Information Architects SmartCode Powers Art Technology's Content Aggregation GEAR.

Business Editors, High Tech Writers

CHARLOTTE, N.C.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--July 18, 2001

First Corporate Portal Application to Aggregate

"Content Fragments" from Inside and Outside the Enterprise

Information Architects, (NASDAQ: IARC) today announced that its SmartCode(TM) framework has been chosen as the content aggregation component of ATG's Enterprise Portal Suite.

Art Technology Group's (NASDAQ: ARTG) GEAR is a network of partner-developed solutions designed to enhance the functionality of the new ATG Enterprise Portal Suite through an extensive set of portal building blocks, called gears, which will provide businesses a robust and expanding feature set to build portals for customers, partners, and employees. The Network allows partners with technology that works within an open Java environment to plug their own solution into ATG's portal offering.

As the content aggregation component of ATG's Enterprise Portal Suite, SmartCode's unique ability to bypass traditional static repository architectures and go directly to the data source and individual content fragment enables ATG's Enterprise Portal Suite to achieve a higher degree of data granularity and functionality than existing enterprise portal applications. Once a content fragment or specific piece of information is identified, SmartCode(TM) enables the end user to associate or link the content to a specific task, or business rule. Content becomes "functional" as individual pieces of information, both inside and outside the enterprise, are dynamically grabbed by SmartCode(TM), stripped from the source, and put to work in the larger context of ATG's Enterprise Portal Suite.

"We are extremely excited to play an important role or "Gear" in Art Technology Group's Enterprise Portal Suite. SmartCode(TM) fulfills two extremely important portal requirements for facilitating interaction and integration between customers, partners, suppliers and distributors - content aggregation and data/application integration," said Bud Modlesky, Director of Channels for Information Architects.

ATG "Gears" are building block components that integrate content or services and enhance the ATG Enterprise Portal Suite by providing vital new functionality in a variety of important areas, including content management and syndication, content aggregation and search, multi-channel delivery, security, collaboration, calendaring, messaging, and B2B integration. The ATG Dynamo e-Business Platform component-based architecture lets Gear Alliance partners easily create gears that can be packaged and reused across a wide array of ATG portal applications.

SmartCode(TM) includes a commitment to core distributed infrastructure standards including Java Servlet API and J2EE. Support for J2EE components includes Enterprise Java Beans (EJB), Java Database Connectivity (JDBC), Java Server Pages (JSP), and Java Naming and Directory Service (JNDI). SmartCode's(TM) support for Java Servlet API and EJB enables seamless interoperability with all leading Web servers and Java application server platforms.

SmartCode(TM) technology is based on open standards; IA's unique implementation that blends these standards into the revolutionary technology is protected by the U.S. Patent No. 5,983,267.

About iA

Information Architects provides "Smart" integration software solutions for businesses. Information Architects' patented integration platform, SmartCode(TM), provides easy and flexible real-time access to existing and future data and applications while creating reusable "components" out of any business process, content access, security, presentation or logic. Creating and linking business processes and systems becomes easier, Enterprise applications becomes more efficient; business processes are streamlined, costs are lowered, time to market is accelerated, supply chains are tightened, and information to partners, employees and customers is presented with clarity, precision and efficiency.

More information on Information Architects is available at http://www.ia.com. More information about iA's partnership program is available at http://partner.ia.com.

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