Backsoft Generation Released for Allaire ColdFusion Platform; Software Designed to Deliver Full Featured e-Business Application Framework to Allaire ColdFusion Users

Business Wire, April 24, 2001

Business Editors/Technology Writers

SARASOTA, Fla.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 24, 2001

Backsoft Corporation, a global provider of e-Business software, today announced the latest release of its e-Business application framework, Backsoft Generation, for the Allaire ColdFusion Platform. Backsoft Generation is designed to develop, deploy, and manage all of the web applications and information comprising a company's e-Business in a structured and coordinated environment. Support for the Allaire ColdFusion Platform promotes the use of Backsoft Generation with a significant installation and developer community.

"Backsoft Generation was designed to have both an immediate and long-term impact on a company's e-Business," said Jason Broom, Director of Communications. "Serving as the infrastructure to develop and manage the applications and information that comprise an e-Business, Backsoft Generation allows customers to experience a dramatic increase in the productivity surrounding e-Business application development. Likewise, Generation promotes the effective management of applications and content to prevent an e-Business from becoming fragmented and obsolete. In effect, it allows an e-Business to meet the ever-increasing demands from customers, partners, and employees."

"We are very excited to announce the release of Generation for the Allaire ColdFusion Platform," said Rich Swier, Chief Technology Officer of Backsoft. "The user community and support surrounding that platform is as experienced, committed, and eager as any other developer group. We expect Backsoft Generation to become a primary consideration for anyone running Allaire ColdFusion."

Today, Generation is allowing many companies to advance their e-business applications globally, including Aventis Pasteur - the world leader in vaccine production. "The speed and productivity offered by Backsoft software is an ideal complement to the investment we made in Allaire ColdFusion," Tim Tolan, IS Manager, Aventis Pasteur. "Together, these software products allow us to meet the growing demands of e-Business application development and maintenance quickly and easily."

Backsoft Generation 1.0 Features and Benefits

Backsoft Generation was specifically designed to provide companies with a means to develop and manage the applications and information of their e-Business in a coordinated environment. To achieve this end, Generation was designed with numerous features, such as:

-- Application Wizards - Wizards assist developers wanting to build new
applications by configuring the application, menu structure, and data sources.

-- Content Module - Allows companies to build and manage content available to
their applications.

-- Personalization Module - developers Allows to assign rules to content and
user profiles to create personalized user experiences.

-- Workflow Module - Designed to automate multi-step and multi-person workflow
scenarios.

-- Security Module - Multi-level security features to control authorization.
Security can be set on user roles, data fields, tables, and business objects.

-- Object Module - Build real-world objects for use by applications.

-- Integrated Development Environment - Backsoft Generation is packaged as a
web-based development environment.

About Backsoft Corporation

Backsoft Corporation makes e-Business straightforward. Enterprises worldwide use Backsoft software to reduce the time and cost associated with their e-Business development efforts. Whether that includes web-enabling SAP R/3, building enterprise-level web applications, or managing the content available to those applications, Backsoft software simplifies the development efforts required for e-Business success. Backsoft was recently named "One of the Top 100 Companies to Watch in 2001" by Computerworld Magazine, and can be located on the Internet at http://www.backsoft.com.

About Backsoft Generation

Backsoft Generation is an e-Business application framework that allows companies to develop, deploy, and manage all of the web applications and information comprising their e-Business in a structured and coordinated environment. Serving as the infrastructure for an organization's e-Business applications, Generation reduces the time and cost associated with building functionality common to all web applications. Generation accomplishes this by providing developers with a web-based development environment to manage content, personalization, workflow, and security. Generation will be available for the Java Platform late 2001.

About ColdFusion

The Allaire ColdFusion Web application server is one of the fastest ways to create and deliver powerful Web applications-from content-publishing systems and online stores to business reporting and self-service solutions. With ColdFusion's intuitive tag-based scripting language and the visual programming, database and debugging tools in ColdFusion Studio, you can accelerate your development. ColdFusion's open architecture allows complete integration with existing enterprise systems, and its built-in search and charting capabilities enable you to easily create engaging Web applications. Finally, easy-to-use management tools combined with integrated load balancing and failover ensure your Web applications provide enterprise-level performance and availability.