Extricity Expands Alliance Product Family -- Embracing the Diversity of Businesses Across the Internet.

REDWOOD SHORES, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dec. 7, 1998--

Extricity Alliance 2.0 And New Products

Redefine Industry Highground In Automating

Interactions Between Any Business, Any Process

And Any Application In The Extended Enterprise

Extricity Software, Inc.,(tm) the leading supplier of business-to-business integration applications, today announced a new release of its Extricity Alliance(tm) software suite along with several new accompanying product offerings. Today's Alliance announcements redefine the industry's highground in automating and synchronizing business interactions between diverse business partners and customers. Whether between divisions of a single company or individual businesses, the new Alliance offerings continue to expand the ease and functionality associated with integrating, collaborating and exchanging critical information in real-time throughout a supply chain -- now -- regardless of size, functional requirements or IT resources.

"Extricity is the leading vendor focused on supply chain integration through business processes," said AMR Research's Enabling Technologies Group. "Since very few companies operate in isolation, they must consider how to best integrate those processes with their partners' processes to gain the most business value. As a result, customers achieve much higher benefits than using middleware to just exchange data."

Alliance 2.0 and associated new products from Extricity Software deliver the industry's most comprehensive set of offerings to deal with one of the biggest issues associated with integrating disparate applications and processes across disparate businesses and geographies -- diversity. -0-

Today's announcements include:

--   An extended core Integration System

--   A new Adapter Development Environment (ADE)

--   A suite of middleware adapter products

--   An assortment of new Partner Deployment Options, including simple
     Web browser and EDI access.

"Alliance 2.0 and our other new products set a new high-water mark in the business-to-business integration industry," said Ken Ross, President and CEO of Extricity Software. "Now any business, anywhere, using any application can integrate any process with customers and partners and realize new ways to drive efficiencies, enhance competitiveness and increase profitability."

Manage Application and Infrastructure Diversity

Alliance 2.0

Alliance 2.0 provides dramatically expanded management capabilities for the Alliance Integration System. New capabilities organizations and businesses. New features inclent

and testing

-- New functionality Alliance Adapter Development Environment provides users with a fast, intuitive, graphical framework for configuring, customizing or developing adapter modules. The ADE is an advanced graphical user interface framework for rapid implementation of adapters to any application. ADE features include:

--   New wizards to guide development of adapters

--   Comprehensive integration utility library with commonly used
     integration building blocks such as file I/O, http, ftp,
     encoding/decoding, zip, etc.

--   Configured hooks to drop in pre-built integration adapter modules

--   New environment to define and manage business oliance Middleware Adapter
Products

     Allia ability
to integrate with all of today's popular middleware products. With the
new Alliance middleware adapion adapters support popular middleware
productsurces and support. In addition to current
Alliaintegration.


Alliance Partner Deployment Opapplications, Extricity
     offers the Allianclications. The Alliance Web Extension is ideal f
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     Alliance Web Gatewayget all their process information using only a Wdata
exchange activities
     with Alliance prod in Redwood Shores, CA.
Extricity's patent-pending suite of application software, Extricity
Alliance, enables companies to aggressively improve both
competitiveness and profitability. Extricity leverages the Internet to
automate shared business interactions throughout entire value chains
of companies -- including customers, suppliers, distriburate enterprise
applications that often exist beosoft, Intel(r) Corporation, Andersen
Consulting(r), Cambridge Technology Partners(r),
PricewaterhouseCoopers(r) and most of the leading middleware
providers. For additional information about Extricity Software and the
Alliance suite of business-to-business integration software, visit
Extricity's site on the World Wide Web at www.extricity.com or contact
them directly at 650/596-1300.

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     Note to Editors: Extricity and Extricity Alliance are trademarks
of Extricity Software, Inc. All other names are trademarks of their
respective companies.