Partner Press Release
Extricity Software Demonstrates First Successful Customer Implementation Of RosettaNet E-Business Standards announces Support Of RosettaNet Initiative

Ingram Micro and Solectron Use Extricity AllianceSeries Products to Bring RosettaNet eConcert Initiative to Life

For Release June 9, 1999

Redwood Shores, CA -- Extricity Software Inc. continues to set the agenda in comprehensive business-to-business integration solutions by today announcing its support, participation and actual business deployment of currently available RosettaNet standards. RosettaNet is thea leading industry standards body and consortium focused on delivering pre-defined business-to-business processes for the PC IT industry.

Extricity Software, the leader in providing business-to-business integration software for Global 2000 companies, is actively participating in RosettaNet's launch of eConcert, the next phase of RosettaNet's efforts in developing e-business standards. eConcert serves as an effective cross-enterprise forum to orchestrate a global, coordinated, and accelerated deployment of RosettaNet's common Partner Interface Processes (PIPs). RosettaNet PIPs create new areas of alignment within the overall IT supply chain e-business processes, allowing IT supply chain partners to fully leverage electronic commerce applications and the Internet as a business-to-business commerce tool.

"For the past 15 years, the IT industry has been largely competing through its ability to execute via internal process improvements," said RosettaNet's chief executive officer Fadi Chehadé. "Today, there is a huge increase in specialization, where best-in-class companies compete through their ability to integrate into communities of world-class partners. This requires more than just integration of systems - real business value comes with packaged applications that work at the process level where business processes are integrated among many global trading partners," Chehadé said.

Extricity AllianceSeries family of software products are being used to implement the first successful interactions between Solectron Corp., the leading global contract manufacturer, and Ingram Micro Inc., the world's largest wholesale distributor of technology products and services. Ingram Micro and Solectron are using e-business processes developed by the RosettaNet consortium as part of RosettaNet's eConcert effort.As electronic commerce continues to accelerate the velocity of business, companies are recognizing the urgent need for common electronic business interfaces in the IT industry that will help them leverage the Internet to fundamentally improve collaboration among customers, partners and suppliers. As the leader in providing business-to-business integration software for Global 2000 companies, Extricity Software Inc. has been working in support of the RosettaNet global initiative to help adopt and deploy these open and common business interfaces, which are considered critical for the continued evolution of e-business.

On June 10, Extricity Software is actively participating in RosettaNet's launch of eConcert, the next phase of RosettaNet's efforts in developing e-business standards. eConcert represents RosettaNet's next step in the implementation of partner-to-partner electronic commerce, from lab testing of concepts, to pre-production pilots, to live production implementations beginning February 2, 2000. eConcert serves as an effective cross-enterprise form to orchestrate a global, coordinated, fast deployment of RosettaNet's common Partner Interface Processes (PIPs). RosettaNet PIPs create new areas of alignment within the overall IT supply chain eBusiness processes, allowing IT supply chain partners to scale eBusiness, and to fully leverage electronic commerce applications and the Internet as a business-to-business commerce tool.

For the past year, Extricity Software has been working with two of its customers - Ingram Micro Inc., the world's largest wholesale distributor of technology products and services, and Solectron Corp., the largest global contract manufacturer, with Ingram Micro and Solectron to implement the initial set of RosettaNet's PIPs, which enable the Internet-based exchange of product catalog and technical product information between Ingram Micro and Solectron. Ingram Micro and Solectron have already been using the Extricity AllianceSeries family of products to integrate a number of critical business processes and systems between the two organizations.

"The RosettaNet PIPs complement the existing, strategic e-business processes that Ingram Micro and Solectron are using with the Extricity AllianceSeries products," said Gregory Olsen, Extricity's chief technology officer. "Organizations have a spectrum of information that needs to be coordinated with their partners. These coordination efforts span the requirements for common processes for commodity-type interactions, such as the exchange of catalog information, as well as the need for specialized, strategic processes that are used to achieve a distinct competitive advantage, such as channel assembly. The Extricity AllianceSeries software family is engineered to manage partner coordination needs across this entire spectrum," said Olsen.

"Our leadership in eConcert, and in conjunction with our customers, Ingram Micro and Solectron, provides an important first step on the journey to be ready for full RosettaNet-compliance by February 2, 2000," Olsen added.

Support of the open, eXtensible Markup Language (XML)-based RosettaNet standards adds yet another way in which members of trading partner communities can integrate their business processes and systems using the Extricity AllianceSeries family of products. The Extricity AllianceSeries family already allows business users to define interactions with their trading partners via shared processes based on XML, via web-based interactions, as well as a wide variety of basic data exchange methods, including electronic data interchange (EDI), file transfer protocol (FTP), and simple mail transfer protocol (SMTP).

The RosettaNet Managing Board now consists of 34 CEOs, CIOs, and executives representing global members of the IT supply chain, including: American Express, Arrow Electronics, Avnet, CHS Electronics, Cisco Systems, CompUSA, Compaq, Computacenter, Deutsche Financial Services, EDS, Federal Express, GE Information Services, GSA, Hewlett-Packard Company, IBM, Inacom, Ingram Micro Inc., Insight, Intel, Marshall Industries, Microage, Microsoft, Netscape, NEC Technologies, Office Depot, Oracle, pcOrder, SAP AG, Siemens, Solectron, Tech Data, 3Com, Toshiba Information Systems and United Parcel Service.About RosettaNet Founded in 1998, RosettaNet is an independent, self-funded, non-profit consortium dedicated to the development and deployment of standard electronic commerce interfaces to align the processes between IT supply chain partners on a global basis. RosettaNet can be found on the World Wide Web at http://www.rosettanet.org.

About Extricity Software
Named as one of the "Top 25 Enterprise Software Companies to Watch" by Fortune Magazine, Extricity Software is the leader in providing business-to-business integration software solutions that allow global enterprises to leverage the Internet to gain efficiencies and competitiveness by forging tighter relationships with their business partners. Using the Extricity AllianceSeries family of products, companies can create, manage, and automate shared business processes easily and securely, thereby developing close connections with the customers, distributors and partners that comprise today's extended enterprise. Extricity's award-winning products are being used at a large number of leading companies who are realizing a variety of measurable benefits, including reduced cycle times and inventories, increased on-time delivery, improved customer retention, and enhanced profitability.

Extricity Software has formed strategic partnerships with companies like Baan, IBM, Intel, Microsoft, Oracle, PeopleSoft, SAP and TIBCO. Additionally, Extricity is working with major management consulting and systems integrators, including Andersen Consulting, Cambridge Technology Partners, IBM Global Services, and PricewaterhouseCoopers. Founded in 1996, Extricity Software is a privately held company with headquarters in Redwood Shores, Calif. Additional company information is available on the Internet at http://www.extricity.com.