CrossWorlds Expands E-Business Capabilities: Announces XML Support, Joins RosettaNet.

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CrossWorlds Leverages XML for Process-Level Integration Among

Supply Chain Partners; Supports RosettaNet Standard for

High Technology Market

BURLINGAME, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 10, 2000

CrossWorlds Software, Inc., a leading provider of integration software for e-business and the enterprise, today announced product support for eXtensible Markup Language (XML).

Concurrently, the company announced its membership and support for RosettaNet, an independent consortium dedicated to developing and deploying industry standards for enabling eBusiness interoperability. With its XML-compliant eBusiness product, development tools and infrastructure, CrossWorlds will enable companies to conduct eBusiness transactions in RosettaNet formats. This announcement further demonstrates CrossWorlds' capabilities in providing a robust eBusiness integration solution.

CrossWorlds is offering an XML Connector, a pre-defined and extensible cross-application interface designed specifically for handling XML-based messages.

The Connector allows for the integration of XML data to multiple legacy and packaged front-office, back-office and supply chain applications including Baan, Clarify, Manugistics, Oracle, PeopleSoft, SAP, Siebel, Trilogy and Vantive via CrossWorlds hub-and-spoke architecture. The XML Connector is tightly integrated with CrossWorlds' business process modeling capabilities and Collaboration modules.

As part of its support of RosettaNet, CrossWorlds' architecture complements the RosettaNet standards by providing a real-time integration environment for trading partners through automatic answer-back, cross-referencing and persistent transaction services. As a result, trading partners can avoid manual tasks such as transaction voiding if an order acknowledgment is not received after a specified number of hours.

CrossWorlds eBusiness provides a platform that supports the technical service components necessary to move information from a company's application architecture into the RosettaNet Partner Interface Process (PIP) infrastructure.

RosettaNet PIPs consist of system-to-system XML-based dialogs that define how business processes are conducted between IT manufacturers, software publishers, distributors, resellers and end-users. Using its XML Connector, CrossWorlds will map to specific RosettaNet document type definitions (DTDs) within the PIPs.

CrossWorlds eBusiness Collaborations combined with the RosettaNet PIPs will enable IT supply chain partners to align their eBusiness processes so they can further leverage their investments in enterprise applications, including eBusiness sales and procurement applications over the Internet. Examples of the CrossWorlds eBusiness Collaborations include Customer Synchronization, Item Synchronization, Vendor Manager and Purchase Order Processing.

"The proliferation of RosettaNet's eBusiness standards depends upon participation of Solution Partners like CrossWorlds," said Fadi Chehade, CEO, RosettaNet. "We are pleased to include CrossWorlds' expertise in our partners' efforts to deliver business-level integration solutions that enable trading partners to fully leverage RosettaNet standards."

"By adding XML support, we offer a new world of opportunities for enterprises to connect with their business partners over the Internet, leveraging the latest standards," said Prashant Gupta, CTO, CrossWorlds Software.

"CrossWorlds is pleased to be working with RosettaNet to provide a more rapid, standard solution for eBusiness integration. The high-tech industry was one of the first to understand the potential of collaborative business-to-business e-commerce, and CrossWorlds supports RosettaNet's efforts to expand PIPs as a way to facilitate true business process-level integration and enable real-time trading networks."

RosettaNet was formed to develop and deploy global open and common business interfaces, enabling small and large buyers and sellers of computer technology to do electronic business more efficiently. More than 60 companies representing $600 billion in annual revenues currently provide the mandate for RosettaNet's standards development strategy.

A complete list of member companies and more information on RosettaNet can be found on the World Wide Web at http://www.rosettanet.org.

About RosettaNet

Founded in 1998, RosettaNet is an independent, self-funded non-profit consortium dedicated to the development and deployment of standard electronic commerce interfaces to align the processes between supply chain partners on a global basis. RosettaNet can be found on the World Wide Web at http://www.rosettanet.org.

About CrossWorlds Software, Inc.

CrossWorlds is a leading provider of integration software for e-business and the enterprise. The CrossWorlds solution enables companies to extend business processes over the Internet and collaborate with trading partners while leveraging existing IT investments.

The company offers a complete suite of integration products including development and management tools, connectivity to leading e-business and enterprise application packages and pre-built modules for the most common business integration requirements.

CrossWorlds' business partners include: IBM, SAP, Cap Gemini, CSC, Deloitte Consulting, Ernst & Young, PricewaterhouseCoopers, Baan, Clarify, J.D. Edwards, Manugistics, MetaSolv, Oracle, PeopleSoft, Portal, Siebel, Trilogy and Vantive. The Company's customers include industry-leading companies such as Deutsche Telekom, Delphi Automotive, DuPont, Nortel Networks, Roche Group, Siemens AG, Caterpillar (Solar Turbines), Sony, US West and Whirlpool Corp.

Additional information can be found at www.crossworlds.com.

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