Corechange's Coreport 3g Supports More Than 10 Million Portal Users Through Its Unique and Intelligent Architechture.

Business/Technology Editors

BOSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--July 10, 2001

Scalability Test Conducted at the Microsoft Testing Center

Demonstrates Coreport's Ability to Support Global-Scale Portal Sites

Corechange, Inc., a provider of e-access framework software, today announced significant test results that demonstrate the high linear scalability and availability of its Coreport 3g(TM) technology, enabling companies to deploy global-scale portals. The tests conclusively prove Coreport's ability to support deployments of more than 10 million portal users, resulting from its unmatched, distributed architecture. Corechange is the first in the portal industry to produce scalability test results that establish meaningful configuration guidelines for customers.

"Companies seeking to deploy portal software across the enterprise should seek highly scalable offerings that can increase capacity as needed. The Corechange demonstration gives evidence for its commitment to deliver a highly scalable portal," said Brian McDonough, research manager, Knowledge Management Software and Intranet Strategies, IDC.

A joint Microsoft-Corechange team conducted the scalability tests at the Microsoft Testing Center in Waltham, Massachusetts. The tests focused on the logon operation, by far the most overhead intensive request that a user makes in the Coreport environment. Because Coreport intelligently disburses load to the client side, very little additional load is placed on the Coreport server to service portal users once they have logged on.

Key findings from the tests show that:

-- Coreport can easily sustain 20,000 logons per hour on a four-processor system configuration and a single Active Directory domain controller.

-- Coreport scales across additional processors and servers at an almost perfectly linear rate.

-- The scalability of Coreport is limited only by the practical cost of adding and maintaining servers.

-- Corechange customers can "right-size" their initial configuration, then grow in small, less expensive increments using cost-effective commodity servers as their user base increases.

"Based on these results, we have established configuration guidelines to support up to 10 million portal users in business-to-employee, business-to-business, and business-to-consumer contexts," said Felimy Greene, executive vice president for product development at Corechange. "Coreport provides completely stateless, dynamic load-balancing that requires no server affinity, yielding high scalability in a web farm environment. Coreport is also unique in its tight integration and native use of Active Directory, which eliminates any need for costly directory synchronization."

The performance tests were conducted with Windows 2000 Advanced Server, Active Directory and Internet Information Service (IIS) as they were installed, with no special tuning. In addition to very high scalability, the dynamically load balanced environment created with Windows Load Balancing Service also results in high availability since the failure of a single server leaves site availability unaffected.

"These tests unquestionably demonstrate Coreport's global readiness," said Ulf Arnetz, chairman and CEO of Corechange. "The product's intelligent, distributed architecture enables it to deliver unprecedented scalability and availability. Furthermore, our complete confidence in the test results enables us to use them to make meaningful, substantive system sizing recommendations to customers who need to deploy portals on a global scale."

About Corechange

Corechange, Inc. delivers e-access framework software for deploying any kind of portal. The company's Coreport 3g(TM) product family profiles and manages people, information and applications to provide an integrated and personalized user experience based on roles that can be delivered on both desktop PC's and wireless devices. Corechange has a worldwide customer base, including ABN AMRO, Credit Suisse First Boston, EMC, Nortel Networks, Telco Systems, Philips, NSTAR, Krispy Kreme, and AMB Property Management. Corechange is headquartered in Boston, with offices throughout North America, Europe and Asia.