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Service Release Offers Advanced Network Tools

Hubspan’s Newest Service Release Offers Advanced Network Tools and Services

Hubspan’s Enhanced Services Speed Integration, Decrease Deployment Costs and Provide Increased Control and Manageability

SEATTLE, Wash. (May 7, 2002) – Hubspan, a provider of real-time trading partner connectivity services, today announced the latest enhancements to its hosted trading partner integration service. Hubspan’s customer-centric approach to development relies heavily on client feedback, incorporating it frequently into new service offerings and enhancements. This recent set of advancements is no exception, reflecting the broad connectivity requirements of Hubspan’s extensive customer base. This latest set of enhancements includes advanced functionality required for external business-to-business integration such as dynamic choreography, sophisticated testing tools and comprehensive network services.

Hubspan’s advanced choreographer functionality increases flexibility, making the modeling and orchestration between even the most complex trading partner relationships faster and easier. Additionally, their “state of the art” internal and external testing tools significantly speed deployment time, reduces resource requirements and cuts the cost of implementation. Finally, Hubspan’s Community Management tools deliver increased control and manageability by offering each customer a complete view of their entire trading community. From this single comprehensive view, Hubspan customers can monitor almost every aspect of their community including partner status, account administration, service definitions and transaction volume, status and detail.

These new features are coupled with comprehensive network services vital to multi-party internet-based transaction processing including non-repudiation, directory services, 24X7 technical support and store-and-forward processing. Hubspan’s unique combination of infrastructure tools and network services create a total solution for integration with trading partners outside the firewall. With a single connection to Hubspan, companies gain a complete trading partner integration solution required to deploy secure, scalable and reliable trading communities quickly and easily.

“Our current customers have been instrumental in driving and shaping our new service features and functionality,” said Andrew Dent, Hubspan CTO. “Much of our success can be attributed to understanding the individual needs of our clients and their trading partners and using those requirements to influence our future service offerings. As business-to-business integration experts, our goal is to free companies from the extensive time and expensive resources typically required for external integration, making connectivity with multiple trading partners as efficient and easy as possible.”

Hubspan is a pioneer in the emerging Transaction Delivery Network space and inherently a Web Service. Hubspan provides a complete solution for companies to cost-effectively and conveniently create and maintain electronic connections with any trading partner despite disparate standards, technologies and protocols. The Hubspan Service integrates business processes ranging from PunchOut and Round Trip to real-time exchange of static documents such as purchase orders and invoices, as well as provides network infrastructure for private and public trading communities.

About Hubspan

Hubspan connects businesses with their trading partners. The Hubspan Service is a comprehensive solution for managing all the complex and time-consuming tasks of trading partner integration – beginning with understanding individual business and technology requirements through configuration, deployment and ongoing support. A single connection to the Hubspan service gives businesses the fastest and most convenient way to connect to multiple trading partners. Headquartered in Seattle, Washington, Hubspan’s growing list of valued customers and business partners includes companies such as PC Connection and Office Depot, and ImageX. Hubspan and the Hubspan logo are trademarks of Hubspan, Inc.