Riello Goes Live on Vitria BusinessWare B2B Integration Platform

Business Wire, May 7, 2002

Business Editors/High-Tech Writers

BRACKNELL, England--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 7, 2002

Vitria (Nasdaq:VITR), a leading provider of innovative integration solutions, today announced that Riello, a global supplier of residential heating applications and services, has successfully implemented Vitria's BusinessWare as part of its EUR 5 million business-to-business integration backbone project. The integration backbone is designed to improve Riello's customer relationship management (CRM), eProcurement and product data management processes.

Riello is reaping significant savings in cost and time from the business process management and application integration capabilities in BusinessWare. These include:

-- In the fifties the company established its commercial presence in the
international market as burner specialists.

-- In the eighties, because of the expansion of the gas network in Italy,
Riello entered the wall hung boilers business, developing a comprehensive
product catalogue for the residential climate control market.

-- Continuous growth in Italy as specialist in climate control and in the
international market as suppliers of products for different applications
enabled Riello to achieve European leadership.

-- Today Riello is a global company with a manufacturing and commercial network
capable of providing products and services worldwide.

Pierpaolo Di Franco, responsible for E-business project coordination at Riello said: "Our key criteria for integration are ease of use and rapid time-to-market. We implemented Vitria because of its strength in helping companies collaborate with business partners, and its understanding of the business drivers behind our integration requirements."

From an IT perspective, Riello chose to move from a purely legacy environment to one including best-of-breed packaged applications. To do this successfully the company needed the assurance of a high functionality integration solution like BusinessWare.

However, Riello sees the benefit of keeping some of its trusted legacy systems in place and Vitria is helping to bring that data into the enterprise.

Riello began the implementation in July 2001, went live with a key part of the implementation in September 2001 and finalized the full project this month.

Paul Taylor, vice president and general manager of EMEA at Vitria commented: "Riello's success is another example of Vitria's leadership in process-centric integration solutions. It sets a clear standard for today's competitive companies which, like Riello, need to control integration project timescales in order to realise the benefits in months rather than years."

About Vitria

Vitria Technology, Inc. is a leading integration server provider. Vitria BusinessWare integrates applications and automates mission-critical business processes within and across the extended enterprise, reducing time to market, shortening lead times, lowering operating costs, and increasing customer satisfaction. Vitria is a global software company with over 25 offices in North America plus international offices in Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Korea, United Kingdom, Singapore, Spain, Switzerland and Taiwan. Vitria is a publicly traded company (Nasdaq:VITR) based in California. For more information visit the company's Web site at www.vitria.com.

About Riello

With over 80 years' experience in the heating and oil combustion business, today Riello is a leading world supplier for heating applications and services in the residential market. Industrial and commercial gas and oil burners as well as floor standing heating units are milestones of the Riello success story and an important part of today's business.

Today Riello has production plants in Italy, Canada, Poland, France and China while an important network of sales and distribution agencies is marketing burners, wall hung boilers and floor standing heating units all over the world under different brands. The company was founded in 1922 as an artisan workshop for the production and sale of oil burners in the Italian market. Continuous growth was achieved through the development of technological core competences and the creation of a unique service network in Italy.

-- In the fifties the company established its commercial presence in the
international market as burner specialists.

-- In the eighties, because of the expansion of the gas network in Italy,
Riello entered the wall hung boilers business, developing a comprehensive
product catalogue for the residential climate control market.

-- Continuous growth in Italy as specialist in climate control and in the
international market as suppliers of products for different applications
enabled Riello to achieve European leadership.

-- Today Riello is a global company with a manufacturing and commercial network
capable of providing products and services worldwide.

This press release includes forward-looking statements, including statements relating to future revenue growth, goals and future business opportunities that are subject to risks, uncertainties and other factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from those referred to in the forward-looking statements. Such factors include, but are not limited to, risk as related to market acceptance of Vitria's product and alliance partner's products, deployment delays or errors associated with these and new products of Vitria and partners, hardware platform incompatibilities, release of competitive products and other actions by competitors and economic conditions in either domestic or foreign markets. These and other risks related to Vitria are detailed in Vitria's Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended Dec. 31, 2001, filed with the SEC on March 29, 2002, and in Vitria's quarterly reports on Form 10-Q as filed with the SEC. Vitria does not undertake an obligation to update forward-looking statements.