INTERSYSTEMS LAUNCHES ENSEMBLE

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Date: Mon, 3 Nov 2003 08:38:13 CST

InterSystems Corporation today unveiled Ensemble, the only integration
platform to incorporate the functionality of an integration server,
application server, high performance object database and a unified
development and management environment in a single, architecturally
consistent product. Ensemble takes application integration to the next
level by enabling organizations to rapidly implement new business
solutions that enhance the value of existing applications, orchestrate
new business processes and integrate data across the enterprise. For
more information, please contact Sabrina Kidwai at 803-699-0710 or by
email at skidwai@shoorpr.com. Press release follows.

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Editorial Contacts
Sabrina Kidwai
Shoor & Company
(803) 699-0710
skidwai@shoorpr.com

Maureen Flaherty
InterSystems
(617) 621-0600
flaherty@intersystems.com

                     INTERSYSTEMS LAUNCHES ENSEMBLE

                   Comprehensive Integration Platform
                      Enables Rapid Implementation

       Software Hits Market with Proven Track Record of Successful
                             Implementations

Cambridge, Mass.—November 3, 2003—InterSystems Corporation today
unveiled Ensemble, the only integration platform to incorporate the
functionality of an integration server, application server, high
performance object database and a unified development and management
environment in a single, architecturally consistent product. Ensemble
takes application integration to the next level by enabling
organizations to rapidly implement new business solutions that enhance
the value of existing applications, orchestrate new business processes
and integrate data across the enterprise.

“InterSystems recognizes that high costs and protracted implementations
are formidable barriers to the success of integration projects,” says
InterSystems Vice President of Strategic Planning Paul Grabscheid. “With
Ensemble, we’re delivering a comprehensive architecturally consistent
product that enables extremely fast integration and eliminates the
excessive complexity and services costs typical of the ‘technology
assembly’ approach of integration projects.”

Ensemble is an addition to InterSystems’ software product line, which
includes the high performance post-relational CACHÉ database. “For more
than two decades, InterSystems has delivered high performance, extremely
scalable, enterprise-level infrastructure software that supports rapid
application development and deployment,” says InterSystems Managing
Director of Application Integration Trevor Matz. “Our software has been
successfully deployed on more than 100,000 systems worldwide. Building
on that proven expertise, Ensemble provides the performance, rapid
implementation and ease of management that are the hallmarks of
InterSystems’ technology. Ensemble’s unique architecture provides the
power required to integrate the most complex systems quickly and
efficiently, overcoming the barriers associated with integration
projects today.”

Partnership-centric Business Model

Committed to helping Ensemble users maximize rapid realization of
Ensemble benefits, InterSystems is partnering with highly talented
professional services organizations to fulfill the requirements for
implementation services typical of virtually every major integration
project. “InterSystems has always focused on creating innovative
world-class software while not competing with partners who build
comprehensive solutions with our technology. Continuing this twenty-five
year partnership-centric business model, our approach is to leverage the
implementation expertise of services specialists and focus our
implementation involvement on project architecture and on fulfilling our
total commitment to the overall success of every Ensemble project,” Matz
says.

Unique Fusion of Technologies Delivers Breakthrough Results

Ensemble excels at enabling rapid creation of composite applications—new
strategic business solutions that integrate the functionality of
existing applications, new business process logic, and data from across
the enterprise. It’s a comprehensive platform that delivers the
capabilities required for the rapid implementation of even the most
complex enterprise application integration initiatives. Ensemble
features:

   * Full-Spectrum Integration and Development A unified graphical, XML
     and code-based development environment accelerates modeling and
     automating business processes for business analysts and developers
     and supports rapid, service-oriented development of composite
     applications that leverage existing data and functionality.
   * Universal Service Architecture Consistent, efficient object
     representation of disparate programming models and data formats
     enables use of the latest, most powerful development tools and
     technologies to access legacy data and functionality as reusable
     .NET or J2EE components, Web Services or XML. The risk of being
     locked into J2EE- or .NET-specific products is eliminated, and
     flexibility is maximized.
   * Persistent Object Engine A distributed, high performance,
     ultra-scalable, SQL-compliant object database, manages and stores
     all metadata, messages and process state information, without the
     costs and overhead typical of relational databases. Organizations
     receive all of the benefits of object technology, as well as
     real-time access to both live and previously processed messages for
     auditing and business activity monitoring (BAM), and high
     reliability and recoverability for long-running business processes.
   * Customizable End-to-End Management Easily customizable, extensible
     and seamlessly integrated management and monitoring facilities
     support rapid problem diagnosis and debugging, making it possible
     to optimize service levels and minimize staff burdens by
     automatically monitoring critical resources and generating alerts
     specific to any enterprise. As a result, operating expenses are
     reduced, and the potential for problems associated with using
     multiple tools from diverse vendors disappears.

Rapid Integration and Proven Results

Excessively complex integration products typically require years of
implementation effort and are, all too often, expensive failures. In
contrast, Ensemble provides a unique fusion of power and ease. As a
result, business objectives can be fulfilled in exceptionally tight
timeframes—a competitive differentiator key to the success of early
Ensemble projects.

“In just 90 days, we were able to prototype a composite application that
integrates information from five systems, all of which use different
database structures and connectivity approaches,” says Ben Harris,
Deputy Secretary Operations and Information Technology for the Florida
Department of Children and Families. “After examining other products, it
was clear that Ensemble’s ability to combine all of the integration
technologies we needed in a single, seamless solution would result in
less complexity and a significant decrease in time and cost than other
approaches,” Harris continues. Based on the success of the pilot, the
agency is now involved in a statewide Web rollout of the Ensemble-based
composite application that will eventually integrate information from 59
systems.

According to Fernando Vogt, director of system integrator
Interconnections, “Our client, Petrobras, is the largest company in
Latin America with revenues of about $30B. They were extremely impressed
that Ensemble enabled us to go live with a project that involved
integrating a multitude of heterogeneous applications and databases in
less than four months. The speed of this project was particularly
impressive because it was so complex, consisting of many different
databases, plus new and legacy applications, from SAP, Vantive, and IBM
among others. BR Distributor, a fuel distribution subsidiary of
Petrobras, is now running an Ensemble-based composite application to
integrate business data via web services with its main customer,
Usiminas, one of the most important steel companies in Brazil. This
project allows Petrobras to invoice Usiminas electronically, which has
brought significant benefits in performance and security.”

Pricing and Availability

Ensemble is available immediately on the HP Alpha OpenVMS, HP Alpha
Tru64, Unix, HP-UX, IBM AIX, Linux, SunSolaris and Microsoft Windows
operating platforms. Ensemble Enterprise license pricing starts at
$125,000 per CPU.

About InterSystems

Headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts, InterSystems Corporation
(www.InterSystems.com) has served the needs of IT organizations and
independent software vendors for more than two decades. InterSystems'
showcase products, the Caché post-relational database and the Ensemble
integration platform, enable the rapid creation and fast integration of
high-performance applications.

Over four million people use mission-critical applications based on
InterSystems' software. Twenty regional offices serve application
developers and integrators around the world, and 24 x 7 support is
provided for all InterSystems products.

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