CrossWorlds Ships CrossWorlds 3.0 Providing Unified Platform for Intra-Enterprise and E-Business Integration.

Business/Technology Editors

BURLINGAME, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 27, 2000

New Release Leverages Pre-Built Content for End-to-End

Process Integration; More Robust Development Environment

and System Management Provide Improved Ease-of-Use

CrossWorlds Software, Inc. (Nasdaq:CWLD), an e-business infrastructure software provider, today announced general availability of CrossWorlds InterChange Server 3.0, including enhanced versions of CrossWorlds development and system management tools.

CrossWorlds 3.0 also marks the release of the CrossWorlds Access Framework, which provides enterprises additional flexibility for integrating intranet and extranet business processes by leveraging standards-based communications such as XML and RosettaNet (see separate press release: "CrossWorlds Announces e-Business Access Framework," June 27, 2000).

"With this release, CrossWorlds now offers one of the most comprehensive solutions for internal and e-business application integration," said Fred Amoroso, president and CEO of CrossWorlds Software. "With our modular architecture, pre-built business process content, application connectivity and native integration tools, enterprises can deploy CrossWorlds for many-to-many application integration both within their enterprise and over the firewall to include their multiple trading partners."

"The requirements for integrating applications are moving from simple real-time data movement between systems to a business process focused view of the enterprise," said Tyler McDaniel, analyst, Hurwitz Group. "CrossWorlds has addressed this evolution by providing a solution for end-to-end process integration through its integration modules, cohesive development and management tools and flexible architecture."

Easier-to-Use Development Tools

CrossWorlds has enhanced the usability of its native development tools including the CrossWorlds Map Designer, CrossWorlds Relationship Designer and CrossWorlds Process Designer, which now interoperate in a cohesive development environment. This unified approach makes it easier for end-users or consultants to build, modify and manage custom or existing pre-built CrossWorlds integration objects, and makes the objects faster to test and deploy than before. This also offers an advantage over integration solutions that require users to tie-in third party development tools or write custom code in place of a usable tool. All of CrossWorlds' tools can be used to facilitate integration between packaged and legacy applications inside the enterprise or over the Internet to include trading partners' applications.

The CrossWorlds Map Designer, a point-and-click graphical tool for defining data transformation rules, is now the standard mapping and transformation tool for the CrossWorlds environment. The Map Designer:

-- Works directly with the CrossWorlds repository to leverage the

breadth of CrossWorlds' pre-built application-specific,

standards based and generic business objects;

-- Allows users to build and deploy simple transformations when

there are clear relationships between the data as well as more

complicated transformations involving calculations, functions,

queries and cross-referencing;

-- Includes full-featured testing for analyzing the maps prior to

deployment.

Users can also use the CrossWorlds Relationship Designer to transform data that is equivalent across business objects, but represented differently.

CrossWorlds has also introduced the CrossWorlds Test Connector and Java Connector Development Kit (JCDK). The Test Connector can emulate a CrossWorlds application connector -- such as those for SAP, Siebel or BroadVision -- send and reply to simulated events, and isolate and test the various components of the CrossWorlds system. This design allows users to develop and test custom components in parallel. The JCDK provides connectivity for newer best of breed enterprise and eBusiness applications written in Java. Previously, the CrossWorlds Connector Development Kit offered this capability only in C++.

Global System Administration, Monitoring

CrossWorlds has also made administration of the system easier by introducing a Job Scheduler and a Process Dashboard control feature. The Job Scheduler allows users to schedule business process integration modules and application connectors to be run, stop, or be paused. This allows users to "batch" non-urgent data during off peak hours or stop specific connectors when those systems are down for maintenance or being replaced. The Process Dashboard provides a graphical view of specific integration processes -- such as customer information being integrated between multiple applications -- and the key components associated with that process. Users can drill down on the associated maps and connectors for a business object to view and modify the definitions for each.

CrossWorlds now also offers users additional system monitoring capabilities including a LogViewer, Auditor and enhanced system monitors. By leveraging CrossWorlds' modular architecture, these monitoring tools track events through the different parts of the CrossWorlds system and provide organized information to system administrators such as completed events and details on errors. The tools can pinpoint where and when bottlenecks occur in the system as well as provide administrators the information needed to act on problems.

About the CrossWorlds Platform

The CrossWorlds solution is an integration platform that reduces information technology costs by easing the ongoing maintainability of an enterprise's solution. It helps companies gain efficiencies inside the enterprise and over the Internet among suppliers and customers by uniting common business processes and sharing key information in real time. CrossWorlds' product line supports a modular, incremental solution so underlying enterprise applications can be added, removed and changed over time. CrossWorlds' Java-based InterChange Server is application-independent so cross-application business processes are not affected if users upgrade to new versions of packaged applications or retire legacy systems.

About CrossWorlds Software, Inc.

CrossWorlds is an e-business infrastructure software provider that integrates internal operations and extends these operations over the Internet. CrossWorlds' products help traditional and emerging businesses to leverage the Internet as a platform to increase productivity, improve responsiveness to customer demands and enhance overall competitiveness. The company's customers include industry-leading companies such as Applied Materials, Caterpillar/Solar Turbines, Delphi Automotive, DuPont, Nortel Networks, Roche Group, Siemens AG, U S WEST and Whirlpool Corporation. CrossWorlds (Nasdaq: CWLD) is based in Burlingame, CA. Additional information can be found at www.crossworlds.com.

This press release contains forward-looking statements within the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933 and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934. Statements and information contained herein concerning markets for CrossWorlds' products and trends in financial results, and all other statements that include the words "anticipate," "believe," "plan," "estimate," "expect," "goal," "future," and "intend" and other similar expressions, constitute forward-looking statements. These forward-looking statements are subject to business and economic risks and uncertainties. CrossWorlds' actual results could differ materially from those anticipated in the forward-looking statements. Potential risks and uncertainties include, without limitation, those mentioned in CrossWorlds' prospectus dated June 2, 2000 under the heading "Risk Factors."

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