Vantive Teams with Synchrologic to Offer Mobile Database Synchronization.

SANTA CLARA, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 29, 1999--

Industry-Standard Synchronization Technology Helps Vantive

Deliver Mobile Applications with Fast Implementation and

Minimal Administration

The Vantive Corp. (Nasdaq:VNTV), a leader in customer relationship management software, today announced the integration of Synchrologic's data synchronization technology with Vantive On-The-Go (VOTG), Vantive's mobile computing technology.

The combined offering facilitates access and sharing of Vantive data by intermittently connected mobile users.

The newest release of VOTG enables Vantive mobile applications -- Vantive Sales and Vantive FieldService -- to better support thousands of highly distributed remote clients, in a broad range of database environments, and on a wide array of hardware platforms.

The integration of Synchrologic with VOTG adds new functionality that eases the customization, administration and maintenance of mobile applications. Benefits include significantly decreased deployment time and lower communications costs for mobile computing.

"Synchrologic is widely recognized as the best data synchronization technology on the market," said Steven Sherman, executive vice president of Product Development.

"Incorporating Synchrologic in Vantive Sales and FieldService gives our customers open, scalable, seamless data synchronization with the push of a single button. Their pioneering work in enterprise synchronization for the Palm Computing Platform is also very attractive to us.

"By working with Synchrologic, we can focus on continuing to deliver premier customer relationship management solutions for both on- and off-line richness and performance."

According to Said Mohammadioun, CEO of Synchrologic, "Our selection by Vantive underscores how our technology provides an industrial-strength, scalable and extensible solution to solve the synchronization challenge for CRM applications."

META Group Program Director for Application Development Strategies, Elizabeth Shahnam, offers, "Data synchronization is one of the most critical and complex components in a CRM application. Because of this, an increasing number of CRM vendors are relying on partners with best of breed solutions to solve their synchronization challenges, rather than trying to build something on their own."

"It's a good strategy for CRM vendors," she continues, "and as a result of their partnerships, these vendors are able to offer some of the most efficient and cost effective data synchronization in the industry."

The de facto standard for data synchronization in mobile enterprise applications, Synchrologic's technology has been licensed by a number of leading enterprise application vendors and has been deployed to thousands of mobile professionals at large corporations.

With the integration of Synchrologic technology, mobile Vantive users can connect briefly to the Vantive database to automatically download and share customer data. Mobile users can work with data offline, reconnecting later to send back modified data, as well as receive new updates.

This offline capability not only reduces connect-time charges for mobile workers, but also permits them to access and work with key data even at times when Internet connectivity isn't feasible -- such as at customer sites, airport terminals or hotels.

About Synchrologic, Inc.

Synchrologic is the leading developer of mobile data synchronization software for Windows and Web-based applications. Today, its products are deployed to thousands of mobile users of custom-built corporate applications in field sales, field service and remote retail.

Its flagship product, the SyncKit server, is licensed by over a dozen leading packaged enterprise application vendors and supports synchronization between Oracle (Nasdaq:ORCL), Microsoft SQL Server (Nasdaq:MSFT), IBM DB2 (NYSE:IBM), Informix (Nasdaq:IFMX), Sybase SQL Anywhere (Nasdaq:SYBS), Microsoft Access, Oracle Lite, and IBM UDB.

Two complementary products, SyncPipe and SyncPump, handle remote data transport, external data mapping and data transformation issues for developers, and offer specific functionality for mobile workers. SyncKit for the Palm Computing Platform allows mobile workers to use the Palm computing device as their sole productivity device or as a companion to their laptops.

For more information, contact Synchrologic at 888/345-SYNC, [e-mail], or www.synchrologic.com.

About The Vantive Corp.

Vantive is a worldwide leader in customer relationship management solutions with more than 750 customers and $163M in revenue in 1998. Vantive empowers companies to sell, support and service customers through any channel of interaction -- the Web, call center, e-mail, or direct through sales and service representatives.

The Vantive Enterprise is an integrated software suite that leverages the Internet to increase sales, marketing, call center, field service, help desk and web service effectiveness. Vantive Enterprise is differentiated by its rich functionality; proven mobile and Web-based solutions; component-based, high-performance architecture; and time- and cost-effective implementations.

Vantive is supported by extensive software, consulting, and service partner programs that provide further technology and vertical expertise as well as integration support. Founded in 1990, Vantive is headquartered in Santa Clara, and distributes its products in more than two dozen countries.

Contact the Vantive Corp. at 800/VANTIVE or www.vantive.com.

Note to Editors: Vantive, Vantive Enterprise, Vantive Sales, Vantive FieldService, Vantive On-The-Go, Vantive Support, Vantive Quality, Vantive HelpDesk, and VanWeb are trademarks of The Vantive Corp. Synchrologic, SyncKit, SyncPipe and SyncPump are trademarks of Synchrologic, Inc. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners.