Sagent Partners With Interpath for Web-Based Global View of Critical Business Information

Business Wire, March 14, 2000

Business Editors, Technology Writers

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 14, 2000

Sagent eBusiness Intelligence Solution enables Interpath customers

to instantly access and analyze the most accurate, up-to-date

corporate data

Sagent Technology Inc. (Nasdaq: SGNT), a leading provider of Real-time eBusiness Intelligence solutions, today announced a strategic partnership with Interpath, the leading full-service Application Service Provider (ASP), to enable Interpath customers to access and analyze corporate data instantly using Sagent's complete eBusiness Intelligence solution.

Interpath offers its customers a full-range of mission-critical services, including consulting, implementation, and ongoing management and hosting of e-commerce applications, ERP applications and messaging applications. Through its partnership with Sagent, Interpath now integrates customers' corporate or firmographic data from multiple back-end systems for organization, cleansing, analysis and secure distribution to customers over the Web. Interpath customers then use the information, including finance, sales, marketing and customer data, to make critical business decisions faster and more accurately.

"It is indisputable that the need to access and analyze accurate data in a timely manner is essential in the current business environment," said Dr. Basel Kanawati, Product Technology Director for Interpath. "Sagent offers our customers a comprehensive, cost-effective solution essential for running their enterprises. By providing our customers with a global view of their business, they are able to more effectively and precisely address business decisions at hand."

Sagent delivers the only open, scalable solution that addresses the complete life cycle for eBusiness Intelligence, including development, production and ongoing management. The Sagent Solution allows businesses to collect and analyze customer and operational data from existing systems and to incorporate the freshest demographic, geographic, credit and other information from third-party data content providers in real time. This information is then made available over the Web via a secure connection to create precise one-to-one marketing campaigns, identify profitable sales opportunities, and improve operational efficiencies.

About Interpath

Interpath is an Application Service Provider (ASP) offering businesses a full range of managed application services, IP-based applications and Internet consulting. Interpath offers customers a comprehensive portfolio of mission-critical services, including consulting, implementation, and ongoing management and hosting of e-commerce applications, ERP applications and messaging applications. Interpath's applications combined with the Interpath Operations Center (IOC) offer speed to market advantages, lower implementation costs, reduced IT investment, 24x7 monitoring and one point of contact for network, system and application management. Interpath is a wholly owned subsidiary of Carolina Power & Light (CP&L) (NYSE: CPL).

About Sagent Technology

Sagent Technology (Nasdaq: SGNT) is a leading provider of Real-time eBusiness Intelligence solutions that enable Global 2000 enterprises to win, retain and grow new customers, as well as improve operational effectiveness. Sagent provides products, services and value-added content that help businesses collect, analyze, understand and act on customer and operational information in real time.

Sagent powers more than 1,000 customer-driven organizations around the world and across such diverse industries as e-commerce, financial services, insurance, healthcare and telecommunications. These include such market leaders as GE Capital, Sony Online Entertainment, MapQuest.com, Outpost.com, Ticketmaster, Kemper National Insurance, Royal & SunAlliance, United Healthcare and AT&T. Sagent has several strategic relationships, including ADP, Advent, CommerceOne, Compaq, EDS, IBM, Microsoft, Siebel and Interpath. Sagent is headquartered in Mountain View, California, and can be reached at www.sagent.com.

Sagent is a registered trademark of Sagent Technology Inc. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners.

This press release contains forward-looking statements. There are certain important factors that could cause Sagent's future development efforts with Interpath to differ materially from those anticipated by some of the statements made above. Among these is the anticipation of the growth of certain market segments, the positioning of Sagent's products in those segments, the competitive environment in the software industry, dependence on other products, changes to operating systems and product strategy by vendors of operating systems, and the importance of new Sagent products.