Blue Shield of California Selects SeeBeyond's eXchange Suite for B2B Integration, HIPAA Compliance

Business Wire, Nov 6, 2000

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REDWOOD SHORES, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 6, 2000

SeeBeyond Helps $3 Billion Health Plan

Improve Services and Reduce Costs

SeeBeyond (Nasdaq:SBYN), the leading global provider of eBusiness Integration (eBI) solutions, today announced that Blue Shield of California has chosen SeeBeyond to improve the integration, flow and security of information between Blue Shield and its business partners. By providing employers, hospitals and physicians with faster, more complete and secure access to patient and administrative data, SeeBeyond's e*Xchange eBusiness Integration(TM) Suite will help Blue Shield reduce costs and become compliant with recently-announced Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) transaction standards.

"In order to assure that Blue Shield member interactions are streamlined and trouble-free, we've instituted an enterprise-wide initiative to reconstruct our business processes," said Charles Hale, Blue Shield project leader. "We need a reliable, rapidly deployable solution to integrate our legacy systems data to our front-end systems that communicate with our business partners."

SeeBeyond's e*Xchange suite will be used to replace a home-grown EDI system with a comprehensive, off-the-shelf solution that will allow Blue Shield to integrate various legacy systems, provide streamlined communications with its several thousand business partners, and adapt quickly to changing industry dynamics.

"SeeBeyond has brought innovative integration solutions to the healthcare market for the last ten years," said Rich Cramer, Director of Global Healthcare Marketing for SeeBeyond. "By embracing SeeBeyond's eBusiness integration model, healthcare organizations like Blue Shield can leverage compliance with the HIPAA transaction standards into the basis for an eBusiness infrastructure. That means HIPAA compliance is not just a cost, it's an opportunity for healthcare companies to provide new services and products, and create new revenue streams."

About e*Xchange eBusiness Integration Suite

Based on the new version of the industry's most robust eBusiness integration platform -- e*Gate(TM) Integrator -- the e*Xchange eBusiness Integration Suite enables:

-- Business-to-business integration

-- Supply and demand chain automation and management

-- Front-office to back-office integration

-- Legacy system integration

-- Enterprise backbone integration

-- Internet application integration

-- Business-to-consumer integration

e*Gate Integrator, the foundation of SeeBeyond's new product suite, is the fourth generation of the product implemented at more than 1,500 customer sites worldwide. In sharp contrast to competitors' hub-and-spoke architectures, e*Gate's revolutionary distributed, fault-tolerant, infinitely scalable, network-based architecture enables information to seamlessly flow within and among enterprises, not just today, but in the future as the businesses grow and applications evolve.

About SeeBeyond (Formerly STC)

As the market leader in eBusiness Integration, SeeBeyond (Nasdaq: SBYN) eliminates the boundaries and simplifies the complexities of integrating and optimizing business processes within and among enterprises. The SeeBeyond e*Xchange eBusiness Integration(TM) Suite provides a comprehensive framework from which companies can model, manage and monitor in real-time, optimized B2B connectivity and A2A integration -- ultimately driving significant bottom line impact. With more than 10 years of experience operating under the name STC, SeeBeyond has successfully integrated systems at more than 1,300 organizations worldwide, including, ABN Amro, Barnes & Noble.com, Bausch & Lomb, Daimler-Chrysler, Florida Power & Light, Fluor Corporation, Hewlett Packard, Nike, PETsMART and Pfizer. Key global business and technology consulting partners include Andersen Consulting, EDS, Computer Sciences Corporation, Cap Gemini Ernst & Young, KPMG Consulting and PricewaterhouseCoopers. Software partners include BroadVision, Onyx Software, Oracle, SAP and Siebel Systems.

SeeBeyond Technology Corporation has global headquarters in Monrovia, Calif. and sales and marketing headquarters in Redwood Shores, Calif. For more information, please visit www.seebeyond.com.

e*Gate, e*Xchange, e*Way and I*Bridge are trademarks of SeeBeyond (STC). eBI is a servicemark of SeeBeyond (STC). All other trade names are the property of their respective owners.