ATLANTA - Oct. 27, 2004 — Improving relationships with business partners and meeting the evolving integration mandates of large trading partners were the chief priorities among customers attending the series of forums sponsored this month by Inovis, a leading provider of business commerce automation solutions. The customer forums, held in major metropolitan markets across the United States, provided the opportunity for Inovis users to obtain insight into effective strategies for meeting industry-specific business-to-business compliance standards, improving integration and connectivity across their trading networks and increasing the strategic value of current technology investments.

"Inovis helps solve the most important e-business integration issues, which directly impact our ability to service a vast network of customers," said Julie Compton Pellizzi, project leader, AGL Resources, the leading energy services holding company in the southern United States. "The opportunity to network with peers and Inovis executives at the forum provided valuable information for more effectively optimizing trading partner relationships. Inovis continues to be a trusted technology partner, ensuring our ability to manage growth within our trading partner community as we enter new markets and expand services."

At the customer forums, the product management team led break-out sessions focused on maximizing customers’ current technology investments to better address today’s critical trading partner connectivity issues and most pressing industry mandates for electronic commerce including Internet EDI (EDI-INT), Electronic Business XML (ebXML), UCCnet and RosettaNet. In addition, Inovis executives provided a preview of the company's 2005 corporate and product strategy roadmap and solicited feedback from participants to ensure the company continues to meet the evolving needs of its customer base.

Inovis' 2005 corporate strategy is focused on extending the return on investment of customers’ current business-to-business integration technologies, even as trading partner mandates and e-business standards evolve. To this end, Inovis is committed to aggressively investing in research and development activities across all lines of business— software, value-added network (VAN) and managed services. Inovis is also strengthening and expanding its professional services organization, shifting its role from exclusively addressing implementation and support issues to helping customers improve the strategic value that their technology investments can have on operational efficiencies and bottom-line financial improvements.

On the product strategy front, Inovis executives discussed the introduction of business process management and business activity intelligence functionalities to its suite of solutions. These capabilities will provide customers with greater visibility into trading relationships on a transaction-by-transaction basis and simplify the business processes involved in trading partner management. Inovis will also provide increased vertical-specific functionality to help manufacturers and suppliers better meet retail e-business mandates, like UCCnet, Worldwide Retail Exchange (WWRE) and Electronic Product Code (EPC) initiatives, which are currently undergoing the most evolution as major retailers access their trading communities and modify their requirements for integration, connectivity and standards support.

"Our customers know that investments made in Inovis will continue to pay off because of a continued commitment to expanding their options through research and development and strategic growth by acquisition," said Ilaria Derr, president and chief operating officer for Inovis. "This year's customer forums were a huge success and invaluable from both a corporate and product strategy perspective, as our customers feedback, needs and concerns play such a critical role in the way Inovis looks at development initiatives and the market in general."

About Inovis
Inovis is a leader in providing business commerce automation solutions that facilitate the effective management of retail, supply and manufacturing partnerships. With more than 20 years of experience and over 17,000 customers, Inovis provides a complete line of B2B software and managed services. These solutions enable companies to optimize profitability through timely and efficient communications with their trading partner communities. For more information visit www.inovis.com.

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