BroadVision Expands Alliance with IBM to Bring Complete e-Business Solutions to Customers

Business Wire, June 4, 2001

Business Editors/High-Tech Writers

SAN FRANCISCO & LAS VEGAS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 4, 2001

BroadVision One-To-One Enterprise 6.0 Available for IBM's AIX

Operating System and DB2 Universal Database; Integration with IBM

WebSphere Application Server and WebSphere MQ Well Underway

In an announcement made simultaneously at BVision2001, the fifth annual BroadVision International User's Conference in Las Vegas, Nevada and the JavaOne Conference in San Francisco, California, BroadVision, Inc. (Nasdaq:BVSN), a leading supplier of personalized e-business applications, today announced an expanded alliance with IBM, initially formed on September 8, 2000. Achievements from the first phase of the BroadVision(R)/IBM(R) relationship include the availability of Java2(TM) Enterprise Edition (J2EE)-enabled BroadVision One-To-One(R) Enterprise 6.0 for IBM's AIX(R) operating system and support for the DB2(R) Universal Database with the suite of BroadVision applications for AIX and DB2 available in the coming months. Given the success of the relationship, two companies have expanded the scope of the alliance to include integration of IBM's WebSphere(R) Application Server and J2EE-based WebSphere(TM) MQ with BroadVision's industry-leading e-business application platform.

BroadVision and IBM are working together to enhance the interoperability, openness, and scalability of their solutions and advancing the adoption of J2EE. By making BroadVision's J2EE-enabled application platform, BroadVision One-To-One Enterprise 6.0, fully interoperable with IBM WebSphere and J2EE-based WebSphere MQ message queuing solution, IBM and BroadVision will deliver one of the most scalable, open standards-based e-business solutions available.

In addition to the completion of several key integration projects, IBM and BroadVision are cooperating to bring complete solutions to customers. IBM Global Services has established a consulting practice of BroadVision-trained professionals to help customers around the world implement BroadVision e-business solutions on IBM platforms and software. BroadVision and IBM work together to solve any implementation or support-related issues. This approach enables joint customers to choose a single world-class vendor for e-infrastructure servers, middleware, and services for their BroadVision e-business solutions.

"IBM products form a superb foundation for BroadVision solutions. The combination of BroadVision and IBM provides great scalability, high-availability and an excellent price/performance ratio," said Roger Goulart, senior vice president and general manager, strategic alliances for BroadVision. "IBM servers and middleware are a natural choice for BroadVision customers as they migrate to BroadVision One-To-One Enterprise 6.0 and a standards-based e-infrastructure."

"With the strong collaboration between IBM and BroadVision, more and more customers are selecting popular BroadVision solutions for their IBM e-business environment," said Mike Borman, vice president of Worldwide Web Server Sales at IBM. "For customers choosing BroadVision solutions for their e-business environments, the expanded alliance provides one-stop shopping."

About BroadVision

BroadVision (Nasdaq:BVSN)(Neuer Markt:BDN) develops and delivers an integrated suite of packaged applications for conducting e-commerce interactions and transactions. Global enterprises and government entities use these applications to sell, buy and exchange information over the web and on wireless devices. The BroadVision e-commerce application suite enables a corporation to become more competitive and profitable by establishing and sustaining high-yield relationships with customers, suppliers and employees. BroadVision services professionals, supported by over 100 partner organizations worldwide, transform these applications into business value for our customers through consulting, education, and support services in more than 34 countries.

BroadVision -- founded in 1993, public since 1996 -- has over 1,100 customers and is a component stock of the Standard & Poor's 500 index. IDC ranks BroadVision as the world's leading provider of e-commerce software applications (International Data Corp., E-Commerce Software Applications Market Forecast and Analysis, 2000-2004). BroadVision is headquartered in Redwood City, California and can be reached at 650/261-5100 or info@broadvision.com.

Note to Editors: BroadVision and BroadVision One-To-One are registered trademarks or trademarks of BroadVision, Inc. in the United States and other countries. IBM, AIX, DB2,WebSphere, WebSphere MQ and e-business are trademarks or registered trademarks of International Business Machines Corporation.