ILLICOM Achieves eBusinessReady Certification for EDI-INT (AS2)

October 23, 2003 (Press Release) -- ILLICOM ™, Europe’s leading developer of software to manage

enterprise data and application integration, announces the successful completion of the eBusinessReady™ certification process

for the EDI-INT AS2 Internet security standard. ILLICOM’S TradeXpress Enterprise was among first 22 software products

certified earlier this year as conforming to the new HTTP-based Internet standard sponsored by the Uniform Code Council

(UCC).

The eBusinessReady program provides neutral third party testing of solutions for interoperability and compliance.

eBusinessReady is a joint partnership of the Uniform Code Council, Inc. (UCC) and Drummond Group, Inc. (DGI). Certification

indicates vertical and horizontal interoperability and compliance of various software solutions across the global supply chain. For

more information, visit www.ebusinessready.org.

About EDI-INT (AS2)

EDI-INT (Electronic Data Interchange Internet Integration) is an interchange protocol designed to allow the use of the Internet

for EDI and B2B applications. EDIINT is made of two Applicability Statements: AS1 and AS2. AS2 (Applicability Statement 2) is

the draft specification standard by which vendor applications communicate EDI (or other data such as XML) over the Internet

using HTTP(s).

AS2 offers several advantages, including increased verification and security achieved through the use of receipts and digital

signatures. AS2 transactions and acknowledgements occur in real-time, increasing the efficiency of document exchanges.

EDIINT AS2 is recommended by several international organizations such as the IETF, the UCC, the W3C, and has been

adopted by a growing number of companies worldwide.

About Illicom and TradeXpress Enterprise

ILLICOM is Europe’s leading supplier of integrated EDI, EAI and B2B solutions. TradeXpress Enterprise provides a flexible and

robust integration framework for the intercommunication of all types of applications and assists businesses as they move into e-commerce

applications.

TradeXpress Enterprise is the first solution that integrates all data flows through a single platform:

Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) including XML

Enterprise Application Integration (EAI)

Extraction, Transformation, and Loading (ETL)

B2B Integration (or eEAI)

TradeXpress protects existing investments, considerably reduces interface costs, and centralizes and unifies the various data

sources or trade rules of a company. TradeXpress is easy to deploy, extend, integrate and scale, and provides high value and

rapid ROI.

Founded in 1984, ILLICOM is headquartered just outside of Paris, France. With distributors throughout Europe and Asia Pacific,

Illicom Software has more than 1250 installations of TradeXpress from customers large and small and across diverse industries.

Global 2000 customers include Heineken, Ford, Mitsubishi, PPG, GE Capital, Deutsche Bank, Commerzbank, L'Oréal, Hewlett

Packard, Panasonic, Schneider Electric, Siemens, Thomson, Bertelsman Music, France Telecom, and Telecom Australia.

More information about the company can be found at http://www.illicom-usa.com.