PIVOTAL SHIPS ADVANCED XML-BASED DEMAND CHAIN PLATFORM.

Pivotal Corporation (Nasdaq:PVTL) (TSE:PVT.) has announced a major upgrade to the Pivotal ePower platform - an industrial-strength, XML-based platform for demand chain management.

This upgrade addresses current market demand for fast-to-implement and cost-effective solutions for sales, marketing and customer service across the extended enterprise.

Pivotal's enterprise-class architecture eliminates the massive cost commonly required to integrate demand chain management applications with other enterprise applications such as supply chain, logistics and ERP applications. For many companies, it accelerates the implementation time of a demand chain management initiative to less than ninety days.

"Pivotal's latest innovations in integration and synchronization provide a compelling opportunity for companies to streamline business processes from the demand chain to the supply chain to maximize efficiency and customer satisfaction," said Norm Francis, president and CEO, Pivotal. "Companies today require a cost-effective solution that integrates disparate legacy systems and accelerates business performance by seamlessly and quickly transferring business data across all Internet, wireless and traditional business channels."

Pivotal ePower is a three-tier, XML-based demand chain management platform that provides the architecture, software capabilities and tools to easily create, rapidly deploy and cost-effectively maintain multi-lingual applications that are accessible via Web, wireless, LAN, WAN, networks and client devices. Pivotal ePower uses Microsoft .NET technology to deliver scalability, reliability and interoperability.

For many companies, the first phase of their CRM and eCommerce projects are independent of mainstream business applications. Now that many companies are moving beyond the first phase of their projects, they are discovering the need to synchronize the demand chain with back office and supply chain systems such as I2, Commerce One, SAP and Peoplesoft.

Pivotal ePower features powerful integration capabilities that enable fast integration in a multi-platform environment for enterprise applications and business-to-business integration (B2Bi). XML-based technologies enable companies to describe and exchange structured information between business applications that is standardized and platform-independent. Integration with ERP and other business applications is simplified because data is transferred via XML. As a result, demand chain and supply chain integration is easy and transparent.

Another innovation in Pivotal's ability to integrate with other applications and platforms is the use of Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP) technology. SOAP facilitates the transfer of information in a multi-platform environment by supporting the interoperation of various programming languages such as Perl, Java, C, C(plus)(plus) and environments such as COM, CORBA and J2EE.

Pivotal has upgraded the performance of its mobile synchronization capabilities to support server-to-server and mobile client synchronization processes. With these upgrades, Pivotal now provides a simple to use, one-step synchronization process that automatically alerts mobile users to synchronize. This capability protects the system from synchronization backlogs to ensure optimal performance.