Intalio Spearheads BPM Market in Europe; New Client Support Center in Brussels Responds to Growing Momentum from Intalio's Pioneering of BPM Standards.

Business Editors/High-Tech Writers

SAN MATEO, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 14, 2003

Intalio, Inc., the Business Process Management company, today announced its expansion into Europe. Bringing its trailblazing Intalio|n3 Business Process Management System (BPMS) to the European market, Intalio has opened offices in Brussels and London.

The Aberdeen Group forecasts that Business Process Management (BPM) spending in Europe will reach $850 million in 2003 and will top $1.67 billion in 2005. After North America, Europe is the most significant region for BPM spending, according to Aberdeen. Moreover, fewer suppliers are targeting Europe, making it very lucrative for those actively pursuing in the region.(a)

Intalio has already signed several enterprise customers in Europe, as it builds on the momentum from its pioneering efforts in business process management (BPM) standards and its soon-to-be-released version 2.5 of Intalio|n3. Client success and aggressive plans to leverage the potential has led Intalio to form a series of partnerships with multiple BPM-savvy system integrators in Belgium, Finland, France, Germany, Switzerland, and the United Kingdom. Details of these new customers and partners will be announced over the next few months.

Furthermore, to support Intalio's growing customer base and partner network, the company has opened a Client Support Center in Brussels, Belgium. The operation provides clients with easy access to Intalio technical expertise through a dedicated help-desk and extends the company's capabilities to provide a broad range of services including consulting, training and implementation support.

European companies tend to be process-centric, and their high valuation of process is driving very aggressive BPM adoption," said Tom Meyer, chairman and CEO of Intalio. "As a result, Europe represents the ultimate proving ground for Intalio. We're bringing Intalio|n3 to an audience with a rich tradition of successfully running process-managed organizations, putting our leading-edge BPMS in companies that have spent years on the leading edge of business process management."

BPM is a discipline that helps companies identify and streamline key processes, from customer service to manufacturing and virtually everything in between. The Intalio|n3 BPMS lets customers apply leading-edge technology to selected business processes, helping them reduce operational expenses and allowing them to be more adaptive, responsive and productive.

Continental Credentials

Intalio enters the European market with an impressive array of BPM credentials. The company was an early, ardent advocate of BPM standards, initiating and co-founding BPMI.org in August 2000. Charged with establishing standards for process design, deployment, execution, maintenance and optimization, BPMI.org has grown to over 200 members and delivered key BPM standards, including the Business Process Modeling Language (BPML) and the Business Process Modeling Notation (BPMN).

In April, Intalio joined IBM and Microsoft to co-submit the Business Process Execution Language (BPEL) 1.1 specification to OASIS. Intalio also participates in the OASIS Technical Committee charged with guiding BPEL to standardization.

While its work within BPMI.org and the standards domain has strengthened the BPM market, it also strengthened Intalio, providing invaluable experience and insight that the company has distilled into its own rapidly maturing BPMS. Initially released in February 2002, Intalio|n3 is the first standards-based, platform-neutral BPMS. It supports the design, deployment, execution, maintenance and optimization of business processes that involve distributed transactions with packaged applications, databases and heritage systems.

In February 2003, Intalio launched Intalio|n3 2.0. Version 2.0 adds support for complex workflow interactions with end-users, strengthens the company's commitment to industry standards including XML schema, amplifies enterprise-class performance and boosts user productivity by allowing pieces of processes to be reused to create new processes.

Intalio|n3 gained its first customer - the book publisher iUniverse - in April 2002 and followed up by securing its first U.S. enterprise customer, LexisNexis, the global leader in comprehensive and authoritative legal, news and business information and tailored applications. Earlier this year, Intalio announced its alliance with Computer Sciences Corporation, one of the leading information technology services companies.

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, while reducing the development cost of end-to-end processes by up to 75 percent.

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.

(a) Worldwide Business Process Management Spending: Forecast and Analysis 2001 - 2005, Aberdeen Group, Inc., September 2002.

Note to Editors: In the product name Intalio|n3 noted in this news release, there is a pipe symbol between Intalio and n3. This symbol may not appear properly in some systems.