Vitria Launches Enterprise-Class Business Process Management Solution for Service-Oriented Architectures

Vitria Launches Enterprise-Class Business Process Management Solution for Service-Oriented Architectures

Vitria:BusinessWare 4.3 Makes Complex Process Integration Easier To Manage

SUNNYVALE, Calif., Dec. 13 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Vitria (NASDAQ:VITR), a leading provider of business process integration solutions, today announced the general availability of Vitria:BusinessWare(TM) 4.3. This new version of its award-winning business process integration platform has been enhanced to provide significant new capabilities for enterprise Business Process Management (BPM), web services, human workflow, high-performance XML processing and trading partner integration. Vitria:BusinessWare 4.3 has new standards-based features for system monitoring and alerting, system management and security administration, making complex integration projects more manageable. In addition, the new release has been reconfigured to serve as a more powerful platform for organizations combining the best of event-driven, document-centric and service-oriented architectures (SOAs).

"As SOAs move on from simple point-to-point web service enablement to true business service execution, companies discover that converting their existing software assets into reusable services is only the first step," said Dale Skeen, CEO and founder, Vitria. "Vitria:BusinessWare 4.3 takes our customers well beyond this by combining services and other integration technologies to support more complex business processes such as claims lifecycle, order lifecycle and financial straight-through processing. And with version 4.3, all the integration components are now easier to manage than ever before."

Vitria:BusinessWare 4.3 supports SOAs at three levels: 1) enabling existing software assets to be componentized into reusable "building block" services; 2) providing enterprise-class BPM capabilities to aggregate and orchestrate these services with each other and with non-service elements of event-driven architectures; and 3) incorporating service-oriented design principles with platform-level services for exception handling, logging and audit, document storage and reference and trading partner management. These centralized services reduce the difficulty of modeling and managing complex processes. In addition, all process and integration elements created in Vitria:BusinessWare 4.3 can easily be componentized for reuse and made available externally as services.

"Working with Vitria, we built a new order management system that spans all our existing systems and allows for near real-time management of the customer ordering process, from request through delivery," said David Mewes, VP and CIO, MasterBrand Cabinets, a Fortune Brands company. "Vitria:BusinessWare 4.3 will enable us to make better use of existing IT assets in the areas of system management, security and administration. The advanced modeling tools and emphasis on component reusability will also make implementation and maintenance less time-consuming - a major challenge with a complex BPM and integration implementation such as our own."

Vitria:BusinessWare 4.3 -- New Features & Functionality:
-- Advanced BPM -- New exception handling wizards, iterative processes,
conditional forks and dynamic sub-model resolution simplify
implementing complex process steps that normally require extensive
modeling or coding
-- System Monitoring & Alerting -- Uses JMX MBeans to track more than 200
system parameters, create performance-related alerts, and trigger
exception processes; compatible with several third party system
management products for data monitoring and reporting
-- SOA Support -- Includes extensible palette of pre-built and user-
defined services for drag-and-drop use, dynamic selection of service
targets, and support for secure services and WS-I Basic Profile for web
services interoperability
-- Workflow Enhancements -- Improves user productivity via a new workflow
interface, new pre-defined roles, definition of virtual roles, ad hoc
workflow enablement, and data availability to remote systems as well as
in-process clients
-- XML and Data Transformation -- New Xquery Engine and user interface to
enable faster performance and easier transformation modeling; a new XML
dynamic selector for process modeling, and new support for optimized
XML Schema, XML Namespaces and XML document types in all
Vitria:BusinessWare components that can handle very large documents
with high performance
-- Security and Administration -- New Configurable Security Framework
based on JAAS can be tailored to support a variety of security needs;
leverages existing third party products for defining user roles,
managing access control, securing password storage, and providing
single sign-on to multiple systems in addition to the out of box
security services provided
-- Trading Partner Integration -- Enhanced compatibility with ebXML and
Applicability Statement 2 (AS2); new platform-level service providing
unified view of partner relationship data, security certificates, and
security credentials



All the enhancements made in version 4.3 complement or build on Vitria's unique strengths gained from more than seven years of delivering business process-centric integration solutions to customers, making Vitria:BusinessWare the most mature and proven "enterprise-class" BPM solution on the market today. These areas of strength include: state-based management of long-running business processes, transaction management, application connectivity, transport independence, business process analysis, and clustering/load balancing for scalability, among others.

About Vitria:BusinessWare

Vitria:BusinessWare(TM) is a business process integration platform that orchestrates interactions across a company's existing applications, data, people and partners to continuously improve one or more strategic business processes. Vitria:BusinessWare gives companies complete control and visibility of their business operations across their extended enterprise, enabling them to improve the efficiency of their business operations, reduce time to market for new products and services, develop closer relationships with their partners and customers, and rapidly respond to changing business conditions. The proven Vitria:BusinessWare solution was the industry's first platform for business process-centric integration and is widely recognized as the most flexible and powerful solution available, adopted by hundreds of customers in a broad range of industries.

About Vitria

Vitria Technology, Inc., a leading provider of award-winning business process integration products and solutions, combines technology leadership with industry expertise in healthcare and insurance, financial services, telecommunications and manufacturing to dramatically improve strategic business processes across systems, people and trading partners. With 16 offices around the world, Vitria's customer base includes blue chip companies such as AT&T, Bell Canada, Bell South, The Blue Cross Blue Shield Association, BP, BT, DaimlerChrysler Bank, Generali, Nissan, The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company, PacifiCare Health Systems, Reynolds & Reynolds, Royal Bank of Canada, Schneider Logistics, Sprint, Trane, and the U.S. Departments of Defense and Veterans Affairs. For more information call +1-408-212-2700, email info@vitria.com or visit www.vitria.com.

(c) 2004 Vitria Technology, Inc. All rights reserved. Vitria and BusinessWare are registered trademarks of Vitria Technology, Inc. All other names may be trademarks of the companies with which they are associated.

Cautionary Note Regarding Forward-looking Statements: This press release includes forward-looking statements, including statements relating to new products, goals and future business opportunities that are subject to risks, uncertainties and other factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from those referred to in the forward-looking statements. Such factors include, but are not limited to: failure to meet financial and product expectations of analysts and investors: risk related to market acceptance of Vitria's products and alliance partners' products; deployment delays or errors associated with these and other products of Vitria and partners; hardware platform incompatibilities; the need to maintain and enhance certain business relationships with system integrators and other parties; the ability to manage growth; activities by Vitria and others regarding protection of proprietary information; release of competitive products and other actions by competitors; risks associated with possible delisting from the stock market on which Vitria's securities are listed; and economic conditions in domestic and foreign markets. These and other risks related to Vitria are detailed in Vitria's Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended Dec. 31, 2003, filed with the SEC on March 12, 2004. Vitria does not undertake an obligation to update forward-looking statements.


Source: Vitria Technology, Inc.

CONTACT: Fred Bateman, +1-415-503-1818 or fbateman@bateman-group.com, or
Tyler Lewis, +1-212-227-0721 or tlewis@bateman-group.com, both of The Bateman
Group, for Vitria

Web site: http://www.vitria.com/


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