Intalio Extends BPMS with Page Designer, Featuring 100% Code Coverage; New Release Leverages Systinet Web Services and Corticon Business Rule Engine.

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SAN MATEO, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 21, 2003

Intalio, Inc., the Business Process Management company, today announced Intalio/n3 2.5, a new version of the company's trailblazing Business Process Management System (BPMS).

Intalio/n3 helps Global 2000 companies shift IT resources from operations to innovation, reduce the total cost of ownership of mission-critical process assets, and extend the best-practice processes engrained in packaged applications.

Highlighting the new release of Intalio/n3 are the following key enhancements:

-- Page Designer, a WYSIWYG editor for the development of rich,

Web-based end-user interfaces, providing 100% code coverage

-- Integration of Systinet's Web services platform

-- Integration of Corticon's business rule engine (BRE)

-- New and highly customizable user interface to enhance the

productivity of business analysts

"Our work on Intalio/n3 reflects our unwavering commitment to meeting customers' demands, adding capabilities through internal development, as well as partnering with industry leaders," said Tom Meyer, chairman and CEO of Intalio. "With Intalio/n3 2.5, we've extended our BPMS to give our customers unprecedented ability to create rich, process-driven user interfaces. We've also partnered with Corticon and Systinet to deliver a best-of-breed business rule engine and Web services platform, respectively."

According to Gartner Inc., "BRE technology is being included in the area of flow control represented by business process management technology, which is pervading many sectors as a compound market... There is an emerging concept that service-oriented architecture and its associated Web services also should include rules sensitivity."* In the same report, Gartner listed Corticon in the visionary quadrant in the BRE market.

Inside Intalio/n3 2.5

The most compelling addition to Intalio/n3 is Page Designer, a WYSIWYG user interface development environment that lets business users define page layouts and build forms without doing any coding. Page Designer runs in a standard Web browser and enables drag-and-drop manipulation of a rich library of out-of-the-box user interface components, such as data tables, buttons, and form and navigational elements to compose sophisticated and highly interactive user interfaces in a building block fashion. The resulting user interfaces that leverage the power of Intalio's XPage language can then be graphically bound to processes and backend systems in the Intalio/n3 Designer and deployed in Intalio/n3 Director.

With an eye on the growing trend toward Service-Oriented Architectures (SOA) and process-based applications, the company has fully Web service-enabled Intalio/n3 with Systinet's Web Applications and Services Platform (WASP). Systinet's platform provides Web services interfaces to all Intalio/n3 components, making it easier to access processes and Intalio APIs using Web services.

Commenting on Intalio/n3's Web services integration, Roman Stanek, founder and CEO at Systinet added, "With our Web services infrastructure software embedded in Intalio's BPMS, Intalio can provide its customers with a best-of-breed, standards-based Web services platform to support the latest versions of SOAP, WSDL, UDDI, WS-Security and other standards with industry-leading performance and interoperability."

WASP also provides industry leading scalability and performance, and best-in-class interoperability with Microsoft .NET, IBM Web Services Toolkit, Apache SOAP/Axis and many other Web service frameworks.

Finally, the company has partnered with Corticon to offer a business rule engine as an optional extension of Intalio/n3. Now, companies can externalize complex business rules from the process control flow, enabling users to easily change rules without having to modify and redeploy the entire process.

Said Eric Kintzer, vice president of business development at Corticon, "By enhancing Intalio/n3 with Corticon, Intalio customers can more quickly get process advantage by further lowering transaction costs, increasing process quality, and reaching new levels of process agility, all driven by the business process owners."

With the Corticon engine, business users have all the tools at hand to model and reuse rules, analyze, detect, and resolve business policy conflicts and loopholes, do analyst-driven testing, and lastly, deploy rules as decision-making Web services for incorporation into process definitions.

Intalio/n3 2.5 will ship this quarter from Intalio. For additional information, including pricing, please call Intalio at 650-577-4700 or email to [e-mail].

About Intalio/n3

Intalio/n3 is a trailblazing Business Process Management System (BPMS). It is the first standards-based, platform-neutral BPMS to support the design, deployment, execution, maintenance, and optimization of business processes that involve distributed transactions with packaged applications, databases, and heritage systems. Heralding a process-oriented architecture, Intalio/n3 leverages organizations' existing IT assets and infrastructure, bridging the gap between business users and software engineers. Intalio/n3 enables both groups to collaborate on the same underlying model and end up with processes that are executable on the company's existing infrastructure. Organizations now have the power to completely and seamlessly manage the entire life cycle of their business processes, from design to execution to optimization.

About Intalio, Inc.

Intalio, Inc. is a leading provider of Business Process Management systems that help Global 2,000 firms become process-managed organizations. The company extends business process models into executable and manageable processes that can be directly deployed on existing IT assets and seamlessly directed by business users. Founded in July 1999 by seasoned entrepreneurs and recognized innovators in enterprise software development, Intalio is a privately held, venture-backed company located in San Mateo, Calif. For more information, contact Intalio at 650-577-4700, [e-mail], or www.intalio.com.

* "The Business Rule Engine 2003 Magic Quadrant," Research Note 7 April 2003, Gartner Inc.

The Magic Quadrant is copyrighted 2003 by Gartner, Inc. and is reused with permission. The Magic Quadrant is a graphical representation of a marketplace at and for a specific time period. It depicts Gartner's analysis of how certain vendors measure against criteria for that marketplace, as defined by Gartner. Gartner does not endorse any vendor, product or service depicted in the Magic Quadrant, and does not advise technology users to select only those vendors placed in the "Leaders" quadrant. The Magic Quadrant is intended solely as a research tool, and is not meant to be a specific guide to action. Gartner disclaims all warranties, express or implied, with respect to this research, including any warranties of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose.

Note to Editors: In the name Intalio/n3 noted in this news release, there is a pipe symbol between Intalio and n3. Also in n3 the 3 is superscript.