WEBMETHODS UNVEILS WEBMETHODS DASHBOARD; SIGNS OEM AGREEMENT WITH INFORMATICA

webMethods to Provide Customers with a Real-Time Dashboard for Enterprise Visibility using Informatica's PowerAnalyzer

INTEGRATION WORLD 2003 - ORLANDO, Fla. - October 29, 2003 - webMethods, Inc. (Nasdaq: WEBM), the industry's first Web services infrastructure company, and Informatica Corporation (Nasdaq: INFA), a leading provider of data integration and business intelligence software, today announced an OEM agreement in which webMethods has licensed Informatica's PowerAnalyzer software to deliver dashboard capabilities to its customers. Leveraging PowerAnalyzer's flexible dashboard features, webMethods plans to release a new product, webMethods Dashboard™, within its larger business activity monitoring (BAM) solution. webMethods Dashboard will provide customers with deep visibility into business processes within their integrated enterprise and will enable real-time decision-making by business users.

“Real-time visibility into mission-critical business processes and the ability to react to business events as they occur are becoming executive suite imperatives,” said Debbie Rosen, senior vice president and general manager, BAM Business Unit, webMethods, Inc. “webMethods already has a strong history of integrating business processes for more than 1,000 customers. With webMethods Dashboard, our customers gain the ability to easily analyze and respond to each transaction in real-time.”

Business Activity Monitoring (BAM) provides visibility and control of IT operations, business processes and transactions for real-time decision-making. As part of webMethods' BAM offerings, webMethods Dashboard provides real-time reports on data flowing through the webMethods Integration Platform, along with real-time metrics and alerts. This solution offers organizations a way to avoid the increasing latencies associated with growing data volumes and non-integrated decision support infrastructure by providing a view of real-time data for continuous monitoring and management of critical business performance indicators. When the webMethods Dashboard detects changes for any business process or operating parameter, information is interpreted, an alert is formulated, and a user can respond immediately. All of this occurs in real-time, within the flow of the normal business process.

In the financial services industry, for example, loan officers cannot see the mortgage lending process from end-to-end, which can cause delays and cancelled customer applications. webMethods Dashboard provides visibility across the entire mortgage lending business process, helping loan officers to manage and monitor their mortgage pipeline in real-time to identify and resolve a lending qualification issue before a customer changes their mind or cancels their application. This ability provides improved revenues, customer satisfaction and response time for the mortgage lending industry.

“Informatica's PowerAnalyzer software is designed for both IT and business users, making it the perfect tool to provide visibility into webMethods' integrated business processes via real-time dashboard features,” said Ron Papas, senior vice president of business development at Informatica. “By leveraging PowerAnalyzer's Internet-centric architecture, webMethods Dashboard can provide customers with a highly intuitive, user-friendly and reliable solution.”

PowerAnalyzer is the only business intelligence platform today offering a single, unified server and a pure Internet-centric architecture - designed for usability, scalability and extensibility - to ensure the lowest cost of ownership and quickest return-on-investment. Recently recognized as a 2003 eWeek Excellence Award finalist and receiving “excellent” ratings for usability, capability and interoperability in an eWeek product review, Informatica PowerAnalyzer rapidly and easily delivers ad-hoc query and reporting, analysis, embedded Excel, and collaborative analytics via “out-of-the-box” dashboards.

The webMethods Dashboard is scheduled to be generally available from webMethods in December 2003.

About webMethods, Inc.

webMethods (Nasdaq : WEBM) is the industry's first Web services infrastructure company. webMethods' innovative integration, Web services, portal and analytic solutions enable more than 1,000 enterprise customers worldwide to run, measure and optimize their business. Recognized in 2003 as the fastest growing software company in North America by Deloitte, 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

About Informatica

Informatica Corporation (NASDAQ: INFA) is a leading provider of data integration and business intelligence software. Using Informatica products, Global 2000 companies can leverage their existing information assets for enterprise insight that helps them improve business performance, increase customer profitability, streamline supply chain operations and proactively manage regulatory compliance. More than 1,800 companies worldwide rely on Informatica to meet their end-to-end needs for enterprise data integration and business intelligence. For more information, call 1.650.385.5000 (1.800.970.1179 in the U.S.), or visit the Informatica Web site at http://www.informatica.com/.

webMethods is a registered trademark, and Global Business Visibility and webMethods Dashboard are trademarks, of webMethods, Inc. in the USA and certain other countries. Informatica and PowerAnalyzer are trademarks or registered trademarks of Informatica Corporation in the United States and in jurisdictions throughout the world. All other company and product names are the property of their respective owners.

This press release may contain various remarks about the future expectations, plans and prospects of webMethods that constitute forward-looking statements for purposes of the safe harbor provisions of U.S. securities laws. The actual results of webMethods may differ materially from those indicated by these forward-looking statements as a result of various important factors, including those discussed under the heading “Factors That May Affect Future Operating Results” in the Business section of webMethods' Form 10-K for the year ended March 31, 2003, and in the “Management's Discussion and Analysis” section of webMethods' Form 10-Q for the quarter ended June 30, 2003, which are on file with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission and may be accessed at http://www.sec.gov or webMethods' investor relations webpage at http://www.webMethods.com. webMethods disclaims any obligation to update or correct any forward-looking statements made herein due to the occurrence of events after the issuance of this press release.