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Bloor Research Praises SeeBeyond ICAN Suite As Standards-Based Integration Tool For Increased Productivity and Reduced Costs SeeBeyond (Nasdaq:SBYN), provider of the world's first fully integrated composite application network suite (SeeBeyond ICAN) for the deployment of advanced integration and composite application solutions, today announced that leading European analyst firm Bloor Research has published an evaluation of the SeeBeyond ICAN Suite. Providing an overview and assessment of the product set, Bloor Research describes the SeeBeyond ICAN Suite as a highly developed environment for the automation of advanced business processes supporting application-to-application (A2A), business-to-business (B2B), business process management (BPM), extract transform and load (ETL) and composite application development.(1) According to the report, "the most notable thing about the ICAN Suite is that SeeBeyond has applied its principles to its own product set, which has been constructed in a service-oriented fashion just as it recommends for its customers." The research goes on to note that the Suite's support for business functionality such as single customer view, consistency of channel, RFID and real-time supply chains, is all enabled from a single platform. "As the report suggests, the market is seeing a fundamental shift from proprietary infrastructures to a new open, service-oriented architecture approach focused on sharing services and processes across systems," said Ian Hill, general manager and senior vice president, EMEA, SeeBeyond. "To realize the benefits of cost reduction and enhanced operational flexibility, organizations need to embrace an SOA based on open-standards to enable composite application assembly, enhanced reporting and business process management." According to Bloor Research, the SeeBeyond ICAN Suite provides an elegant, powerful and rich framework that brings the goals of IT and the business together. It supports all styles of integration in a single standards-based integration tool that can significantly increase productivity and reduce project costs. For a copy of the report or to learn more about the SeeBeyond ICAN Suite, please visit www.seebeyond.com. About Bloor Founded in 1989, Bloor Research is one of the world's leading IT research, analysis and consultancy organisations -- distributing research and analysis to IT user and vendor organisations throughout the world via online subscriptions, tailored research services and consultancy projects. Bloor Research's research and analysis have been acknowledged by the world's press, other industry analysts and commentators as some of the most authoritative work ever produced on computing and business issues. The accuracy and integrity of our research and its impartial conclusions have earned Bloor Research international acclaim. About SeeBeyond With more than 15 years of software innovation and real-world experience in integrating systems across Global 2000 organizations, SeeBeyond (Nasdaq:SBYN) delivers the industry's first integrated composite application network built on a comprehensive integration platform. The SeeBeyond(R) Integrated Composite Application Network Suite(TM) helps organizations rapidly assemble and deploy enterprise-scale end-user applications built on existing systems and infrastructure to dramatically improve business operations. SeeBeyond has more than 2,000 customers worldwide, including Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts, BHP Billiton, The Cleveland Clinic, The Dial Corporation, DuPont, Florida Power & Light, Fujitsu, General Motors, Halliburton, Hertz Corporation, HP, Lockheed Martin, Pfizer, Samsung, Sprint and Sutter Health. For more information, please visit www.SeeBeyond.com. SeeBeyond is a registered trademark of SeeBeyond Technology Corporation in the United States and select foreign countries. SeeBeyond Integrated Composite Application Network Suite is a trademark of SeeBeyond Technology Corporation. The absence of a trademark from this list does not constitute a waiver of SeeBeyond Technology Corporation's intellectual property rights concerning that trademark. All other brands or product names are trademarks of their respective owners. (1) ICAN Suite from SeeBeyond, Bloor Research, March 2005.