Evoke Software Joins the Object Management Group

Evoke Software Corp, a leading provider of data profiling and analysis software, announced that it has joined the Object Management Group (OMG), the international software consortium responsible for establishing distributed computing specifications for both real-time and embedded distributed object computing. Evoke Software's support of OMG's Common Warehouse Metamodel (CWM) will provide its customers with substantially reduced IT project risk, lower costs, and shortened time to market, while raising the benchmark for defining metadata exchange models in the data warehousing industry.

As a member of the OMG, Evoke Software will work to define the metadata exchange between data warehousing, business intelligence, knowledge management and portal technologies. End users will experience the most accurate flow of information for critical business initiatives through a single standard, permitting a seamless exchange of metadata between several products from a range of vendors. Combined with the CWM standard, Evoke Software will provide customers with confidence that their data movement and integration initiatives are based on a correct understanding of enterprise data structures, helping to ensure that critical business initiatives are completed on time and within budget.

"OMG's success is built on the participation of the best people in the business to produce top notch, forward-looking technology standards," said Richard Soley, chairman and chief executive officer of OMG. "Our members are on the front line of technology development and implementation. Participating in the definition of CWM, Evoke Software will help establish and support standards for defining metadata exchange models for the data warehouse industry."

"CWM continues to be adopted by corporate IT teams and is considered the gold seal in enterprise software data exchange," added Evoke Software Chief Technology Officer, Jack Olson.

About The OMG

With well-established standards covering software from design, through development, to deployment and maintenance, the Object Management Group (OMG) supports a full-lifecycle approach to enterprise integration. Based on the established Object Management Architecture (OMA) and emerging Model Driven Architecture (MDA), OMG's standards cover application design and implementation. OMG's Modeling standards include the UML (Unified Modeling Language) and CWM (Common Warehouse Metamodel). CORBA, the Common Object Request Broker Architecture, is OMG's standard open platform. OMG also issues the CORBAservices and a rapidly growing set of industry-specific standards in vertical markets including healthcare, telecommunications, biotechnology, transportation and a dozen other areas. The OMG is headquartered in Needham, MA, USA, with an office in Tokyo, Japan as well as international marketing offices in the UK and Germany, along with a U.S. government representative in Washington, DC. The OMG is a major sponsor of the Integrate 2001 trade show and conference to be held September 19-21, 2001 in New York City.

For information on joining the OMG or additional information, please contact OMG headquarters by phone at 781-444-0404, by fax at 781-444-0320, or by email at info@omg.org. The OMG provides current information and services for distributed enterprise computing on the World Wide Web at www.omg.org and www.corba.org.

About Evoke Software

Evoke Software is the leading provider of data profiling software for Global 2000 enterprises. Evoke Software enables companies to identify and subsequently correct inconsistencies, redundancies, and inaccuracies in corporate databases before they cripple applications such as SAP, Siebel, PeopleSoft and others.

Evoke Software is a critical component of any corporate IT infrastructure, as strategic as corporate database and key initiatives like CRM, eCommerce, Business Intelligence and ERP. Evoke Software reduces risk, accelerates time to market, and enables companies to exploit new opportunities. With the promise of accurate data for Global 2000 enterprises, Evoke Software provides the digital fuel for the Information Economy.

Evoke's customer list includes such companies as ABN AMRO Bank, AT&T, AXA Financial, FleetBoston, General Motors, Verizon Wireless, Lloyds TSB Group, and Toyota USA. Evoke also has strategic partnerships with major systems integrators, including CAP Gemini Ernst & Young, CSC, IBM, KPMG, and PricewaterhouseCoopers. Based in San Francisco, California, Evoke has development labs in Austin and Boulder, and sales and support offices throughout the United States and in the United Kingdom, France, and Germany. Evoke is a private company funded by premier investment firms. For more information, please contact Evoke Software at 877-386-5379 or visit the company's Website at www.evokesoft.com.

Contact Faith Brewitt of Niehaus Ryan Wong, Inc, 650-827-7098, or faith@nrwpr.com, for Evoke Software.