Partner Press Release
Mercator Accelerates RosettaNet Integration With B2B Applications

For Release April 3, 2000

WILTON

Mercator Software (NASDAQ: MCTR), the e-business transformation company, today announced it has joined the RosettaNet consortium and is supporting the RosettaNet framework in its Mercator E-Business Integration Broker product line. Recently introduced features reduce the time, cost, and effort needed to implement RosettaNet Partner Interface Processes (PIPs) and integrate RosettaNet XML transactions with enterprise applications and legacy systems. With Mercator technology, the same underlying software architecture can be used to integrate existing applications with RosettaNet and any other business-to-business (B2B) standard, whether based on XML, EDI, or proprietary interchange formats, without writing programs.

"The deployment of universal electronic business interfaces will align the businesses buying and selling IT products and services, resulting in reduced costs and increased service levels," said Jennifer Hamilton, CEO of RosettaNet. "We are pleased that Mercator has joined the RosettaNet consortium and believe that its commitment to support RosettaNet in the Mercator integration brokers greatly advances the adoption of our standard by the industry."

"The emergence of public networks and electronic marketplaces has dramatically changed the way in which companies conduct business with suppliers, partners," said Dave Power, VP of marketing, Mercator. "RosettaNet has established itself as a leading B2B standard for the global electronic component and information technology industries, but realizing the full benefits of RosettaNet requires broad adoption and seamless integration with enterprise applications. Mercator fosters RosettaNet adoption by enabling rapid integration with existing applications and interoperability within supply-chain networks based on multiple B2B standards."

RosettaNet is an independent, self-funded, non-profit consortium dedicated to the development and deployment of standard electronic business interfaces to align the processes between supply chain partners on a global basis. Launched in June 1998, RosettaNet is currently in the pilot phase of its implementation cycle. More than 200 companies representing $1 trillion in annual information technology and electronic components revenues currently participate in RosettaNet's standards development, strategy and implementation activities.

Today, Mercator customers in the technology industry such as Dell Computer, Texas Instruments, Compaq, Lucent Technologies and others are using the Mercator E-Business Integration Broker technology. With Mercator's widely used integration capabilities for enterprise applications and its support for the RosettaNet standard, a computer manufacturer can: accept purchase orders from a trading exchange, transform them into the formats needed for processing by an SAP system, transform the outputs into RosettaNet purchase orders that can be sent to component suppliers, receive the purchase order acknowledgments and prepare them for reconciliation, all without writing any programs. The RosettaNet standard defines the transactions, and Mercator integration broker technology ensures efficient, transparent integration with both internal applications and supply chain partners.

Mercator E-Business Integration Broker software includes graphical tools for importing and maintaining transaction definitions, maintaining Partner Interface Processes, and specifying the transformation and integration of RosettaNet transactions and other B2B formats with enterprise applications. This "any-to-any" integration capability, all done through a rules-based drag-and-drop interface, is a major advance over software tools that only integrate "XML-to-XML," and results in substantial cost and time savings for the customer.

About Mercator Software
Mercator, the e-business transformation companyâ„¢, is the leading provider of e-business integration software. Our products dramatically simplify customer migration to e-business across every industry, providing unprecedented levels of automation for the most difficult e-business integration tasks.

The Mercator E-Business Integration Broker suite of products addresses customer requirements for business-to-business (B2B), application-to-application (A2A) and consumer-to-business (C2B) integration in every industry. More than 5,000 customers use our products to accelerate their transformation to e-business and over 100 partners embed or resell our technology to enhance their product or service offerings. Additional information about Mercator can be found on the Internet at www.mercator.com.