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MODULANT ENABLES DISPARATE APPLICATIONS TO INTEROPERATE

Modulant announced the launch of the Modulant Curtana enterprise information interoperability platform -- the first commercially-available solution to enable disparate applications to interoperate by formalizing, capturing, and incorporating the meaning, context, and structure of source application data into autonomous information units that can be understood and used by all target applications. Fundamentally different from the middleware approaches that have been widely implemented to date, Modulant Curtana's revolutionary approach solves complex interoperability problems in a non-invasive manner, bringing a new level of agility and collaboration capability to businesses, while reducing IT expenditures and implementation risks.

While traditional approaches tend to focus on physical application connectivity and integration, Modulant Curtana's approach focuses on establishing logical interoperability by enabling semantically-rich information exchange among applications. Modulant's innovative approach uses conceptual abstraction to create a neutral representation of information that can be used to transform data between the native forms and contexts of all source and target applications. This conceptual abstraction approach creates a loosely-coupled, scalable, and highly adaptable interoperability framework that does not require significant custom coding or costly ongoing maintenance.

At the core of Modulant Curtana is a patent-pending methodology that formalizes, captures, and incorporates the meaning, context, and structure of data into a consistent, unified definition of information that is interoperable among disparate applications. This approach toward making semantics and context computable is the refinement of ideas that have been percolating among academics, standards groups, industry leaders, and systems integrators for over three decades.

"Modulant's information interoperability platform is part of a coming wave of semantic technologies that will dramatically improve the richness of communication between systems," said Craig Wingate, Modulant's president and CEO. "Semantic computing will enable industrial-strength information exchange that has thus far been impossible, leading to unprecedented collaboration within and between businesses and their customers, partners, and suppliers."

A protocol- and transport-neutral interoperability solution, Modulant Curtana remains separate from applications and data sources, thereby minimizing the time, expense, and risk involved in implementing and maintaining interoperability. "The Modulant Curtana platform plays well in the 'technology ecosystem,'" said Wingate. "It provides the flexibility to leverage investments in existing systems and integration architectures, and the freedom to choose best-of-breed applications in the future, without concern for systems compatibility."

A Proven Interoperability Solution

Modulant's technology and methodology have been proven through the successful deployment of several projects within the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD). Modulant's solution is being used to solve some of the most difficult interoperability problems that the DoD has been facing in product data management, supply-chain management, logistics, and B2B procurement -- problems that the government had previously deemed "unsolvable" after having spent a decade working with a variety of middleware, data warehousing, and custom coding solutions.

With the commercial availability of the Modulant Curtana platform, Modulant is licensing its software through a distribution network of global systems integrators and IT consulting firms. As systems integrators and their clients have become aware of Modulant's solution, it has quickly won their endorsement and support. "Modulant's technology will have a fundamental impact on the future of enterprise software and systems integration services industries," said Robert Luby, Managing Partner of Defense Supply Chain and Operations Solutions, PricewaterhouseCoopers.

About Modulant

Modulant provides enterprise information interoperability solutions that enable semantically-rich information exchange among disparate applications by transforming source application data into autonomous information units that can be understood and used by all target applications. Based on a revolutionary, patent-pending methodology that formalizes, captures, and incorporates the meaning, context, and structure of data, Modulant's breakthrough solution solves complex interoperability problems in a non-invasive manner, bringing a new level of agility and collaboration capability to businesses, while reducing IT expenditures and implementation risks. Modulant is a privately-owned company with headquarters in San Francisco, CA. For more information, please visit www.modulant.com.

Contact Modulant Solutions Inc, Andrea Bruno, 415-281-4551, abruno@modulant.com.