OASIS MEMBER NEWS: BMW SOFTLAB SELECTS EXTRICITY FOR AUTOMOTIVE INDUSTRY E-BUSINESS INITIATIVE

["Laura Walker" <laura.walker@oasis-open.org>]

BMW SOFTLAB SELECTS EXTRICITY FOR AUTOMOTIVE INDUSTRY
E-BUSINESS INITIATIVE

Extricity B2B Platform to Provide B2B Capabilities to Softlab's
ASPKappa-Hosted
Supply Chain Service

REDWOOD SHORES, Calif.-May 18, 2000-Extricity, Inc., a leading platform
provider for business-to-business relationship management (B2BRM) announced
that its B2B platform serves as the collaboration engine for BMW Softlab's
ASPKappa B2B hub that was announced earlier today.   Softlab Ltd. is an
international IT solutions provider and a BMW Group company.

ASPKappa is an application service provider (ASP) solution initially
targeted at the automotive manufacturing industry.  The product is available
on a rental model to allow the greatest scope of partner participation.
With the ASP model, small- and medium-sized companies can benefit from a
robust B2B solution that would ordinarily be out of reach due to financial,
resource or technical constraints.  It also allows them to concentrate on
their main business while Softlab manages and hosts the B2B solution on
their behalf.

"ASPKappa will fundamentally transform the automotive industry supply chain
and deliver new efficiencies that reduce costs, accelerate decision making
and improve communications and management," said Phil Dawson, portfolio
manager (industry) at Softlab.  "To achieve this vision, Extricity was
selected based on its ability to deliver a single platform that
automatically integrates heterogeneous information flows with back-end
applications, and therefore, makes automatic ebusiness supply chains a
reality."

Extricity's family of B2B software products allow companies to manage the
internal and external sharing of information and the execution of
interactions among software applications and business partners over the
Internet.  Extricity offers any-to-every, multi-partner management and
security features needed for integration and collaboration with customers,
partners, suppliers and Net marketplaces.

"Softlab's announcement is another example of how B2B solutions are enabling
companies to change the way they do business.  The automotive industry, in
particular, is rapidly adopting and implementing ebusiness initiatives to
streamline its traditionally fragmented supply chain," said Dave Cope, vice
president of marketing for Extricity.  "Our alliance with BMW's Softlab
leverages our shared strengths and realizes our joint vision to achieve
global market interoperability for the automotive industry, and to
ultimately offer this solution to other industries as well."

About Softlab
Softlab Limited, is a BMW Group company and one of the leading European IT
solutions providers. It currently employs approximately 500 staff in the UK
and has over 25 years' experience in planning and implementing large scale
IT projects.  At the core of the company's business is an extensive range of
consulting options and services in the field of system integration
throughout the entire value-chain. Specific areas of expertise include
manufacturing systems, e-Business and customer relationship management.
Softlab is a qualified partner in developing business processes geared to
future requirements and implementing them as innovative IT solutions.
Softlab Group is present in all major European markets and has subsidiaries
in the United States and Japan.  www.softlab.co.uk

About Extricity

Extricity is a leading provider of B2B software products that allow
companies to manage the internal and external sharing of information and the
execution of interactions among software applications and business partners
over the Internet.  Extricity refers to this exchange and management of
information among groups of companies over the Internet as
business-to-business relationship management, or B2BRM.  Extricity's
eXtensible Markup Language (XML)-based platform provides an open,
standards-based solution that allows diverse information systems and
businesses to work together more effectively by automating and synchronizing
the flow of information and execution of processes.  The Extricity platform
supports a process-based flow of mission-critical information that enables
organizations to achieve operational efficiencies and to collaborate without
having to change their internal processes or information technology
environments, regardless of size, sophistication or existing software
applications.  Extricity's customers include Adaptec, Advanced Micro
Devices, MarketFusion, Inc., Mary Kay, Inc., Need2Buy.com, Solectron Corp.
and Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co.  The company also works with
system integrators and consulting firms, including CSC, IBM Global Services
and PricewaterhouseCoopers.  Extricity's headquarters are located in Redwood
Shores, Calif.