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MetaMatrix and Versata Sign Strategic Alliance Agreement

MetaMatrix, a leading developer of metadata management and enterprise information integration products, announced an alliance with Versata Inc, a leading provider of software and services that automate the business logic and processes that power enterprise applications. With this alliance, MetaMatrix and Versata offer customers a higher level of enterprise application infrastructure automation. Customers who use the MetaMatrix integration technology with Versata's declarative business logic solution can easily extend their enterprise applications with new business transactions and processes. The combined technologies not only simplify application development, but also reduce maintenance cost.

"MetaMatrix chose Versata as a natural extension for our customers," said Philippe Chambadal, president and CEO of MetaMatrix. "Integrating with the Versata product suite enables our customers that are developing new J2EE Applications or extending existing applications to fully realize the benefits of declarative development and management. Enterprises can use MetaMatrix and Versata to reduce application implementation time by automating the critical business logic and data integration tasks vital to today's complex enterprise applications."

In a multi-tier architecture, applications have three tiers: a data tier, a logic tier, and a presentation tier. Versata provides a business logic solution for transaction logic and process logic, enabling users to develop and maintain complex Java applications based on business specifications. The MetaMatrix System cuts the time involved in integration at the data level and works as an infrastructure to manage metadata and provide all applications access to disparate data sources through a single standard interface. With Versata and MetaMatrix, developers can create sophisticated applications through graphical tools, virtually eliminating the need to write actual code in the data layer or the business logic layer.

"The power of this relationship is in the ability to deliver new J2EE applications and extend existing applications with new business logic on top of a robust and scalable data and integration layer," said Doug Roberts, president and CEO of Versata. "The value to our mutual customers will be realized not only in the development stage but in the huge savings found in the maintenance and management of those applications."

The combination offers its true savings as a higher return on each development dollar invested. Using the Versata and MetaMatrix technologies, companies can rapidly develop data-consuming applications and can easily modify and upgrade existing applications. This agile infrastructure enables companies to adapt quickly to changes in business logic, data sources, technologies, and platforms. Versata users can change the business logic of applications easily and can deploy the new business logic, whether one change or many, rapidly. As they write or extend applications with the Versata Logic Server, developers can create business rules to access the MetaMatrix virtual database as the source of information. MetaMatrix users create the virtual database by using metadata information about their multiple physical data sources to develop an abstract view of the integrated information. The virtual database provides seamless access to source data without actually moving that data to a data stage or data warehouse. Applications can access the data, in its native source, in real-time, without complex connection logic for each individual physical data source. The virtual database's abstraction also allows companies to change their data sources without disrupting the application.

About Versata

For IT shops who are struggling to reduce costs and whose developers are challenged with Java coding demands, Versata provides an application server extension that uses declarative business logic as a more productive way to do transaction processing and business process management. Much like a relational database manages business data, Versata manages business logic in the Versata Logic Server -- at a higher level of abstraction, utilizing a server for execution and management. Unlike traditional hand-coding approaches, Versata enables developers to maximize their time by allowing them to focus on rules and processes of an application, rather than clerical details. Versata's declarative business logic approach enables IT to create and change applications faster, lower development and maintenance costs, and reduce application backlogs. Versata-built applications are constructed from an organization's core business rules and run in J2EE application servers like IBM WebSphere and BEA WebLogic. Versata Global 2000 customers include British Telecommunications, Federal Home Loan Bank, France Telecom, Hilton Hotels, ITT Fluid Technologies, J.P. Morgan Chase & Co, and Mexicana Airlines. For more information, please visit www.versata.com or call 800-984-7638.

About MetaMatrix Inc

MetaMatrix, the Model-Driven Information Integration pioneer, has developed the first Java-based software to integrate a company's diverse information sources using Model-Driven Architecture (MDA) for real-time data access. The MetaMatrix product suite, with its flagship MetaMatrix Information Integration Server and MetaBase metadata management system provides a platform through which enterprises can manage and provide uniform access to disparate information systems, drastically reducing application development times. With the MetaMatrix System, companies gain a competitive advantage to react quickly to market influences. Headquartered in New York City, with offices in Dallas, St. Louis and London, MetaMatrix is privately held and can be found on the Web at www.metamatrix.com.

Contact MetaMatrix, Shawn Curtiss, 314-739-3190 x120, scurtiss@metamatrix.com.