Health Plans Recognize Seebeyond as Industry Standard for eBusiness Integration; SeeBeyond Healthcare Market Customer Base Continues To Grow

Business Wire, June 21, 2001

Business Editors/High-Tech Writers

REDWOOD SHORES, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 21, 2001

SeeBeyond (Nasdaq:SBYN), the leading global provider of eBI solutions, is gaining momentum as the preferred eBusiness Integration solution for health plans, payers and managed care organizations. With 11 years of experience providing integration solutions for the healthcare industry, SeeBeyond provides the most scalable integration platform to enable organizations to easily and seamlessly share information on a global basis.

Currently most health plans are working on some combination of e-Commerce and EDI initiatives and system replacement projects, in addition to HIPAA compliance. In efforts to ultimately unlock the true potential of eBusiness with superior performance and reliability, Blue Shield of California, Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Louisiana, Lifeguard, and THELMA, a wholly owned subsidiary of ICSGlobal Limited, are just a few of the health plans that have selected the SeeBeyond infrastructure.

"Historically, health plans have struggled with inefficiencies stemming from the silos of irretrievable information caused by disparate legacy systems and widespread manual processing for eligibility, claims and remittance transactions. With the need to become HIPAA compliant and build an eBusiness infrastructure, it has become more urgent to address these issues," said Scott Harper, vice president of Healthcare for SeeBeyond. "That's the reason more and more organizations are turning to SeeBeyond. As a comprehensive, unified solution, the SeeBeyond platform allows these organizations to successfully meet HIPAA requirements while benefiting from building an eBusiness infrastructure and reducing manual processes."

For example, Blue Shield of California is replacing a homegrown EDI system with the SeeBeyond solution to connect various legacy systems, provide streamlined communications with its several thousand business partners, and adapt quickly to changing industry dynamics. Also, Lifeguard, is using the fully distributed SeeBeyond architecture to populate membership information directly into its systems in order to transfer information on eligibility, claims and benefits maintenance via the Internet, as well as assisting with HIPAA compliancy needs.

As the SeeBeyond customer base grows, health plans are increasingly selecting SeeBeyond for its uniquely scalable and unified integration solution, ultimately enabling these organizations to maintain high levels of customer satisfaction, improve essential internal operation functions and assist in addressing the HIPAA mandates.

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 application integration, business-to-business connectivity and business processes optimization. SeeBeyond has more than 1,470 customers worldwide, including ABB, ABN Amro, Barnes & Noble.com, Bausch & Lomb, BHP, Blue Shield of California, Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Louisiana, CareGroup, Inc., Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, DuPont, Florida Power & Light, Fluor Daniel, General Motors, Hewlett-Packard, Lifeguard, Meriter Health Services, Pfizer Sprint and THELMA. Key global business and technology consulting partners include Accenture, EDS, Computer Sciences Corporation, Cap Gemini Ernst & Young, KPMG Consulting, PricewaterhouseCoopers and answerthink. Software partners include BroadVision, Onyx Software, Oracle, SAP and Siebel Systems.

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

Note to Editors: eBI is a trademark of SeeBeyond Technology Corporation. All other trade names are the property of their respective owners.