Blue Cross Blue Shield of Montana Selects SeeBeyond for Complete End-to-End Solution; SeeBeyond Demonstrates Best Solution for HIPAA Compliance

Business Wire, Jan 28, 2002

Business Editors/High-Tech Writers

ATLANTA--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 28, 2002

SeeBeyond (Nasdaq:SBYN), the leading global provider of eBusiness Application Integration (eAI) solutions, today announced that Blue Cross Blue Shield of Montana, the leading provider of healthcare coverage in Montana, selected the comprehensive SeeBeyond infrastructure to enable a real time environment and to help BCBSMT become compliant with the recently-announced Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA).

Transitioning from an environment of point-to-point interfaces, the SeeBeyond(TM) process-driven Business Integration Suite will seamlessly connect BCBSMT's back-end legacy systems, web servers and data warehouses to assist in improving profitability, customer service and process quality. The SeeBeyond solution will also support the handling of BCBSMT's X12 transactions in a HIPAA-compliant manner.

"The complete, unified SeeBeyond solution will clearly allow BCBSMT to take advantage of opportunities to improve business operations and drive rapid return on investment through seamless application integration, while enabling dynamic B2B connectivity," said Rick Yearry, Summit Data Center, BCBSMT. "Furthermore, SeeBeyond provides the most complete solution to best support our HIPAA compliance initiative helping BCBSMT to continue serving Montanans with a variety of health care plans and quality service."

"Industry expertise, along with a solid understanding of the challenges plaguing the healthcare industry, enables SeeBeyond to continue to provide healthcare organizations with a competitive edge, encompassing the strategic eAI infrastructure and capabilities necessary to satisfy HIPAA requirements. With numerous recent high profile wins in the payer space, many of the leading Blues and payer organizations have selected SeeBeyond as their first choice for a comprehensive solution to their integration needs," said Scott Harper, vice president of Healthcare for SeeBeyond.

About Blue Cross Blue Shield of Montana

BCBSMT is an independent, locally operated licensee of the Blue Cross and Blue Shield Association, a system of 46 independent Blue Cross and Blue Shield plans operating throughout the United States. More than 1,600 licensed Montana physicians participate in BCBSMT. Forty-eight hospitals, all critical-access or rural facilities and over 2,000 allied health care professionals also participate with BCBSMT to provide health care services in Montana.

About SeeBeyond

As the leading global provider of eBusiness Application Integration (eAI) solutions, SeeBeyond (Nasdaq:SBYN) enables the seamless flow of information within and among enterprises in real time. The SeeBeyond solution 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 1,625 customers worldwide, including ABN Amro, Bausch & Lomb, Blue Shield of California, Blue Cross Blue Shield of Louisiana, CareGroup, Inc., Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, DuPont, General Motors, Hewlett-Packard, Meriter Health Services, 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.

Note to Editors: SeeBeyond is a trademark of SeeBeyond Technology Corp. All other trade names are trademarks of their respective owners.