FMC Corporation Automates Supply Chain With webMethods B2B; webMethods B2B Securely Streamlines Business-to-Business E-Commerce for FMC Chemical Products Group.

Business/Technology Editors

FAIRFAX, Va.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 14, 2000

webMethods, Inc. (Nasdaq:WEBM), the leading provider of business-to-business integration (B2Bi) solutions, today announced that FMC Corporation (NYSE:FMC), one of the world's leading producers of chemicals and machinery for industry and agriculture, has implemented webMethods B2B(TM) to process legacy data exchanges between FMC's Chemical Products Group and its fleet management partner. The Chemical Products Group generates approximately $1 billion in sales for FMC Corporation.

The Chemical Products Group uses webMethods B2B to link critical data from its SAP R/3(R) system to the backend systems of its fleet management partner. In order to comply with Y2K standards, the Chemical Products Group needed to undergo a vast systems re-engineering process. FMC chose to restructure its entire supply chain, and outsource fleet management and applications hosting to a third-party company. webMethods B2B's open architecture and support for XML enabled seamless data exchanges between FMC and its fleet management partner. Under the new automated supply chain management, FMC can better track its fleet and deliveries, and customers can now easily check the status of orders.

"webMethods B2B opened up a whole new development strategy for us and without it, we would not have chosen to reinvent our legacy system," said Edward Flynn, director of information systems for FMC's Chemical Business. "The webMethods integration project of our supply chain has become a cost-improvement project, rather than a profit-maintaining project, which would have been the case had we chosen another route."

"Industries from industrial chemical development to financial processing are moving quickly to transform their most important operations to the Internet," said Phillip Merrick, president and CEO of webMethods. "FMC's successful implementation of webMethods B2B demonstrates the flexibility and scalability of our e-commerce solution."

webMethods provides a comprehensive solution that allows organizations to effectively realize their B2B e-commerce strategies. Through broad support of open standards and protocols, such as XML, RosettaNet, FpML, cXML, OBI, OAG, ACORD, Microsoft BizTalk and legacy EDI, the webMethods B2B family of products connect integrated business communities and enables companies to conduct business over the Internet with minimal stress to corporate resources and existing infrastructure.

About webMethods, Inc.

webMethods, Inc. (Nasdaq:WEBM) is the leading provider of software solutions for business-to-business integration (B2Bi). Leveraging the open standards of the Internet, the award-winning webMethods B2B(TM) family of products provides the B2Bi infrastructure enabling Global 2000 companies and B2B marketplaces to connect customers, suppliers and partners to form real-time B2B trading networks. webMethods B2B allows companies to create new revenue opportunities, strengthen relationships with customers and substantially reduce supply chain inefficiencies.

Founded in 1996, webMethods is based in Fairfax, Va., with offices across the U.S. and Europe. webMethods has more than 130 customers worldwide--from Global 2000 leaders such as Dell, Eastman Chemical Company, Lucent and W.W. Grainger to major B2B marketplaces like e-STEEL and ChemConnect. webMethods' strategic partners include Ariba, Deloitte Consulting, EDS, KPMG, Microsoft, Sterling Commerce and SAP AG. More information about the company can be found at www.webMethods.com.

webMethods and webMethods B2B are trademarks of webMethods, Inc. All other company and product names are property of their respective owners.

This press release contains various remarks about the future expectations, plans and prospects of WebMethods that constitute forward-looking statements for purposes of the safe harbor provisions under The Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. The actual results of WebMethods may differ materially from those indicated by these forward-looking statements as a result of various important factors, including those discussed in the Risk Factors section of WebMethods' recent Registration Statement on Form S-1, which is on file with the Securities and Exchange Commission.