[announce] OASIS Member news: Grand Central Communications and DataPower Team to Provide Integration On DemandT with Guaranteed End-to-End Message Level Privacy

["Anderson, Kevin" <kevina@datapower.com>]

Grand Central Communications and DataPower Team to Provide 
Integration On Demand(tm) with Guaranteed End-to-End Message Level Privacy

XML-Aware Networking Device & Leading Business Services Network Combine to
Reduce the Risk, Complexity and Cost of Integration


CAMBRIDGE, Mass. and SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. - March 29, 2004 - Grand Central
Communications, provider of Integration On Demand through its award-winning
Business Services Network, and DataPower Technology, Inc., the leading
provider of intelligent XML-Aware Network (XAN) infrastructure, today
announced a joint-partnership and marketing agreement that brings
unparalleled privacy and security to enterprise business transactions via
Grand Central's Business Services Network utilizing the DataPower XS40 XML
Security Gateway.  Today's announcement is significant to any organization
interested in leveraging Grand Central's on demand service model while
remaining in total compliance with enterprise privacy and security policies
or government mandated regulations. 

The two companies have established interoperability and pre-built security
policies between DataPower's high speed network-based security device and
Grand Central's Business Services Network.  The resulting solution ensures
end-to-end message level privacy and security with reduced deployment cost
and reduced complexity, while offering improved efficiency for
business-to-business customer and partner connections. 

"Many organizations-especially those in finance and healthcare-have privacy
and compliance issues to consider when evaluating technology solutions for
both internal and external use," said Ron Palmeri, Executive Vice President
of Product and Corporate Development at Grand Central.  "The combination of
Grand Central's Integration On Demand offering and DataPower's leading
high-performance XML security devices ensures our customers are in full
compliance with privacy regulations such as the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act and
HIPAA, without impact on application or network performance."

DataPower offers a family of XML-Aware Networking devices with its XS40 XML
Security Gateway(tm) and XA35 XML Accelerator(tm) that are powered by
DataPower's patent-pending XG3(tm) - the only true wirespeed XML processing
technology in the world.  These "drop-in" network devices enable
comprehensive message-level security, centralized security and hardware
performance acceleration for any XML or Web service-based application.
Grand Central Communications' easy-to-deploy Business Services Network plugs
directly into an enterprise's IT infrastructure.  The Network transparently
mediates and brokers between disparate partner applications and network
architectures to facilitate change and enable enterprises to quickly provide
extensible and differentiated services to their customers and partners.  By
utilizing Grand Central in conjunction with DataPower's network devices,
enterprises can trust in a shared and transparent network infrastructure for
their Business Services Transactions that are secure and easy to implement,
while benefiting from end-to-end transaction privacy.

"History has shown that the best way to build a robust network is with
wirespeed network hardware," said Eugene Kuznetsov, Chairman and CTO at
DataPower. "Combined with DataPower's XML-aware network devices, Grand
Central's customers will benefit from the most comprehensive end-to-end
privacy, encryption and message-level security with optimal application
performance, mitigating the risk for business-critical integration beyond
traditional corporate perimeters."

The combined Grand Central/DataPower privacy-enhanced Business Services
Network solution is available immediately.  For more information on this
solution, go to www.grandcentral.com or www.datapower.com.

About Grand Central Communications 
Grand Central delivers Integration On Demand through its award-winning
Business Services Network, the simplest, fastest and most cost-effective way
to integrate and share business processes between business partners,
customers, and diverse business units. Built on top of the Internet as a
standards-based, highly scalable, subscription-based network service, Grand
Central provides a true alternative to complicated, lengthy and expensive
software deployments. Grand Central's platform solves the business and
technology problems associated with integrating applications, services,
protocols, devices, partners and customers, without requiring expensive
hardware, software, staffing, consultants, maintenance, upgrade fees, use of
proprietary protocols, or adoption of additional standards. And because it's
built on the 'software as service' model, customers can be up and running in
days or weeks -- not months.

Grand Central's innovative solution and market-changing approach has
received significant recognition in the industry, including InfoWorld's 2003
Award for "Best Web Services Integration Solution", AlwaysOn Top 100,
Readers Choice Award from .NET Magazine, Investor's Choice Award from
Enterprise Outlook, Network World's 10 Startups to Watch, Start Magazine's
Hottest Companies, a "Deploy" rating from InfoWorld Labs, Two Thumbs Up from
Web Services Journal Product Review, and the winner of the 2003 Comdex "Iron
Chef" Web Services Competition.

The company is headquartered in San Francisco, California. Call 415-344-3226
or visit www.grandcentral.com for more information.

About DataPower Technology 
DataPower provides enterprises with intelligent XML-Aware network
infrastructure to ensure unparalleled performance, security and
manageability of next-generation applications and XML Web Services.
DataPower's patent-pending XML Generation Three (XG3(tm)) technology powers
the industry's first wire-speed XML-aware networking devices that provide
immediate return on technology investments while streamlining application
deployments. 

Founded in 1999, DataPower is privately held and based in Cambridge, MA. For
more information about DataPower Technology, please contact 617-864-0455 or
visit www.datapower.com.