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BEA Selects Venetica for Portal Star Solution Initiative To Provide Access to Multiple Content Management Systems

BEA Customers Gain Real-Time Access to Content Anywhere it Resides

CHARLOTTE, N.C.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 22, 2001-- Venetica, the leading provider of content integration solutions, today announced that it has been selected by BEA to participate in the BEA Portal Star Solution, a partner initiative from BEA Systems, Inc. (Nasdaq: BEAS - news).

The BEA Portal Star Solution provides a designation for partners that offer complementary products or services that are tightly integrated with BEA WebLogic Portal(TM). Venetica's flagship product VeniceBridge(TM) will enable BEA WebLogic customers to access, share and collaborate on vast stores of content that exist in various disparate repositories throughout an organization, including Documentum, Eastman, FileNET, VisualInfo, Lotus Notes, Open Text, and others.

Venetica is the pioneer and leader in Content Integration. Venetica recognized the critical role that content plays in eBusiness and enterprise applications, and launched the industry's first software to access and exchange unstructured information, including documents, images and multimedia, regardless of how or where it is stored. The VeniceBridge solution allows BEA WebLogic customers to save time, resources and money spent in creating specific integrations to content repositories, thereby creating well-integrated enterprise-wide solutions with access to all relevant content.

``BEA WebLogic customers need to access unstructured content across the organization from their portal solutions. VeniceBridge allows customers to tap into that wealth of information via a single point of access from anywhere inside or outside the enterprise,' said Stuart Levinson, president and CEO, Venetica. ``We are enthused to partner with BEA to help customers leverage their existing investments in content management, resulting in an improved ROI for their portals and other enterprise applications, such as extranets and CRM solutions.'

The BEA Portal Star Solution is designed for partners who will meet one of the following criteria: Build application portlets for BEA WebLogic Portal 4.0, integrate their applications to BEA WebLogic Portal 4.0, or develop a consulting practice around the portal product. The initial Portal Star Solution partners, and joint customers, will benefit greatly from BEA WebLogic Portal's strict adherence to Java standards, open portal framework and integration services.

``Venetica's VeniceBridge provides the link to connect information from disparate content repositories, which can help BEA WebLogic Portal customers improve access, and the exchange of content, throughout the enterprise and among trading partners,' said Pat O'Haren, senior director of product marketing, BEA Systems.

For more information on the BEA Star Partner Program and Star Solutions designation, call the Partner Resource Center 1-866-323-STAR in the United States or visit the BEA partner Web site at www.bea.com/partners/star_solution.shtml.

About Venetica

Venetica is the leading provider of content integration solutions. The company's flagship product, VeniceBridge, provides the infrastructure that portals, collaborative applications, customer relationship management and other key applications use to access and exchange content throughout the enterprise and among trading partners. At the heart of VeniceBridge is a single, consistent interface that enables applications to quickly integrate with the multiple, disparate repositories that store documents, images, reports, rich media and other relevant content. VeniceBridge can then aggregate, deliver and exchange the content with other applications in real time. Its Java and EJB-based architecture includes a SOAP-based Web services interface. Venetica also provides applications and tools to build content-centric business process solutions. Headquartered in Charlotte, North Carolina, Venetica partners with leading software vendors and system integrators in North America and Europe to deliver solutions around the world.


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