SeeBeyond and B4E Announce Partnership at Next Generation Billing System Conference in Amsterdam

Business Wire, Dec 11, 2001

Business Editors/High-Tech Writers

Next Generation Billing System Conference

FRANKFURT & REDWOOD SHORES, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dec. 11, 2001

eBusiness Integration Leader Partners with B4E to Reduce Time to

Revenue for Innovative New Products

SeeBeyond (Nasdaq:SBYN), the leading global provider of eBI solutions, and B4E, the innovative Frankfurt based billing system provider for the telecommunication market, today announced an alliance to support service operators in dealing with the increasing speed of change and cost pressure in the telecommunications industry.

B4E is headquartered near Frankfurt, Germany, and is focused on providing rating and billing solutions for complex business processes specifically in the telecommunications industry. Its product, B-oo-levard(R) B4E, is a third-generation billing system based on state-of-the-art technology that allows products to be self-assembled or modified by a simple graphical user interface without the need for programming modifications. This abolishes the need for a lengthy release model and the dependency on a vendor's consultants -- thus dramatically reducing time-to-market. The product can then be released to a highly scalable rating and billing platform suitable for use across fixed or mobile telecommunications devices, voice and data or broadcast networks. Be it individual or combinations, these products are suitable for GSM, GPRS, UMTS, Internet, e/m-Commerce, content or large customer accounts.

In this environment there are clear goals -- to leverage the existing investment in I/T systems such as CRM, general ledger, rating and billing, and get the new product fully operational and integrated in a minimum amount of time. Customer information may span many systems and a single customer view across these systems is required. The mass of systems is typically very complex and distributed. SeeBeyond provides a distributed architecture driven by Business Process Management to enable a real-time enterprise -- integrating the new products from B4E to the existing systems required to process that product.

"Our strategy with B-oo-levard(R) is to provide state-of-the-art technologies for rating and billing, providing no limitation on marketing from the system side," said Bjorn Lillegraven, VP Sales and Marketing of B4E. "The solution provided by B4E and SeeBeyond is an ideal combination and will provide managers around the globe with a system to innovate, generate and integrate new products to increase revenue and decrease cost and time-to-market."

"Application integration is core to a Telco infrastructure and now, based on a recent survey issued by Morgan Stanley, is the number one priority for CIOs across all major industries today," said David Bennett, Vice President and General Manager of EMEA for SeeBeyond. "Deploying integration solutions can drive true ROI, with studies from a leading industry analyst firm showing potential savings of more than 40% in terms of development time. Additional savings of up to 50% can be gained from the resulting reduction in the time required to add a new component to an infrastructure; up to 65% reduction can be gained just in reduced maintenance time alone."

About B4E

Founded by long-term experienced telecommunication consultants, B4E is focused on providing Rating and Billing solutions for complex business processes especially in the telecommunication business. Its core product B-oo-levard(R) is a service- and product-independent, event-driven rating and billing system.

B4E strives to help its customers under a mutual and sustainable relationship to gain competitive advantages by saving cost while increasing revenues and increasing its customers' satisfaction. The company provides its customers with a powerful business enabling tool, facilitating their independence from the system vendor, preserving the ownership of their processes, achieving shortest innovation circles and performing rating and billing without limitations.

B4E has its headquarters south of Frankfurt/Germany acting on a international scale directly or in conjunction with its global business partners. B4E is by majority owned by its management team and its employees. For more information, please visit www.b4esys.com.

About SeeBeyond

As the leading global provider of eBI(TM) solutions, SeeBeyond (Nasdaq:SBYN) enables the seamless flow of information within and among enterprises in real time. The SeeBeyond eBI Suite offers a rapidly deployable and infinitely scalable infrastructure for seamless application integration, dynamic business-to-business connectivity and robust business processes optimization. SeeBeyond has more than 1,580 customers worldwide, including ABB, ABN Amro, Barnes & Noble.com, Bausch & Lomb, BHP Billiton, DuPont, Florida Power & Light, Fluor Daniel, General Motors, Hewlett-Packard, Pfizer and Sprint.

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