EMPTORIS DELIVERS THE POWER TO ACCOMPLISH TRUE STRATEGIC SOURCING IN CYBERSPACE

Company's ePASS™ Solutions bring real world RFP/RFQ procurement capabilities to net market makers and the enterprise

Burlington, Mass., May 15, 2000-Emptoris, Inc., the leading provider of strategic B2B e-commerce solutions for net market makers and the Global 2000, today announced availability of the company's ePASS solutions. Built around a powerful, highly configurable optimization engine at its core, ePASS enables both buy and sell-side professionals involved in strategic sourcing to more effectively conduct purchasing activities via the Internet. Instead of relying solely on unit pricing as the determining factor in bid acceptance, buyers are able to evaluate factors such as logistics, contractual relationships, product specifications, volume pricing and item bundling to help make better buying decisions.

"Over the past few months, the B2B e-commerce market has exploded, fueling the growth of net markets designed to meet the specialized buying and selling needs of a specific industry segment," explained Avner Schneur, president and CEO of Emptoris. "What these buying communities have helped the industry discover is that current, price-based technology is unable to effectively migrate real-world business rules to the Internet. At it most fundamental, this is what Emptoris ePASS enables."

Current B2B e-commerce solutions are capable of powering relatively simple price-based scenarios. However, it is apparent that while this level of sophistication is appropriate for certain B2B applications, strategic sourcing and fulfilling complex RFQ/RFPs requires additional functionality. Emptoris ePASS is a suite of web-based software solutions that provide buying and selling professionals with the customizable business rules, intelligent workflow and advanced decision support technology they need to carry out these sophisticated strategic sourcing activities. In addition, ePASS facilitates open and sealed bids and contract negotiation processes. Utilizing mathematical algorithms and highly customizable business rules, ePASS is able to effectively match buyer requirements with the suppliers best able to meet those needs.

Furthermore, as an Internet solution, ePASS is built incorporating web and open architecture standards, including Java and EJB, XML, DHTML and Java Server Pages (JSP). The ePASS user interface (UI) is browser independent and the back end supports UNIX, Windows NT, Oracle databases and Microsoft SQL server. XML and Java APIs ensure that ePASS seamlessly integrates with existing ERP and e-procurement systems, protecting and increasing a customers original technology investment.

Pricing and Availability
Emptoris ePASS™ is available now. For pricing, please contact David Farris, vice president, sales at (781)-993-9212, ext. 112.

About Emptoris, Inc.
Emptoris, Inc. is the leader in strategic B2B e-commerce solutions for net markets and the Global 2000. Emptoris' real world procurement platform, ePASS™, extends beyond single item simplistic transactions to enable strategic sourcing of direct materials and services over the Internet. ePASS' customizable business rules, intelligent workflow and advanced decision support technology allows Emptoris' partners and customers to rapidly deploy industry specific e-marketplace solutions, build collaborative buyer-seller relationships and quickly optimize multifaceted purchasing decisions. Emptoris is a privately held company and is an Internet Capital Group (Nasdaq: ICGE) Partner Company. The Company is headquartered in Burlington, Massachusetts. For additional information, please visit the Company's Web site at www.emptoris.com.

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