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Premier Business Integration Forum Features Ambitious Agenda for Leveraging IT to Achieve Business Process Improvement ATLANTA, Nov. 15 /PRNewswire/ -- Integration World 2005 -- webMethods, Inc. (NASDAQ:WEBM), a leading business integration and optimization software company, today officially opened Integration World 2005, the company's fourth annual global user conference, which is taking place this week in Atlanta at the Atlanta Hyatt Regency, with a call for enterprises to embrace process- centricity in their operations. With record participation from the company's industry partners and attendees gathering from around the world, Integration World is the premier industry forum for charting the value and opportunity that companies are deriving from business integration. The conference -- under the theme of Power Your Big Ideas(TM) -- aims to broaden attendees' imaginations on the ways that integration-enabled business process improvement can help to overcome the operational obstacles that inhibit corporate performance. "This year's Integration World will be the most significant one yet," said David Mitchell, president and CEO, webMethods, Inc. "Fueled by the increasing maturity of service-oriented architecture and business process management, enterprises are extending their definition of business integration to encompass a process-centric approach that more effectively meet the needs of the business. Given this important transition, the timing and customer focus of the conference could not be more ideal. Ultimately, it is these strong partnerships that we share with our customers that drive our mutual success. As a result, we look forward to deepening these relationships over the next several days as it is the big ideas of our user community that ultimately inspires us." During the conference, a variety of keynote presentations, track sessions, interactive programs and networking events will provide Global 2000 executives with insight into the technologies, solutions and methodologies available for elevating the role of integration within their enterprise. As in previous years, a core focus of these discussions will be how a service-oriented architecture (SOA) approach facilitates faster, more responsive, more cost effective and more complete business integration. Attendees will also gain a first-hand understanding of integration best practices and will get the benefit of seeing live demonstrations that show how the combination of Business Process Management and Business Activity Monitoring (BAM) functionality help to deliver unprecedented real-time operational insight and enable continuous process improvement. These real-world sessions will be led by webMethods executives, key industry partners, recognized industry thought leaders and most importantly, their peers, including 7-Eleven, ABN AMRO, Dean Foods, Disney, KeyBank, Sony Pictures Entertainment and Spartan Stores. Integration World also highlights a solutions-oriented, process-centric approach to total business integration. This approach is led by webMethods Fabric(TM), the company's flagship product suite for process-based, service- oriented total business integration, as well as a number of additional offerings that build upon this foundation to address the unique business requirements associated with the financial services sector, demand-driven manufacturing, multi-channel retailing, and business compliance. These efforts will be further reinforced by the significant industry partner presence at the conference, with partners highlighting complementary solutions within a variety of industry-specific showcases. "With enterprises rapidly closing the chapter on an application-centric approach to IT, this promises to be the most critical meeting for our user community yet," said Deborah Rosen, executive vice president, worldwide marketing, webMethods Inc. "As services-oriented architecture evolves to provide enterprises with the ability to truly transform their businesses, this is the time for customers to fully explore all those possibilities. Integration World offers just that opportunity, and we're thrilled that so many of our customers are embracing the limitless possibilities offered by a business-process centric approach to IT." About webMethods, Inc. webMethods (NASDAQ:WEBM) provides business integration software to integrate, assemble and optimize available IT assets to drive business process productivity. webMethods delivers an innovative, enterprise-class business integration platform that incorporates proven integration technology with next generation capabilities into one interoperable set of tools that delivers a unique combination of efficiency, agility and control. webMethods combines industry leadership with a zealous commitment to customers to deliver tangible business value to more than 1,300 global customers. webMethods is headquartered in Fairfax, Va., with offices throughout the U.S., Europe, Asia Pacific and Japan. More information about the company can be found at http://www.webmethods.com/. The webMethods name and logo are registered trademarks of, and webMethods Fabric is a trademark of, webMethods, Inc. All other marks mentioned are trademarks or service marks of their respective companies. DATASOURCE: webMethods, Inc. CONTACT: John Conley, +1-703-980-8259, , or Brianna Boyle, +1-703-460-6034, , both of webMethods Web site: http://www.webmethods.com/

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