Crawford & Company Selects SeeBeyond for Application Integration and HIPAA Compliance Requirements

Business Wire, March 3, 2003

Business Editors/Health/Medical Writers/High-Tech Writers

REDWOOD SHORES, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 3, 2003

SeeBeyond (Nasdaq:SBYN), the leading global provider of eBusiness and Application Integration (eAI) solutions, today announced that Crawford & Company (Crawford) (NYSE:CRDB)(NYSE:CRDA), the world's largest independent provider of claims management solutions to insurance companies and self-insured entities, selected the SeeBeyond(R) platform to assist with its immediate case management integration needs, and to establish the business-critical foundation for an eAI infrastructure.

Crawford provides a range of services such as claims management, loss adjustment, healthcare management, catastrophe services, class action administration, and litigation management services. The Company's decision to select SeeBeyond reinforces the importance of implementing an eAI solution, as Crawford will now be able to easily streamline operations, improve trading partner and customer relations, and facilitate the smooth integration of mission-critical applications across its enterprise.

"Crawford's primary goal is to provide the best services and benefits to insurance companies, self-insured corporations, and governmental units worldwide," said Nick Coussoule, Assistant Vice President of Crawford. "With SeeBeyond as a key component within our complete healthcare management solution, Crawford can count on unbeatable technology to assist with HIPAA compliance as well as seamless business process integration, ensuring that we provide superior service to our valuable customers."

The SeeBeyond e*Gate(TM) Integrator platform and associated e*Way(R) Intelligent Adapters will provide Crawford with specialized application connectivity and robust data processing to empower its end-users with high-performance, distributed processing capabilities. Crawford will use this technology to integrate with its healthcare management system, and other applications via TCP/IP, COM, FTP and direct API access.

"Companies continue to identify eAI as a calculated, business-critical investment, which is proven time and again by our rapidly growing customer base," said Scott Harper, vice president of Healthcare for SeeBeyond. "Along with other leading TPA providers, Crawford has recognized eAI technology as key to its business success, and the SeeBeyond platform as the most unified and manageable infrastructure available today."

About Crawford

Based in Atlanta, Georgia, Crawford & Company (www.crawfordandcompany.com) is the world's largest independent provider of claims management solutions to insurance companies and self-insured entities, with a global network of more than 700 offices in 67 countries. Major service lines include workers' compensation, claims administration and healthcare management services, property and casualty claims management, class action services, and risk management information services.

About SeeBeyond

As the leading global provider of eBusiness and Application Integration (eAI) solutions, SeeBeyond (Nasdaq:SBYN) provides a unified, comprehensive platform for business integration, enabling a Real-Time Information Network to facilitate the seamless flow of information. Delivering Visibility, Velocity and Value across global operations, the SeeBeyond(R) Business Integration Suite helps organizations dramatically improve business operations resulting in reduced costs, increased market share and improved customer service. SeeBeyond has more than 1,780 customers worldwide, including ABN Amro, Bausch & Lomb, Blue Shield of California, Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina, BMW Group, Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, The Dial Corporation, DuPont, General Motors, Hewlett-Packard, Meriter Health Services, Pfizer, Sprint and Sutter Health. For more information, please visit www.seebeyond.com.

Note to Editors: SeeBeyond is a registered trademark of SeeBeyond Technology Corporation. e*Gate and e*Way are trademarks of SeeBeyond Technology Corporation. All other brands or product names are trademarks of their respective owners.