XAware Announces XA-Xchange Hubs for EDI, Healthcare and Financial Services; Xchange Hubs Reduce Operations Costs as Companies Move off Proprietary Exchanges.

Business Editors/High-Tech Writers

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 26, 2004

XAware, Inc., a leader in XML-based information exchange and data integration, announces XA-Xchange Hubs, a family of text integration engines available as packaged solutions for EDI, healthcare, financial services, and government markets.

XA-Xchange Hubs feature a dynamic J2EE text transformation engine for integration of structured, semi-structured and unstructured text. The ability to aggregate text data from multiple formats enables organizations to seamlessly integrate legacy data and applications with new-world messaging protocols and transport. Whereas text processors commonly run as a separate process or module, XA-Xchange Hubs offer the only 100% Java integrated text processor that runs entirely within the application server. XA-Xchange Hubs run within leading application servers such as IBM WebSphere, BEA WebLogic, Oracle 9iAS, SunONE and JBoss.

The XA-Xchange text engine transforms structured text with delimiters such as comma, tab and space; tagged-values; fixed-field; and application formats such as Microsoft Excel. XA-Xchange also transforms semi-structured text formats including EDI, HL7, X12, FpML, FIX, and SWIFT, as well as unstructured text such as HTML, ASCII, text documents and reports.

"Xchange Hubs include a patent-pending text processing technology that delivers superior performance and flexibility in handling a wide variety of unstructured text streams," said Bill Miller, XAware's Chief Executive Officer. "Deploying Xchange Hubs allows companies to dramatically reduce operations costs as they move off proprietary non-internet based exchange methods."

XA-Xchange Hubs are packaged as a flexible solution with software licenses, XA-Designer, XA-iServer, XA-Active Exchange definitions and professional services for a complete integration solution for manufacturers, healthcare, government agencies and financial services companies. XA-Designer is a design environment used to create, test and deploy aggregated views of data, including text streams. It offers drag-and-drop tools to build and integrate complete definitions using GUI wizards. XA-Designer also provides the option to write text transformation definitions directly using XAware's T-Script (text-to-XML script), a powerful language for converting text sources to standard XML. XA-iServer is a robust, multi-threaded, scalable and clusterable integration engine that offers high volume transaction processing capabilities.

XA-Xchange Hubs for EDI, Healthcare and Financial Services

XA-Xchange Hubs can accommodate standardized and proprietary data formats, international standards and even dynamic formats through programmatic handling and business logic. Xchange Hubs feature text gateways that provide I/O from files, FTP, email, socket, JMS, IBM MQSeries, HTTP and Web Services. XA-Xchange Hubs are designed to enable text data integration requirements to comply with Straight-Through-Processing (STP), HL7 and other initiatives and standards. Each Xchange Hub includes custom Xchange definitions, file templates and tools to customize uniquely defined variants.

XAware's EDI XA-Xchange Hub transforms data sources such as ANSI X12, UN/EDIFACT, Federal eBusiness EDI X12 implementation conventions (ICs), TRADECOMS (UK) and ODETTE (UK). The XAware EDI Hub is targeted at manufacturers, distributors and retailers in industries such as aerospace, automotive, defense/intelligence and transportation.

Healthcare XA-Xchange Hub is compatible with the broad spectrum of healthcare data formats, messaging and transport including HL7 version 2.5 (text) and 3.0 (XML), Arden Syntax, Clinical Document Architecture (CDA), Context Management Architecture (CMA), UN/EDIFACT, HIPAA ANSI X12N, and European standard CEN/TC 251. The XAware Healthcare Hub is targeted at insurance providers, HMOs, hospitals and healthcare providers. The Healthcare Xchange Hub can eliminate high clearinghouse transaction fees for healthcare providers as they move to a cost-effective HIPAA compliance solution.

Financial Services XA-Xchange Hub interoperates with data sources including SWIFT/SWIFT FIN 2003, FIX, ISO15221, ISO7775, ISO15022, X12 and UN/EDIFACT, SMDX, IMF SDDS, Reuters InterTrade Direct (RITD), Treasury Workstation Integration Standards Team (TWIST), RIXML, FIXML, MDDL and XBRL.

XA-Xchange Hubs are available today. The average customer deployment is priced at approximately $75,000, depending on configuration and unique requirements. Xchange Hub technology is also available as embeddable components to content management, portal, reporting, application server and other software vendors looking to gain access to unstructured enterprise data.

About XAware, Inc.

XAware, Inc. is a worldwide leader in XML enablement, data integration and information exchange supporting Web Services, Java, Windows and .Net technologies. From a single point of access, users can query, customize and gain visibility to information from hundreds of application and data sources inside and outside the corporation. XAware eliminates the need to write complex custom code to retrieve, translate, manipulate and exchange information; shortening project schedules, reducing costs, and enabling information exchange between systems, companies and government agencies. XAware is focused on serving the needs of government agencies and financial services companies. Founded in 1999 with venture funding, XAware is based in Colorado Springs, Colo. For more information on XAware, visit www.xaware.com or call 719-884-5400.

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Editor's note: For more information about XAware's family of XA-Xchange Hubs, go to http://www.xaware.com/industry_solutions/xhub_overview.html

For a product data sheet about XAware's family of XA-Xchange Hubs, go to http://www.xaware.com/documents/Xchange_Hub_DataSheet.pdf