Primordial Releases WSBANG 2.0, Next Generation of Leading Web Services Management Platform.

Business/High Tech Editors

NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--July 29, 2002

Enhanced Security, Performance and Manageability for

Enterprise Web Services

Primordial - a leader in Web services enterprise management solutions -today announced the release of WSBANG 2.0, the next-generation Web services management platform.

WSBANG - pronounced "whiz-bang" - makes Web services business-grade by applying security policy, optimizing performance, and institutionalizing best practices enterprise-wide. Operating as a platform-independent Web services intermediary, WSBANG offers a single point of visibility into and control over all enterprise Web services without requiring changes to the underlying application code.

"The (Web services) hype does not address how multiple services, created by different organizations and running on different systems, can interact successfully with one another," says Benoit L'heureux, an analyst with the Gartner Group. "The proliferation of Web services will be accompanied by low quality of service - unless some facility exists to coordinate the actions of Web services."

Current WSBANG customers include Avis Rent-a-Car Systems, Inc., which has been running WSBANG in its datacenter since the first quarter of 2002. "WSBANG is a core component of our Web services implementation strategy," says John Turato, vice president of technology for Avis. "Avis uses Web services to enhance our connectivity to customers and partners, and WSBANG manages the Web services in our enterprise."

Key features of the WSBANG Web services management system include

    --  Access control                     --  Logging
    --  Brokering                          --  Message transformation
    --  Caching                            --  Metering
    --  Encryption                         --  Monitoring and QoS
    --  Endpoint switching                 --  Partner provisioning
    --  Guaranteed asynchronous messaging

"We've been hearing from customers for some time that the gating issue isn't creating Web services," says Joe Labbe, CEO of Primordial. "It's securing them, monitoring them,facilitating payment for them - all the enhancements needed to meet enterprise deployment requirements. That's why we built WSBANG."

WSBANG 2.0 is available as a plug-and-play network appliance or an enterprise software suite. For more information, please visit www.primordial.com. Users wishing to request a free WSBANG trial account may visit www.primordial.com/products_demo.html.

About Primordial

Primordial is an enterprise software solutions provider focused on Web services. The company's flagship product, WSBANG ("whiz-bang"), is a Web services management platform that provides security, scalability, reliability and performance enhancement to Web services enterprise-wide, regardless of the underlying development platform and with no invasiveness into the underlying code. WSBANG enables IT professionals to bring services to market faster, manage them more efficiently, and institutionalize policy and best practices from a single point of control. WSBANG makes Web services ready for business.

"Primordial" and "WSBANG" are trademarks of Primordial, Inc. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners.