Intalio Acquires FiveSight to Drive Open Source BPM Strategy

Intalio Acquires FiveSight to Drive Open Source BPM Strategy
REDWOOD CITY, Calif. — December 6, 2005 — Intalio, Inc., The Open
Source BPMS Company, today announced that it has acquired FiveSight
Technologies, a privately-held company based in Chicago,
Illinois. FiveSight is the company that brought to market the first open
source implementation of the BPEL 2.0 specification, developed to address
the growing need for Business Process Management (BPM) as a core competency
for companies large and small.

"Intalio was started as an open source company and initiated several major
open source projects such as OpenEJB, which served as a foundation for
Apache Geronimo," said Ismael Ghalimi, founder and CEO of Intalio. "With
this acquisition, we are bringing open source to the world of Business
Process Management and have what it takes to change the economics of the
BPM industry."

Intalio has incorporated the FiveSight technology within Intalio|BPMS 4.0,
which is currently available through an Early Adopter Program and will be
released to the public in Q1 2006. Intalio is planning to continue the
development of the FiveSight BPEL 2.0 engine under the open source Common
Public License, and release its BPMN process designer and BPEL4People
workflow suite under similar open source licenses later in 2006.

"The FiveSight PXE BPEL 2.0 engine has been embedded by major open source
projects such as the ServiceMix Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) and leading
development tools like Sun's Java Studio Enterprise," said Paul Brown,
founder of FiveSight Technologies. "This makes Intalio|BPMS the most
popular BPEL product today."

BPEL provides a language for the formal specification of business processes
and business interaction protocols. By doing so, it extends the Web
Services interaction model and enables it to support business
transactions. BPEL 2.0 is developed by the Organization for the Advancement
of Structured Information Standards (OASIS) with the authorship of
companies such as IBM (NYSE: IBM), BEA Systems (Nasdaq:BEAS) and Intalio.

Intalio also announced that Maciej Szefler, architect of FiveSight's BPEL
2.0 engine, has joined Intalio as chief architect. He will work closely
with Assaf Arkin, Intalio's chief technology officer and co-author of the
BPEL specification, on developing Intalio's next generation of open source
BPMS software. Together, they bring years of combined experience developing
enterprise-class open source solutions.

About Intalio, Inc.
Intalio is the leading vendor of Open Source BPMS and helps organizations
of all sizes get the most return on investment from their Service-Oriented
Architecture (SOA) by developing and deploying new business processes
without having to write code. Founded in July 1999, Intalio is a
privately-held, venture-backed company located in Redwood City,
California. For more information on Intalio, please call 650-596-1800 or
visit www.intalio.com.
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