Industry Analysts Butler Group Validates Contivo as Must-Have Solution for Companies with Pressing Application Integration Requirements

Business Wire, May 24, 2004

Business Editors/High-Tech Writers

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 24, 2004

Companies using Contivo VMS save 60 - 70% of major integration

costs, delivering higher-quality integrations that run up to 12 times

faster

The Butler Group, Europe's leading independent technology analyst company, today published its comprehensive and independent technology audit of the Contivo Vocabulary Management Solution (CVMS). The audit was undertaken during Mar - May 2004, and included in-depth interviews in the US and UK with customers, partners, and Contivo technical staff. In their summary analysis, Butler Group found that Contivo was "an efficient and cost-effective system bringing repeatability and higher quality" to integration projects. Butler Group looked at several aspects of the system and determined Contivo's impact;

On Reducing Costs
   "Contivo has customers that measured over 60% savings on initial
    data integration costs, and over 70% of ongoing maintenance and
    evolution costs using CVMS."

On Performance
   "Customers have seen significant improvements of between an eight
    and twelve-times decrease in processing time in the runtime code
    generated by Contivo."
   "Tasks that would have taken weeks to achieve, now take a matter of
    hours."

On Future-Proofing
   "The emphasis on XML-based but platform-neutral technology means
    that further consolidation in the EAI market, as well as the move
    towards Web services solutions for integration, will not affect
    the value that Contivo can deliver."

On Deployability
   "Contivo does not require significant resource to deploy and
    manage.....the actual installation of the repository is rapid,
    taking a matter of minutes. It replaces a time-consuming manual
    process and enables understanding gained from one project to then
    be reused."

On Scalability
   "Contivo permits concurrent work on projects, which means that the
    value of the information stored in the repository can be shared

    across a whole organization, or even multiple organizations."

On Reducing Risk
   "Butler Group believes that the use of CVMS is likely to reduce the
    risks associated with any integration project. The benefit of
    Contivo is to be able to work with what exists - and get rapid
    ROI."

On Reducing Complexity
   "Organizations that deal with multiple run-time environments find
    Contivo highly beneficial when bridging these 'islands of
    integration'. It will speed up integration projects, and permit
    projects to go ahead that would otherwise not be done."

Available Report - Butler Group Technology Audit of Contivo VMS

The full Butler Group technology audit of Contivo VMS is available to Butler Group subscribers at their website, or for a limited time without charge from Contivo's (www.contivo.com) website.

"We are pleased that this independent audit of our technology was able to validate the many successes that our customers are seeing on each and every project with Contivo," says Keith Feingold, Contivo CEO. "When you think about the amount of money our customers were spending on integration, to know that we can save them 60 - 70% of this investment - and deliver code not only more quickly but which then runs 8 - 12 times faster, is truly an outstanding value-proposition. However, we believe that our customers will see even greater return longer-term, since as Butler Group have validated, Contivo provides a solid structure for scalability and re-usability to integration projects that simply is not there today. Further, through our independence from the different run time platforms Contivo will protect our customers investment in integration over the long-term."

"The major US analysts have been quick to endorse the Contivo approach to application integration for some time now, but it was important to get a UK perspective on this," says James Foley, CEO of Network Atlantic. "We are delighted that the many benefits that Contivo's customers are seeing in the USA and worldwide have equal applicability here in the UK. By reducing complexity and risk to major integration projects, and dramatically reducing project costs, Contivo helps customers succeed within constrained budgets. Butler Group have confirmed what we knew to be the case - that Contivo is a 'must have' solution in companies for whom application integration is a pressing or ongoing requirement."

About Contivo, Inc.

Contivo provides solutions that enable enterprises to dramatically reduce implementation and maintenance costs of enterprise-wide integration while leveraging IT investments and increasing the value of enterprise data. Contivo provides integration architects with a centrally managed repository that introduces reuse and collaboration to a previously one-off and manual task. Contivo introduced the concept of Semantic Integration, a repository-driven set of patented technologies that automate the cycle of creating, leveraging and managing corporate data integration efforts.