Crossroads 2002 A-List Award Applications due Monday, July 16, 2001; Seeking the best newly proven solutions transforming business today.

Business/Technology Editors

BOSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 7, 2001

Open Systems Advisors, Inc. (OSA) has issued a Call for Participation for the 2002 Crossroads A-List Awards Program. The Crossroads A-List Awards recognize proven business results. Earning a Crossroads A-List Award positions a product, technology, or service as a leader. The award provides customers, investors, and the marketplace powerful proof of innovative technology transforming how business performs.

Winners of the ninth annual Crossroads A-List Awards, and their reference customers, will be recognized during the Crossroads Conference, to be held March 17-20, 2002, at The Wigwam Resort in Phoenix, AZ.

Earning a Crossroads A-List Award positions a product, technology, or service as a leader. The conferring of a 2002 Crossroads A-List Award signals that an offering has successfully combined three elements critical to mainstream adoption: strategic focus; a viable product, technology, or service offering; and, most importantly, consistent business results.

For 2002, the Crossroads A-List Program divides the key business priorities for technology investment into three major areas:

- The Customer Experience

- The Business Network

- The Core Enterprise

The Crossroads A-List Program considers all types of products, technologies, and services and focuses on those emerging offerings that customers are successfully using to change their business. These offerings can fall into one of five broad classifications: business services; IT & network services; software; hardware; and embedded technologies.

To be considered for a Crossroads A-List Award, a provider must offer:

- An emerging product, technology, or service that is either new to the market
or a significant enhancement to an existing offering

- Four deployed Lighthouse customers willing to speak confidentially to the
Crossroads research team about the business impact of the product, technology,
or service. Lighthouse customers are early implementers of the candidate
offerings.

Winners of a 2001 Crossroads A-List Award include: Blue Martini Software, Inc. (BLUE), Conjoin, Verity (VRTY), Authoria, Evolve (EVLV), Saba Software, Inc. (SABA), 724 Solutions Inc. (SVNX), Artesia Technologies, Inc., BEA Systems, Inc. (BEAS), Bowstreet, Interactive Objects Software GmbH, SeeBeyond (SBYN) and webMethods, Inc. (WEBM). A complete list of winners is available at www.crossroads-osa.com.

Crossroads 2002 A-List Award Program information is available on the Web at www.crossroads-osa.com. Those with other inquiries should contact Alison Howard at 617.859.0859, or [e-mail].

Founded in 1989, Open Systems Advisors, Inc. (OSA) helps organizations understand and align business priorities with technology investments. OSA provides exploration and alignment consulting to technology and service providers, customer organizations, and investors. On an annual basis, OSA conducts research under its Crossroads brand that includes the publication of the Crossroads Decisions, conferring of the Crossroads A-List Awards, and production of the Crossroads Conference.

The company can be reached at 268 Newbury Street, Boston, MA 02116 Telephone [phone] Fax [phone] www.crossroads-osa.com [e-mail].

(R)Crossroads is a registered trademark, and Crossroads Decisions and Crossroads A-List and Bizno-tech are trademarks of Open Systems Advisors, Inc.(c)2001, Open Systems Advisors, Inc. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners.