DSET and Vitria Partner
to Deliver ebusiness Solution for DSL Industry
Combined Solution Speeds Delivery of Internet-based
Communications Services to Businesses and Consumers
Bridgewater, NJ - June 5, 2000 - (Nasdaq: DSET) - DSET Corporation,
a leading supplier of business-to-business e-commerce connectivity
solutions for the telecom industry, and Vitria Technology,
Inc. (Nasdaq: VITR), a leading ebusiness platform provider,
today announced the availability of an integrated solution
for DSL providers. The combination of DSET's OSS gateway technology
and Vitria's BusinessWare® ebusiness platform marks the
next phase in the companies' joint efforts to give competitive
telecommunications providers the ability to implement flow-through
automation of business processes such as ordering and provisioning
local loops, pre-qualifying loops for DSL service, and trouble-ticket
management. DSET and Vitria initiated their alliance by building
connectors between their respective technologies earlier this
year.
Under the agreement, DSET will now offer DSL providers a
complete solution with interfaces between its electronic-bonding
gateways and BusinessWare, an out-of-the-box solution for
integrating and automating business processes across the extended
enterprise. BusinessWare allows process models to be created
and deployed to automate and manage mission-critical ebusiness
interactions among supply-chain partners, including data local
exchange carriers (DLECs), aggregators, and Internet service
providers (ISPs).
The integrated DSET and BusinessWare product also extends
automation of the DSL supply chain all the way to incumbent
local exchange carriers (ILECs). Such automation eliminates
manually intensive activities that are time-consuming and
prone to errors, factors that can delay turning on DSL service
for end-users and impact the quality of service.
"We are pleased to work with DSET to launch the next
generation of ebusiness for the DSL category," said JoMei
Chang, president and CEO, Vitria. "Together, Vitria and
DSET make it possible for DSL service providers to tap into
a super-set of exchanges, hubs, and trading partners that
are using BusinessWare, called the Vitria Business Network.
In this way, communications providers can access and form
new business relationships, on demand, in response to constantly
shifting market conditions."
"The expansion of our alliance with Vitria to encompass
the requirements of carriers that facilitate DSL service reflects
DSET's commitment to serving an increasingly diverse and growing
base of customers," said Paul Smith, DSET's senior vice
president of strategic planning and product management. "Our
initial focus will be on helping DSL providers with ebusiness
processes such as customer-lead qualification and processing
orders, particularly by integrating our ezLocal gateway and
ezDSL Leads Qualification System software into the DSL environment
in combination with Vitria's BusinessWare. We will also be
ready to build the special interfaces between any of our products
and the specific BusinessWare solution that a DSL provider
may require."
In addition to the capabilities provided by DSET's new DSL
products, DSET solutions automate a wide range of operations
for competitive carriers across the United States. DSET products
automate generating comparative sales quotes and the ordering
of local loops and high-capacity circuits, as well as providing
support for number portability, 911 emergency service, and
calling card and caller ID services. DSET products also ensure
that CLEC customers are served by their preferred long-distance
carriers and that service problems are resolved quickly and
efficiently.
About Vitria
Vitria Technology, Inc. is a leading ebusiness platform provider.
Vitria's ebusiness platform, BusinessWare, automates mission-critical
business processes across the extended enterprise, reducing
time to market, shortening lead times, lowering operating
costs, and increasing customer satisfaction. Vitria is a publicly
traded company (Nasdaq:VITR) based in Sunnyvale, California.
For more information, call 408-212-2700, visit the company's
Web site at www.vitria.com
or send e-mail to info@vitria.com.
About DSET
DSET Corporation is a leading provider of business-to-business
e-commerce solutions for the global telecommunications marketplace.
The DSET suite of electronic-bonding gateways is designed
to interconnect the operations support systems (OSSs) of service
providers that must exchange information and share network
capabilities with trading partners to provision and maintain
a growing range of services for customers in the competitive
telecom market. DSET's local number portability solutions
play a key role in enabling business and residential customers
to change service providers without changing their local phone
numbers. DSET is headquartered in Bridgewater, New Jersey,
and the company's Web site can be viewed at www.dset.com.
Statements regarding financial matters contained in this
press release, other than historical facts, are forward-looking.
Since all statements about DSET's plans, estimates, and expectations
are based on current projections that involve risks and uncertainties,
and are subject to change at any time, the company's actual
results may differ materially from expected results. Investors
should consider these risks and uncertainties, which are discussed
in documents filed by DSET with the Securities and Exchange
Commission. These documents identify important factors that
could cause the actual results to differ materially from those
contained in the projections or forward-looking statements.
DSET expressly disclaims any obligation to update any forward-looking
statements.
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Vitria Contacts:
Alex Osadzinski
Vitria Technology, Inc.
408-212-2260
Alexo@vitria.com
Teddi Herman
Access Communications
415-904-7070
therman@accesspr.com
DSET Contacts:
Dean Maskevich
DSET Marketing Communications
908-526-7500 Ext. 1366
dmaskevi@dset.com
John P. Murphy
Westfield Investor Relations
908-233-1558
westfieldir@worldnet.att.net
DSET and the DSET logo are registered trademarks of DSET Corporation.
BusinessWare® is a registered trademark of Vitria Technology,
Inc.
All other trademarks are the property of their respective
owners.
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