confidential, objective advice to industry leaders making major business decisions about technology investments. This includes marketing services, industry analysis and due diligence, and management summits. OSA helps technology vendors improve sales with short, crisp messages that paying customers understand. OSA works with businesses to understand their best opportunities for technology investment. OSA leads private-label meetings for providers and their partners and customer organizations to recognize the linkages and priorities across organizations and business ecosystems.

OSA conducts research under its Crossroads brand that includes the publication of the Crossroads Decisions, conferring of the Crossroads A-List Awards, and production of the Crossroads Conference.

The company can be reached at 24 West Cedar Street, Boston, MA 02108 Telephone [phone] / Fax [phone] / www.crossroads-osa.com / [e-mail].

About Contivo

Contivo provides solutions that enable enterprises to dramatically reduce implementation and maintenance costs, up to 40 percent, of enterprise-wide integration while leveraging IT investments and increasing the value of enterprise data. Contivo provides integration architects with a centrally managed repository that introduces reuse and collaboration to a previously one-off and manual task. Contivo introduced the concept of Enterprise Integration Modeling (EIM), a framework on which companies can create, leverage and manage their knowledge base of data integration efforts.

Contivo was founded in 1998 and has forged significant relationships with strategic partners and customers, including BEA Systems, webMethods, Agilent Technologies, Hitachi America, Viacore and TIBCO Software. Corporate investors include industry leaders BEA Systems, TIBCO Software and webMethods. Venture capital investors include BA Venture Partners, MSD Capital LP and Voyager Capital. Contivo is privately held and headquartered in Mountain View, CA. More information about the company can be found at http://www.contivo.com/

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