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Certified AS2 Interoperability Facilitates Electronic B2B Integration SUNNYVALE, Calif., Nov. 30 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- The Drummond Certified(TM) program, a global software testing program overseen by Drummond Group Inc. (DGI) that enables compliance and interoperability in software products across the supply chain, announced today that it has certified Vitria Technology, Inc.'s BusinessWare 4 in its recent AS2-3Q06 test round. DGI's Drummond Certified program promotes the adoption of standards-based software by certifying interoperability amongst a group of commercial software products for use in worldwide supply chains. The program tests software solutions so they work together to facilitate broader product selection and reduce implementation costs. For software companies, the Drummond Certified seal demonstrates that their solution has been tested for compliance and/or interoperability by an independent, vendor-neutral organization. "Vitria is committed to supporting industry standards such as AS2, one of the most widely used messaging standards for B2B e-commerce," stated Eric Boduch, vice president of marketing for Vitria Technology. "Providing Drummond Certified products to our customers not only ensures that they are getting a compliant and interoperable solution, but that they can save significant development time and resources. Vitria continues to make it a priority to support industry standards in order to provide the best products available." The Drummond Certified program ran multiple tests on BusinessWare to certify its AS2 capabilities. AS2 is a widely used standard for electronically communicating EDI, XML, and other business-to-business data formats over the Internet using HTTP, a standard used by the World Wide Web. AS2 provides security for the transport payload through digital signatures and data encryption and ensures reliable, non-reputable delivery through the use of receipts. BusinessWare 4 successfully passed all these tests. BusinessWare is a platform for integrating complex business processes such as order processing and fulfillment, supply chain interactions, insurance claims processing and financial transactions. Used by hundreds of companies in telecommunications, manufacturing, financial services and healthcare, BusinessWare is the industry's first specialized platform for business process integration. By combining capabilities for application and Service-oriented Architecture (SOA) integration with business process management and business- to-business (B2B) integration, BusinessWare provides a unified solution for modeling, implementing, monitoring, and managing end-to-end processes that span multiple systems and organizations. The entire list of test results from the Drummond Certified program's AS2- 3Q06 interoperability test round is available at http://www.drummondgroup.com/html-v2/as2-companies.html . About Drummond Group Inc. Drummond Group Inc. (DGI) is an independent, privately held company that works with software vendors, vertical industries, supply chains and the standards community to drive adoption for standards by conducting interoperability and conformance testing, publishing related strategic research and developing vertical industry strategies. Founded in 1999, DGI represents best-of-breed in the industry on linking horizontal infrastructure technologies, standards and interoperability issues with the needs of vertical industries such as retail, grocery, healthcare, transportation, government and automotive. For more information, please visit http://www.drummondgroup.com/ or email: . About Vitria Vitria Technology, Inc. (NASDAQ:VITR), a leading provider of business process integration products and solutions, combines technology leadership with industry expertise in healthcare and insurance, telecommunications, manufacturing and financial services to dramatically improve strategic business processes across systems, people and trading partners. These solutions are built on the award-winning Vitria:BusinessWare(TM) Enterprise Business Process Management suite. With offices around the world, Vitria's customer base includes blue chip companies such as AT&T, Bell Canada, BellSouth, Blue Cross Blue Shield Association, BP, BT, DaimlerChrysler Leasing, Generali, Nissan, PacifiCare Health Systems, Reynolds & Reynolds, RBC Financial Group, Sprint, U.S. Department of Defense and Veterans Health Administration. For more information call +1-408-212-2700, email or visit http://www.vitria.com/. NOTE: Vitria and BusinessWare are registered trademarks of Vitria Technology, Inc. All other names may be trademarks of the companies with which they are associated. DATASOURCE: Vitria CONTACT: Angelique Faul of Kulesa Public Relations, +1-513-233-2994, or , for Vitria Web site: http://www.vitria.com/

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