SUNNYVALE, Calif., Sept. 20, 2004 -- KnowNow Inc., a leading provider of event-driven integration solutions, today announced the release of KnowNow 3 Enterprise Edition. This powerful technology solves integration problems in a simple, cost-effective manner using established standards. KnowNow 3 Enterprise Edition significantly extends the reach of traditional enterprise integration solutions.

KnowNow 3 Enterprise Edition builds on the technology that has established KnowNow as a leading provider of event-driven integration software. The company's solutions are currently used by customers in a broad range of industries including financial services, manufacturing, supply chain management, aerospace and defense.

A key component of the product, KnowNow LiveServer, intelligently routes messages, while a suite of KnowNow LiveConnectors enables simple connections for the delivery of data. Other components include: KnowNow LiveBrowser, which enables IT departments to quickly add live data and notification delivery to browser-based applications without refresh, client-side installation or Java Applets; KnowNow LiveSheet, which allows users to share information between multiple spreadsheets on multiple systems; and KnowNow LivePDA, which connects mobile users to event-driven data.

KnowNow 3 Enterprise Edition Features:

-- Event-driven publish-subscribe over native HTTP(S), providing simple integration through firewalls

-- Real-time data push to Web browsers, Microsoft Excel and PDAs delivering connectivity to the extended enterprise

-- A small foot print and thin-client components providing zero install options and lower total cost of ownership

"KnowNow 3 Enterprise Edition delivers information to the people who need it while the value of that information is still very high," said Michael Terner, president and CEO of KnowNow. "We solve business problems previously unaddressed by any other technology, making organizations more nimble and providing significant competitive advantage."

This new release extends KnowNow's leadership in the emerging field of event-driven integration systems. Event-driven systems fundamentally change the way information is gathered and shared between businesses and across the enterprise. Using publish-subscribe messaging over native HTTP, KnowNow's standards-based, loosely-coupled event-driven architecture easily extends the reach of enterprise integration solutions and allows for one-to-one, one-to-many, many-to-one or many-to-many publish-subscribe scenarios.

"There are important financial and strategic benefits to implementing event-driven business processes because they suit the inherently event-driven nature of many aspects of the real world. Event-driven business processes are not just traditional processes made to run faster; rather, they have specific characteristics that distinguish them from internally driven processes," said Roy Schulte, vice president, Gartner, Inc. "Event-driven design will be 'the next big thing' in business architecture and in IT because it brings unprecedented power to support dynamic and multifaceted business processes."(a)

There is a significant market for integration solutions, a market that Gartner defines as application integration and middleware. Gartner believes this market will grow from $4.6 billion in 2002 to $8.825 billion in 2006. KnowNow's solution also connects people to mobile devices. IDC has reported that the market for such mobile middleware solutions will grow from $700 million in 2002 to $1.5 billion in 2007.

KnowNow has established strategic partnerships and a solution provider channel to help deliver comprehensive event-driven integration solutions to customers. Partners are a key element of KnowNow's success in bringing this powerful integration technology to market.

"Partnering with KnowNow offers a unique advantage in helping customers transition to event-driven infrastructures quickly and inexpensively," said Scott McEndree, president of Fusion Data Management of Carmichael, Calif., a provider of storage and integration solutions for the enterprise, and a KnowNow channel partner. "Because KnowNow's technology is standards-based and loosely-coupled, the costs of our integration projects are lower and customers realize a faster return on their investment. Added value is realized once our customers learn how KnowNow makes available actionable events and information to the extended enterprise."

About KnowNow

KnowNow's integration software connects systems, applications and databases to people quickly and easily, providing immediate visibility into business-critical information as it changes. Leveraging the value of existing IT investments without disruption, KnowNow eliminates traditional boundaries of integration by using publish-subscribe over HTTP to deliver the relevant information to the people who need it. Headquartered in Sunnyvale, KnowNow is privately held, with backing from premier venture capital firms including Kleiner Perkins Caufield and Byers, Levensohn Venture Partners, Palomar Ventures, TPG Ventures and Wachovia Strategic Ventures. KnowNow is a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner. For more information, visit http://www.knownow.com or contact KnowNow at 1-877-561-5669.

(a) Event-Driven Architecture: The Next Big Thing, by Roy Schulte Gartner, Inc. May, 2004.

KnowNow Inc.
Susan Turner, 408-215-5032
sturner@knownow.com