SUCCESSFUL E-BUSINESS THROUGH QUICK and ACCURATE AVAILABILITY of INFORMATION Submitted By: Metia LTD (Formally Write Image Ltd) Friday, 21 January 2000

SUCCESSFUL E-BUSINESS THROUGH QUICK AND ACCURATE AVAILABILITY OF INFORMATION Submitted by: Metia LTD (formally Write Image Ltd) Friday, 21 January 2000

TIBCO Software - Hall 1, Stand 4C9 CeBIT, Hannover, Germany 24 February - 1 March 2000 TIBCO presents real-time e-business infrastructure solution at CeBIT 2000 HANNOVER, GERMANY, 21 JANUARY 2000 - TIBCO Software Inc. (Nasdaq: TIBX), a leading provider of real-time infrastructure software for the Internet and enterprise, will be demonstrating its products and sharing its vast experience and knowledge with visitors to CeBIT. The company will demonstrate its real-time e-business integration TIB®/ActiveEnterprise products, which are used by more than 400 companies to facilitate the distribution of information and integration of business processes between front and backoffice systems, through patented technology called The Information Bus®, or TIB® for short. TIB technology was first used to ‘digitise’ Wall Street in the 1980’s and has since been adopted throughout diverse industries, including high-tech manufacturing, energy, telecommunications and e-business. An exceptional feature of the TIB/ActiveEnterprise products is the patented publish/subscribe technology, which allows systems to exchange information with a large variety of other applications, databases and web clients in real-time. This guarantees accurate information within a company and throughout its entire supply chain creating an infrastructure that gives users access to the most up-to-date information from a large variety of sources, which is an important prerequisite for successful e-business applications. TIBCO will present the following innovations at CeBIT: The new TIBCO development environment for Internet portals, using mySAP.com as an example TIB®/PortalBuilder is a comprehensive business-to-business (B2B) portal-construction tool that enables companies to create an industrial-strength Internet portal in a few days rather than months. TIB/PortalBuilder is based on the TIBCO technology platform and is used by some of the largest Internet portals, including Yahoo!, AOL/Netscape, AltaVista, Chemdex and mySAP.com, for the following purposes: - personalised Web portal configuration - personalised access control - clear representation of condensed information from various information sources - high-performance infrastructure for B2B exchange of information

Page 1 - event-controlled administration and application monitoring. TIBCO's software is currently being used to link together the mySAP.com Marketplace, leveraging more than 20,000 SAP installations and more than 10 million users, including the partner ecosystem, enabling real-time e-commerce. "SAP realised early on that portal sites which combine content, communities, commerce and collaboration are the future of Internet e-commerce," said Heinz Ulrich Roggenkemper, executive vice president at SAP Labs, Inc. "mySAP.com relies on TIBCO’s world class scaleable, real-time infrastructure solutions to deliver the host of diverse information about the Internet economy to our thousands of users." TIB/ActiveEnterprise product range The TIB/ActiveEnterprise product range provides a basic infrastructure for the exchange of information within companies. TIBCO will also be presenting a large number of adapters for the integration of foreign applications, a broad range of system administration and improved performance functions as well as new process management modules that integrate the flow of information in a process model. These tools enable the IT infrastructure to link information from a large variety of sources (proprietary applications, standard applications such as SAP, Siebel, Clarify, Vantive, databases and the Internet), and this in turn gives the user the ability to call up the most current context-related information in real-time. TIBCO Adapters enables a company's organisation become more transparent and the communication with Web clients and customers more comprehensible. Event-controlled process management for new e-business models The integration of the enterprise business integration solution, TIB®/InConcert?, with the e-business infrastructure solution, TIB/ActiveEnterprise, will be presented for the first time at CeBIT. The application is based on a joint development between TIBCO and InConcert, which was recently bought from Xerox. The solution is a highly efficient unit as a multiplier for new business models on the way towards zero latency (real-time) business. The technology is aimed at organisations who require greater speed to market to maintain competitive advantage. Some of TIBCO's partners will also have representatives at the TIBCO stand, 4C9. Portal Software, a leading provider of real-time customer management and billing solutions, and TIBCO will be presenting their mutual end-to-end integration platform for telecommunication providers. IMG, a global company of business transformation professionals, complements the innovative technology solutions by presenting concepts and strategies to help businesses drive growth through enhanced customer relationships, business networks and business intelligence. About TIBCO Software TIBCO Software Inc. (Nasdaq: TIBX) is a leading provider of real-time infrastructure software for the Internet and enterprise. Recently ranked by IDC as the number one provider in the Businessware category, TIBCO's products and services enable computer applications and platforms to communicate efficiently

Page 2 across networks, including the Internet, in real-time using its patented TIB® technology. TIBCO "digitized" Wall Street in the 1980s and has since been adopted in diverse industries, including high-tech manufacturing, energy, telecommunications, and electronic commerce. TIBCO is considered the market leader in e-business. TIBCO Software's global client base includes Cisco, Yahoo!, NEC, 3Com, Sun Microsystems, SAP, Philips, AT&T, PageNet and AOL/Netscape. TIBCO's international headquarters are located in Palo Alto, California, and its German headquarters are located in Düsseldorf and Munich. You can find more information on TIBCO on the Web at www.tibco.com. Contact: Birgit Jordan TIBCO Software Inc. +49 (0) 171 221 7975 [email protected] Karin Clark / Stella Couch Write Image +44 (0) 171 493 5400 [email protected]

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