eXcelon and Liaison Announce Strategic Alliance to Provide Industry's Most Complete Solution for B2B Content Management

Business Wire, Jan 30, 2001

Business/Technology Editors

BURLINGTON, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 30, 2001

Partnership Combines Leading Content Aggregation, Delivery and

Management Capabilities for Faster Deployment of B2B Commerce

eXcelon Corporation (Nasdaq: EXLN), a leading provider of XML-based business-to-business (B2B) infrastructure solutions, and Liaison, a provider of software products that manage catalog content for e-business, today announced a strategic business and technical alliance. The alliance will provide enterprises seeking to quickly implement successful e-commerce strategies with a complete solution for universal aggregation, management and personalized delivery of electronic catalog content.

eXcelon and Liaison provide complementary technology and services that automate large-scale catalog content aggregation, delivery and management over a wide range of data sources and XML standards. eXcelon's B2B content aggregation and delivery solutions are designed to interoperate with Liaison's software for catalog content management. The combined offering will provide a turnkey solution for both the catalog and document management needs of customers.

"Liaison and eXcelon can work together to tackle the most challenging obstacles to integrating content into e-catalogs and business portals," said Brad Messer, vice president of channels of Liaison. "Liaison and eXcelon customers will be able to easily exchange content with their suppliers, customers and business partners, both internally and externally. This will ensure that critical time and money is not lost due to an inability to share data in an efficient and timely manner."

"By combining eXcelon's advanced business rules and workflow capabilities with Liaison's leading content management functionality, we have created the industry's most complete solution for B2B integration and document management," said Alan Gold, executive vice president of eXcelon. "The combined solution will enable organizations to quickly and easily take their businesses into new online markets, expanding their sales channels while reducing the overall cost of doing business."

Additionally, eXcelon has integrated the HTML acquisition component of Liaison's technology into its B2B Portal Server, further enhancing its market-leading data aggregation capabilities. With this added functionality, the B2B Portal Server gains the ability to aggregate both transactive and descriptive product content from the Web and other HTML sources.

About Liaison

Based in Austin, Texas, Liaison Technology is a leading provider of software products that aggregate and deliver supplier catalog content for e-marketplaces and Global 2000 companies. The company's B2B infrastructure software automatically transforms descriptive and transactive content from virtually any source and delivers it to e-catalogs, enabling efficient collaborative commerce in e-marketplaces. The company's patent-pending products are based on an Adaptive Content Recognition engine. For additional information on the company, visit www.liaison.com or call 1-877-433-9837.

About eXcelon Corporation

eXcelon Corporation (Nasdaq: EXLN) is a leading provider of software products and services that enable Internet-based collaboration with partners, suppliers and customers. By integrating key partners or even an entire business community, eXcelon solutions make it possible for organizations to include partners in automated business activities, to share all relevant business information and to act upon that information collaboratively. Organizations employing eXcelon solutions build closer relationships, realize greater levels of efficiency and become stronger competitors in the new economy. All eXcelon products fully support XML, the language of B2B commerce, and the company is an active member of many B2B standards bodies, including OAG, RosettaNet, Accord and others. Based in Burlington, Massachusetts and founded in 1988, eXcelon Corporation sells and supports its products through branch offices across the U.S. and through international subsidiaries in the United Kingdom, Germany, The Netherlands, Japan and Australia, as well as a worldwide network of distributors, value-added resellers, systems integrators and other indirect sales partners.

"Safe Harbor" Statement under the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995: Statements in this press release regarding eXcelon Corporation's business, including future market opportunities and prospects, which are not historical facts are "forward-looking statements" that involve risks and uncertainties. For a discussion of such risks and uncertainties, which could cause actual results to differ from those contained in the forward-looking statements, investors should see "Risk Factors" in the eXcelon documents filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission.

NOTE: ObjectStore is a registered trademark of eXcelon Corporation; eXcelon, eXcelon Dynamic Application Platform, eXcelon B2B Integration Server, eXcelon eSolutions, Stylus, Cache-Forward and Javlin are trademarks of eXcelon Corporation. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners.