Convergence of e-Business Integration --eBI-- and Enterprise Application Integration --EAI-- Impacts Extended Enterprise Best Practices and Processes.

Business/Technology Editors

BOSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 21, 2000

Aberdeen report states e-Business

initiatives will drive revenues up 50% in 2000

Aberdeen Group's newly released report, Enterprise Application Integration: Evolving to Meet e-Business Demands (Third Edition), predicts that EAI market revenues will increase 50% to $2.5 billion in 2000, due to the industry's drive to capitalize on e-Business and the urgent demand for e-Business Integration (eBI).

e-Commerce and EAI are the most important initiatives facing CIOs in the Global 2000. The impact of the Net Economy is the greatest challenge currently facing traditional EAI suppliers. Further, the robust evolution of EAI -- today and beyond -- is a must watch for all IT and line-of-business corporate management responsible for planning and managing initiatives for internal and external application integration.

"A company's suite of e-Commerce applications must now be part of their overall EAI objective," said Tom Dwyer, Managing Director of Aberdeen Group's Internet Infrastructure practice. "The previous narrow definition of EAI -- integrating enterprise applications within a company -- must change to reflect this trend and encompass the integration of enterprise applications between companies through a single, assimilated approach. The demand for external integration with an enterprise's customers, partners, and suppliers is so powerful that many EAI suppliers are already embracing eBI and profoundly changing their product and marketing strategies."

Aberdeen Group's report provides a clear understanding of the real opportunities and forces influencing the confluence of EAI and eBI. Significantly expanded from last year's widely read report, this edition includes:

--A new section on the effect e-Business is having on EAI supplier strategies;

--A current technology segmentation of the EAI market;

--Market size and growth projections -- Aberdeen's most recent data comparing 1999 and 2000 product and service revenues;

--Issues and challenges -- an outline of industry trends that are affecting EAI initiatives; and

--50 comprehensive EAI supplier profiles.

Suppliers profiled in the report include Active Software; Alier Inc.; BEA Systems Inc.; Candle Corporation; CommerceQuest, Inc.; Compaq Computer Corporation; Computer Network Technology (CNT); Compuware Corporation; Constellar Corporation; CrossWorlds Software; DARC Software, a Unit of DARC Corporation; DataChannel, Inc.; Data Junction Corporation; DataMirror Corporation; Dharma Systems, Inc.; eN2Z Corporation (p.k.a. SmartDB); EnterWorks, Inc.; Evoke Software; Evolutionary Technologies International (ETI); Extricity Software, Inc.; Forte Software Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Sun Microsystems; HIE, Inc.; IBM Corporation, MQSeries Business Development; INTERLINQ Software Corporation; International Software Group (ISG); iWork Software, LLC; Level 8 Systems, Inc.; Mercator Software (p.k.a. TSI Software); MINT Communication Systems; MITEM Corporation; New Era of Networks, Inc. (NEON); Oberon Software, Inc.; OnDisplay; OST Business Rules, Ltd.; Percussion Software; PTC; SAGA Software, Inc. (SAGA); Scribe Software Corporation; Software Technologies Corporation; SuperNova; Sybase Inc., Enterprise Solutions Division; Tempest Software, Inc.; Template Software; TIBCO Software, Inc.; TopTier Software Inc.; Transoft Inc.; Viewlocity (formerly Frontec AMT); Visual Edge Software, Inc.; Vitria Technology, Inc.; and webMethods, Inc.

For more information about this report, visit: http://www.aberdeen.com/ab_company/hottopics/eai/ or call [phone] (East Coast) or [phone] (West Coast).

About Aberdeen

Founded in 1988, Aberdeen Group provides IT consulting and market strategy advice to the IT supplier community. Steeped in technology and armed with end-user field research, Aberdeen focuses on answering clients' critical business and technology questions in the context of the Internet economy and across the product life cycle. Headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts, Aberdeen Group has offices in Palo Alto, California, and Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Aberdeen is located on the Web at www.aberdeen.com.