Vitria Leads the Way in Business Process Integration with the Launch of Vitria:BusinessWare 4.2

New version of award-winning Vitria:BusinessWare integration platform supports Business Process Fusion, reducing total cost of ownership, increasing reliability and improving scalability

SUNNYVALE, Calif., November 17, 2003 -- Vitria (Nasdaq: VITR), a leading provider of business process integration solutions, today announced a new version of its award-winning business integration platform, Vitria:BusinessWare™ 4.2, now featuring industry-leading support for the emerging area of Business Process Fusion. Defined as the transformation of business activities achieved by integrating previously autonomous business processes, Business Process Fusion is intended to transform transactional processes in industries as diverse as healthcare, telecommunications, financial services, and supply chain manufacturing. Vitria:BusinessWare accelerates the development and management of Business Process Fusion, while simultaneously lowering the cost and risk of delivering these complex solutions.

According to leading industry analyst firm Gartner, "Business Process Fusion reflects a convergence of application architectures and platforms including portal framework, content management and collaboration support in addition to database, application server and integration broker." (05/30/03 BPM: A Key Ingredient in Business Process Fusion, by Simon Hayward).

An established innovator in application integration, Vitria was the first to introduce the use of Business Process Management (BPM) and Real-time Business Process Analysis within the same comprehensive integration platform. With expertise from six years of helping customers solve process-centric business problems, Vitria:BusinessWare is the most mature, proven technology available for BPM, positioning it well to become the leading infrastructure for the creation of agile Business Process Fusion applications.

Vitria:BusinessWare 4.2 improves upon Vitria:BusinessWare 4, (Business Integration Journal's 2003 Product of the Year), by simplifying solution development with the introduction of the Application Framework. The Application Framework consists of reusable tools, pre-built modules, extendable end-user interfaces, and business collaboration frameworks. These elements accelerate the implementation of common integration services to be used across a variety of vertical and horizontal business processes. With the introduction of cluster-based load balancing, improved manageability and performance, Vitria:BusinessWare culminates in providing all the practical features needed to provide Business Process Fusion solutions. The new BusinessWare 4.2 release also includes all of the advanced BPM functionality seen in Vitria:BusinessWare 4 including: graphical process modeling, direct execution, business process solution modelling and lifecycle management, real-time process monitoring and analysis, integrated human workflow, pervasive intelligence through rules. By vastly expanding the scope of management and visibility to business processes and their results beyond functional or application silos, Vitria:BusinessWare 4.2 enables rapid evolution of processes as well as the creation and/or destruction of new processes in response to up-to-the-minute business events. This leads to Business Process Fusion and the creation of a real-time enterprise.

"We already use Vitria:BusinessWare as our integration platform for our transportation order management eBusiness solution," said Janet Topic, vice president Information Technology, Trimac Corporation. "The new features in Vitria:BusinessWare 4.2 promise an accelerated integration process. We are especially pleased to see the focus on reusability and rapid solutions development that the Application Framework and common integration services provide. This should help us to complete our new projects more quickly."

Vitria:BusinessWare 4.2 -- Key Features and Benefits

• Next Generation B2B for reduced cost of ownership and improved collaboration management;
  
• Application Framework, that includes reusable Common Integration Services and Business Collaboration Frameworks -- key building blocks to simplify and speed the development and management of new applications;
  
• UI Framework for fast and easy creation of user screens;
  
• Cluster-based Support for increased scalability;
  
• Dynamic Load balancing for better use of hardware resources and more efficient scaling;
  
• Integrated Workflow Management with rich functions and easy customization;
  
• Business Rules now embedded into the platform for improved business intelligence;
  
• Enhanced Web Services capabilities.
  

"Vitria:BusinessWare 4.2 pushes the envelope of BPM, taking our customers to a new level of integration -- that of Business Process Fusion," said 'Father of BPM' Dale Skeen, chief technology officer and co-founder, Vitria. "Extending into and across all processes and applications within the enterprise, Vitria:BusinessWare is the integration platform that enables our customers and partners to achieve high-value, low-risk returns quickly."

About Vitria:BusinessWare
Vitria:BusinessWare is a business process integration platform that orchestrates interactions across a company's existing applications, data, people and partners to continuously improve one or more strategic business processes. Vitria:BusinessWare gives companies complete control and visibility of their business operations across their extended enterprise, enabling them to improve the efficiency of their business operations, reduce time to market for new products and services, develop closer relationships with their partners and customers, and rapidly respond to changing business conditions. The proven Vitria:BusinessWare solution was the industry's first platform for business process-centric integration and is widely recognized as the most flexible and powerful solution available, adopted by more than 500 customers and partners in a broad range of industries.

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