Vincera Software Selects AGEA Corporation's Business Acceleration Suite 3.2 To Provide Business Analytics Capability.

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AUSTIN, Texas--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 17, 2002

AGEA's Products Will Extend Vincera's Offering to Include Real-Time

Alerting and Event Notification Capabilities

AGEA Corporation, a provider of real-time enterprise communication solutions, today announced that Vincera Software, an industry leader providing business visibility from within applications, has selected AGEA's Business Acceleration Suite 3.2 (BAS) to extend their current product suite to provide enhanced capability for the real-time enterprise.

By adding this technology to Vincera's existing product suite, customers will be able to detect and be notified of business critical events in real-time -- creating the opportunity for increased revenue, better business process efficiency, and improved customer satisfaction.

Business processes are perpetual and must be continually monitored and responded to -- whether they relate to sales, manufacturing, customer service, or maintenance. The ability to react in real-time to critical information can greatly impact a company's success. AGEA's BAS suite of products combine to act as a 24x7 watchdog -- constantly monitoring and capturing event information from activities within systems based upon pre-defined and configurable business rules. That information is then dispersed throughout the organization based on each organizations' business processes and rules. This combined with the Vincera Solution Suite provides the first solution to automate the process of providing real-time business level visibility in custom developed Web applications.

"Vincera understands that in order to truly maximize business effectiveness for increased efficiency and cost-savings, you must have technology that proactively manages the flow and distribution of real-time, mission-critical information throughout the organization," said Dave Malmstedt, Chairman and CEO for Vincera Software. "As we examined the options to add this capability to our offering, AGEA's products stood out for their robust functionality, ease-of-use and deployment flexibility. By tightly integrating this technology to extend our own, our customers will be able to gain visibility into their critical business processes in a matter of minutes, rather than weeks or months."

"The Vincera Solution Suite and AGEA's BAS event notification system combine to provide customers with the business activity monitoring needed to be far more competitive," said Russell Glass, President of AGEA Corporation. "We believe that the strength of this offering will enable companies in a variety of industries, such as energy, healthcare, finance and manufacturing to get measurable increases in productivity and efficiency."

AGEA Corporation BAS modules selected by Vincera include:

The BAS Event Management System is designed to:

-- Receive and identify the events that require action

-- Determine the urgency to respond to these events

-- Channel the events through other modules in the system for delivery

The BAS Notification Engine is designed to:

-- Transform passive data into real-time actionable information

-- Deliver contextual information from disparate data sources to

the users

-- Determine protocol and delivery format for the device and

deliver the information

The BAS Rules Configurator is designed to:

-- Define data constraints that determine the event flow through

the system

-- Extend the event information to include data from external

sources

-- Deploy dynamic decision making elements allowing embedded

customized business logic

The BAS Business Management Console provides users with:

-- Rapid creation and maintenance of business logic

-- Quick user and device registration

-- Real-time business process management

-- Authentication services

-- Web interface for complete management of BAS modules

About AGEA Corporation

AGEA Corporation(tm) provides real-time communication solutions for the enterprise. AGEA's mission is to develop software solutions that increase the responsiveness of our customers by providing access to enterprise information and facilitating real-time interaction between systems, employees, partners and customers. With AGEA, companies can speed decision making and event resolution by seeking the appropriate individuals, providing them with options to respond, and enabling them to interact with enterprise systems. AGEA is a Sun Microsystems(tm) portfolio company.

About Vincera Software

Vincera Software is the premier provider of software solutions that enable corporations to move towards the real-time enterprise. Vincera's innovative solutions provide customers the ability to offer their unique services over the Web while providing real-time visibility through business activity monitoring. Fortune 1000 companies are realizing the benefits of Vincera's breakthrough technology. For more information please visit www.vincera.com or call 512/233-5500.