iSoft Positioned in Visionaries Quadrant in Top Analyst Firm's B2B Gateway Magic Quadrant

Market Wire, March, 2006

iSoft Corporation ( www.isoft.com ), a leading provider of secure file transfer and B2B gateway solutions, today announced it has been positioned by Gartner, Inc. in the visionaries quadrant in the Magic Quadrant for B2B Gateway Providers, 1Q06(1). In the Magic Quadrant assessment, Gartner positioned visionaries in the quadrant based on a company's ability to execute and its completeness of vision.

According to the Gartner report, "Visionaries understand the market and customer requirements well, but have fewer assets available or committed to the pursuit of this particular market than the leaders. Specific to the B2B Gateway market, the vendors in this quadrant offer the functionality requirements often requested by Type 'A' companies such as integrated service environments, enterprise service buses and support for advanced Web services. However, many of these vendors compete in multiple markets, trying to balance and juggle both resources and marketing messages."

According to the report, "B2B Gateways continue to be in high demand from organizations of every size regardless of industry expertise. Vendors have expanded the functionality of the B2B Gateway from primarily providing a means to consolidate and centralize a company's B2B communications, regardless of the size and type of data, to providing some internal integration and providing an infrastructure for service interactions between partners...what makes this particular market 'a market' is that the users are specifically looking for technology that enables them to manage all aspects of the collaboration effort in a way that is abstracted from other parts of their infrastructure."

In order to be considered for placement in the Magic Quadrant for B2B Gateway Providers, 1Q06, a vendor must meet the following criteria:

--  Be sold and deployed as a standalone application(s) (separate SKU)
    with trading partner management (TPM), security, transformation, management
    and adapters that allow users to consolidate and effectively manage all
    aspects of B2B interactions.

--  Deployed heterogeneously in conjunction with 3rd party applications,
    middleware and/or operating systems.

--  Allow users the option of using two or more B2B protocols and security
    mechanisms to connect to multiple trading partners (e.g. standalone AS2
    solutions or custom adapters that only allow connections to one application
    or trading partner were not considered in this evaluation).
    

"We believe iSoft's placement in Gartner's B2B Gateway Visionaries quadrant confirms our market strength and the maturity of our product," said Roy Hogsed, president and CEO of iSoft Corporation. "We feel that this also confirms our commitment to provide customers with strategic B2B solutions that not only address their specific requirements, but provide an innovative business solution as customers continue to upgrade and augment their existing environments."

About iSoft Corporation

iSoft Corporation provides proven and reliable secure file transfer and B2B Gateway solutions that leverage the Internet or any IP-based network to improve business performance through cost-effective document exchange. Its flagship product, iSoft Commerce Suite, is a comprehensive, component-based connectivity solution for Global 5000 customers requiring a robust, centrally-managed, IP-based communications infrastructure to centrally secure, manage, transform, route, and transport any type of critical business data between internal enterprise systems and those of their customers, suppliers, and other business partners. Adaptable to meet the dynamic needs of business, iSoft Commerce Suite integrates with existing back-end systems and is flexible to meet the business and technical demands of an organization's internal customers and external community of business partners. iSoft customers are from a cross section of industries such as consumer packaged goods, distribution, electronics, entertainment, healthcare, high-tech manufacturing, pharmaceutical and retail and include some of the world's most recognized brands such as Coty, Inc., D & K Healthcare Resources, Inc., Epson, Global Healthcare Exchange, LLC, L'Oreal, McLane Companies, McQueary Brothers Wholesale Drug Company, Paramount Pictures, Tyson Foods, Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. and Wyeth. For more information on iSoft Corporation, visit www.isoft.com .

About the Magic Quadrant

The Magic Quadrant is copyrighted February 22, 2006 by Gartner, Inc. and is reused with permission. The Magic Quadrant is a graphical representation of a marketplace at and for a specific time period. It depicts Gartner's analysis of how certain vendors measure against criteria for that marketplace, as defined by Gartner. Gartner does not endorse any vendor, product or service depicted in the Magic Quadrant, and does not advise technology users to select only those vendors placed in the "Leaders" quadrant. The Magic Quadrant is intended solely as a research tool, and is not meant to be a specific guide to action. Gartner disclaims all warranties, express or implied, with respect to this research, including any warranties of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose.