Covigo adds Offline Capabilities to its Highly Acclaimed Multi-channel Application Platform

Software Vendors and Systems Integrators Can Now Embrace J2ME, Wireless & Voice with Significantly Lower Resource and Time Commitments

Santa Clara, Calif., January 28, 2002 -- Covigo, Inc., the emerging leader in multi-channel application platforms, today announced the availability of the Covigo Platform version 3.0. Covigo Platform powers smart software applications across multiple channels (Web, wireless and voice) and multiple modes (real-time, offline and alerts).

The launch of version 3.0 is a major step towards reaching our objective of being the driving force of multi-channel evolution," said Stuart Bagshaw, CEO of Covigo. Based on standards such as J2EE, J2ME, xHTML, VoiceXML and design patterns such as Model-View-Controller, Covigo powers applications that can leverage laptops, desktops, handheld devices, smartphones, pagers and voice-only telephones."

Covigo enables software vendors and systems integrators to provide enterprises and carriers with workflow-based multi-channel applications without having to build separate applications for voice, wireless, offline or the Web. The complexity of enabling mobility requires software vendors and systems integrators to seek a solution that speeds time-to-market and lowers the cost of ownership for their software offerings. We provide that solution."

One of Covigos newest customers in the United Kingdom, Fast Web Media is launching an SMS application for their 4thegame.com brand, which is the official Barclaycard Premiership website, using Covigo 3.0. "Covigo makes it easy for us to add new business channels for increased revenue and customer loyalty," said Nick Preece, Business Development Manager for Fast Web Media Ltd.

Stephen Jones, VP of Engineering at PointBase stated, Java technology is rapidly becoming the platform of choice for building and deploying applications for mobile devices. PointBase provides RDBMS and data synchronization software on these devices, enabling disconnected use. Covigos offline solution enables organizations to develop J2ME and pJava applications utilizing a workflow-based paradigm. Together these products provide a complete and very powerful mobility solution."

Kamran Ozair, CTO at MindTree Consulting stated, "Covigo has a unique and highly value-added approach to integrating interaction workflow with J2ME, voice, wireless and alerts. Enterprises and operators looking to provide transactional multi-channel experiences to their employees and customers should take a close look at Covigo's offering."

In a related announcement earlier this month, Covigo announced the completion of an additional round of financing from Nokia Venture Partners and Norwest Venture Partners. Covigo will continue to be highly focused on its partner-based business model, including licensing the Covigo Platform to infrastructure software and enterprise applications vendors. In addition, Covigo will continue to provide its software to leading systems integrators for use in multi-channel implementations.

Covigo Platform 3.0 Key Benefits

The Covigo Platform 3.0 brings a tightly integrated, fully automated approach to managing the multi-channel application lifecycle. With a focus on business processes and usability, software vendors and systems integrators can step effortlessly through the evolutionary process of designing, deploying, managing, analyzing and enhancing multi-channel applications.

Save time and money on multi-channel initiatives: Covigo Platform 3.0 allows developers to use one solution to integrate multiple business processes, user experiences, interaction modes, interaction channels and enabling technologies.

Optimize user experience: Covigos complete lifecycle management approach encompasses all stages in the creation of workflow-based multi-channel applications including building, deploying, analyzing and evolving.

Utilize existing Java IDEs and authoring tools: Multi-disciplined teams of developers can use familiar tools, including Java IDEs and Web authoring tools to build application components which are then assembled together within the Covigo Studio.

Integrate with multiple Java and J2EE technologies: Covigos open Java-based integration framework provides rapid bi-directional integration with EJBs, LDAP, JSPs and any Java classes and APIs available.

High performance and availability: Covigo leverages the high performance and high availability of leading application server offerings such as BEA WebLogic Server and iPlanet Application Server.
Covigo Platform 3.0 Key Features

Covigo Platform 3.0 adds offline and alerts capabilities to the product offering in addition to significant enhancements with published APIs and the workflow-based Covigo Studio.

Covigo Synchronization Server - an application-level synchronization server complementary to third-party database-to-database synchronization technologies. Developers can generate 2-way synchronization with the Covigo Smart Client. Features include workflow integration, inbound and outbound synchronization, application-level synchronization and support for multiple synchronization transports.

Covigo Smart Client -a lightweight Java-based client to run offline applications on Pocket PC, Palm OS and J2ME devices. Features include open interface to object-level data storage, mobile database access, real-time and offline connection management, and multiple presentation formats such as AWT and HTML.

Covigo Notification Server -a highly scalable, high performance JMS-based solution for end-user alerts. Developers can target end users with SMS, WAP, or email-based notifications. Features include one-way, two-way notifications and rules-based delivery definition.

Covigo Deployment Server --a deployment and development server that addresses the unique requirement of managing complex mobile applications deployments. System administrators can automate the task of setting up, deploying, versioning and managing entire site installations that comprise of several application modules on multiple physical machines.

Covigo Studio -- a visual programming environment for rapid development of multi-channel applications. New features include the ability to use xHTML as the standardized markup language, integration with Web services and integration with Macromedia DreamWeaver. Developers can use workflow modelling to generate transactional applications for (i) multiple offline profiles (including pJava and J2ME); (ii) multiple real-time profiles (including voice, wireless data, and Web); and (iii) multiple alerts modes (including SMS, WAP and email)
In addition, Covigo has enhanced its other server and tools offerings, including the Covigo Presentation Server, Covigo Analysis Server, Covigo Insight, Covigo Connectors, Covigo Integration Server and Covigo Workflow Server.

Availability

Covigo Platform 3.0 has been provided to selected partners and customers on a controlled release basis since the fourth quarter of 2001. Covigo Platform 3.0 will be generally available this quarter.

About Covigo

Covigo is the emerging leader in multi-channel application platforms. The Covigo PlatformTM is used by software vendors and systems integrators to deploy applications spanning multiple channels (Web, wireless, voice) and multiple modes (real-time, offline, alerts). Covigo is headquartered in Santa Clara, California, with European operations based in Maidenhead, England. The company is backed by Norwest Venture Partners and Nokia Venture Partners. To learn more about Covigo's innovative multi-channel solutions, visit www.covigo.com or download Covigo PlatformTM at http://developer.covigo.com.

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Dev Khare
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dkhare@covigo.com