HandySoft Develops SOXA Accelerator 45% Faster With Plumtree's Enterprise Web Versus Stand-Alone Application Server

HandySoft Develops SOXA Accelerator 45% Faster With Plumtree's Enterprise Web
Versus Stand-Alone Application Server
HandySoft Estimates That Using Plumtree's Application Management Framework Could
Result in Long-Term Development Savings of Several Million Dollars 


SAN FRANCISCO and VIENNA, Va., March 22  /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Enterprise
Web leader Plumtree Software  and HandySoft Global Corporation, a leading
provider of business process management (BPM) solutions, today announced that by
using the Plumtree Enterprise Web Suite, HandySoft reduced the development time
for building its Sarbanes-Oxley Act compliance application by 45% versus
building it on a stand-alone application server. In developing the SOXA
Accelerator application, HandySoftcombined its own process design, automation,
reporting and monitoring capabilities with personalization, collaboration,
authentication, knowledge management and search services from the Plumtree
Enterprise Web Suite. As a result, HandySoft was able to quickly and easily
release a comprehensive solution for helping companies validate the accuracy and
integrity of their financial management and meet Sarbanes-Oxley compliance.

By continuing to use the advanced technology of the Plumtree Portal,
Collaboration Server and Studio technologies in the SOXA Accelerator, HandySoft
estimates that its future development savings could add up to several million
dollars.

As a premier Plumtree partner, HandySoft received engineering, marketing and
technical support from Plumtree to bring the application to market.

"We are extremely pleased with SOXA Accelerator's results since its debut last
year," said HandySoft's Chief Operations Officer Stuart Claggett. "The
application's technology strengths have earned itmarket recognition from the
analyst community and have allowed us to easily differentiate it for prospects.
Working with Plumtree as a development partner meant we could get this product
to market quickly and change the dynamics of our business in justa few
quarters."

"We selected Plumtree because we wanted to provide a complete solution without
having to build each component from scratch. For instance, Plumtree's
customizable user interface and personalization features allowed us to create
the look we wanted very quickly," said Daniele Chenal, HandySoft's director of
solutions. "Plumtree is the only vendor to offer such an open, flexible
framework. It helped us produce a powerful new product for a new market in
nearly half the time expected. Plumtree also provided us an incredible amount of
technical and development support, which was as important as the strength of the
technology framework."

"The success of the SOXA Accelerator demonstrates Plumtree's value and
commitment to our applicationspartners," said Jay Simons, Plumtree's director
of applications. "In launching our new Applications Incubator today, we're
committing more resources, more people and more energy to our application
partners than ever before. We want to help hundreds of partners build new
products and capitalize on new opportunities at break-neck speed."

For more information on the SOXA Accelerator see:
http://www.handysoft.com/solutions/sarbanes-oxley /

About HandySoft Global Corporation

HandySoft Global Corporation is the premier provider of configurable software
solutions that simplify and automate business processes; capture and enforce
best practices; improve productivity and quality while reducing costs; integrate
information technology; and foster collaboration among employees, customers, and
partners.

The foundation for HandySoft's industry and departmental solutions is
BizFlow(R), the award-winning platform for business process management,
automated workflow, and collaboration. BizFlow offers complete capabilities for
building and managing automated business processes, including tools for
designing and monitoring the processes, presenting and accessing work,
integrating existing IT systems, and administering the framework itself. As a
global solutions provider, HandySoft has headquarters in Vienna, VA, and Seoul,
Korea, with strategic partner representation throughout the world. HandySoft has
implemented process management solutions at more than 380 sites worldwide.

About Plumtree Software

Plumtree Software is the Enterprise Web leader. Plumtree's mission is to create
a comprehensive Web environment for employees, customers and partners across the
enterprise to interact with different systems and work together. Plumtree's
Enterprise Web solution consists of integration products for bringing resources
from traditional systems together on the Web, shared services such as
collaboration, content management and search for building new Web applications,
and a portal framework for delivering these Web applications to broad audiences.
Plumtree's independence and its Web Services Architecture allow this solution to
span rival platforms and systems, helping maximize customers' return on their
existing technology investments. With offices in more thana dozen countries,
Plumtree has licensed over 575 customers, including Boeing, Ford Motor Company,
Procter & Gamble and the U.S. Navy. For more information, visit Plumtree on the
Web at http://www.plumtree.com/.

NOTE:  Plumtree is a registered trademark of Plumtree Software, Inc. and/or its
subsidiaries in the US and/or other countries. All other registered and
unregistered trademarks in this document are the sole property of their
respective owners. 

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CONTACT:  Carilu Dietrich of Plumtree Software, [phone], or

; or Sarah Hedges of HandySoft Global Corporation,

[phone], or ; or Dennis OConnor of Peter Arnold

Associates, [phone], or cell, [phone], or

, for HandySoft



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