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Extricity's B2B Integration Tutorial Ranks as eAI Journal's Most Popular Article of the Year; 30,000 Readers Download Extricity's B2B Article

Business/High-Tech Editors

BELMONT, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 4, 2001

Extricity, Inc., a leading business-to-business (B2B) software platform provider, today announced that its feature article on B2B integration, published in the May issue of eAI Journal, was named the magazine's most popular article of the year.

The article, authored by Extricity co-founder and chief technical officer, Greg Olsen, Ph.D., received 30,000 Web site downloads, more than any other article published in the magazine in the year 2000.

"It isn't surprising that an article on B2B was the most popular article in 2000," commented Tony M. Brown, editor-in-chief, eAI Journal. "B2B was red hot last year. However, this article, like the journal itself, focuses on application and process integration, the hard part of e-business that ultimately determines how successful any e-business initiative will be. We congratulate Greg on his excellent article."

Entitled B2B Integration Overview, Dr. Olsen's article clearly differentiates B2B and B2C e-commerce from a business and technology perspective and describes today's most common e-commerce business models (supply chain, back-end solutions and net markets). The article then focuses on the nuts and bolts of B2B integration covering the overarching technology framework, integration challenges and solution components including external and internal communications, process/information coordination and system and information management. It also provides a checklist of B2B platform requirements to assist readers in selecting a platform before they make an investment. The article can be viewed at http://www.eaijournal.com/B2B/OverviewB2B.asp

Greg Olsen, Ph.D., is a co-founder and the chief technical officer of Extricity. Olsen provides the technical and architectural vision behind Extricity's products, and ensures that Extricity's B2B solutions use the best available technologies, employ sound design principles and continue to bring technological innovations to the market.

All articles published in eAI Journal are posted on its Web site. The publication tallies the number of downloads over the course of the year to compile a listing of the top ten most popular articles. This year these articles cover topics including B2B integration, EAI, application integration and RosettaNet implementation.

About eAI Journal -- the resource for e-business and application

integration

eAI Journal is a website and monthly magazine focusing one-business and application integration. It provides unrivalled analysis of business in the IT-driven economy, providing insight into such areas as B2B e-commerce, m-commerce, ERP integration and middleware. It covers the key technologies of the New Economy and explains their business context and benefits to IT and business managers in Fortune 5000 and dot-com companies. www.eaijournal.com

Extricity -- Simply Powering B2B(TM)

Extricity is the leading provider of software solutions for B2B relationship management (B2BRM). The Extricity B2B software platform offers the only complete, flexible B2B platform to power and manage the entire spectrum of interactions and collaborative processes among businesses and marketplaces over the Internet. Global 2000 companies and B2B net markets can seamlessly integrate diverse information systems into effective, real-time trading networks by automating and synchronizing the flow of information and execution of processes. The Extricity B2B software platform helps businesses improve operational efficiencies, realize new revenue opportunities and achieve competitive differentiation.

As the B2B leader in key market sectors including electronics, net markets and e-commerce, Extricity has Global 2000 customers spanning five industries in multiple geographies worldwide. These include Adaptec, Advanced Micro Devices, Altera, Mary Kay, Inc., Sharp Microelectronics, Solectron Corp. and Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. Extricity's headquarters are located in Belmont, Calif., with offices across the U.S. and Europe.

Web site: www.extricity.com