New York, NY – August 4, 2003 – iWay Software, an Information Builders company and the world's leading adapter vendor, today announced its continued support for the BEA WebLogic Enterprise Platform^™ with the availability of iWay's Universal Adapter Framework for BEA WebLogic Platform 8.1. iWay's Universal Adapter Framework can provide access to more than 300 enterprise information systems and e-business document formats, allowing BEA customers to leverage a wide array of IT investments within the new BEA WebLogic Platform^™ 8.1.

iWay adapters are integrated via BEA WebLogic Workshop^™ 8.1, BEA's unified development environment, which is designed to simplify and converges the development and integration of J2EE™ and service-oriented applications. BEA customers can benefit with quicker development cycles and the flexibility of integrating virtually all heterogeneous information systems into their BEA WebLogic Workshop applications – at design time and run time.

"Our partnership with iWay has helped BEA customers rapidly meet business integration challenges," said Scott Edgington, vice president and general manager of global software partners for BEA Systems. "iWay's Universal Adapter Framework can allow customers to leverage their existing application and data with new business applications created with BEA WebLogic Enterprise Platform. By adhering to industry standards, the cost and complexity of application development and process integration projects can be dramatically lowered, allowing customers to receive more comprehensive integration solutions at a better total value."

"Possibly the greatest advantage for BEA customers of using iWay's Universal Adapter Framework is not being forced into choosing between their existing architecture and emerging integration frameworks," said Jon Senor, president of iWay Software. "It is essential that businesses have the ability to incorporate their legacy systems into their new business-process driven technical frameworks."

BEA WebLogic Platform 8.1 showcases BEA's commitment to industry leadership in products that enable J2EE-based service oriented applications. iWay's complementary solutions can enable businesses to create services from ERP systems; popular document formats like HIPAA, SWIFT, FIX, and ACORD; and legacy applications and integrate them into their applications that will run on top of the BEA WebLogic Platform 8.1.

Detailed information regarding iWay's Universal Adapter Framework can be accessed at http://www.iwaysoftware.com/products/iwayuas.html.

iWay Software, an Information Builders company and the world's leading adapter vendor, is a market leader in middleware that accelerates business integration. With facilities to integrate systems in real time, near-real time, or on a scheduled basis, iWay provides a complete reusable infrastructure for EAI, B2B, e-commerce, mobile business, and e-government. iWay's experience with complex information systems led to the development of prepackaged intelligent adapters to connect to more than 300 packaged applications, transaction systems, legacy data, relational databases, and e-business formats, without writing custom code. iWay Software integration solutions significantly reduce the time, cost, effort, and risk of integration projects throughout the enterprise.