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To: Lizzie Tudor who wrote (1379)	9/6/2000 3:26:25 PM
From: mike machi	Respond to of 57684

webMethods Joins the UDDI Project to Contribute B2B Integration Expertise to New E-Commerce Standard FAIRFAX, Va., Sep 6, 2000 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- Collaboration enables dynamic, automated, integration to help companies rapidly build out their B2B e-commerce initiatives webMethods, Inc. (NASDAQ:WEBM), the leading provider of business-to-business integration (B2Bi) solutions, today announced the company has joined the UDDI Project. The UDDI (Universal Description, Discovery and Integration) Business Registry and Project were developed through a collaboration of Ariba (Nasdaq: ARBA), IBM and Microsoft. As a member of this industry leadership team, webMethods will participate in the development of a standard registry of services to help companies rapidly extend their B2B trading networks. As customers move their procurement, supply chain, marketplace and other business applications directly on the Internet, they will register these web-based applications as services in UDDI, making it easier for other businesses to discover and integrate with them. This will help large corporations ramp up to supporting tens of thousands of suppliers and customers online, while providing small businesses a standard way to be discovered and integrated into marketplaces and online applications. "As the leader in B2Bi webMethods has more experience integrating Global 2000 B2B initiatives than any other company and we are pleased to bring that experience to the UDDI project," said Kristin Weller, webMethods vice president, product development, B2B. "From the time we introduced our flagship product, webMethods B2B, we have been committed to building open solutions that will breakdown the barriers between companies making it easier to transact business across the Internet. The UDDI Project will continue to help fuel the proliferation of B2B marketplaces, making it easier for companies of all sizes to realize the benefit of true B2B e-commerce." The UDDI Business Registry is platform- and implementation-neutral and has interfaces based on XML and SOAP. Although the registry is based on XML, the services it describes can be implemented using HTML, XML, Java, CORBA, Windows DNA or any other type of programming model or language. webMethods provides a complete B2Bi solution that allows organizations to effectively realize their e-commerce strategies. The webMethods product family was designed to provide broad support for open standards and protocols, such as XML, RosettaNet, ebXML, FpML, cXML, xCBL, OBI, OAG, ACORD, BizTalk framework and EDI. Through support of these standards, webMethods products provide seamless integration both within the enterprise and across the Internet to trading networks and B2B marketplaces.