Fujitsu Software Corporation Launches a New Version of Its Business Automation Engine, Enabling Rapid Response to Dynamic Business Demands.

Business Editors/High-Tech Writers

SAN JOSE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 21, 2001

i-Flow 4.1 Makes It Easier to Create and Manage Business Process

Designs, Uses Java(TM) Remote Method Invocation

Fujitsu Software Corporation (FS), a U.S.-based wholly-owned subsidiary of Fujitsu Limited, today announced the launch of i-Flow 4.1, a new version of the 100% Java(TM)- and only 100% browser-based business process automation engine on the market. It already is in use at some of the largest Global 1000 companies to automate their Internet-based business processes.

Enhanced editing and version management features incorporated in i-Flow 4.1 provide more control for business process design, making it easier and faster for companies and third-party developers to respond to changing business conditions.

"i-Flow 4.1 improves our customers' agility by making it easier to create and manage business process designs. This helps them adapt dynamically to changes in their environments and to manage those changes more efficiently," said Ronald Alepin, General Manager of the Enterprise Products Group, Fujitsu Software Corporation. "With the addition of Java(TM)RMI as an option to our CORBA based model, we extend the advantages of i-Flow to the Java community while building on the solid foundation of i-Flow's open, flexible and distributed architecture."

Enhancements in i-Flow 4.1 provide the power and flexibility needed to create, automate and manage business processes in enterprises ranging from insurance to e-tailing.

"Our customers told us they needed to help their organizations react faster," said Paula Negron, i-Flow Product Manager, Fujitsu Software Corporation. "Ebusiness transformation is not just about linking systems and applications together, it's about increasing productivity. This requires improving the human-based aspects of these systems. i-Flow is the answer."

Based on this feedback, Fujitsu Software Corporation added new features to make it easier and faster for business analysts, developers, process analysts and other users to create, automate and control business process design. These improvements include:

-- Re-use of run-time changes. This enables users to save one-time changes to
processes based on exceptions to regular practices, and store them as new
versions for future reuse. Valuable process innovations are saved, and can
actually evolve without requiring analysts or designers to recapture the
changes manually.

-- New user interface features include zooming, printing and multi-point arrows
that make the manipulation and review of business process designs easier. The
introduction of smaller activity nodes enables users to see a larger area of
their process diagrams at one glance.

-- Reporting enables managers and administrators to make better use of
technical and human resources. The reporting feature provides statistics about
processes, templates and tasks so that users can see, for example, how many
processes are running, what state they are in, how long they took to complete,
as well as how many tasks are accepted or declined, and active or inactive.

Come visit Fujitsu Software Corporation's demonstration of this and other new products at the JavaOne Developer Conference in San Francisco June 4-7, Booth No. 1509.

About Fujitsu Software Corporation

Based in San Jose, CA and established in 1991, Fujitsu Software Corporation is a wholly owned subsidiary of Fujitsu Limited. Fujitsu Software Corporation leverages Fujitsu's international scope and expertise in developing and providing information technology solutions. Fujitsu Software Corporation's products include the INTERSTAGE Application Server; as part of the INTERSTAGE ebusiness software platform built on open standards, the INTERSTAGE Application Server enables enterprises to build and run mission-critical applications; i-Flow, a 100% Java workflow engine for automating business processes; QoEtient, a service for monitoring and managing "Quality of Experience" on the Internet and Fujitsu COBOL, a COBOL development environment that provides an integrated development environment and a suite of tools to build fast, mission-critical business systems. For more information, visit http://www.fs.fujitsu.com.

About Fujitsu Limited

Fujitsu is a leading provider of Internet-focused information technology solutions for the global marketplace. Its pace-setting technologies, best-in-class computing and telecommunications platforms, and worldwide corps of systems and services experts make it uniquely positioned to unleash the infinite possibilities of the Internet to help its customers succeed. Headquartered in Tokyo, Fujitsu Limited (TSE:6702) reported consolidated revenues of 5.48 trillion yen for the fiscal year ended March 31, 2001. Internet: http://www.fujitsu.com/