BPMI.ORG WELCOMES FILENET, FUJITSU, NORTEL NETWORKS, SYBASE AND OTHERS AS MEMBERSHIP TOPS 50

Business Process Management Initiative Continues to Strengthen

SAN MATEO, CA - November 20, 2000 - BPMI.org, the Business Process Management Initiative, announced today the addition of 25 new members representing the leading names in business process management. Concentus Technology, Covasoft, ECtone, Epicentric, Evidian, Exterprise, FileNET Corporation (Nasdaq:FILE), Fujitsu Software, Genient, Jamcracker, Lombardi Software, MEGA International, MERANT (Nasdaq:MRNT), Metaserver, NextSet, Nortel Networks, NOVO, OSM, ProActivity, PureEdge, Reef, Accenx Technologies, Staffware, Sybase (Nasdaq:SYBS), and TechSpan are among the latest to join the initiative in recent weeks.

"Fujitsu is pleased to join this fast growing group of BPMI.org members," noted Ron Alepin, General Manger of the Enterprise Products Group at Fujitsu. "We have long been active members in process management standards bodies and we see BPMI.org as an important organization for accelerating the development of process management standards for B2B environments. Fujitsu's i-Flow is a workflow engine built from the ground up to support web-centric process management and open standards. It is important for our customers to be able to participate in business transactions that span across corporate boundaries and vendor platforms in a standard manner."

Together, members of BPMI.org will focus their immediate efforts on refining and enhancing the Business Process Modeling Language (BPML) specification. BPML is a meta-language for the modeling of business processes, just as XML is a meta-language for the modeling of business data. BPML provides an abstracted execution model for business processes based on the concept of transactional finite-state machine, and offers a way to implement business-to-business collaboration processes defined with the emerging ebXML and RosettaNet standards. The BPML specification, which was initially submitted to members on August 15, 2000, is currently undergoing a second revision.

About BPMI.org
Founded in August 2000, the Business Process Management Initiative (BPMI.org) is an independent organization devoted to the development of open specifications for the management of e-Business processes that span multiple applications, corporate departments, and business partners, behind the firewall and over the Internet. BPMI.org complements initiatives such as J2EE(TM) (Java 2 Enterprise Edition) and SOAP that enable the convergence of legacy infrastructures toward process-oriented enterprise computing and initiatives such as ebXML, RosettaNet, BizTalk, XAML, WSDL, UDDI, tpaML, and E-Speak that support process-oriented business-to-business collaboration. BPMI.org has been initiated by Intalio, Inc. and created in August 2000 by a group of sixteen enterprise software vendors and consulting firms. Membership is open to all companies, non-profit organizations, and individuals.

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