Open Market Licenses ActiveWorks Integration System

Open Market Inc, a leading provider of integrated enterprise e-business solutions, announced the availability of Integration Centre 1.0 to seamlessly integrate its eBusiness Suite with existing enterprise applications. Open Market has worked closely with Active Software to create Integration Centre, based on Active Software's ActiveWorks Integration System and Open Market's custom developed B2B Sample Site to offer pre-defined integration points and templates for customers. Integration Centre provides companies with a single point of integration from Open Market's eBusiness Suite and existing enterprise applications and databases minimizing the need to write custom integration code. Integration Centre is designed to leverage existing investments, save time and IT resources, and eliminate the potentially high cost associated with custom integration projects.

"With the pre-defined templates and sample integration points that Integration Centre offers, companies can more quickly integrate our eBusiness Suite with their applications," said Joe Alwan, senior vice president of marketing for Open Market. "By creating pre-defined integration points, Open Market and Active Software significantly accelerate time to market for IT professionals who otherwise would be spending much of their time writing and rewriting custom code."

Integration Centre connects Open Market's e-business suite and major enterprise systems including ERP and CRM applications, databases, mainframes, and custom applications. With Integration Centre, Open Market's customers have the ability to integrate an e-business built upon Open Market's open, extensible and standards-based e-business suite with existing enterprise applications, enabling enterprises to deliver a personalized, dynamic end-user experience while cost effectively managing their e-business. For example a buyer can see their customer specific pricing in a catalog or the number of available items from inventory.

Integration Centre Leverages Technology from Active Software

Teaming with Active Software, Open Market has developed custom modules that seamlessly integrate Open Market's eBusiness Suite with enterprise applications. Open Market is licensing ActiveWorks Integration System to its customers through Integration Centre to help companies automate business processing from the enterprise to the Internet. Integration Centre includes:

• ActiveWorks Integration System -- ActiveWorks provides a fast path to eBusiness integration inside the enterprise. ActiveWorks allows business processes to drive eBusiness integration and enables scalable implementation, from small pilot programs to geographically dispersed solutions. ActiveWorks supports the major application, platform and networking standards required by eBusiness solutions and provides an open platform for partners to build products and solutions that expand a customer's eBusiness capabilities. These technical benefits translate to faster time-to-market, enabling new revenue opportunities for today's major corporations.
• B2B Sample Site -- The B2B Sample Site has pre-defined integration points with SAP such as inventory availability, contract pricing, shipping and billing information, tax and shipping calculations, order entry, order status and account management. This tool provides systems integrators and Open Market Professional Services with templates aiding in the acceleration of implementation.

"We are pleased to be teaming with Open Market to provide the e-business infrastructure for Integration Centre," said Chet Kapoor, vice president, Business Development, Active Software. "By leveraging ActiveWorks broad scope of connectivity and fast time to market, Open Market's Integration Centre enables customers to rapidly build their e-businesses by leveraging their existing IT infrastructure, saving time and resources while keeping costs at a minimum."

About Open Market

Founded in 1994, Open Market Inc makes e-Business software that enables companies to manage content, deliver personalized experiences, and drive commerce from any device on the Internet. Open Market designs products to maximize its customers' business performance by enabling them to leverage their existing assets, letting business professionals personally direct Web site content and behavior, and by leveraging the new Java and XML open standard platforms to deliver massively scalable e-Business solutions. Open Market's roster of global customers includes Web domains such as Lycos.com, and AOL.com; major industrials such as Acer, Ingram Micro, Milacron, and Siemens; and 10 of the world's top 13 national telephone companies. Open Market's content management software is used by companies including Lucent Technologies, FT.com, and Chase Manhattan Bank. The company, headquartered in Burlington, Massachusetts, has a presence in 33 countries. Open Market's international head office is in the UK with additional offices in Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan and The Netherlands. Open Market can be reached by calling 1-888-OPEN-MKT (toll-free) or 1-781-359-3000 in the U.S. or +44-1753-838-000 in the U.K. or by visiting www.openmarket.com.

Contact Jennifer Jandebeur of Lois Paul & Partners, 781-238-5796, or jennifer--jandebeur@lpp.com for Open Market.