Tivoli Equips Extended Enterprise With Data Sharing e-business Tools; Protocol and Platform Friendly, Tivoli Data Exchange Keeps Remote Users Current

Business Wire, June 6, 2000

Business Editors and High-Tech Writers

MADRID, Spain--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 6, 2000

Planet Tivoli--Tivoli(R) Systems Inc., the leading technology management company, today announced Tivoli Data Exchange, a software solution that enables the collection and distribution of business-critical data -- regardless of content type or size -- across major platforms and network protocols. Tivoli Data Exchange benefits today's global business environment by reducing data transfer times, saving valuable network bandwidth, and easily scaling to meet growing e-business needs.

"File movement software revenues grew at 19.8 percent to top the $500 million mark in 1999," said Dan Kusnetzky, vice president of system software research at IDC. "IDC expects this market to grow to over $1.1 billion by 2004 as organizations support both the server-centric e-commerce and internal applications."

Tivoli Data Exchange supports nearly every business process involving data -- from retrieving point of sale (POS) records to distributing updated price and inventory lists to remote users. Tivoli Data Exchange can initiate connectionless data transfers from any node, as well as provide server backup, move data to and from SANs without clogging the network, transfer video files to on-demand servers and update a mobile user laptop with the latest database changes.

The result of a technology agreement, Tivoli Data Exchange combines CommerceQuest's (Tampa, FL) superior enterprise integration software with Tivoli system management expertise. Tivoli Data Exchange allows for the secure, efficient and reliable transfer of data across all platforms in an enterprise through compression and parallel delivery paths. It uses an IBM MQSeries engine for any-to-any connection, assured delivery and data integrity checking. Tivoli Data Exchange caters to heterogeneous networks by automatically handling various protocols including SNA, TCP/IP and X.25 and supports over 35 platforms. The result is a scalable solution that seamlessly converts from SNA to IP with no product adjustments, as well as seamless integration with existing in-house applications with its exposed API.

"Tivoli Data Exchange complements the Tivoli software management product suite by enabling the reliable and scalable collection and distribution of business-critical data at a very low implementation cost," said Sigmund Puchacz, director of Tivoli Enterprise(tm) product management, Tivoli Systems Inc. "Tivoli Data Exchange provides the kind of functionality that is no longer a luxury, but a necessity to the business processes of any organization."

Availability

Tivoli Data Exchange will be available beginning July 21, 2000 through Tivoli and authorized resellers. Migration time averages under one month. Prices vary by configuration.

About CommerceQuest

CommerceQuest is a leading provider of enterprise integration solutions for Net Market Makers and the Global 2000. The company's solutions seamlessly, rapidly, and reliably integrate business processes and applications across geographically and technologically diverse boundaries. The company's outsourced B2B integration solution, enableNet, incorporates the integration software licensed by Tivoli. Customers include numerous Global 2000 corporations as well as leading Net Market Makers such as AviEx, Commerx, e-Chemicals, EmployeeLife, ICG Commerce, INC2inc, JusticeLink, and SourceTrack.

CommerceQuest is a privately held company with headquarters in Tampa, Florida, branch offices across the United States, and offices in Australia, Europe, and South Africa. The Company is an infrastructure services provider within Internet Capital Group's (Nasdaq:ICGE) collaborative network of Partner Companies. For more information, please contact CommerceQuest in the United States at 1-813-903-3000 or visit World Wide Web: http://www.CommerceQuest.com.

About Tivoli Systems Inc.

Tivoli software manages the foundations of e-business, extending the boundaries of traditional network and systems management from the data center across the Internet, from the desktop to pervasive devices. Leading companies around the world use Tivoli software, Tivoli Ready third-party products and Team Tivoli partner services to reduce the cost and complexity of managing heterogeneous IT environments. Tivoli solutions, encompassing management of security, storage, and mobile devices, are helping these organizations to create a technology infrastructure to support the next generation of business. Headquartered in Austin, Texas, Tivoli is an IBM company (NYSE:IBM). Tivoli distributes its products worldwide through a network of global sales offices, systems integrators, resellers and IBM sales channels. For more information, visit www.tivoli.com.

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