Arjuna Announces OEM Agreement With webMethods; Agreement Delivers Reliable Support for Web Services Transactions

ArjunaTS can handle high volumes of
transactions across diverse middleware environments - supporting
transactions across CORBA, J2EE and Web services.

About Arjuna Technologies

Arjuna Technologies is a leading independent supplier of
standards-based middleware technology for reliable distributed
systems. And the applications interact and interoperate
with each other , so that an event in one can trigger an event in another
application.

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Customers can create their own shared, secure,
workflow-enabled and web-based software applications that meet their specific
needs, requirements, processes and policies. Mehrdad Tabrizi, co-founder and president of
Corent Technology.

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Early adopters require infrastructure
providers to integrate transactioning solutions now, even though the
standards are still being finalized.
"The promise of on-demand software development has been around for the
last decade, but until now, no one's created an easy-to-use tool to deliver on
the promise," explained Dr.

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By
doing so, ArjunaTS helps to support "multimodal transaction
processing" thereby enabling reliable transactions to span from
front-end e-commerce applications to back office systems and beyond
the enterprise firewall to business partners - across any system ,
anywhere in the world. Arjuna is privately owned and based in Newcastle
upon Tyne, England. "Those few that
are customizable require the vendor to do the customization, and require
internal and vendor support, which dramatically increases costs. OAB
eliminates all of that.

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0 merges the XML Transaction
Service with Arjuna's industry proven J2EE transaction technology.

Corent Technology Introduces On-Demand Application Builder

OAB allows users to instantly build and operate a wide range of
user-definable solutions.

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, a leading business integration software company, today announced
an OEM agreement in which webMethods has licensed the Arjuna
Transaction Service Suite to provide a solution for customers to
support distributed transactions across Web services."
OAB is a component within the Corent Smart Business Suite(TM), an
enterprise solution designed to replace multiple stand-alone applications such
as Sales Force Automation, CRM, Channel Management, Bug-tracking , Customer
Support and Document Management with a comprehensive, customizable and
integrated environment ideally suited to meet the needs of the extended
enterprise. Within this environment, customers can use OAB to modify the
functionality of a specific application, such as CRM, or to create an entirely
new workflow application.

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names are the property of their respective owners.

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As an internationally renowned Centre of Excellence in reliable
middleware Arjuna continues to innovate. is an innovative developer of enterprise software
products. The privately-held company is headquartered in San Diego,
California, with a fully owned development center in Chennai, India .corenttech.

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For further information visit our Web site at
http://www. "So it was an easy decision for us to use the On-demand
Application Builder to quickly build a customized supplier management system
to coordinate designs and deliverables, and to automate inventory management
and re-ordering tasks from several of our key suppliers around the globe.

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webMethods will
make it easier for customers to deploy Web services transactions
within their existing infrastructures by embedding the Arjuna XML
Transaction Service component into future versions of the webMethods
Fabric business integration and optimization product suite. Founded
in 2000, the company is managed by a number of veterans from high-technology
companies such as Hewlett-Packard, Tandem, Mentor Graphics, Cadence, Actel,
Endeavors Technology and Jamcracker.

Contact:
Feyzi Fatehi
Chief Executive Officer
Corent Technology, Inc.

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"The OEM agreement with webMethods is a significant step in the
adoption of Web services transactional technology," said David Ingham,
CTO, Arjuna Technologies . All
applications built within the Smart Business Suite use the same interface,
minimizing training needs.

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Arjuna can provide platform vendors with the consultancy, the
technology and the integration support to add world-class reliability
to their products. As requirements, policies and processes change,
customers can simply modify applications to reflect those changes.

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As webMethods has found, Arjuna's
XML Transaction service isolates them from any standards flux,
providing a stable solution for their customers moving forward .

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The XML Transaction Service is fully standards compliant;
the programming interfaces are based on the Java API for XML
Transactioning (JAXTX) and the product supports the
WS-AtomicTransaction and WS-BusinessActivity specifications.

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For more information, please visit
http://www.

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Tools and utilities for e-commerce, web development, web hosting, GUI, and Client Server development and hosting.

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Arjuna is a registered trademark of Hewlett-Packard Company under
license to Arjuna Technologies Ltd.

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"We've been successfully using the Corent Smart Business Suite to manage
some of our key partner relationships, as well as some of our distributed
product development projects," said Dan Le, senior director of applications
for Lexar Media, Inc.

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ffatehi@corenttech.

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ArjunaTS provides the critical coordination infrastructure
required to support business transactions that span multiple Web
services, ensuring that the consistency of the overall business
transaction is maintained even in the event of occasional component
failures . The recent GA release of the
Arjuna Transaction Service Suite 4."
"Most out of the box solutions are neither customizable nor web-based and
are targeted to a specific application arena," noted Tabrizi .

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Applications supporting business
processes such as sales funnel management, product inventory, product
development management, resume banks, HR management, customer service, supply
chain management and channel management can now be developed without the
typical costs of procurement, deployment , configuration and technical support."

About Corent Technology
Corent Technology, Inc.

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New Software Product Allows Customers to Instantly, Easily Create Custom,
Secure , Web-Based, Workflow-Enabled Business Applications

SAN DIEGO, Corent Technology, a leading developer
of enterprise solutions for distributed workgroups, today announced the
general release of its On-Demand Application Builder (OAB(TM)), the first
web-based, self-service, on-demand rapid application development product. OAB
has been designed to allow non-programmers to quickly and easily build
workflow-enabled applications using a simple graphical user interface (GUI). It offers businesses and organizations an unprecedented range of
on-demand, interoperable, collaborative and customizable enterprise software
solutions that enable distributed teams to better communicate, interact and
work together.com.

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High-Tech Editors

NEWCASTLE, England----Arjuna
Technologies, specialists in reliable middleware, and webMethods,
Inc. "We developed OAB at the request of our customers, who
have been frustrated trying to use and adapt a hodgepodge of incompatible
point products that really didn't address their unique requirements.