Digital Evolution Announces Web Services Management And Security Support on BEA WebLogic Platform 8.1.

Business Editors/High-Tech Writers

SANTA MONICA, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aug. 4, 2003

New DE Management Server 2.1(TM) and BEA WebLogic Platform 8.1(TM)

Can Provide a Unified Architecture for Application Development,

Integration, Security and Services Management

Digital Evolution Inc., a leading provider of Web services management and security products, today announced that its new DE Management Server 2.1 is designed to integrate with the BEA WebLogic Enterprise Platform 8.1 to allow organizations to securely manage Web services in the enterprise.

Today's announcement supports the recent availability of BEA WebLogic Platform 8.1, an integrated platform that provides superior business integration through the convergence of application development and integration, from BEA Systems Inc. (Nasdaq:BEAS), the world's leading application infrastructure software company.

Digital Evolution's Management Server 2.1 is designed to provide companies with the ability to manage and secure Web services in an enterprise environment. Together, Digital Evolution and BEA can provide customers with a solution to develop a truly secure and scalable service-oriented architecture -- an enterprise computing environment that can take advantage of and uses Web services to save time, money and increase business productivity.

"We have worked successfully with BEA products on a number of engagements to enable high value, agile and rewarding Web services applications at Fortune 1000 companies," said Brad Taylor, executive vice president for sales and marketing at Digital Evolution. "BEA WebLogic Platform 8.1, in combination with the DE Management Server, can give us the ability to walk into any customer, anywhere, and confidently pledge support towards the realization of a enterprise class Service-Oriented Architecture."

About the DE Management Server

The DE Management Server is designed to easily integrate into existing IT environments to manage and secure Web services, ensuring that business critical processes and messages are managed over a reliable and secure infrastructure. The DE Management Server 2.1 is composed of four key components: the DE Management Server Console, where users can manage and configure Web services in the network; the Policy Manager to define security policies and secure Web services; the Alert Manager to manage alerts and performance management corresponding to system and Service Level Agreement (SLA) failure events; and the Registry Manager to publish and search for Web services in the enterprise.

Through the DE Management Server Console, administrators can configure DE Management Points(TM) as XML/SOAP message intermediaries, agents or gateways. The DE Management Points offer a "pluggable" pipeline solution, where tasks such as security enforcement, alerting, versioning and transformation, caching, content routing and transport bridging can take place.

Additionally, in a Web services environment, where open standards inherently increase security risks, the Policy Manager in the DE Management Server 2.1 provides SAML-compliant authentication, authorization and auditing. The Policy Manager also manages contracts that can provision services based upon identity, permissible access times, and total number of invocations. In addition, the architecture provides comprehensive support for XML Encryption, XML Signature, PKI Key management, and security transaction auditing.

Available immediately, more information on the DE Management Server 2.1 can be found at www.digev.com or by calling 866-99-DIGEV (866-993-4438).

About Digital Evolution

Founded in 1998, Digital Evolution is a leading provider of Web services management solutions for major enterprises. The company's products and services provide organizations with the ability to manage their Web-based business processes within a standards-based, vendor-neutral framework. Digital Evolution's patent-pending DE Management Server enables organizations to take advantage of Web services in distributed computing environments while ensuring the performance, efficiency and security of an enterprise Web services infrastructure.

With headquarters in Santa Monica, with offices in the Boston, San Francisco, New York and Washington D.C. metropolitan areas, Digital Evolution's customer roster includes several Fortune 500 companies in the financial, insurance, manufacturing, telecom, retail, and entertainment sectors. For more information, visit www.digev.com.

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Some of the statements in this news release are forward-looking, including the statements regarding the plans, goals, completion, implementation, benefits, and details of the relationship between BEA and Digital Evolution ("Global Partner"); the development efforts, product delivery and other goals related to this relationship; and the features and benefits of BEA's and Global Partner's products. Actual results could differ materially from those expressed in any forward-looking statements. Risks and uncertainties that could cause results to differ materially include risks associated with: any unforeseen technical difficulties related to the development and optimization BEA's or Global Partner's products; the timing of additional investments of resources by BEA and Global Partner related to any joint initiatives; and any software errors related to BEA's or Global Partner's products or the integration thereof. Readers should also refer to the risk disclosures set forth in BEA's 10-Q for the quarter ended April 30, 2003 as filed with the SEC and subsequent reports filed thereafter by BEA from time-to-time with the SEC. The forward-looking statements contained in this release are made as of the date hereof, and BEA does not assume any obligation to update such statements nor the reasons why actual results could differ materially from those projected in such statements.