ATLANTA (January 8, 2003) — Inovis™, an enabler of B2B communities, today announced a new name for its Alliance Manager product, as well as an enhanced version, 4.7. Inovis:Process Manager, a three-time Crossroads A-List Award winner, delivers rapid automation of business processes, including the integration of applications using XML and Java standards. With the solution, companies can more easily integrate with trading partners and create business processes that extend beyond the enterprise. 

Inovis, comprised of former Harbinger and Extricity businesses, offers Business Process Management capabilities rooted in Extricity B2B technologies. Inovis:Process Manager strengthens the company’s position as a single-source provider of complete B2B enablement, with solutions spanning network access, data transformation/exchange, and business process integration and management. In addition, inovis:Process Manager provides the backbone that Inovis uses to extend it’s own business processes to its trading community. 

“Inovis:Process Manager’s patented approach separates internal private processes from external public ones, enabling efficient deployment of business processes across trading communities,” said Dave Williams, president and CEO for Inovis. “Rapid execution of changing critical processes allows companies to address new requirements quickly. The solution is integral to our offerings for full-scale B2B enablement.”

Enhancements in the Web Services-enabled inovis:Process Manager version 4.7 include tighter integration with the inovis:Transformation family of products. This enhances the inclusion of real-time EDI into automated business processes or the addition of business process to existing EDI infrastructure. The release also provides scalability and performance improvements critical to large advanced business process based trading communities. 

Business analysts can use the inovis:Process Manager graphical design environment to define, create and manage complex business processes, without detailed programming knowledge. Automated process flows can span existing internal applications and external trading partners, allowing collaboration and operational efficiency. 

Inovis:Process Manager is currently in use at Amkor Technology, the world’s largest supplier of contract semiconductor assembly and test services. Amkor Technology served as a beta customer of version 4.7. The company manages customer order processes electronically, based on RosettaNet standard PIPs that are graphically modeled in inovis:Process Manager and available as pre-packaged components. Order lifecycle processes executed and managed within the solution range from initial purchase orders, changes and cancellations, to status updates and notification of shipments. 

“Inovis:Process Manager allows us to deploy new RosettaNet PIPs quickly,” said Keith Overton, manager of Customer Integration at Amkor. “It has enabled us to increase operational efficiencies, and reduce manual errors and lag times within our customer-facing processes.” Amkor is also using inovis:Process Manager to automate internal business processes.

The solution offers integration adapters for leading enterprise applications and middleware, as well as optional Process Packs, packaged business solutions that deliver best-practice B2B processes for core industries. Inovis:Process Manager is available as licensed software or as a subscription-based, managed services offering. Version 4.7 is generally available for purchase and customer upgrade.

About Inovis 
Inovis™, Inc. (formerly Harbinger and Extricity) helps companies to rapidly and cost-efficiently build, grow and manage B2B communities. With over 18 years of experience and 20,000 customers, the company provides businesses large and small with award-winning software, connectivity, business process management and managed services to participate in collaborative partner relationships. Inovis solutions leverage the inovis:Access (formerly Get2ConnectSM) global trading network, which processes over 1.4 million e-commerce transactions each business day. For more information, go to www.Inovis.com or call +1 877.4INOVIS.

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