SEEC Accepted into the IBM SOA Specialty.

SEEC Business Component Software Integrated with WebSphere Business Services Fabric Delivers Business Agility and Flexibility

PITTSBURGH -- SEEC, Inc., a leading provider of Business Component Software for the insurance and financial services industries, today announced its acceptance to the IBM SOA Specialty after successfully completing IBM's rigorous SOA technical and business requirements. With this achievement, the SEEC Advantage Library[TM] comprising 200 pre-built standards-based SOA Business Components integrates with the IBM SOA Foundation, a single, integrated platform that combines the industry's top application server and integration capabilities. SEEC also announced that it recently completed integration of its ready-built SOA components with the WebSphere Business Services Fabric. Coupled with the WebSphere Business Services Fabric, SEEC components enable customers to quickly deliver loosely-coupled composite business services for insurance and financial services providers, together with the agility to dynamically configure business services for different user groups such as agents, brokers, or customer service employees.

In March of last year, IBM announced an SOA Specialty in PartnerWorld for Industry Networks. The IBM SOA Specialty provides technical enablement and a skills-building roadmap for partners who want to access the growing SOA market opportunity. For those who achieve key milestones, the Specialty will also provide SOA-specific marketing and sales benefits such as SOA Connection Events to meet directly with IBM SOA Sales specialists and discounted print advertising and telemarketing. IBM Sales Connections, a consultative service in the PartnerWorld Industry Networks, helps business partners close SOA deals quickly by connecting them with the relevant IBM SOA and local field sales team.

"SOA is an increasingly important business requirement for organizations because of the business flexibility it enables," said Sandy Carter, vice president, SOA and WebSphere, IBM Software Group. "SEEC's commitment to SOA and WebSphere Business Services Fabric provides their customers with a powerful way to increase market agility, streamline sales and service processes, and dramatically enhance customer experience across products and lines of business."

Following its 4th quarter 2006 release of the SEEC Business Component catalog, SEEC offers over 200 pre-built, standards-based components that can be leveraged independently, or in combination, to create Business Services and comprehensive Service-Oriented Business Applications to support entire business processes for insurance and financial services providers. SEEC components form a Business Services layer above legacy applications based on industry-standard semantics, providing a uniform way to access information and perform transactions across otherwise disconnected IT silo's. Unlike traditional applications, SEEC components leverage the legacy data and back-end functionality already in place, enabling customers to re-use proven systems without a high-risk replacement decision, and liberate the business from struggling with silo'ed applications. SEEC components are built to industry-standards (J2EE, ACORD, Web Services), and licensed with the source code, avoiding the risk of proprietary lock-in, forced upgrades and obsolescence. To obtain a copy of the most recent SEEC Business Component Software catalog, contact SEEC at 1.800.682.SEEC (7332) or complete a request at www.seec.com.

"SEEC's pre-built Business Components cut the time, risk and cost for IT organizations to deliver a rich, powerful user experience for agent or customer service initiatives," said Shane Tulloch, President and Chief Executive Officer of SEEC. "Our partnership with IBM and support for the WebSphere Business Services Fabric extends that advantage by delivering the agility to dynamically manage and configure SEEC's pre-built Business Services for critical users such as agents, brokers and customer service employees."

About SEEC

SEEC provides the World's largest library of Business Component Software for the insurance and financial services industries. The SEEC Advantage Library[TM] contains hundreds of pre-built software components that are designed by domain experts, built to industry standards, and licensed with the source code, providing customers with a trusted source of highly reusable, non-proprietary assets purpose-built for insurance and financial services providers. Companies use SEEC business components to rapidly assemble custom web-applications that streamline customer service, accelerate sales, and dramatically improve customer and agent experience across all channels, products and lines of business. SEEC's loosely-coupled component architecture delivers business functionality by integrating and enhancing proven capabilities across existing systems, increasing agility, reuse, and responsiveness to business priorities. By leveraging SEEC's deep selection of ready-built assets, IT organizations gain a significant competitive advantage - a faster, more cost-effective and flexible way to deliver business results than building solutions from scratch.

SEEC's customers include Global 1000 companies from North America, Europe and Asia, in insurance, banking, financial services, healthcare, and a range of other service-driven industries. Industry leaders including New York Life Insurance, Banker's Life & Casualty, North Carolina Farm Bureau Insurance, and Ohio Casualty rely on SEEC to increase productivity, drive innovation and growth, and enhance customer experience. SEEC is headquartered in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and has offices in Hyderabad, India. For more information, visit us at www.seec.com.