CrossWorlds Software Announces CrossWorlds Trading Partner Interchange.

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BURLINGAME, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 8, 2001

Progressive Technology Provides Scalable Business Process

Integration for Trading Partners and Dynamic Trading Communities

CrossWorlds Software, Inc. (Nasdaq:CWLD), a leading e-business integration platform provider, today announced CrossWorlds Trading Partner Interchange (TPI), a scalable, secure trading partner integration solution. Trading Partner Interchange will enable Global 2000 companies and e-marketplaces to integrate with a wide variety of trading partners and trading communities via RosettaNet, EDI, and XML-based B2B business process integration.

Trading Partner Interchange is powered by Cyclone Commerce's open platform for "instant-on" B2B commerce. The new product, combined with CrossWorlds' Serverless Trading Agent (STA) technology (see separate press release: "CrossWorlds Raises the Bar on Integration For Global 2000 Companies," Nov. 6, 2000) will give companies more complete trading partner management capabilities and a tightly coupled, end-to-end solution to integrate across the enterprise and with trading partners over the Internet. Trading Partner Interchange is available for order today. Also today, CrossWorlds and Cyclone announced a strategic technology alliance to support the embedding of Cyclone's product into CrossWorlds' TPI solution.

"Increasingly, end-users are demanding integration software that can enable both deep system-level communication with a select group of strategic partners and light information exchange across a loosely coupled trading community," said Jon Derome, senior analyst, The Yankee Group. "Enabling various depths of secure, reliable partner integration, while addressing the price and implementation complexity that go hand-in-hand with a broad value chain constituency, is a key technology challenge in the e-business market. Combining CrossWorlds' application integration and Cyclone Commerce's Internet-based transaction management capabilities begins to address this challenge."

"With CrossWorlds Trading Partner Interchange, customers are freed from having to tailor their business decisions around the trading technology and standards used by their partners and communities," said Fred Amoroso, president and chief executive officer at CrossWorlds. "The flexibility and scalability of Trading Partner Interchange combined with the CrossWorlds product suite provides superior business process integration capabilities for streamlining trading relationships and strengthens our competitive position against WebMethods and other integration vendors."

With Trading Partner Interchange, companies can leverage multiple trading channels including ecommerce portals, EDI networks, and current standards-based trading exchanges. Customers using the Trading Partner Interchange will benefit from:

-- SECURITY & SCALABILITY. Trading Partner Interchange includes the industry's
first platform-independent, multi-vendor security infrastructure to deliver the
strongest possible data security and reliability. Trading Partner Interchange
provides transparent support for all of the leading public key encryption and
certificate-based protocol standards including support for digital signatures,
non-repudiation and support for leading certificate authorities. Trading
Partner Interchange will also be able to support multiple B2B industry
standards for connectivity, allowing customers to more rapidly integrate and
scale trading networks.

-- COST SAVINGS THROUGH RAPID DEPLOYMENT. Trading Partner Interchange enables
companies to more rapidly deploy commerce connections and establish
communications with partners over a wide variety of protocols. This allows
companies to more quickly scale their trading network(s) and to introduce new
modes of communication and B2B standards with minimal impact on existing
trading links. This results in immediate cost savings and ongoing maintenance
savings.

-- INDEPENDENT BUSINESS PROCESS LAYER. CrossWorlds' patented architecture
allows customers to avoid the high incremental costs associated with
point-to-point integration by executing business process logic against a common
generic model that is independent of the APIs, data formats and transport
mechanisms used by trading partners and local applications. CrossWorlds'
generic business object model supports any number of common standards including
RosettaNet and OAG, as well as CrossWorlds' large inventory of pre-built
business objects and business processes.

"We look forward to the added functionality that CrossWorlds Trading Partner Interchange will bring to CrossWorlds' already solid solution," said David W. Lafferty, vice president of electronic commerce for Tech Data Corp. "CrossWorlds' independent business process layer will give us the flexibility we need to respond to the changing profile of e-business and will be an important component for our integration initiative both within our enterprise and with our Trading Partners."

"Our partnership with CrossWorlds creates a unique alliance that represents our commitment to customer success and combines our innovative technologies to simplify our customers' B2B integration processes," said Kent Petzold, chairman and chief executive officer of Cyclone. "With CrossWorlds' Trading Partner Interchange solution, our customers have a go-to-market solution that will empower them to cost-effectively manage their trading partner communities over the Internet."

The CrossWorlds(R) Platform

CrossWorlds' solution is an end-to-end e-business integration platform comprised of: packaged integration modules; business objects to support the most common business processes; pre-built connectivity to leading applications; and a robust toolset for integrating to custom and legacy systems as well as extending and customizing business processes. CrossWorlds' solution features a patented, enterprise-class integration architecture to support a broad range of e-business requirements, including scalability, reliability, security and manageability. CrossWorlds' Java-based InterChange Server is application-version transparent so underlying applications can be upgraded, added or removed without affecting cross-application business processes.

About CrossWorlds(R) Software, Inc.

CrossWorlds provides a comprehensive e-business platform both for integrating internal operations and extending these operations over the Internet. CrossWorlds' products help the Global 2000 and emerging businesses work more efficiently with customers and suppliers through unified, end-to-end business processes. The CrossWorlds platform enhances competitiveness and reduces information technology costs by decreasing long-term maintenance costs and enabling faster business application integration than traditional approaches. Recently, Computerworld identified CrossWorlds as one of the "Top 100 Emerging Companies to Watch in 2001."

The company's customers include industry-leading companies such as Applied Materials, Delphi Automotive, Dow Chemical, DuPont, Ingersoll-Rand, Nortel Networks, Norwich Union, Roche Group, Sony, Siemens AG, US WEST and Whirlpool Corp. CrossWorlds (Nasdaq:CWLD) is based in Burlingame with European headquarters in Munich, Germany and additional offices in the United Kingdom and France. Additional information can be found at www.crossworlds.com.

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