CommerceQuest-Actional Alliance Expedites Complex Business Integration

Business Wire, April 9, 2001

Business Editors/High-Tech Writers

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.& TAMPA, Fla.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 9, 2001

Actional Control Brokers to Boost Market Penetration of

CommerceQuest's enableNet Managed Service and Software;

Commerx First to Use

Actional(TM) Corp., the leading provider of direct-connect integration solutions for eBusiness, Monday announced the signing of two partnership agreements with CommerceQuest, a leading supplier of complex business integration software and services for companies like Commerx.

Under the terms of the first agreement, CommerceQuest will OEM Actional Control Brokers (ACBs) within their enableNet(TM) Managed Service. A separate marketing agreement covers joint sales efforts for ACBs in conjunction with enableNet Business Process Integrator and enableNet Data Integrator software.

"Over the last year, Commerx has extended its business-processing engine to include procurement, supply chain collaboration and sell-side solutions.

"Our strategic relationship with CommerceQuest, for enableNet, has provided our customers with a way to extend their core business processes to the Commerx Business Process Engine and subsequently from our engine to our customer's trading partners," said Michael Qualley, vice president of professional services and operations for Commerx.

"Adding Actional Control Brokers will expedite the integration process by allowing our customers to inter-operate with leading enterprise applications like SAP R/3 in a matter of weeks, instead of the months of custom coding previously required. The Actional Control Brokers will also provide Commerx with additional legacy integration points, which will enhance Commerx's business-process engine capabilities."

CommerceQuest's enableNet family of software and services solve the problems of complex business integration. The enableNet Managed Service is an integration connectivity hub delivering essential business services within an enterprise and across the supply chain over any network, including the Internet.

"As exemplified by Commerx, enableNet and Actional Control Brokers liberate information so that it can be delivered over any messaging middleware, including IBM's MQSeries," said Paul Roth, CommerceQuest's chief technology officer.

"The bottom line: our partnership with Actional helps CommerceQuest increase market penetration of our Managed Service and related software by speeding up the integration process for our customers."

ACBs integrate applications at the customer data level and enable enterprise applications to directly control other applications without adding new middleware.

Actional's direct-connect architecture means that front-to-back request/reply performance is an order of magnitude faster than conventional enterprise application integration (EAI) architectures, so users can work interactively with back-end systems as if they were native modules of the front-end application.

"Our partnership with CommerceQuest is a win-win proposition, providing CommerceQuest's customers with the high-performance, direct-connect information access they demand, while increasing our penetration into the application integration marketplace," said Cindy Bernstein, Actional's vice president of business development.

"In other words, by helping CommerceQuest meet their customers' requirements in the most effective way possible, we meet our own as well."

About CommerceQuest

Companies like Anheuser Busch, Ericsson, EDS and ICG Commerce trust CommerceQuest, an award-winning IBM Business Partner, to execute their business interoperability strategies.

CommerceQuest's enableNet software and outsourced managed service, certified consultants and educators, and enterprise testing programs drive dramatic improvements in business flexibility, effectiveness and efficiency for companies around the world. With CommerceQuest, businesses bring their e-commerce projects online quickly, minimizing risk, cost and time, while maximizing business value.

From legacy applications to the Web, CommerceQuest software and services make complex business integration work. Any data, any platform, any network -- every time. A member of Internet Capital Group's (Nasdaq: ICGE) collaborative network of Partner Companies, CommerceQuest was founded in 1992 and is privately held and headquartered in Tampa.

The company's integration software and services are available throughout the United States, Pacific Rim, Europe and South Africa. For more information, please visit www.CommerceQuest.com.

About Actional

Actional is the market leader in direct-connect integration for real-time eBusiness. The company's customers include leaders in the Global 2000, making the company a powerful and effective partner in helping solve enterprise business problems. Actional products are also licensed by leading EAI vendors, platform partners and eBusiness application developers.

Actional is backed by NeoCarta Ventures, New Enterprise Associates, and International Capital Partners. Actional can be contacted at 800/609-3301 or info@actional.com. More information about the company can be found on its Web site at www.actional.com.