ATLANTA, GA—August 22, 2007 — Inovis outlined its strategy to deliver comprehensive solutions and technology applications in a flexible, Business Community Management (BCM) suite designed to eliminate the complexity that hinders business communities and hurts profits. The announcement today has major implications for automating and managing business to business (B2B) processes with trading partners.

"Because companies move vast amounts and types of data both internally and externally beyond their firewalls, the secure transport and management of that data cannot be achieved through a one size fits all approach," said Sean Feeney, president and CEO of Inovis. "With this flexible portfolio of proven applications, we can fully enable complete business communities as a foundation for greater visibility and governance that solves complex and costly business process problems for companies."

The drive for increased competitiveness has led to a demand for 100 percent compliance and quick implementation of the adopted partner technologies. Further complicating B2B relationships is the complexity that these technologies can add to the data communication process hindering effective management and timely problem-spotting.

The new strategy will position Inovis to provide an array of solutions for the entire business community enterprise and work with customers to specifically address these evolving challenges. The BCM suite enables companies to be 100 percent compliant with their trading partners, regardless of their size or current technologies, by providing multiple platforms and levels of automation technology. It provides full visibility across all technologies to reduce complexity in the supply chain, reduce cost and improve customer service. Inovis offers all of the BCM suite applications for on-premise implementations and end-to-end community managed services to meet the technical and business requirements of every business partner. Implementation of the BCM suite can be completed quickly and seamlessly allowing for immediate ROI.

Inovis' BCM suite will fill a need for enterprise-wide data and customer management. According to a February 9, 2007 Forrester Research titled "Justifying B2B Integration," many organizations with a significant number of B2B interactions with customers and suppliers still do not use any form of automated, electronic document exchange technology due to the difficulty in identifying benefits that could be used to justify the business case for moving from manual to automated information exchange systems. Organizations that have not already implemented electronic information exchange systems should assess projected improvements in these areas to deliver improved productivity, shorter cycle times, lower processing costs, and improved customer service.

The Inovis BCM suite offers modular applications though three distinct, yet integrated, service areas that allow for quick adoption across the entire trading partner business community. The service areas—Communication Networking, Automation, and Visibility and Governance—are built on a foundation of secure, reliable communications.

Inovis Business Community Management Service Areas

• Visibility & Governance: Inovis provides a real-time view into business partner activities, with a customizable, 'single pane of glass' view into data allowing for better reporting, reduced support costs, actionable intelligence and reduced complexity. This visibility enables proactive identification of data and other external issues before they negatively impact a company's business.
• Automation: Inovis works with customers to optimize their business community by automating their partners:
  1. Design community program—Perform readiness assessment; plan rollout
  2. Implement B2B technology—Install and deploy software; create EDI maps; integrate with ERP and other internal systems, applications
  3. Enable and train partners—Provide partner enablement services; assure compliance
  4. Transact business—Initiate acceptance of transactions; manage events and exceptions
  5. Optimize collaboration—Refine usage, remove adoption barriers, then report and recommend ongoing changes in process
• Communication Networking: Inovis offers secure connectivity with external partners, internal EDI systems and the management of secure file transfers. This foundation of secure and reliable communication sets the stage for more advanced applications that deliver even greater value on top of cost savings companies can expect from elimination of manual, error-prone processes.

AMR Research Comments on Inovis Strategy

On August 16, 2007, AMR Research published a research article titled "Inovis Rolls Out Its Multienterprise Expert Services Hub." The article by AMR Research's John Fontanella provides analysis of the Inovis Business Community Management strategy and how the company's recent launch of the Inovis Multienterprise Expert Services Hub (MESH) platform and its acquisition of Freeway Commerce, Ltd in the United Kingdom align with this new corporate vision. You may access a complimentary reprint of this research article at www.inovis.com or via the following link.

Customers Speak about Business Community Management

"Dillard's remains competitive by appealing to new and existing customers with a continually updated merchandise mix combined with dependable quality, reliable service and measurable value," said Bill Holder, CIO of Dillard's, Inc. "Our success depends, in large part, on how effectively we manage the movement of not only goods but information from our business community to the customer. Inovis helps Dillard's ensure that we deliver the right mixture and assortment of merchandise to the right store at the right time and that we have superior visibility into those end-to-end transactions. At the same time, Inovis is helping Dillard's provide additional intelligence back to our business partners that help all parties improve their operations and profitability."

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About Inovis
Inovis is a leading provider of on-demand Business Community Management solutions that empower companies to transact, collaborate and optimize communications with their entire trading community. By standardizing and automating mission-critical business interactions, companies can dramatically reduce the complexity and cost of supply chain communication. This foundation of high-quality, reliable and secure connectivity provides real-time visibility across the order-to-payment lifecycle. The resulting actionable intelligence enables users to proactively address supply chain issues before they impact profitability, shortening cycle times, improving productivity and increasing customer satisfaction.

With more than 20 years of expertise, Inovis delivers its products and services to more than 20,000 companies over a wide range of industries and markets across the globe. For more information, visit www.inovis.com.

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