ATLANTA — December 8, 2004 — Inovis, a leading provider of business-to-business solutions and services, announced today the availability of BizManager™ 3.0, the latest version of its business-to-business gateway for trading partner and business community integration. This release furthers the alignment of Inovis’ core technology competencies, providing a single comprehensive solution that combines trading partner management with state-of-the-art transformation and mapping technology.

“By delivering transformation services and connectivity in a combined solution, Inovis offers a compelling value proposition for companies tasked with meeting the e-business mandates of multiple trading partners,” said Shawn Willett, principal analyst, Current Analysis. “Inovis is leveraging its expertise both in B2B connection management and data transformation, making it well positioned among solutions providers on the market, offering a powerful alternative for cost-effective trading partner management.”

Providing support for electronic trading connectivity protocols like Applicability Statement 2 (AS2) and Electronic Business XML (ebXML), with BizManager 3.0, Inovis now provides a B2B gateway that combines connectivity and transformation services in a single solution. BizManager 3.0 enables companies to reduce network costs through platform consolidation, decrease business cycle times through real-time EDI and more effectively respond to changing business demands with traditional and next-generation protocol and format support.

“Many companies employ multiple software solutions to facilitate different steps of the communication process between trading partners, resulting in costly network infrastructure fees and lengthy transaction cycles,” said Mike Croxton, Inovis’ senior vice president of marketing. “Inovis simplifies trading partner management by providing a single gateway solution with the flexibility to support each step of the communication supply chain, ultimately reducing the overhead costs associated with employing multiple solutions.”

New Integration Functionality
BizManager 3.0 enables companies to support each step of the communication supply chain, from transforming extracted data from a company’s enterprise resource planning (ERP) software, to sending the data messages to trading partners using AS2, ebXML and other connectivity protocols. BizManager Transformation Services and Inovis Mapper are integrated to eliminate the need for additional transformation software, lowering network costs and streamlining operations.

• Inovis Mapper - Based on Inovis’ proven transformation technology, the wizard-based and drag-and-drop mapping functionality in Mapper enables users to create both standard and special maps for translating and routing messages throughout the supply chain and internally. The mapping component is critical to the communication process, providing the directions for each data message passing through the BizManager gateway.
• BizManager Transformation Services - Embedded Transformation Services facilitates the translation of sent or received data documents within the real-time trading community. Offering unsurpassed flexibility, Transformation Services provides support for a wide variety of data formats including EDI, XML, database-to-database, comma separated values (CSV), flat files and binary attachment support.

The BizManager family of products includes BizLink, an enterprise-level server solution for scalable business commerce automation; BizManager400, built for the IBM iSeries (AS/400) platform; and BizConnect Professional, an SME solution for companies or divisions handling a limited number of trading or business partners. In addition to the BizManager line, Inovis continues to develop and offer support for TrustedLink, the company’s award-winning EDI transformation software. For pricing and availability information, contact Inovis at info@inovis.com or 1-877-4INOVIS.

BizManager 3.0 is generally available on December 17, 2004.

About Inovis
Inovis is a leading provider of business-to-business solutions for global trading relationships. With more than 20 years of experience, Inovis enables collaborative business processes and solves the complete B2B integration challenge for more than 20,000 customers and their trading partners. The company’s comprehensive line of B2B software and managed services help companies speed transaction flows, synchronize product information and improve supply chain processes. For more information, visit www.inovis.com.

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