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Profile:The Web is the way that people will access electronic resources across the enterprise. Using infrastructure based on new Internet standards, a corporate portal will bring together these resources into an experience that’s simple enough for everyone to use, anywhere. With over 300 customers and five million licensed users, Plumtree’s portal software is the most scalable, widely deployed portal solution on the market. Plumtree`s partners include Microsoft, Cap Gemini Ernst & Young and Accenture. Plumtree`s customers include Procter & Gamble, Ford Motor Company, Eli Lilly and Company, UTC Aerospace, and American Airlines.

http://www.plumtree.com




Plumtree Software ist der Gründer und Marktführer der Unternehmensportal-Software-Branche. Ein Unternehmensportal ist ein Web-Portal für Anwendungen und Internet-Dienstleistungen. Es fasst die wichtigsten elektronischen Ressourcen an einem Punkt zusammen und stellt diese für Mitarbeiter, Partner und Kunden zur Ausführung ihrer Geschäfte mit dem Unternehmen zur Verfügung. Die benutzerfreundlichen Unternehmensportale von Plumtree bilden den neuen Internet-basierten Desktop für Geschäftsvorgänge. Mit ihnen können Dienstleitungen in kürzester Zeit von Systemen in aller Welt an eine breite Zielgruppe vermittelt werden. Die Reichweite übersteigt die herkömmlicher Anwendungen dabei erheblich. Zum Netzwerk der Partner von Plumtree gehören u.a. Microsoft, Cap Gemini Ernst & Young, Siebel Systems und Vignette; Plumtrees Kunden sind Procter & Gamble, BP, Ford Motor Company, Kmart, UTC Aerospace, State Street und Motorola.




Investoren


Sequoia Capital
Granite Associates
Red Rock Ventures
Cambridge Technology Partners
Ford Motor Company
Procter & Gamble
Janus Venture
Putnam
Aman Ventures
Sybat
Mitsui & CO (U.S.A.), Inc.
Itochu
Credit Suisse First Boston
Intel





Produkt

Das Plumtree-Unternehmensportal ist ein Web-Portal für Unternehmensinformationen und -anwendungen. Stellen Sie sich ein Portal für Endanwender vor, mit dem Sie auf Internet-Links, Dokumente und Nachrichten sowie integrierte Verkaufsberichte und E-Commerce-Dienste zugreifen können, anstatt Sportergebnisse oder Aktienkurse abzufragen. Ihr Management-Team kann auf einfache und doch individuelle Art eine Gesamtübersicht Ihres Unternehmens darstellen und dabei auf ein breites Spektrum an vorhandenen Anwendungen und neuen Internet-Diensten zurückgreifen. Ihre Angestellten sind produktiver und arbeiten konzentrierter. Ihre Partner und Kunden im Business-to-Business-Bereich können enger als je zuvor mit Ihnen zusammenarbeiten.




Das Plumtree-Unternehmensportal ist eine offene, skalierbare Plattform, mit der Unternehmen ein Web-Portal einrichten und Anwendern so Zugriff auf Informationen und Anwendungen ermöglichen können. Mit dieser Plattform verfügen Angestellte, Partner und Kunden über einen einfachen und individuellen Zugriff auf die Informationen und Dienste, die sie im Zusammenhang mit dem Unternehmen benötigen. Das Plumtree-Unternehmensportal ist bei namhaften Konzernen wie Ford, Procter & Gamble, State Street, Pharmacia und BP im Einsatz. Bei der Entwicklung wurde besonderen Wert auf die Skalierbarkeit gelegt.





Über das Plumtree-Unternehmensportal lässt sich der Zugriff auf Dokumente in einem unternehmensweiten Web-Verzeichnis organisieren sowie die wichtigsten Informationen und Dienste als Gadget Web Services aus anderen Systemen integrieren. Gadget Web Services ähneln im Aussehen den Tabellen mit Sportergebnissen oder Aktiendepots, die es auf Portalen für private Endanwender gibt, und konzentrieren tagtäglich aufs Neue die Informationen und Dienste, die Anwender am häufigsten benötigen: neue Verkaufsinformationen, aktuelle Bestandsmeldungen, E-Mail-Nachrichten, Branchennachrichten aus dem Internet oder Formulare zur Abfrage von Umsatzdatenbanken. Plumtree, seine Kunden und Partner haben Hunderte von Gadgets entwickelt, um die Integration von Ressourcen aus allen wichtigen Anwendungen zu ermöglichen. Jeder Benutzer baut sich ein umfassendes Bild seines Unternehmens auf, indem er sich Gadgets aussucht, sie in seine personalisierte Portalseite einbettet und so seine Arbeitseffektivität verbessert. Führende Unternehmen haben die Möglichkeit, sich ihren Kunden und Partnern näher vorzustellen, indem sie Gadgets in einem Gemeinschaftsforum namens Plumtree Portal Community einbetten.


Um eine Portalseite zusammenzustellen, sendet die Massively Parallel Portal Engine des Plumtree-Unternehmensportals gleichzeitig Anfragen an Gadgets, die auf verschiedenen Computern laufen. Dabei wird eine Architektur verwendet, die als skalierbare, fehlertolerante Lösung auch den anspruchvollsten Systemen der Branche Rechnung trägt. Durch diese offene Netzwerkarchitektur können Unternehmen anderen Portalen, Web-Plattformen und -Geräten die Nutzung der von einem Portal zusammengestellten Informationen und Dienste ermöglichen. So verbinden wir über 80 Partner und 100 Kunden in unserem Plumtree Portal Network. Ergebnis: Jeder Neukunde kann aus diesem ergiebigen Fundus an gemeinsam genutzten Diensten schöpfen und andere Unternehmen an seinen eigenen Ressourcen teilhaben lassen.

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Reuters Company News
RESEARCH ALERT - Goldman starts coverage of Plumtree

NEW YORK, July 10 (Reuters) - Brokerage firm Goldman Sachs said on Wednesday it started coverage of Plumtree Software Inc.(NasdaqNM:PLUM - News) with a "market outperform" rating.
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Plumtree makes software that provides business workers with a single Web-style access to all the business software programs they need to do their job. So called portal software is one of the fast growing areas in the software sector because it helps companies make better use of all the information they have accumulated in computer systems.

"Business conditions in the overall software market have become increasingly challenging recently, however, we believe that the enterprise portal market will grow faster than most other software markets," Goldman Sachs analyst Tom Berquist said in a research note to clients, naming Plumtree as one of the leading companies in the portal market.

Berquist said he set 2002 and 2003 full year earnings targets of 11 cents a share and 20 cents respectively.

Shares of Plumtree closed at $3.60 on the Nasdaq on Tuesday.

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Plumtree Software Announces Second Quarter 2002 Results
Portal Leader Posts Record Profits
SAN FRANCISCO, July 15 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Plumtree Software (Nasdaq: PLUM - News) today announced results for its second fiscal quarter ended June 30, 2002. Revenue for the second quarter 2002 was $22.6 million, compared to $19.4 million for the same period last year, representing an increase of 16%. Pro-forma net income for the quarter was $2.1 million or $0.07 per share, compared to net income of $118,000 or $0.00 per share for the same period last year. Net income for the quarter calculated in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles (GAAP) was $1.3 million or $0.04 per share compared to a loss of $1.0 million or ($0.16) per share for the same period last year. Pro forma net income excludes deferred stock-based compensation charges and amortization of acquired technology, and utilizes an assumed effective tax rate of 30%.

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As of June 30, 2002, Plumtree`s cash, cash equivalents, and short-term investments, including net proceeds from its initial public offering totaled $62.8 million.

"Plumtree achieved record profits despite a challenging selling environment," said Plumtree CEO John Kunze. "We will continue to invest in expanding our product line to address the diverse needs of our customers, extending our recognized leadership in the portal industry."


Second Quarter Highlights
Second quarter highlights include:

-- Plumtree ranked first in IDC and Gartner portal market-share reports.
It also ranked first overall and first in product quality in an in-
depth review of portal technology from industry analyst firm AMR
Research, and was identified as a market leader in Gartner`s Magic
Quadrant assessment of portal vendors.
-- Version 4.5WS of the Plumtree Corporate Portal was released for both
the Windows and Solaris platforms. The company believes 4.5WS is the
first architecture in the portal industry that relies completely on Web
services for integrating applications, security, content and search.
-- Plumtree continued to sell its portal, collaboration and application
integration software to market-leading businesses and government
agencies around the world, including Centrica, the U.S. Department of
Energy, Viacom and Washington Mutual.
-- Customers with enterprise-wide Plumtree licenses such as American
Airlines and Boeing, among others, successfully launched portal
deployments to their organizations, demonstrating the product`s
scalability.
-- Plumtree and its customers won six notable industry awards, from
organizations including DCI, E-Gov and Network Computing, recognizing
the strength of the company`s technology and the quality of its
customer deployments.


Conference Call

Interested parties can hear Plumtree`s second quarter fiscal year 2002 financial results conference call on Monday July 15, 2002 at 2:00 p.m. (PDT) via live Webcast by visiting www.plumtree.com/ir or can listen to an audio-only teleconference by calling 888-390-7303 for U.S. participants and 630-395-0020 for participants outside of the U.S. The passcode for the teleconference is PLUMTREE. A recording of the conference call will be available beginning July 15, 2002 at 6:00 p.m. (PDT). The Webcast replay of the call will be available at www.plumtree.com/ir until August 14, 2002 at 6:00 p.m. (PDT). An audio replay of the call will also be available until Friday, July 19, 2002 at 6:00 (PDT). The dial-in number for the audio replay is 800-756-6157 for U.S. callers and 402-998-0810 for callers outside of the U.S.

About Plumtree Software

Plumtree Software offers enterprise software for bringing together on the Web content, applications and services from traditionally incompatible platforms and networks. The company`s mission is to empower new audiences of employees, customers and partners across the enterprise to interact with a broader range of information technology than was previously possible. Plumtree`s alliance members include Microsoft, Documentum, Interwoven, and Cap Gemini Ernst & Young. Plumtree supports more than 360 customers, including Boeing, Ford Motor Company, Procter & Gamble and the U.S. Navy. To learn more about Plumtree Software, visit www.plumtree.com.

Safe Harbor Statement and Caution

The foregoing contains forward-looking statements within the meaning of the Federal Securities laws. These forward-looking statements include, but are not limited to statements regarding our ability to expand our leadership position in the market, the release and anticipated market impact of our new products, and general performance expectations. Investors are cautioned that all forward-looking statements involve risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ, perhaps materially, from those anticipated or suggested by such forward looking statements. These risks and uncertainties include, without limitation risks associated with our limited operating history, a general downturn in economic conditions, adverse changes in IT spending trends, failure to expand our customer base, the length and complexity of Plumtree`s sales cycle, changes in the needs and priorities of customers and potential customers, reduced market acceptance of our products and services, increased competition, failure to manage technological change, dependence on product enhancements, the market acceptance of our new products and web services architecture, our ability to increase the size and productivity of our direct sales force and those risk factors contained in the Company`s Prospectus filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission ("SEC") on Form S-1 and all subsequent filings. Copies of filings made with the SEC are available through the SEC`s electronic data gathering analysis retrieval system (EDGAR) at www.sec.gov. We undertake no obligation following the date of this release to update or revise our forward-looking statements or to update the reasons actual results could differ materially from those anticipated in forward-looking statements. We caution you not to place undue reliance upon any such forward-looking statements, which speak only as of the date made. We cannot guarantee any future operating results, activity, performance or achievement.

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

PLUMTREE SOFTWARE, INC.
PRO FORMA* CONDENSED CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF OPERATIONS
(in thousands, except per share amounts)
(Unaudited)


Pro Forma
Three Months Ended Six Months Ended
June 30, June 30,
2002 2001 2002 2001

Revenue:

Licenses $13,823 $12,996 $29,878 $25,722
Services and maintenance 8,762 6,397 15,883 12,388
Total revenue 22,585 19,393 45,761 38,110

Cost of revenue:

Licenses 980 1,101 2,652 2,105
Services and maintenance 3,351 3,092 6,667 6,792
Total cost of revenue 4,331 4,193 9,319 8,897

Gross margin 18,254 15,200 36,442 29,213

Operating expenses:

Research and development 4,484 3,033 9,067 6,328
Sales and marketing 8,678 9,471 17,945 20,289
General and administrative 2,421 2,597 4,647 4,589

Total operating expenses 15,583 15,101 31,659 31,206

Pro forma income (loss)
from operations 2,671 99 4,783 (1,993)

Interest and other income, net 304 19 202 50

Pro forma income (loss)
before income taxes 2,975 118 4,985 (1,943)

Pro forma income taxes ** 893 -- 1,496 --


Pro forma net income (loss) $2,082 $118 $3,489 $(1,943)

Pro forma net income (loss)
per share:
Basic $0.15 $0.02 $0.33 $(0.31)

Diluted $0.07 $-- $0.12 $(0.31)

Shares used to compute net
income (loss) per share:
Basic 13,758 6,254 10,506 6,174

Diluted 30,117 26,078 29,791 6,174


*Pro Forma Statements of Operations excludes $1,116, $1,124, $2,393
and $2,723 of amortization of stock based compensation and $394, $0, $809
and $0, of amortization of acquired technology, respectively. In addition,
the Pro Forma Statement of Operations for the six months ended June 30,
2001 excludes $2,403 of non-recurring restructuring and aborted offering
costs.

**Assumes an annualized effective tax rate of 30%.


PLUMTREE SOFTWARE, INC.
CONDENSED CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF OPERATIONS
(in thousands, except per share amounts)
(Unaudited)

Three Months Ended Six Months Ended
June 30, June 30,
2002 2001 2002 2001

Revenue:

Licenses $13,823 $12,996 $29,878 $25,722
Services and maintenance 8,762 6,397 15,883 12,388
Total revenue 22,585 19,393 45,761 38,110

Cost of revenue:

Licenses 1,374 1,101 3,461 2,105
Services and maintenance 3,351 3,092 6,667 6,792
Amortization of
stock-based compensation 190 146 468 362
Total cost of revenue 4,915 4,339 10,596 9,259

Gross margin 17,670 15,054 35,165 28,851

Operating expenses:

Research and development 4,484 3,033 9,067 6,328
Sales and marketing 8,678 9,471 17,945 20,289
General and administrative 2,421 2,597 4,647 4,589
Restructuring charges -- -- -- 760
Aborted offering costs -- -- -- 1,643
Amortization of
stock-based compensation 926 978 1,925 2,361
Total operating
expenses 16,509 16,079 33,584 35,970

Income (loss) from
operations 1,161 (1,025) 1,581 (7,119)

Interest and other
income, net 304 19 202 50

Income (loss) before
income taxes 1,465 (1,006) 1,783 (7,069)

Provision for income taxes 196 -- 357 --


Net income (loss) $1,269 $(1,006) $1,426 $(7,069)

Net income (loss) per share:
Basic $0.09 $(0.16) $0.14 $(1.14)

Diluted $0.04 $(0.16) $0.05 $(1.14)

Shares used to compute net
income (loss) per share:
Basic 13,758 6,254 10,506 6,174

Diluted 30,117 6,254 29,791 6,174


PLUMTREE SOFTWARE, INC.
CONSOLIDATED BALANCE SHEETS
(in thousands)


As of As of
June 30, December 31,
2002 2001
(Unaudited)
ASSETS
Current assets:
Cash, cash equivalents and
short-term investments $62,783 $24,040
Accounts receivables, net
of allowances 15,363 17,857
Other current assets 2,218 1,252
Total current assets 80,364 43,149

Property and equipment, net 2,788 2,934

Other long-term assets 4,606 5,177

$87,758 $51,260


LIABILITIES AND STOCKHOLDERS` EQUITY
Current liabilities:
Accounts payable $1,921 $1,463
Accrued and other current liabilities 16,838 15,718
Deferred revenues 15,309 20,599
Line of credit -- 1,600
Total current liabilities 34,068 39,380

Long-term liabilities 520 437

Total Liabilities 34,588 39,817

Total Stockholders` Equity 53,170 11,443

$87,758 $51,260

SOURCE: Plumtree Software

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Plumtree Identified as Portal Technology, Market Share Leader by Major Analyst Firms
Awards Bodies Recognize Plumtree for Superior Technology, Successful Customer Deployments
SAN FRANCISCO, July 30 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Corporate portal market-leader Plumtree Software (Nasdaq: PLUM - News) today announced that IDC ranked Plumtree #1 in portal software market-share, that Forrester Research and Butler Group ranked Plumtree #1 among prospective portal software buyers, and that AMR Research ranked Plumtree #1 overall based on Plumtree`s products and customers. Plumtree was also identified as a leader in Gartner`s May 2002 Magic Quadrant evaluation of portal software vendors.

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Plumtree Captures Largest Portal Market Share

Plumtree is the portal software market share leader based on software license and maintenance revenue in 2001, according to leading information technology research firm IDC. IDC identifies Plumtree`s sales execution, marketing efforts, successful and highly visible customer wins, and product enhancements based on customer requirements as contributors to its market share growth. The public can access the findings in IDC document #27287, Worldwide Enterprise Information Portal Software Forecast and Analysis, 2001-2006.

"Plumtree`s ability to address enterprise-wide portal requirements led to its impressive revenue growth throughout 2001 and helped the company capture the leading share position in the portal software market," said Brian McDonough, Research Manager of Knowledge and Content Management Software research at IDC. "Plumtree`s market share leadership serves as evidence that the portal market can be led by an independent software vendor with an offering that brings together a wide variety of applications and information running on different platforms throughout an organization."

According to research published in June 2002 from Garter Dataquest, Plumtree has captured an unsurpassed 7% of horizontal portal software product market share. Plumtree was also placed in the leader section of Gartner`s Magic Quadrant evaluation of portal software vendors, published in May 2002*.

Plumtree Platform Earns Highest Average Score in Evaluation of 16 Portal

Products

AMR Research evaluated 16 portal framework products based on functionality, technology, quality of customer experience, cost of ownership and financial viability. According to the AMR Research Report, The Portal Framework: The New Battle for the Enterprise Desktop, March, 2002, "Overall, Plumtree earned the highest average score, and also scored first in quality of customer experience, which was measured by customer evaluations of functionality, performance, ease of use and customer service responsiveness."

Plumtree Remains Customers` First Choice

For the third consecutive year, Plumtree was identified by European analyst firm Butler Group as the vendor most often considered for portal implementations according to companies evaluating portal technology. In response to the question: "Which of the following vendor`s products have you considered (or would you consider) for a portal implementation?" nearly 15% of respondents chose Plumtree. All other vendors were selected by fewer than 10% of the respondents. The survey results are based on the responses of organizations attending the firm`s Corporate Portal event, held in June 2002.

In a March 2002 Technographics Research report published by Forrester Research, Plumtree is identified as the portal vendor most preferred in a survey of nearly 900 customers. In response to the question: "From which vendors will your company consider purchasing enterprise portals?" 21% of customers chose Plumtree, ahead of other portal vendors that were selected by 15% of customers.

List of Industry Awards for Plumtree Grows

Plumtree and its customers also won several industry awards recognizing the strength of the company`s technology and the quality of its customer deployments. Network Computing honored the Plumtree Corporate Portal as the winner of the portal category for the magazine`s 8th Annual Well-Connected Awards, focusing on business applications that enable collaboration and better information access. Network Computing awarded Plumtree after an extensive laboratory evaluation and cited as standout features the platform`s "superior management interface and scalable and fault-tolerant architecture," as well as Plumtree`s attention to developer`s needs.

The Well-Connected award is the latest in a series of major industry award for Plumtree in 2002:

Intelligent Enterprise "Company to Watch"
CRN "Five Companies to Watch in 2002"
KMWorld "100 Companies that Matter in KM"
Corporate Portals and Intranets Europe 2002 "Best-in-Class Internal
Corporate Portal Award"

Red Herring 100
DCI "Best e-Business Portal Implementation" and an additional award for superior content management capabilities
E-Gov "Best of the Best"
FGIPC Intergovernmental Solution Award
About Plumtree Software

Plumtree offers enterprise software for bringing together on the Web content, applications and services from traditionally incompatible platforms and networks. The company`s mission is to empower new audiences of employees, customers and partners across the enterprise to interact with a broader range of information technology than was previously possible. Plumtree`s alliance members include Microsoft, Documentum, Interwoven, and Cap Gemini Ernst & Young. Plumtree supports more than 360 customers, including Boeing, Ford Motor Company, Procter & Gamble and the U.S. Navy. To learn more about Plumtree Software, visit 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. Past performance is not an indication of future results. We undertake no obligation following the date of this release to update or revise the contents hereof. Plumtree does not endorse or represent any of the research firms or analysts referenced in this release. We cannot guarantee any future operating results, activity, performance or achievement. To learn more about Plumtree and the risks and uncertainties in our business we urge you to review the filings we make with the SEC from time to time including our recent prospectus filed on Form S-1 by visiting www.sec.gov.

The Magic Quadrant is copyrighted May 2002 by Gartner Inc. and is reused with permission. Gartner Inc.`s permission to print or reference its Magic Quadrant should not be deemed to be an endorsement of any company or product depicted in the quadrant. The Magic Quadrant is Gartner Inc.`s opinion and is an analytical representation of a marketplace at and for a specific time period. It measures vendors against Gartner Inc.-defined criteria for a marketplace. The positioning of vendors within a Magic Quadrant is based on the complex interplay of many factors. Gartner Inc. does not advise enterprises to select only those firms in the Leaders segment. In some situations, firms in the Visionary, Challenger, or Niche Player segments may be the right match for an enterprise`s requirements. Well-informed vendor selection decisions should rely on more than a Magic Quadrant. Gartner, Inc. research is intended to be one of many information sources including other published information and direct analyst interaction. Gartner Inc. expressly disclaims all warranties, express or implied of fitness of this research for a particular purpose.
SOURCE: Plumtree Software

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Tarantella Announces Integration with Plumtree Corporate Portal
Access to Server-Based Legacy Applications Through the Most Widely Used Portal Software Eases Deployment for Joint Customers
SANTA CRUZ, Calif., July 31 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Tarantella, Inc., (Nasdaq: TTLA - News), a leading supplier of Internet infrastructure software, today announced integration with the Plumtree (Nasdaq: PLUM - News) Corporate Portal, enabling joint customers to integrate legacy applications accessed through the Tarantella software into their portals. Customers can enroll in an Early Access Program (EAP) for the upcoming release of the Tarantella Integration Pack for the Plumtree Corporate Portal and download the new Integration Pack to begin immediately delivering their server-based legacy applications to portal users.

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This Integration Pack integrates Tarantella Enterprise 3 software with the Plumtree Corporate Portal to provide instant access to server-based legacy applications through a single web portal interface, without rewriting a single line of code.

Features of the new Tarantella Integration Pack for the Plumtree Corporate Portal include single sign-on authentication, cut and paste functionality between diverse application types, administrator-to-user session shadowing, session resume, local drive mapping and follow-me printing to all the applications delivered by Tarantella and accessed through the portal. The solution allows businesses to utilize their existing applications, and increase their return on investment by leveraging valuable legacy data alongside other applications, content and services in a collaborative, interactive portal environment.

"Providing employees, customers and partners with broad access to legacy applications is a common challenge for many of our Global 2000 customers," says said Joe McVeigh, Plumtree`s co-founder and corporate development strategist. "Tarantella`s ability to integrate hard-to-reach legacy data will help customers speed portal deployments."

"This is an exciting step forward in our portal integration strategy," said Guy Churchward, Director of Strategic Alliances for Tarantella. " We have aggressive plans to work with market-leading portal vendors, such as Plumtree, to accelerate the widespread adoption of portals in the enterprise by providing integrated access to legacy applications."

To provide additional information on the Tarantella Integration Pack for the Plumtree Corporate Portal, a web seminar will be held August 1, 2002 at 9:00 a.m. PDT. To access the seminar, log into http://www.tarantella.com/plumtree/seminar.html." target="_blank" rel="nofollow ugc noopener">http://www.tarantella.com/plumtree/seminar.html.

To register for the EAP of the Integration Pack please email [e-mail]. The Integration Pack is also available for download in conjunction with Tarantella Enterprise 3 software on Sun Solaris. For further details or to preview the Integration Pack visit www.tarantella.com/plumtree or visit the Plumtree Gadget Showroom at http://showroom.plumtree.com.

About Tarantella, Inc.

Tarantella is the leading provider of Internet infrastructure software that enables web-based access to enterprise applications. The Tarantella Enterprise 3 solution instantly provides managed and secure web access to enterprise mainframe, Windows, AS/400, Java technology, Linux, and UNIX applications. It leverages existing IT assets to provide cost savings, improved productivity, and the flexibility to accommodate the rapid changes in today`s organizations. For more information, go to http://www.tarantella.com.

About Plumtree Software

Plumtree Software offers enterprise software for bringing together on the Web content, applications and services from traditionally incompatible platforms and networks. The company`s mission is to empower new audiences of employees, customers and partners across the enterprise to interact with a broader range of information technology than was previously possible. Plumtree`s alliance members include Microsoft, Documentum, Interwoven, and Cap Gemini Ernst & Young. Plumtree supports more than 360 customers, including Boeing, Ford Motor Company, Procter & Gamble and the U.S. Navy. To learn more about Plumtree Software, visit www.plumtree.com.

NOTE: Tarantella, Tarantella Enterprise 3, and the Tarantella logo are trademarks or registered trademarks of Tarantella, Inc., in the USA and other countries. Java and all Java-based marks are trademarks or registered trademarks of Sun Microsystems, Inc. in the U.S. and other countries. All other brand and product names are or may be trademarks of, and are used to identify products or services of their respective owners. Plumtree is a registered trademark of Plumtree Software, Inc. and/or its affiliates in the U.S. and/or other countries. All other registered and unregistered trademarks in this document are the sole property of their respective owners.

SOURCE: Tarantella, Inc.

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Plumtree Customers Win Industry Awards for Extranet Portal Deployments
Plumtree Platform Enables Better Service at Lower Cost for Customers and Partners
SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 1 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Corporate portal market-leader Plumtree Software (Nasdaq: PLUM - News) today announced eight industry awards won by customers deploying Plumtree-powered extranet portals. In separate press releases, Plumtree also announced a white paper discussing portal network security and a Web seminar series in which Plumtree customers will discuss and demonstrate their Plumtree-powered extranet portals. More than 60 Plumtree customers are currently using the Plumtree Corporate Portal to offer better service to customers and partners at lower cost. The public can visit 25 Plumtree-powered extranet portals, download the white paper and register for the Web seminars at www.plumtree.com/extranets.

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Plumtree Powers Award-Winning Extranet Portals Across Industries

Plumtree customers across multiple industries have been recognized for the value provided by their extranet portals. Customers earning special recognition include:

Pratt & Whitney: 2002 DCI Portal Excellence Awards for Best E-Business Portal and Excellence in Content Management

Pratt & Whitney earned special distinction for its E-Business portal, which enables collaboration with customers and partners in the aerospace industry.

United States Geological Survey: 2002 Federation of Government Information Processing Councils (FGIPC) Intergovernmental Solutions Awards

The USGS My.NBII.Gov portal, which facilitates project management for distributed teams, was recognized for delivering value to citizens. Visit the portal at http://my.nbii.gov/ .

State of Maryland: E-Gov 2002 "Best of the Best" Award

MARYLAND.GOV, which serves residents and businesses in Maryland, received top honors for innovation in E-Government. See the portal live at http://maryland.gov/ .

Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Fisheries, BC: 2001 Strategies for Public Sector Transformation Award

The InfoBasket portal received one of Canada`s highest honors in the public sector for its portal serving agriculture producers and processors. Visit InfoBasket at http://infobasket.gov.bc.ca/ .

California Casualty: kasina 2001 Top 20 Web Sites

MyAPlus.com was recognized as one of the top 20 customer destinations in the insurance industry. Visit the portal at http://www.myaplus.com/

Ketchum: CIO Magazine "Web Business 50 Award"; IM 2001 Award

Ketchum is recognized for its myKGN portal, which facilitates collaboration and resource delivery for clients worldwide.

These customer awards join a series of industry awards received Plumtree in 2002:

Network Computing "Well-Connected Award"
Intelligent Enterprise "Company to Watch"
CRN "Five Companies to Watch in 2002"
KMWorld "100 Companies that Matter in KM"
Corporate Portals and Intranets Europe 2002 "Best-in-Class Internal
Corporate Portal Award"

Red Herring 100
About Plumtree Software

Plumtree Software offers enterprise software for bringing together on the Web content, applications and services from traditionally incompatible platforms and networks. The company`s mission is to empower new audiences of employees, customers and partners across the enterprise to interact with a broader range of information technology than was previously possible. Plumtree`s alliance members include Microsoft, Documentum, Interwoven, and Cap Gemini Ernst & Young. Plumtree supports more than 360 customers, including Boeing, Ford Motor Company, Procter & Gamble and the U.S. Navy. To learn more about Plumtree Software, visit 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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Plumtree Delivers New Resources for Customers Deploying Extranet Portals
White Paper and Customer Web Seminars Present Portal Strategies for Improving Customer and Partner Service at Lower Costs
SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 1 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Corporate portal market-leader Plumtree Software (Nasdaq: PLUM - News) today released a white paper documenting recommended network security configurations for extranet portals and announced a Web seminar series in which customers will discuss and demonstrate their Plumtree-powered extranet portals. More than 60 Plumtree customers are currently using the Plumtree Corporate Portal to offer better service to customers and partners at lower cost. The public can visit 25 Plumtree-powered extranet portals, download the white paper, read case studies, and register for the Web seminars at www.plumtree.com/extranets.

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White Paper Details Security Requirements for Extranet Portals

A new white paper entitled, "Deploying the Plumtree Corporate Portal 4.5WS to the Extranet," highlights the security features and recommended network configuration for deploying the Plumtree Corporate Portal as an extranet portal. The white paper will also be available to Plumtree customers as a chapter in Plumtree`s Deployment Guide.

Plumtree develops all of its software products to support extranet deployment. Key features include:

Security: To provide the highest level of security for extranet portal deployments, Plumtree offers these features:


-- Gateway: Plumtree securely brokers internal content for distribution
to external audiences, leaving all the systems integrated in the portal
safely protected behind network firewalls;
-- Object-level security: Plumtree provides granular control over every
portal object, allowing different audiences to access or administer
different resources;
-- Auditing: Plumtree allows customers to monitor changes to all portal
objects, ensuring accountability for the security of the entire system;
-- Separation of Web server and application server: Plumtree supports
configurations that separate the Web server from the application
server, ensuring that Internet audiences never directly connect to
software that accesses internal systems;
-- Completely SSL-enabled: Plumtree supports Secure Socket Layer (SSL)
encryption for both user connections to the portal, and the portal`s
connections to Web services, optimizing these connections for high
performance;
-- Single sign-on integration: Plumtree offers comprehensive integration
with both proxy-based authentication systems such as IBM Tivoli as well
as token-based systems such as Netegrity, Oblix and RSA Security.


Integration: Plumtree integrates services from a wide range of enterprise applications such as SAP R/3 and Documentum, as well as content stored throughout various file systems and repositories. Rather than integrating application services via frames, which typically requires opening systems on the network to browsers on the Internet, Plumtree integrates electronic resources via server-side Web services, which are more reliable and secure for extranet portals. For content hosted on internal networks, Plumtree offer high-performance gateways that can broker that content securely to audiences on the Internet.

Reliability: Plumtree`s Web Services Architecture integrates applications, content, search and users via Web services running on different platforms. Plumtree`s Parallel Portal Engine integrates Web services in parallel, opening multiple connections simultaneously, which ensures better performance.

Collaboration: The Plumtree Collaboration Server allows organizations to collaborate on documents, schedule projects and exchange ideas with their customers and partners.

Personalization: A customizable user interface gives Plumtree customers the flexibility to brand separate communities for different audiences or different customers.

Federation: The Plumtree Corporate Portal can be deployed as a federation of portals, sharing services and content between portals, allowing organizations to broker resources between portal instances in cases where the portal is deployed separately for intranet and extranet use.

Six Customers Share Extranet Portal and Collaboration Best Practices

In a new Web seminar series, Plumtree customers will demonstrate their portals and discuss the benefits of creating workspaces shared by clients, partners and project teams. Dates, customers and topics in the series include:

Ames Department Stores: August 13

"Effectively Integrating Instant Messaging into the Portal"

Ames will present on the advantages of integrating commercial instant messaging products into the portal.

Halliburton: August 20

"Quantifying the Value of a Customer Portal"

Halliburton will present on its strategy for sharing personalized product information and SAP account data with clients via an extranet portal.

Hy-Vee: August 27

"Designing an Employee Portal and Partner Extranet for a Retail Chain"

Hy-Vee will present on using portal technology to connect employees and partners across hundreds of retail locations.

Schnader Harrison Segal & Lewis LLP: September 3

"Creating a Central Knowledge Management and Collaboration Portal for

Employees and Clients"

Schnader will present best practices for building a powerful search, document management and client collaboration solution on the Plumtree platform.

U.S. Geological Survey: September 10

"My.NBII.Gov: Enabling Biodiversity Collaboration across National and

Regional Networks"

U.S. Geological Survey will present on its use of an extranet portal to facilitate project management for distributed teams.

Ministry of Education, Luxembourg: September 17

"Connecting the World of Education: E-Learning and Knowledge Management

in a National Portal"

Luxembourg`s Ministry of Education will present on using a portal to create a multi-lingual educational workspace for 100,000 teachers, students, parents and staff nationally.

"Rather than Web-enabling each customer-facing application separately, our customers are deploying the Plumtree Corporate Portal to offer customers one experience for interacting with every part of the business," said Plumtree CEO John Kunze. "Every initiative for serving customers electronically can be delivered through the portal at lower cost and greater impact. In fact, organizations can often use the same portal platform that assembles resources for employees to reach partners and customers, increasing the return on their investment."

Extranet Portal Customers Document ROI

Plumtree customers Ketchum and California Casualty, along with third-party analyst firms, have documented return-on-investment (ROI) from their extranet portal deployments. Ketchum could create $18 million in new revenue over four years by delivering account resources to and collaborating with clients online, while California Casualty could save 49% ROI in increased sales and customer self-service over four years. Visit http://www.plumtree.com/roi to download the complete ROI studies.

About Plumtree Software

Plumtree Software offers enterprise software for bringing together on the Web content, applications and services from traditionally incompatible platforms and networks. The company`s mission is to empower new audiences of employees, customers and partners across the enterprise to interact with a broader range of information technology than was previously possible. Plumtree`s alliance members include Microsoft, Documentum, Interwoven, and Cap Gemini Ernst & Young. Plumtree supports more than 360 customers, including Boeing, Ford Motor Company, Procter & Gamble and the U.S. Navy. To learn more about Plumtree Software, visit 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.

SOURCE: Plumtree Software

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Plumtree Releases Enterprise Class Gadget Suite for SAP HR
New SAP Gadget Suite Enhances Plumtree`s Market-Leading SAP Integration
Monday August 26, 8:25 am ET

SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 26 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Corporate portal market-leader Plumtree Software (Nasdaq: PLUM - News) today announced general availability of the Enterprise Class Gadget Suite for SAP Human Resources (HR), which will integrate the most frequently used SAP HR transactions into the Plumtree Corporate Portal. Customers can create additional SAP Gadget Web Services by using the Plumtree Enterprise Class Gadget Framework for SAP, which allows anyone familiar with SAP R/3 to create Gadget Web Services without any coding. The Enterprise Class Gadget Suite and Framework for SAP is designed to make employees more productive and maximize the return on SAP investments for customers by empowering employees with self-service without training or extensive front-end development efforts. Plumtree has also developed Gadget Suites for SAP Financials and SAP Sales and Distribution, creating comprehensive SAP integration. The Plumtree Gadget Suite for SAP Human Resources is bundled with the Plumtree Portal Solution for Employee Services, an online resource center for all the content, services and systems that an organization seeks to offer its employees, retirees and their spouses.

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"Organizations can realize significant ROI by giving employees easy and direct access to the commonly used SAP HR processes," said Rob Perry, senior analyst at the Yankee Group. "Yet, providing this type of self-service application can present a challenge since integration often requires significant application expertise. Integration into the corporate portal through solutions such as the Plumtree Gadget Suite for SAP empowers employees and reduces HR administrative costs with a minimal impact on the IT organization."

The Plumtree Corporate Portal incorporates the most popular capabilities of SAP HR as Plumtree Gadget Web Services, ready-made modular components that deliver key services from enterprise applications and Internet sites to a portal page. This new Gadget Suite complements Plumtree`s existing SAP integration -- the Enterprise Class Gadget Framework for SAP, released in August 2001 -- which together provide comprehensive integration with SAP R/3. Developed in conjunction with customer focus groups, Enterprise Class Gadget products are beta-tested, scale-tested and internationalized, and sold and supported as separate products by Plumtree.

Through the Enterprise Class Gadget Suite for SAP HR, employees and administrators can update and view the most important information stored in SAP HR through 17 Gadget Web Services including:

Career Information
Education Data
Qualifications
Open Positions
Employee Key dates (starting/promotion)
Organizational Structure view
Personal Information
Dependent Detail
Marital status
Date of birth
Mailing address
Emergency Contact info
Health and Insurance Benefits
Financial Information
Bank Details/direct deposit
Employee expenses
Time Entry
Absence quota (paid time off)
The Plumtree Gadget Suite for PeopleSoft is available for customers to preview on the Plumtree Gadget Showroom at http://showroom.plumtree.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow ugc noopener">http://showroom.plumtree.com/

Plumtree`s SAP Gadget Suite incorporates SAP`s role-based security, ensuring that individual employees may only view and edit their personal information, while HR administrators and managers may perform administrative functions, according to their privileges set in SAP.

"Customers are choosing Plumtree to integrate their SAP resources in a horizontal portal platform that can span multiple, disparate systems -- beyond just SAP," said Glenn Kelman, vice president of marketing and product management at Plumtree.

About Plumtree Software

Plumtree Software offers enterprise software for bringing together on the Web content, applications and services from traditionally incompatible platforms and networks. The company`s mission is to empower new audiences of employees, customers and partners across the enterprise to interact with a broader range of information technology than was previously possible. Plumtree`s alliance members include Microsoft, Documentum, Interwoven, and Cap Gemini Ernst & Young. Plumtree supports more than 360 customers, including Boeing, Ford Motor Company, Procter & Gamble and the U.S. Navy. To learn more about Plumtree Software, visit 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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Plumtree Releases Enterprise Class Gadget Suite for PeopleSoft HR
PeopleSoft Gadget Suite Integrates HR Resources in Plumtree Portal For Employee Services
Monday August 26, 8:25 am ET

SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 26 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Corporate portal market-leader Plumtree Software (Nasdaq: PLUM - News) today announced general availability of the Enterprise Class Gadget Suite for PeopleSoft HRMS, which will integrate the most popular PeopleSoft HR functionality into the Plumtree Corporate Portal. By bringing PeopleSoft HR information and transactions into the portal, Plumtree is helping customers reduce training costs and realize greater value from their PeopleSoft systems by providing employees with self-service for dozens of common HR processes. The Plumtree Gadget Suite for PeopleSoft is bundled with the Plumtree Portal for Employee Services, an online resource center for all the content, services and systems that an organization seeks to offer its employees, retirees and their

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The Plumtree Corporate Portal incorporates the most valuable capabilities of PeopleSoft HR as Plumtree Gadget Web Services, modular components that deliver key services from enterprise applications and Internet sites to a portal page. Developed in conjunction with customer focus groups, Enterprise Class Gadget Suites are beta-tested, scale-tested and internationalized, and sold and supported by Plumtree as separate products. Business users can update and track the most important information stored in PeopleSoft HR through 24 Gadget Web Services

Employees can update and track:

Personal information
-- E-mail address and phone number
-- Emergency contact
-- Marital status and name change
-- Dependant/beneficiary detail
-- Professional training history

Payroll information
-- Direct deposit
-- W2 re-issue request
-- Paychecks online

Administrators can approve/update/search:

Employee information by employee ID or department
-- Employee personal information
-- Training enrollment
-- Training summaries

Payroll information
-- Paid time off entries
-- Time card submissions
-- Pay check summaries
-- W2 and W4 tax summaries


Plumtree`s PeopleSoft Gadget Suite incorporates PeopleSoft`s role-based security, ensuring that individual employees may only view and edit their personal information, while HR administrators and managers may perform administrative functions, according to their privileges set in PeopleSoft.

The Plumtree Gadget Suite for PeopleSoft is available for customers to preview on the Plumtree Gadget Showroom at http://showroom.plumtree.com /

"Our 2002 annual customer survey revealed that Human Resources is the business unit most interested in deploying portal communities. By bundling the Enterprise Class Gadget Suites for PeopleSoft and SAP with the Plumtree Portal for Employee Services, we are giving customers a complete employee services solution," said Glenn Kelman, vice president of marketing and product management at Plumtree Software.

About Plumtree Software

Plumtree Software offers enterprise software for bringing together on the Web content, applications and services from traditionally incompatible platforms and networks. The company`s mission is to empower new audiences of employees, customers and partners across the enterprise to interact with a broader range of information technology than was previously possible. Plumtree`s alliance members include Microsoft, Documentum, Interwoven, and Cap Gemini Ernst & Young. Plumtree supports more than 360 customers, including Boeing, Ford Motor Company, Procter & Gamble and the U.S. Navy. To learn more about Plumtree Software, visit 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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MTV Networks Deploys Plumtree for 8,000 Employees Worldwide
Cable Entertainment Leader Using Portal to Deliver HR Services, News Across Business Units
Monday August 26, 8:25 am ET

SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 26 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Corporate portal market-leader Plumtree Software (Nasdaq: PLUM - News) today announced that MTV Networks, a unit of Viacom which owns and operates VH1, Nickelodeon and MTV, is deploying the Plumtree Corporate Portal for 8,000 employees worldwide. The portal, called Rufus, is driving a major initiative to streamline communications and strengthen a sense of community across the regional and international offices of all MTV Networks` divisions. MTV Networks` portal brings together company news, travel planning tools, job postings, commuter services, news- and weather feeds, and workplace diversity resources previously spread across several intranet sites, helping increase employee satisfaction and build its corporate culture.

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Plumtree also announced today the Plumtree Portal Solution for Employee Services, an online resource center for all the content, services and systems that an organization seeks to offer its employees, retirees and their spouses. Visit www.plumtree.com/employeeservices to register for a series of events and seminars this fall at which Plumtree, its partners and customers will share HR technology strategies.

"The portal assembles timely, relevant work and life resources for all our employees," said Stuart Lepkowsky, vice president of application development, Viacom. "With Plumtree, we can provide local support to our national and international offices, while still keeping the larger MTV Networks community and mission within easy reach."

What`s in Rufus? Premium Content, Diversity Councils

Plumtree is the platform for MTV Networks` 1st Choice program, an initiative to centralize employee communications and facilitate collaboration between business divisions. The Rufus portal indexes intranet and Internet content in a searchable document directory and assembles support services in group portal pages called communities. Examples include:

MTV Networks Community
The MTV Networks Community is a hub for corporate communications.


1st Choice Community

The 1st Choice Community brings together work/life resources such as professional development tools, policies and procedures, and benefits information.

Diversity Community

The Diversity Community provides calendars and contact lists for MTV Networks` diversity councils, devoted to creating an inclusive work environment.

Employees can also personalize their portal experience and create personalized portal pages by choosing from a menu of location-based tools such as:

industry, local and international news feeds;
weather feeds;
city guides; and
commuter information.
About MTV Networks

MTV Networks owns and operates the cable television programming services MTV: Music Television, MTV2, Nickelodeon/Nick at Nite, TV Land, VH1, CMT: Country Music Television, and TNN, as well as The Digital Suite from MTV Networks, a package of thirteen digital services, all of which are trademarks of MTV Networks. MTV Networks also operates and offers joint ventures, licensing agreements and syndication deals whereby its programming can be seen worldwide.

About Plumtree Software

Plumtree Software offers enterprise software for bringing together on the Web content, applications and services from traditionally incompatible platforms and networks. The company`s mission is to empower new audiences of employees, customers and partners across the enterprise to interact with a broader range of information technology than was previously possible. Plumtree`s alliance members include Microsoft, Documentum, Interwoven, and Cap Gemini Ernst & Young. Plumtree supports more than 360 customers, including Boeing, Ford Motor Company, Procter & Gamble and the U.S. Navy. To learn more about Plumtree Software, visit 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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Sutter Fund Announces Offer to Acquire Plumtree for $5.00 Per Share
Wednesday September 4, 9:39 am ET


SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 4 /PRNewswire/ -- Sutter Opportunity Fund 2, LLC ("Sutter") today announced that it has offered to acquire all the outstanding shares of Plumtree Software, Inc. (Nasdaq: PLUM - News) for $5.00 per share. Payment for the shares would consist of $2.00 cash and $3.00 in the form of an 8% note maturing in five years. Sutter will make a $1 million good faith deposit into an escrow account designated by Plumtree within five business days of the acceptance by Plumtree of the offer. Sutter noted that its offer represents a 60% premium to the most recent trading price of Plumtree shares.
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Sutter`s offer is subject to certain terms and conditions customary to transactions of this nature, including, among other things, the approval of Plumtree`s board of directors and the registration of the notes described above. The offer was made via a letter from Sutter to John Kunze, CEO of Plumtree on September 3, 2002. The offer will expire September 10, 2002 if it has not been accepted by that date.




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Plumtree Declines to Pursue Unsolicited Offer
Thursday September 5, 8:30 am ET


SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 5 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Plumtree Software, Inc. (Nasdaq: PLUM - News) today announced that it has decided not to pursue discussions with the Sutter Opportunity Fund 2, LLC ("Sutter") regarding Sutter`s recent unsolicited offer to acquire all the outstanding shares of Plumtree in exchange for a per share price of $2.00 cash and $3.00 in the form of an 8% promissory note maturing in five years. According to the Sutter offer, the promissory notes would be secured only by the assets of Plumtree including a `good faith deposit` by Sutter of $1 million dollars.
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"Plumtree`s Board of Directors and senior management have analyzed the nature and terms of the offer and after due consideration have determined that at this time discussions with Sutter Capital Management would not be beneficial to Plumtree or its shareholders," said Plumtree CEO John Kunze.

Mr. Kunze received an unsolicited, non-binding conditional Letter of Intent from Sutter Capital Management on September 3, 2002 containing an expiry date of September 10, 2002. Sutter Capital Management then unilaterally issued a press release the next morning announcing that they had sent the Letter of Intent to Plumtree. Prior to receiving the letter, Plumtree had no contact with Sutter Capital Management or the Sutter Opportunity Fund 2, LLC regarding the offer.




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Sutter Responds to Plumtree Decision
Thursday September 5, 4:48 pm ET


SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 5 /PRNewswire/ -- Sutter Capital Management, LLC ("Sutter") today responded to Plumtree Software`s decision to reject its offer to acquire Plumtree (Nasdaq: PLUM - News) for $5.00 per share. Robert Dixon, President of Sutter, stated, "We are disappointed that Plumtree has chosen not to even discuss the offer with us, and we hope that Plumtree`s officers and directors will take a more proactive approach to maximizing shareholder value in the future. Plumtree`s stock has dropped by over 65% in the three months since its IPO, and it appears management has done nothing to address these losses suffered by shareholders, including refusing to discuss an offer to acquire the company at an 80% premium to its current market price. We believe our offer was a very attractive one for Plumtree`s shareholders and the market`s response to our offer yesterday, as well as its response to Plumtree`s decision today, seems to support our view."
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Dixon continued, "If Plumtree is dedicated to remaining an independent public company, we urge its management to consider some alternate means of increasing shareholder value. For example, Plumtree could make a tender offer for its shares at an above-market price, say $4.00. At a minimum, this action would: (1) create a better exit strategy for those who want to sell; (2) be accretive to earnings per share for those shareholders who decide to remain; and (3) signal to the market that management believes in the company`s future. Certainly, if $5.00 per share is an inadequate price at which to sell the company, then buying shares back at $4.00 must be attractive."

William Knuff, Director of Sutter, added, "Clearly, Plumtree chose a bad time to become a public company. The IPO market is still suffering from the residual effects of the deflated tech bubble. To compound matters, the broader market suffers from a corporate credibility problem. So far, management`s decision to go public has only benefited Plumtree`s private investors, and has done so entirely at the expense of public shareholders and employees holding out-of-the-money options. The company now trades near its cash value per share, yet shows strong growth potential, positive earnings and appears undervalued to us by almost any metric. We hope Plumtree`s management will demonstrate to the market that it holds the same view."

This press release contains certain current and forward-looking statements and information relating to Sutter Capital Management, LLC and its affiliates, ("we", "us" or the "Company") that are based on the beliefs of its management as well as assumptions made by and information currently available to its management. When used in this release, the words "anticipate," "believe," estimate," expect," "intend," "plan" and similar expressions, as they relate to the Company or its management, are intended to identify forward-looking statements. These statements reflecting management`s current view about our proposed business operations are subject to certain risks, uncertainties and assumptions. Should any of these risks or uncertainties materialize, or should underlying assumptions prove incorrect, or should information currently believed to be true prove to be untrue, actual results may vary materially from those described in this press release as anticipated, estimated or expected.




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Plumtree Software Announces Third Quarter 2002 Results
Profits Continue for Sixth Consecutive Quarter
Thursday October 10, 4:20 pm ET


SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 10 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Corporate portal market-leader Plumtree Software, Inc. (Nasdaq: PLUM - News) today announced results for its third fiscal quarter ended September 30, 2002. Revenue for the third quarter 2002 was $17.7 million, compared to $20.6 million for the comparable quarter last year. Pro forma net income for the third quarter 2002 was approximately $562,000 or $0.02 per share, compared to pro forma net income of $638,000 for the comparable quarter last year. Net loss for the quarter calculated in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles (GAAP) was $889,000, or ($0.03) per share, compared to a profit of $51,000 or $0.00 per share for the comparable quarter last year. Pro forma net income for the quarter ended September 30, 2002 excludes deferred stock-based compensation charges and amortization of acquired technology, and assumes an effective tax rate of 30%.
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As of September 30, 2002, Plumtree`s cash, cash equivalents, and short-term investments totaled approximately $63.6 million, up sequentially from $62.8 million in the previous quarter. Plumtree has no long-term debt.

"Plumtree has maintained profitability despite pressure on sales resulting from the information technology spending recession," said Plumtree CEO John Kunze. "Additionally, we are pleased that our business continued to be operating cash flow positive and that we were able to strengthen our balance sheet."

"The interest in our portal platform continues to grow as customers recognize the return on investment in an enterprise-wide Web environment that delivers information and applications at lower cost. The power of Plumtree`s franchise, the proven value of our solution and our financial discipline allow us to weather the current business climate while continuing to invest in new products and position the business for the future," Kunze continued.

"In November, we are scheduled to release a world-class new content management product based on our extensive development of acquired technology, as well as the next generation of our collaboration software. Combined with our portal software, these products are part of a new vision to bring together all the technologies our customers need to build Web applications that span traditional platforms and systems."

Third Quarter Highlights
Third quarter 2002 highlights include:


Plumtree added more than 30 new portal customers and sold its portal, collaboration and application integration software to market-leading businesses and government agencies around the world, including Amgen, BT, Fannie Mae Foundation, Merck Medco and the Social Security Administration.
Customers including Hamilton Sundstrand, Millennium Pharmaceuticals and Pharmacia upgraded enterprise-wide Plumtree deployments with the Plumtree Corporate Portal 4.5WS, the latest version of the Plumtree portal platform.
Plumtree released a mid-market portal solution, offering greater purchasing flexibility for customers. Plumtree also released a line-of-business portal solution to facilitate employee self-service, and integration suites for SAP HR and PeopleSoft HRMS applications, deepening its offering in the HR and employee services markets.
Plumtree and its customers won four industry awards from organizations including Line56 and Federal Computer Week, recognizing the company`s market-leading technology and the success of its customers` deployments.
Plumtree grew its international team and appointed Keizo Arinobu as country manager in its Japan office, which recently incorporated. Arinobu has more than two decades of technology and software experience in Japan, much of it focused on helping American software companies, including BEA Systems, grow their presence in Japan.
Conference Call

Interested parties can hear Plumtree`s third quarter fiscal year 2002 financial results conference call on Thursday, October 10, 2002 at 2:00 p.m. (PDT) via live Webcast by visiting www.plumtree.com/ir, or can listen to an audio-only teleconference by calling 888-405-9176 for U.S. participants and 630-395-0420 for participants outside of the U.S. The passcode for the teleconference is PLUMTREE. A recording of the conference call will be available beginning October 10, 2002 at 5:00 p.m. (PDT). The Webcast replay of the call will be available at www.plumtree.com/ir until Monday, November 11, 2002 at 5:00 p.m. (PDT). An audio replay of the call will also be available until Thursday, October 17, 2002 at 5:00 (PDT). The dial-in number for the audio replay is 800-759-6899 for U.S. callers and 402-220-0373 for callers outside of the U.S.

About Plumtree Software

Plumtree Software offers enterprise software for bringing together on the Web content, applications and services from traditionally incompatible platforms and networks. The company`s mission is to empower new audiences of employees, customers and partners across the enterprise to interact with a broader range of information technology than was previously possible. Plumtree`s alliance members include Microsoft, Documentum, Interwoven, and Cap Gemini Ernst & Young. Plumtree supports more than 400 customers, including Boeing, Ford Motor Company, Procter & Gamble and the U.S. Navy. To learn more about Plumtree Software, visit www.plumtree.com.

Safe Harbor Statement and Caution

This press release contains forward-looking statements within the meaning of the Federal Securities laws. These forward-looking statements include, but are not limited to statements regarding customer demand for our products and services, our ability to maintain our position in the market, the release and anticipated market impact of our new products, continued investment in our new products, our ability to manage costs, sustain profits and general performance expectations. Investors are cautioned that all forward-looking statements involve risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ, perhaps materially, from those anticipated or suggested by such forward looking statements. These risks and uncertainties include, without limitation risks associated with our limited operating history, a general downturn in economic conditions, adverse changes in IT spending trends, failure to expand our customer base, the length and complexity of Plumtree`s sales cycle, changes in the needs and priorities of customers and potential customers, reduced market acceptance of our products and services, the impact of increased competition, failure to manage technological change, dependence on product enhancements, the market acceptance of our new products and web services architecture and strategy, our ability to increase the size and productivity of our direct sales force, our ability to manage costs, our ability to provide a return on investment to our customers, and those risk factors contained in the Company`s Prospectus filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission ("SEC") on Form S-1, our periodic reports including our most recent Form 10-Q, and all subsequent filings. Copies of filings made with the SEC are available through the SEC`s electronic data gathering analysis retrieval system (EDGAR) at www.sec.gov. We undertake no obligation following the date of this release to update or revise our forward-looking statements or to update the reasons actual results could differ materially from those anticipated in forward-looking statements. We caution you not to place undue reliance upon any such forward-looking statements, which speak only as of the date such statements are made. We cannot guarantee any future operating results, activity, performance or achievement.

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

Attachment of Balance Sheet and Consolidated Statement of Operations

PLUMTREE SOFTWARE, INC.
CONDENSED CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF OPERATIONS
(in thousands, except per share amounts)
(Unaudited)



Three Months Nine Months
Ended Ended
September 30, September 30,
2002 2001 2002 2001

Revenue:

Licenses $8,531 $13,536 $38,409 $39,258
Services and
maintenance 9,147 7,050 25,030 19,438
Total revenue 17,678 20,586 63,439 58,696

Cost of revenue:

Licenses 545 1,535 4,006 3,640
Services and
maintenance 3,102 2,949 9,769 9,741
Amortization of
stock-based
compensation 181 124 649 486
Total cost of revenue 3,828 4,608 14,424 13,867

Gross margin 13,850 15,978 49,015 44,829

Operating expenses:

Research and
development 4,619 3,511 13,686 9,839
Sales and marketing 7,556 10,315 25,501 30,604
General and
administrative 1,689 1,571 6,336 6,160
Restructuring charges -- -- -- 760
Aborted offering costs -- -- -- 1,643
Amortization of
stock-based compensation 706 736 2,631 3,097
Total operating
expenses 14,570 16,133 48,154 52,103

Income (loss) from
operations (720) (155) 861 (7,274)

Interest and
other income, net 242 206 444 256

Income (loss) before
income taxes (478) 51 1,305 (7,018)

Provision for income
taxes 411 -- 768 --


Net income (loss) $(889) $51 $537 $ (7,018)

Net income (loss)
per share:
Basic $(0.03) $0.01 $0.03 $(1.11)

Diluted $(0.03) $0.00 $0.02 $(1.11)

Shares used to
compute net income
(loss) per share:
Basic 28,962 6,602 16,658 6,315

Diluted 28,962 23,183 30,091 6,315


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Plumtree Launches Plumtree Content Server
Key Foundation Service Enriches Enterprise Web with High-Quality Content
Monday October 14, 9:00 am ET


SAN DIEGO, Plumtree Odyssey, Oct. 14 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Enterprise Web technology leader Plumtree Software (Nasdaq: PLUM - News) today announced Plumtree Content Server 4.0, the industry`s premier portal content management system. As an engine for creating and publishing Web content within the portal, Content Server allows everyone in the business to contribute information to the portal, and every line-of-business to manage the branding and publication of that content to portal pages and related Web sites. As a foundation service for the Enterprise Web, Content Server brings intranet, extranet and Internet sites into the portal`s global framework for security, navigation and knowledge management. Customers benefit from a content-rich Enterprise Web with lower production costs and less intranet sprawl.
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Content Server is the most recent product in Plumtree`s new line of servers, which also includes Collaboration Server, Studio Server, Search Server and Single Sign-On Server, Powered by Oblix. Plumtree launched this product line today as part of its new Enterprise Web strategy, to provide a common foundation for creating rich Web applications within the portal at low cost. To download a white paper describing the Enterprise Web or to register for an online demonstration of Plumtree Content Server, visit www.plumtree.com.

Content Server Completes Plumtree`s Content Management Offering

Plumtree`s solution has always offered customers strong content management capabilities for content access, aggregation with Crawler Web Services, classification through filters, property maps and the document directory, and personalization. The addition of Content Server to Plumtree`s solution completes this offering to include content management capabilities.

"Plumtree Content Server is fundamental to our vision of the Enterprise Web," said Plumtree CEO John Kunze. "Without a content management system, customers` Web strategies may result in an empty portal, to which only a handful of Web producers can contribute. Content Server empowers the portal`s vast business audiences to submit knowledge-base articles, route employee reviews to managers, publish sales performance metrics, or enter win-loss reports. Coupled with Plumtree`s unchallenged leadership in knowledge management, Content Server allows customers to manage all the information created throughout the Enterprise Web, and to find that information easily once it has been published."

Content Server Customers Enrich Portal Experience

Based on the 2001 acquisition of Hablador, and integrated with the Plumtree Corporate Portal over the past year, the technology in Plumtree Content Server 4.0 has been battle-tested at dozens of customer sites. Plumtree tested Content Server 4.0 with Starbucks, NAV CANADA, The United States Geological Survey (USGS) and the Ministry of Education, Luxembourg.

"The USGS National Biological Information Infrastructure (NBII) Program has research teams distributed throughout the country that use Plumtree to manage and collaborate on new research proposals related to biological informatics," said Mike Frame, USGS NBII Research & Technology director. "Based on initial testing of the Plumtree Content Server, we think it will automate the proposal submission process, reducing redundancies, providing for improved tracking, and improving our overall productivity. Its version control features will ensure that teams are working from the most up-to-date version of the proposal, and workflow will route the proposals throughout the team for collaboration and approval. When a team has finalized a proposal, Content Server will publish the final version to the portal, where it can be accessed throughout the organization and eventually the general public."

"A recent evaluation of the Plumtree Content Server has allowed us to see the potential benefits of this product in assisting us in managing the content available within our organization. Our development efforts are currently focused on publishing time-sensitive press releases, pilot information, Air Traffic flow information and other aeronautical information to our customer portal. Content Server could help us streamline this process and reduce the publishing time," said Patrick Walsh, Manager Planning and Project Management at NAV CANADA. "Additionally, by re-using content across the organization we will be ensuring that employees and customers will have the most up-to-date information as soon as it is available."

Content Server Manages Portal Content Lifecycle

Content Server offers features designed to support large organizations` content management needs:

-- Templates: for capturing information from authors as well as for
presenting the resulting Web pages.
-- Workflow: for routing submitted content through the appropriate
business process to be approved.
-- Library Services: for ensuring that teams do not duplicate one
another`s work, with features such as rollback and version control.
-- Publishing: for publishing content as components within a portal page,
as whole Web pages in the portal`s document directory, or in intranet,
extranet or Internet sites.
-- Repository: for storing all the content created in the Enterprise Web
as a set of components that can be easily edited or re-used in other
pages.


Content Server publishes content to the portal organized in Plumtree`s enterprise-wide document directory or in community directories maintained for different work-groups or business units. Content Server can also publish content as Gadget Web Services, components embedded within a portal page, and a wide range of administration tools are surfaced in the portal as Gadget Web Services. Content Server relies on the portal`s security scheme, and indexes its content using Plumtree Search.

Content Server is expected to be generally available in November 2002.

Plumtree Software

Plumtree Software is the Enterprise Web technology 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, foundation services such as collaboration, content management and search for building new Web applications, and a portal platform 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, maximizing customers` return on their existing investments. With offices in more than a dozen countries, Plumtree has over 400 customers, including Boeing, Ford Motor Company, Procter & Gamble and the U.S. Navy.

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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Plumtree Announces Enterprise Web Strategy
Plumtree Offers New Line of Server Products, Deeper Partner Commitment; Major Customers Support New Vision
Monday October 14, 9:01 am ET


SAN DIEGO, Plumtree Odyssey, Oct. 14 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Enterprise Web technology leader Plumtree Software (Nasdaq: PLUM - News) today announced a new company strategy to offer customers an open environment for creating Web applications that span rival platforms. This environment, known as the Enterprise Web, offers business units throughout an organization a foundation of technologies on which every application can draw, and creates a common user experience for systems and people across the enterprise to work together.
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As part of this strategy, Plumtree is complementing its portal platform with a new line of server products for content management, collaboration, identity management, search and business process automation, and is announcing an integration plan with Cap Gemini Ernst & Young, Documentum and Oblix. Together, these partners have produced a joint white paper, which also describes reference implementations of the Enterprise Web at Alcoa, GlaxoSmithKline, Pratt & Whitney and Procter & Gamble customer sites. The paper is available at www.plumtree.com and partner sites. As part of this strategy, Plumtree also today launched a new content management product, Plumtree Content Server 4.0, a new version of Plumtree Collaboration Server, 2.0, and a re-seller agreement with Oblix to re-sell Oblix NetPoint.

"Chief information officers are thinking about their entire Web strategy, not just a portal," said Plumtree CEO John Kunze. "The Enterprise Web is a vision of how portal, content management, collaboration, identity management and search technology work together as a common foundation for every Web application in the business. This vision is the first fundamental expansion of Plumtree`s charter since Plumtree created the corporate portal market."

"There`s a simple difference between this approach and that of the platform vendors," Kunze continued, "The Enterprise Web rejects the premise that a business must re-build its entire infrastructure around one application server. That premise is a relic of the client-server model, and is impractical for an organization with many business units. We instead embrace the openness of the Web as an enterprise-wide environment that can draw on resources from different application servers across the business."

Customers Implementing the Enterprise Web

Plumtree customers with enterprise-wide portal deployments support this vision of the Enterprise Web, and provide reference implementations in Plumtree`s white paper.

-- Alcoa is pursuing an Enterprise Web strategy to create consistent
processes and infrastructure for sharing knowledge on a global scale.
-- GlaxoSmithKline has launched the Plumtree Corporate Portal to more than
100,000 employees on five continents, as part of an Enterprise Web to
support the creation of rich user experiences within the portal that
span different systems and business units.
-- Pratt & Whitney is pursuing an Enterprise Web strategy to deliver new
Web applications for everything from engine maintenance and repair to
claims processing to parts sourcing on a range of different commercial
and proprietary platforms.
-- Procter & Gamble is implementing Plumtree as part of an Enterprise Web
strategy to control intranet growth and create a common foundation for
collaboration and application integration.


The Enterprise Web Architecture

Built on the existing applications and application servers that run a business, the Enterprise Web consists of four elements:

-- Integration Products: Web services that combine applications and
information from traditional systems such as SAP and Siebel.
-- Foundation Services: the core services typically needed to build Web
applications, such as search and identity management.
-- Portal Software: the working environment for creating user experiences
that incorporate many systems and services.
-- Composite Applications: user experiences for a specific audience and
function, such as employee services or customer support.


The entire architecture is Web services-based, allowing these elements to run on different application servers.

Server Products Offer Foundation Services for Enterprise Web

Based on customer surveys, Plumtree has found that the foundation services most often used to build Web applications within the portal environment include:

-- Content management: for managing the content published to the
Enterprise Web.
-- Collaboration: for allowing people to manage projects and share
documents across the Enterprise Web.
-- Search: for indexing all the information available from the Enterprise
Web.
-- Identity management: for managing users` rights across all the systems
integrated in the Enterprise Web.
-- Business process automation: for routing data between different
systems integrated in the Enterprise Web.


Plumtree relies on its partners to provide these services, and in the case of collaboration, content management and search, also offers its own services.

The demand for this integration was first identified by Gartner in its May 10, 2002 report on Smart Enterprise Suites: "A new `smart suite` is emerging. It covers enterprise needs for content management, knowledge management and collaboration, and supports the extended virtual workplace -- inside and between the enterprise. Currently, the smart enterprise suite represents an ideal state, a nirvana for information sharing across, and possibly between, the enterprise and its partners. There is however a trade-off between integration costs and best-of-breed functionality."(1)

Plumtree Content Server 4.0

Plumtree Content Server 4.0, launched separately today, is the industry`s premier portal content management system, bringing intranet, extranet and Internet sites into the Enterprise Web`s global framework for security, navigation and knowledge management. Content Server allows portal users across a business to publish content like win-loss reports, technical support articles, corporate communications announcements, product specifications and market updates -- all in a controlled, consistent way.

Based on the 2001 acquisition of technology from Seattle-based content management company Hablador, and thoroughly integrated into the portal over the past year, the technology in Plumtree Content Server 4.0 has been battle-tested at customer sites, and will be generally available in November 2002.

For customers that have already deployed content management systems, Plumtree also offers unparalleled integration with Documentum, Interwoven, FileNET, Lotus, Open Text and Stellent, embedding those products` administrative tools in the portal as Gadget Web Services, and indexing and categorizing their content through Crawler Web Services.

Plumtree Collaboration Server 2.0

Plumtree Collaboration Server 2.0, announced today, is the newest version of Plumtree Collaboration Server. Collaboration Server stores project information and empowers users to collaborate around documents, announcements, calendars and conversation threads. By offering collaboration as a foundation service, the Enterprise Web can recognize dependencies between projects, and combine tasks and documents from different projects into a universal inbox for each user, allowing employees and customers to work together across traditional organizational and network boundaries.

New features in Collaboration Server 2.0 simplify the creation of projects, and synchronize project updates with desktop productivity tools:

Project templates for easily creating new projects;
Project archiving for storing and retrieving old projects;
Task list options for notifying community members, creating sub-tasks
and logging task history;

Collaboration calendar and Microsoft Exchange calendar synchronization; and
Expanded international language search support.
Creating an enterprise-wide environment for online collaboration increases productivity, driving projects to completion more efficiently and avoiding travel and meeting costs. Collaboration Server 2.0 will be generally available in November 2002.

Plumtree Search Server

Plumtree Search Server indexes Collaboration Server project documents, Content Server Web content and all the information in file systems, Web sites and document databases organized in the Plumtree Corporate Portal`s document directory. Deploying search as a foundation service allows Enterprise Web users to find information throughout the Enterprise Web without visiting separate sites, and integrating search into the portal`s administrative and security framework lowers maintenance costs. Based on the 2001 acquisition of RipFire technology, Plumtree Search Server was first integrated into the portal with the May 2002 release of the Plumtree Corporate Portal 4.5WS, and has been extended as part of the Enterprise Web strategy to index Content Server and Collaboration Server content.

Plumtree Single Sign-On Server, Powered by Oblix

Plumtree announced today that it will resell the Oblix NetPoint Access System(TM) bundled with Plumtree Authentication Web Services for synchronizing the portal`s security system with other user directories. Called the Plumtree Single Sign-On Server, Powered by Oblix, this bundle allows Plumtree`s Enterprise Web customers to take advantage of Oblix`s Web authentication and authorization functionality. Integrating single sign-on as a foundation service within the Enterprise Web allows users to navigate between Web applications without repeatedly logging in, and creates a common profile of user roles and privileges on which all the Web applications built within the Enterprise Web can draw.

Business Process and Workflow

Plumtree is developing a business process engine code-named Fusion, based on technology acquired from Oak Grove Systems, for general release in 2003. Deploying this technology as a foundation service within the Enterprise Web allows customers to create business processes that span all the systems integrated in the Enterprise Web.

Deeper Partner Integration Helps Customers Realize Greater ROI From Existing IT Investments

Because the Enterprise Web is fundamentally an open vision, Web technologies from other vendors can easily be integrated, and the Enterprise Web can even be extended to include new services. Plumtree is launching the Enterprise Web in conjunction with partners Cap Gemini Ernst & Young, Documentum (Nasdaq: DCTM - News) and Oblix, which today announced in a joint release integration strategies to support the Enterprise Web.

Composite Applications Combine Foundation Services and Traditional Systems to Create Integrated User Experiences

Composite applications are Web applications built from Enterprise Web foundation services and elements integrated from traditional systems, which work together within the portal environment as if hosted by a single system. As the first stage of this effort, Plumtree launched the Plumtree Portal Solution for Employee Services in August 2002. The 5.0 version of the Plumtree Corporate Portal, due in early 2003, will provide better platform support for composite applications, with support for wholly separate user experiences hosted within the portal that draw on all the services available in the Enterprise Web.

Plumtree Software

Plumtree Software is the Enterprise Web technology 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, foundation services such as collaboration, content management and search for building new Web applications, and a portal platform 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, maximizing customers` return on their existing investments. With offices in more than a dozen countries, Plumtree has over 400 customers, including Boeing, Ford Motor Company, Procter & Gamble and the U.S. Navy.

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.

(1) Gartner "The Smart Enterprise is Coming: Do We Need It?", M. Gilbert et al, May 2002.
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Oblix and Plumtree Deepen Alliance Through Reseller Agreement, Expanded Technology Integration in Support of Joint Enterprise Web Initiative
Oblix and Plumtree Now Make it Easier to Purchase and Deploy Web Single Sign-on Functionality With the Plumtree Corporate Portal
Monday October 14, 8:04 am ET


CUPERTINO, Calif. and SAN DIEGO, Plumtree Odyssey, Oct. 14 /PRNewswire/ -- Oblix, the leading developer of identity-based security solutions and Enterprise Web technology leader Plumtree Software (Nasdaq: PLUM - News) announced today an expanded alliance based on a reseller agreement and deeper technology integration. Plumtree will resell the NetPoint Access System(TM) to provide customers with a single source for the Plumtree Corporate Portal and Oblix`s Web single sign-on, authentication and authorization functionality, simplifying the process of purchasing and deploying these technologies together. The Plumtree Single Sign-On Server, Powered by Oblix, bundles the Oblix NetPoint Access System for Web single sign-on together with Plumtree Authentication Web Services for synchronizing the portal`s security system with other user directories. Plumtree and Oblix have also built on their existing technology integration, providing customers with additional capabilities including centralized identity data storage and a single management console. By reselling the Oblix NetPoint Access System directly with the Plumtree Corporate Portal, this agreement gives customers a single solution for providing security across the portal and across other applications in the Enterprise Web.
"Single sign-on is a foundation service customers need to build new Web applications delivered through the portal, and it`s one of the technologies our customers most frequently purchase along with a corporate portal," said Plumtree CEO John Kunze. "We formed this agreement with Oblix as part of our Enterprise Web strategy to allow customers to deploy foundation technologies for building Web applications together with the portal."

Responding to strong customer demand, Plumtree and Oblix have developed additional integration between the two solutions to include:

-- Centralized Identity Data Storage: The same user identity data managed
by Oblix NetPoint drives access to portal objects. This allows
additions, updates and deletions of user identity data to be propagated
throughout the portal.
-- Single Management Console: COREid(TM), Oblix NetPoint`s enterprise
identity management system, and the NetPoint Access System can now be
administered through the Plumtree Corporate Portal via Gadget Web
Services, components that can be embedded in portal pages. This single
point of control eliminates administrative redundancy in managing
complex on-line environments.
-- Richer Gadget Web Service Personalization: Oblix NetPoint can now pass
user attributes stored in an LDAP directory, and managed by Oblix
NetPoint`s COREid system, to Plumtree Gadget Servers. These attributes
can be used to personalize Gadget Web Services for the portal user.


As enterprises extend their portal initiatives, more employees, customers, partners and suppliers interact with more systems and applications. The task of providing secure access to the many different applications scattered throughout the organization becomes very complex. This alliance between Plumtree and Oblix provides customers the ability to centralize the security of all the applications they are exposing and eliminate the various silos of administration and redundancy of security systems. This enables organizations to significantly reduce IT resources needed to build and manage their portals.

"Enterprise organizations not only want best-of-breed solutions for their Web-based initiatives, but they need out-of-the-box integration between these solutions," said Gordon Eubanks, CEO of Oblix. "Plumtree and Oblix share this common vision and are providing customers the ability to build, manage and secure their on-line environments with the most comprehensive solutions on the market today."

About Oblix

Oblix Inc. is a leading developer of identity-based security solutions for e-business networks. The company`s flagship product, Oblix NetPoint, is an enterprise identity management and Web access solution that provides an identity infrastructure for an entire e-business environment. Based on Web services architecture, Oblix NetPoint includes rich identity management functionality and provides access control with single sign-on to enterprise applications. This combination significantly lowers IT costs for organizations conducting business on the Web. Global corporations such as AT&T Wireless, APL, Banorte, Blockbuster, British Airways, Cemex, Country Companies, Farmers Group, General Motors, Hitachi, i2 Technologies, Intuit, Medtronic, Norsk Hydro, Old Mutual, Stanford University, Telefonica, Tellabs, Wachovia, Xerox and many more rely on Oblix solutions. Oblix investors include Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, Apax Partners, Van Wagoner Capital Management, Cisco Systems, Intel 64 Fund, Focus Ventures, Credit Suisse First Boston, JP Morgan, Sumitomo Corporation and Novell, Inc. With offices in North America and Europe, Oblix is headquartered in Cupertino, Calif., and can be reached at 408-861-6800.

About Plumtree

Plumtree Software is the Enterprise Web technology 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, foundation services such as collaboration, content management and search for building new Web applications, and a portal platform 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, maximizing customers` return on their existing investments. With offices in more than a dozen countries, Plumtree has over 400 customers, including Boeing, Ford Motor Company, Procter & Gamble and the U.S. Navy.

NOTE: Oblix Inc., the Oblix logo, Oblix NetPoint, FEDERATEDid Layer and COREid are trademarks of Oblix Inc. in the United States and other countries. All other product and company names mentioned are the property of their respective owners and are mentioned for identification purposes only.

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.

CONTACT: Lynne Krilich of OutCast Communications, [phone], or [e-mail], for Oblix; or Laura Nusbaum of Plumtree Software, [e-mail].

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GlaxoSmithKline Deploys Plumtree Corporate Portal World-Wide to Drive Enterprise Web
Plumtree`s Web Services Architecture Combines Enterprise-Wide Resources with Local Business Processes in Global Portal
Monday October 14, 9:01 am ET


SAN DIEGO, Plumtree Odyssey, Oct. 14 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Enterprise Web technology leader Plumtree Software (Nasdaq: PLUM - News) today announced that leading pharmaceutical company GlaxoSmithKline (NYSE: GSK - News) has launched the Plumtree Corporate Portal to employees on five continents. The deployment, known as myGSK, is part of an Enterprise Web to support the creation of rich user experiences within the portal that span different systems and business units. It currently has some 50,000 unique visitors every quarter.
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Deployed under the banner of "one company, one vision, one portal," GlaxoSmithKline`s portal is an online resource center. "Before we deployed our portal, we had over 3,000 intranet sites. The goal for myGSK is to let employees reach all the information they need whether it comes from headquarters, a business unit, a project team or anywhere else," said Ingo Elfering, vice-president of Global eIT. "Any service we deploy from headquarters or one of the business units can reach a bigger audience more quickly this way. A recent example of this is our new HR Web site that is integrated as a community page into myGSK. It is getting more exposure through our portal than it would as a separate Web site and there are benefits from lower development costs and greater ROI."

"Plumtree`s global scalability, integration with Lotus Notes, Documentum and SAP, and its powerful search and categorization technologies have been crucial to our success with large customers," Plumtree CEO John Kunze. "Coupling our software with a new focus on solutions for pharmaceuticals customers has led to Plumtree`s continued success in this industry."

What`s in MyGSK?

Over 1,200 Gadget Web Services have been created so far on the myGSK test platform and 170 have been registered for use by employees. MyGSK`s portal communities serve different geographies, different business units and different brands. GSK employees can browse the community sites within the portal`s enterprise framework, or create a personalized portal page that combines information and services from across the portal. It is the vanguard in creating a pull communications culture. Popular services include:

Web-based HR applications;
Online supplies procurement;
Employee directory;
Postings of frequently asked questions and answers;
Corporate news and events;
CEO update; and
Links to internal and external Web sites and applications.
Why Plumtree?

GlaxoSmithKline chose the Plumtree Corporate Portal because Plumtree best supported GlaxoSmithKline`s federated business model. Different employee groups can run communities within the portal`s horizontal framework, and all the resources available in the portal can be hosted on different platforms and integrated as Web services. Plumtree`s Web Services Architecture allows these components to run remotely and integrate easily with the portal using standard Internet technologies.

About Plumtree Software

Plumtree Software is the Enterprise Web technology 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, foundation services such as collaboration, content management and search for building new Web applications, and a portal platform 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, maximizing customers` return on their existing investments. With offices in more than a dozen countries, Plumtree has over 400 customers, including Boeing, Ford Motor Company, Procter & Gamble and the U.S. Navy.

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Halliburton Deploys Plumtree-Powered Customer Extranet Portal
Monday November 18, 9:04 am ET
Self-Service SAP Account Data, Rich Technical Content Increases Customer Acquisition and Retention


SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 18 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Enterprise Web technology leader Plumtree Software (Nasdaq: PLUM - News) today announced that Halliburton, one of the world`s largest oilfield services company, has deployed the myHalliburton Portal. This platform is available to customers to facilitate finding the best technical solution, communicate with technical experts, and securely exchange technical and commercial documents in a controlled environment to improve decision-making and reduce cycle times. The myHalliburton customer portal was awarded by InfoWorld Magazine in the InfoWorld 100 of 2002 for "making the best use of technology to enhance its business."
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Halliburton recently shared best practices for quantifying extranet portal deployments in a Web seminar that is archived and available at www.plumtree.com/recordings.

Via the portal, Halliburton customers worldwide can gather product information, track invoices, tap a knowledge base of technical expertise, and collaborate with Halliburton teams - streamlining account management, shortening payment cycles, and improving oil and gas well profitability. Forty percent of recently surveyed myHalliburton customer users said the portal had a positive impact on the decision to purchase Halliburton products and services, and fifty-nine percent said the portal would influence future purchases.

"Halliburton adopted Plumtree`s portal technology to improve transaction efficiencies and drive knowledge sharing for our customers and their Halliburton support teams," said Brandon Lackey, portal program manager. "From drilling to invoicing, myHalliburton has an impact on customer success over the duration of an entire project."

What`s in Halliburton`s Portal?

Nearly 3,000 Halliburton customers have registered to access myHalliburton for technical and financial support spanning the oil and gas well lifecycle, including:

Account Access

Halliburton has integrated key SAP ERP functions into the portal as Gadget Web Services, portal components that integrate services from enterprise applications and Internet sites. Now procurement and accounts payable staff can instantly check invoices, field tickets, credit memos and job service schedules, speeding the resolution of account disputes. Portal access to account data is helping Halliburton shave days from the payment cycle and improve cash flow.

Knowledge Base

Petroleum, production and drilling engineers can search a portal directory of more than 3,000 books, technical papers, data sheets, best practices, and case histories, relevant to oil and gas well evaluation, drilling, completion and maintenance.

The portal is also continuously updated with additional and current content extracted from contributions from users, and lessons learned from day- to-day field operations.

Technical Toolkit

Technical users personalize their myHalliburton experience by picking job- specific tools including expert directories, unit conversion calculators, three-dimensional simulators and oil and gas industry newsfeeds.

Collaborative Communities

Customers can collaborate securely with Halliburton staff in private forums for document sharing and task management.

"The world`s biggest companies are staking the success of their customer extranets on Plumtree`s highly scalable, secure portal platform," said Plumtree CEO John Kunze. "The myHalliburton portal sets new standards for global customer service in the oil and gas industry."

About Halliburton

Halliburton, founded in 1919, is one of the world`s largest providers of products and services to the petroleum and energy industries. The company serves its customers with a broad range of products and services through its Energy Services Group and Engineering and Construction Group business segments. The company`s World Wide Web site can be accessed at www.halliburton.com.

About Plumtree Software

Plumtree Software is the Enterprise Web technology 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, foundation services such as collaboration, content management and search for building new Web applications, and a portal platform 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, maximizing customers` return on their existing investments. With offices in more than a dozen countries, Plumtree has over 400 customers, including Boeing, Ford Motor Company, Procter & Gamble and the U.S. Navy.

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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Plumtree Achieves Leadership Status in METAspectrum Evaluation Of 19 Portal Vendors
Tuesday November 26, 9:00 am ET
Complete Ranking Available at www.plumtree.com


SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 26 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Enterprise Web technology leader Plumtree Software (Nasdaq: PLUM - News) today announced that it achieved leadership status in the latest METAspectrum evaluation of 19 portal vendors. META Group (Nasdaq: METG - News) is a leading research and consulting firm that focuses on information technology and business transformation strategies. To see how META ranked Plumtree and 18 other portal vendors, visit www.plumtree.com.
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The new METAspectrum evaluation provides an assessment of companies that provide portal frameworks, and evaluated 19 vendors on presence and performance. The METAspectrum analyzed a wide variety of criteria including categories such as vision and strategy, market share, pricing and financials, which measured annual growth, revenues, profitability and likelihood of existing in five years.

Plumtree achieved "leadership" status, the highest status in the METAspectrum, and was recognized for its strong reputation and market awareness. Plumtree was also acknowledged for its strength in the technology category, the channel and partner category, the personnel category and the execution category.

"The METAspectrum thoroughly evaluated portal vendors` performance in a wide variety of categories and Plumtree was rated a top performer in nearly all categories. At the end of our third year competing against very large vendors, Plumtree has been identified again this year as the market share leader, the technology leader and the leader in customer satisfaction by several major industry analyst firms," said Plumtree CEO John Kunze.

About META Group

META Group is a leading research and consulting firm, focusing on information technology and business transformation strategies. Delivering objective, consistent, and actionable guidance, META Group enables organizations to innovate more rapidly and effectively. Our unique collaborative models help clients succeed by building speed, agility, and value into their IT and business systems and processes. Connect with www.metagroup.com for more details.

NOTE: METAspectrumsm market evaluations and results are the sole property of META Group, Inc. Permission to use the results requires prior written approval from META Group, and should not be deemed an endorsement of any company or product.

METAspectrum Disclaimer

Permission to reproduce this research has been granted by META Group, Inc. Any further reproduction or redistribution of this research in any form without prior written approval is prohibited. METAspectrum is META Group`s independent evaluation of a technology market, representing marketplace characteristics at a given time and are subject to change without notice. META Group`s permission to reproduce this evaluation should not be deemed to be an endorsement of any company or product. META Group research is intended to be one of many information sources and decision-makers should not rely solely on the METAspectrum evaluation for making solution choices. META Group expressly disclaims all warranties, express or implied, including but not limited to fitness of this research for a particular purpose or merchantability.

About Plumtree Software

Plumtree Software is the Enterprise Web technology 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, foundation services such as collaboration, content management and search for building new Web applications, and a portal platform 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, maximizing customers` return on their existing investments. With offices in more than a dozen countries, Plumtree has over 400 customers, including Boeing, Ford Motor Company, Procter & Gamble and the U.S. Navy.

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.

Cautionary Note

Industry awards are not an indication of future results. We caution you not to place undue reliance upon any award or analyst report. We cannot guarantee any future operating results, activity, performance or achievement. When evaluating the Company for any reason you should review the risk factors contained in the Company`s Prospectus filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission ("SEC") on Form S-1, our periodic reports including our most recent Form 10-Q, and all subsequent filings for a description of the risks and uncertainties in our business. Copies of filings made with the SEC are available through the SEC`s electronic data gathering analysis retrieval system (EDGAR) at www.sec.gov.

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Plumtree and Customers Win Awards for Innovation and Excellence
Tuesday November 26, 9:01 am ET
Awards Cap Year in Which Plumtree is Recognized for Leadership in Technology, Customer Satisfaction, Market-Share and Brand Recognition


SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 26 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Enterprise Web technology leader Plumtree Software (Nasdaq: PLUM - News) today announced five new awards received by Plumtree and its customers for industry excellence and innovation in developing and deploying portal software.
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-- DMReview 100 of 2002: DM Review readers recognized Plumtree as one of
the "Top 100" e-business vendors in a product usage and vendor rating
survey.
-- Federal Computer Week`s 10 Hot Companies to Watch: Federal Computer
Week named Plumtree to its list of "Top Ten Hot Companies to Watch,"
honoring Plumtree`s open Web architecture that integrates applications
and content from diverse platforms into a single portal framework.
-- WebAward`s Best Portal Website 2002: The Fannie Mae Foundation
KnowledgePlex portal was selected from a field of 1,300 competitors to
win "Best Portal Web Site" in the 2002 WebAwards. KnowledgePlex is the
first portal that provides a collaboration platform to practitioners,
scholars and policy makers in the affordable housing and community
development fields. Visit KnowledgePlex at
http://www.knowledgeplex.org/ .
-- InfoWorld 100 of 2002: Plumtree customer Halliburton was named to the
"InfoWorld 100 of 2002" for using new technologies in the most
innovative ways to meet business and technical objectives. The
myHalliburton extranet portal allows customers worldwide to access
account data, technical information, and online forums about oil and
gas wells` life cycles. MyHalliburton.com was completed in six months
and has served more than 2,000 registered customers since its May 2002
introduction. Visit the portal at http://www.myhalliburton.com/ .


List of Industry Honors and Awards for Plumtree and its Customers Grows in 2002

Leading media outlets and industry analyst firms have recognized Plumtree throughout 2002 for its open technology, unmatched portal customer base and #1 market share. Awards and honors received by Plumtree and its customers in 2002 include:

-- Leadership status in November 2002 Enterprise Portal Frameworks
METAspectrum ranking of portal vendors. To see the detailed ranking of
all 19 vendors, visit www.plumtree.com;
-- In May Plumtree was identified as being #1 portal software market
share, based on software license and maintenance revenue for 2001,
according to leading information technology research firm IDC;
-- Highest average score overall and #1 in quality of customer experience
in AMR Research`s in-depth evaluation of portal vendors;
-- #1 among prospective portal software buyers according to a survey by
Forrester Research;
-- Vendor most often considered for portal implementations by customers
according to three consecutive Butler Group surveys;
-- Leader in Gartner`s 2002 Magic Quadrant evaluation of portal software
vendors;
-- Red Herring: "Red Herring 100" of 2002;
-- Line56: "E-Business Top 56" for Ketchum Communications` portal;
-- E-Gov: 2002 "Best of the Web" for Maryland.gov portal;
-- Federation of Government Information Processing Councils (FGIPC):
Intergovernmental Solutions Award for National Biological Information
Infrastructure`s portal;
-- Network Computing: "Well-Connected Award" for portal category;
-- DCI: "E-Business" and "Content Management" Awards for Pratt & Whitney
portal;
-- Corporate Portals & Intranet: "Best-in-Class Internal Corporate Portal
Award" for Ford Motor Company portal;
-- KM World: "100 Companies that Matter"; and
-- Intelligent Enterprise: "Company to Watch".


For further details on Plumtree`s honors and awards, visit: http://www.plumtree.com/awards

About Plumtree Software

Plumtree Software is the Enterprise Web technology 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, foundation services such as collaboration, content management and search for building new Web applications, and a portal platform 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, maximizing customers` return on their existing investments. With offices in more than a dozen countries, Plumtree has over 400 customers, including Boeing, Ford Motor Company, Procter & Gamble and the U.S. Navy.

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.

Cautionary Note

Industry awards are not an indication of future results. We caution you not to place undue reliance upon any award or analyst report. We cannot guarantee any future operating results, activity, performance or achievement. When evaluating the Company for any reason you should review the risk factors contained in the Company`s Prospectus filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission ("SEC") on Form S-1, our periodic reports including our most recent Form 10-Q, and all subsequent filings for a description of the risks and uncertainties in our business. Copies of filings made with the SEC are available through the SEC`s electronic data gathering analysis retrieval system (EDGAR) at www.sec.gov.

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Plumtree Software Announces Fourth Quarter and Full Year 2002 Results
Thursday January 16, 4:15 pm ET
Strong Sequential Quarterly Growth in Revenue and Profitability; $19.5 Million In Revenue; EPS of $0.08 Pro Forma, $0.06 GAAP


SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 16 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Enterprise Web technology leader Plumtree Software, Inc. (Nasdaq: PLUM - News) today announced results for its fourth fiscal quarter and full fiscal year 2002 ended December 31, 2002. Revenue for the fourth quarter 2002 was $19.5 million, compared to $17.7 million in Q3 and $22.8 million for the comparable quarter last year. Pro forma net income for the fourth quarter 2002 was approximately $2.3 million or $0.08 per share, compared to pro forma net income of $562,000 or $0.02 per share in Q3 and $685,000 or $0.03 for the comparable quarter last year. Net income for the fourth quarter 2002 calculated in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles (GAAP) was $1.9 million, or $0.06 per share, compared to a loss of $888,000, or $0.03 per share in Q3, and a loss of $787,000 or $0.11 per share for the comparable quarter last year. Pro forma net income for the quarter and year ended December 31, 2002 excludes charges for deferred stock-based compensation, restructuring charges, amortization of acquired technology, and assumes an effective tax rate of 30%.
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As of December 31, 2002, Plumtree`s cash, cash equivalents, and short-term investments totaled approximately $65.3 million, up sequentially from $63.8 million in the previous quarter. Plumtree has no long-term debt.

Full Year 2002 Results

For all of 2002, revenue was $82.9 million compared to $81.5 million in 2001. Pro forma net income for the year was $6.4 million or $0.21 per share, compared to a loss of $38,000, or $0.01 per share in 2001. Net income for the year calculated in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles (GAAP) was $2.4 million, or $0.08 per share, compared to a loss of $7.8 million or $1.21 per share in 2001.

CEO Comments

"We believe our results reflect Plumtree`s focus on profitability. While the IT spending recession of 2002 moderated revenue growth year over year, we consistently delivered on the bottom line," Plumtree CEO John Kunze said. "Additionally, we are pleased that our business continued to be operating cash flow positive and that we strengthened our balance sheet during the period.

"Last quarter, Plumtree launched the culmination of three acquisitions and two major product releases, the Enterprise Web," said Mr. Kunze. "The Enterprise Web combines application integration, content management, collaboration, search and portal in the industry`s first cohesive enterprise-wide work environment. Collectively, these technologies provide a foundation for building new Web applications at lower cost. This strategy helped Plumtree to compete better against platform vendors, appeal to new customers and deliver more value to existing customers.

"The environment remains challenging but we intend to build on customer success while maintaining our financial discipline to meet market opportunities in 2003."

Fourth Quarter Highlights
Fourth quarter 2002 highlights include:


Plumtree conducted a record number of transactions in the fourth quarter, adding 43 new customers and selling new products or additional portal licenses to 46 existing customers. Plumtree now supports more than 450 total customers, and 29 companies in the Fortune 100.
Plumtree released Plumtree Content Server 4.0, a content management system based on the acquisition of technology from Hablador, and Plumtree Collaboration Server 2.0. New customers such as Unilever and Team Health and existing customers such as Airbus, Fannie Mae Foundation, Halliburton and Starcom Media Group purchased licenses, validating demand for an Enterprise Web solution broader than what was previously available in the traditional portal market.
Plumtree launched its Enterprise Web strategy at its annual user conference in October, attended by over 600 representatives from customers and partners. After attending the conference, AMR Research stated that Plumtree`s customers "are the most innovative we`ve seen" and that "Plumtree has the highest percentage of full-fledged portals in production."
In keynote presentations, customers Pratt & Whitney and Halliburton described new, composite applications built on the portal that automate processes and integrate content across multiple systems for employees, customers and partners.
META Group published a new portal market report that ranked Plumtree the number one vendor overall, recognizing the strength of Plumtree`s technology and customer references.
Eleven customers, including Applebee`s International, bought the Plumtree Portal Package (P3), the mid-market offering introduced by Plumtree in the third quarter of 2002.
Plumtree gained momentum in the Asia-Pacific region, winning new customers including Tokyo Electric in Japan and LG Fire and Marine Life in Korea. Plumtree also won its first customer in Latin America.
Customers including Weyerhaeuser completed deployments of the Plumtree Corporate Portal. Cadbury Schweppes, SwissRe and TELUS upgraded their deployments to version 4.5WS, the version of the Plumtree portal platform based entirely on Web services.
Conference Call

Interested parties can hear Plumtree`s fourth quarter and fiscal year 2002 financial results conference call on Thursday, January 16, 2003 at 2:00 p.m. (PST) via live Webcast by visiting www.plumtree.com/ir, or can listen to a teleconference by calling 888-405-9176 for U.S. participants and 630-395-0420 for participants outside of the U.S. The passcode for the teleconference is PLUMTREE. A recording of the conference call will be available beginning January 16, 2003 at 5:00 p.m. (PST). The Webcast replay of the call will be available at www.plumtree.com/ir until Thursday, February 13, 2003 at 5:00 p.m. (PST). An audio replay of the call will also be available until Thursday, January 23, 2003 at 5:00 (PST). The dial-in number for the audio replay is 800-685-9501 for U.S. callers and 402-220-0290 for callers outside of the U.S.

About Plumtree Software

Plumtree Software is the Enterprise Web technology 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, foundation services such as collaboration, content management and search for building new Web applications, and a portal platform 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, maximizing customers` return on their existing investments. With offices in more than a dozen countries, Plumtree has over 450 customers, including Boeing, Ford Motor Company, Procter & Gamble and the U.S. Navy.

Safe Harbor Statement and Caution

This press release contains forward-looking statements within the meaning of the Federal Securities laws. These forward-looking statements include, but are not limited to statements regarding customer demand for our products and services, our ability to maintain our position in the market, the anticipated market impact of our new products and Enterprise Web strategy, continued investment in our new products, our ability to manage costs, sustain profits and general financial performance expectations. Investors are cautioned that all forward-looking statements involve risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ, perhaps materially, from those anticipated or suggested by such forward looking statements. These risks and uncertainties include, without limitation risks associated with our limited operating history, a general downturn in economic conditions, adverse changes in IT spending trends, failure to expand our customer base, the length and complexity of Plumtree`s sales cycle, the market acceptance of our new products and Enterprise Web architecture and strategy, the ability of our customers to deploy successfully and their willingness to act as references, changes in the needs and priorities of customers and potential customers, reduced market acceptance of our products and services, the impact of increased competition, failure to manage technological change, dependence on product enhancements, our ability to increase the size and productivity of our direct sales force and expand into and within global markets, our ability to manage costs, our ability to provide a return on investment to our customers, the impact of geopolitical conflicts and events, and those risk factors contained in the Company`s Prospectus filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission ("SEC") on Form S-1, our periodic reports including our most recent Form 10-Q, and all subsequent SEC filings. Copies of filings made with the SEC are available through the SEC`s electronic data gathering analysis retrieval system (EDGAR) at www.sec.gov. We undertake no obligation following the date of this release to update or revise our forward-looking statements or to update the reasons actual results could differ materially from those anticipated in forward-looking statements. We caution you not to place undue reliance upon any such forward-looking statements, which speak only as of the date such statements are made. We cannot guarantee any future operating results, activity, performance or achievement.

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

Attachment of and Condensed Consolidated Statements of Operations and
Condensed Consolidated Balance Sheet

PLUMTREE SOFTWARE, INC.
PRO FORMA* CONDENSED CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF OPERATIONS
(in thousands, except per share amounts)
(Unaudited)

Pro Forma

Three Months Ended Year Ended
December 31, December 31,
2002 2001 2002 2001

Revenue:

Licenses $11,172 $14,797 $49,581 $54,055
Services and
maintenance 8,307 7,980 33,338 27,418
Total revenue 19,479 22,777 82,919 81,473

Cost of revenue:

Licenses 379 1,285 3,181 4,925
Services and
maintenance 2,916 3,692 12,685 13,433
Total cost of
revenue 3,295 4,977 15,866 18,358

Gross margin 16,184 17,800 67,053 63,115

Operating expenses:

Research and
development 4,455 4,297 18,140 14,136
Sales and marketing 7,779 9,920 33,281 40,524
General and
administrative 905 2,359 7,241 8,519
Total operating
expenses 13,139 16,576 58,662 63,179

Income (loss) from
operations 3,045 1,224 8,391 (64)

Interest and other
income (expense), net 274 (246) 718 10

Income (loss) before
income taxes 3,319 978 9,109 (54)

Provision for
income taxes ** 996 293 2,733 (16)

Net income (loss) $2,323 $685 $6,376 $(38)

Net income (loss)
per share:
Basic $0.08 $0.10 $0.32 $(0.01)
Diluted $0.08 $0.03 $0.21 $(0.01)

Shares used to
compute net income
(loss) per share:
Basic 29,255 6,886 19,863 6,464
Diluted 30,660 27,326 30,269 6,464


Pro Forma Statements of Operations excludes $220, $944, $3,500 and $4,527 of amortization of stock based compensation and $394, $138, $1,598 and $138, of amortization of acquired technology, respectively. The Pro Forma Statement of Operations excludes $441, $0, $441 and $760 of non-recurring restructuring, respectively. The Pro Forma Statement of Operations for the year ended 2001 excludes $1,643 of aborted offering costs.
Assumes an annualized effective tax rate of 30%.
PLUMTREE SOFTWARE, INC.
CONDENSED CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF OPERATIONS
(in thousands, except per share amounts)

Three Months Ended Year Ended
December 31, December 31,
2002 2001 2002 2001
(Unaudited)
Revenue:

Licenses $11,172 $14,797 $49,581 $54,055
Services and
maintenance 8,307 7,980 33,338 27,418
Total revenue 19,479 22,777 82,919 81,473

Cost of revenue:

Licenses 773 1,423 4,779 5,063
Services and
maintenance 2,916 3,692 12,685 13,433
Amortization of
stock-based
compensation 44 141 694 627
Total cost of
revenue 3,733 5,256 18,158 19,123

Gross margin 15,746 17,521 64,761 62,350

Operating expenses:

Research and
development 4,455 4,297 18,140 14,136
Sales and
marketing 7,779 9,920 33,281 40,524
General and
administrative 905 2,359 7,241 8,519
Restructuring charges 441 -- 441 760
Aborted offering costs -- -- -- 1,643
Amortization of
stock-based
compensation 176 803 2,806 3,900
Total operating
expenses 13,756 17,379 61,909 69,482

Income (loss) from
operations 1,990 142 2,852 (7,132)

Interest and other
income (expense), net 274 (246) 718 10

Income (loss) before
income taxes 2,264 (104) 3,570 (7,122)

Provision for
income taxes 412 683 1,180 683

Net income (loss) $1,852 $(787) $2,390 $(7,805)

Net income (loss)
per share:
Basic $0.06 $(0.11) $0.12 $(1.21)
Diluted $0.06 $(0.11) $0.08 $(1.21)

Shares used to
compute net income
(loss) per share:
Basic 29,255 6,886 19,863 6,464
Diluted 30,660 6,886 30,269 6,464


PLUMTREE SOFTWARE, INC.
CONDENSED CONSOLIDATED BALANCE SHEETS
(in thousands)

As of December 31,
2002 2001

ASSETS

Current assets:
Cash, cash equivalents and
short-term investments $65,322 $24,040
Accounts receivables, net of allowances 16,619 17,857
Other current assets 2,160 1,252
Total current assets 84,101 43,149

Property and equipment, net 2,698 2,934

Other long-term assets 3,923 5,177

$90,722 $51,260

LIABILITIES AND STOCKHOLDERS` EQUITY

Current liabilities:
Accounts payable $1,630 $1,463
Accrued and other current liabilities 14,747 15,718
Deferred revenues 18,539 20,599
Line of credit -- 1,600
Total current liabilities 34,916 39,380

Long-term liabilities 454 437

Total Liabilities 35,370 39,817

Total Stockholders` Equity 55,352 11,443

$90,722 $51,260




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Plumtree: More plum than prune?
Plus: A tally of first week of Q4 reports in Net group

By Bambi Francisco, CBS.MarketWatch.com
Last Update: 3:21 PM ET Jan. 17, 2003







SAN FRANCISCO (CBS.MW) -- Plumtree Software -- boasting a lot of cash and a profitable quarter -- is looking like a plum of an Internet stock Friday.

Shares soared as much as 45 percent in Friday trades after the company said a surge in portal software sales in the final months of last year helped it swing to a profit in the fourth quarter.

In the final hour of trading, Plumtree shares were up 99 cents to $3.90, having previously traded as high as $4.22, their highest level in more than six months.

Late Thursday, Plumtree Software (PLUM: news, chart, profile) said it sold $19.5 million in portal software in the final months of last year. While those sales were down from $22.8 million in the comparable period a year ago, that figure was up from $17.7 million in the prior quarter.

Plumtree earned $1.9 million, or 6 cents per share, in the fourth quarter of last year. This compares with a loss of $888,000 in the year-ago period. Excluding certain items, Plumtree earned $2.3 million.

Positively plummy

It was also profitable in the first and second quarters of last year.

What`s more, Plumtree said it has $65.3 million in cash, cash equivalents and short-term investments. And no debt. Its market valuation, as of Friday morning, stood at $103 million. It closed out the year with $82.9 million in sales.

But while Plumtree looks hardy as it puts down roots in the market, investors wonder whether the roots are deep enough to keep the company upright in the most trying times. The question is: Is it a plum or a prune?

At this price, the stock looks plumy -- provided the company continues to execute. Those who bought shares at $8.50 at last June`s IPO from Goldman Sachs and other investment bankers and brokerage houses on the IPO deal might think it`s the latter.

The more appropriate question might be this: Can it be sold before this plum shrivels?

Plumtree said it expects sales to fall to $18.5 million in the first quarter, according to Glen Kelman, vice president of marketing and founder of Plumtree. The lower sales will lower profits in the quarter. But excluding certain items, Plumtree does expect to post a pro forma profit of 1 to 2 cents.

"When we do better than $18 million, there is leverage in the business model, the profit swings as revenue exceeds $18 million," said Kelman.

Portal-software wars

IT spending also remains elusive across the software industry.

Any scent of demand in one area of software will attract sales-starved competitors. The portal-software sector is getting very crowded as larger vendors seek to offer portal servers with their application servers.

Plumtree`s top rival is IBM (IBM: news, chart, profile), which bundles its WebSphere application server with its portal server, said Kelman.

"Generally, we`ll win when customers want to run on the IBM application server but want to integrate applications that aren`t IBM," Kelman said. "Customers want the Web to be an open environment; they don`t want to limit themselves with one vendor."

Still, in this economy, only few software vendors are expected to survive.

Consolidation is already happening. And, observers say the price tags are low. Recall Vignette (VIGN: news, chart, profile) purchased Plumtree rival Epicentric for $26 million in cash. See Vignette release.

So wouldn`t it make sense to be purchased by a larger company to achieve economies of scale in distribution? "Our customers have been explicit asking that we remain impartial in integrating systems," said Kelman. "We`d lose our independence." See related story: Riding out the January surge in tech.

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Share price as of Thursday`s close: $2.90
Share price now: $3.94
Change: 35.9%
Volume: 2.2 million shares, daily average 226,700 shares
Last time this high: July 16, 2002
52-week high: $9.96
52-week low: $1.95
Forward P/E before announcement: 16
Forward P/E after announcement: 22

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WHO SAYS NO ONE is investing in technology these days? Certainly not Plumtree Software (PLUM). The maker of enterprise Web applications got a boost from Wall Street on Friday after it recorded much better than expected earnings, thanks to its success in winning new clients and increasing its licensing revenue.
Late Thursday, Plumtree reported pro-forma earnings of $2.3 million, or eight cents a share, for the fourth quarter. Analysts expected the company to earn just two cents, according to Thomson First Call. A year earlier, Plumtree posted pro-forma earning of three cents a share. Both periods excluded a host of charges. But even on a net basis, the company had a fourth-quarter profit of $1.9 million, or six cents a share, vs. a year-earlier net loss of 11 cents. Revenue fell to $19.5 million from $22.8 million last year, but surpassed the third quarter`s $17.7 million. Nearly 60% of fourth-quarter revenue was derived from licenses.

Investors seemed pleased by Plumtree`s real profits and sequential sales growth during an IT spending recession, as shares of the San Francisco company jumped 36% to $3.94 by Friday`s close.

So how did the company`s results come in so much higher than anyone on Wall Street anticipated? It seems Plumtree`s effort to capture new customers worked. During the final three months of 2002 the company won 43 new clients, up from 34 in the third quarter. It also closed a record 89 deals, compared with just 67 during the preceding three months. And two of those transactions topped seven figures. Plumtree now has more than 450 customers, including such corporate heavyweights as Boeing (BA), Ford (F) and Procter & Gamble (PG).

Still, at least some analysts were bothered by the company`s failure to offer any earnings guidance for 2003, signaling perhaps that the outlook remains too murky. The best management could offer investors who were looking for a little hand-holding was a forecast for the first quarter of 2003. Plumtree says to expect revenue to drop some 2.5% to 7.5% from fourth-quarter levels to between $18 million and $19 million. As for earnings, look for no more than a penny or two per share — less than the five cents reported for the first quarter of 2002. Some analysts say that until Plumtree`s earnings visibility improves, investors should exercise caution.

But it was a different message from management. Plumtree cited market research showing that even cash-strapped companies plan to spend on enterprise portals. Morgan Stanley`s survey of chief information officers, for example, ranked portals as the No. 2 spending priority in 2003, trailing only security software. "Ultimately, it`s clear that the market is headed in this direction," says Plumtree Chief Executive John Kunze, "and we feel our products, openness and strong customer references uniquely equip us to lead it."

Quote:
"Overall, we applaud the results for the quarter," wrote Greg Kleiner, an analyst with Soundview Technology Group, on Friday. "We had gotten a sense from the company when we upgraded the stock [to Neutral from Underperform on Dec. 4] that it was feeling better about its place in the world. However, the trends that we continue to see in the market leave us concerned about Plumtree`s long-term position in this market." (Kleiner doesn`t own any Plumtree Software shares, and Soundview Technology Group has no investment-banking relationship with the company.)

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Fannie Mae Foundation Deploys Plumtree-Powered Collaborative Extranet To Support 25 Partners
Wednesday January 22, 12:01 pm ET
Award-Winning Portal Empowers Affordable Housing and Community Development Leaders to Share Resources, Expertise, and Best Practices


SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 22 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Enterprise Web technology leader Plumtree Software (Nasdaq: PLUM - News) today announced that the Fannie Mae Foundation has deployed its Plumtree-powered KnowledgePlex extranet portal. KnowledgePlex is the first online environment that centralizes collaboration, information and expertise within the affordable housing and community development fields. Policymakers, scholars and practitioners such as housing activists or lenders can share knowledge, collaborate on policy issues, and research best practices through the portal to create better housing, stronger neighborhoods and safer streets. Originally launched in October of 2001, the KnowledgePlex portal has over 6,000 registered users and is growing at an average rate of 500 new users per month from word-of-mouth referrals. The KnowledgePlex portal was recently selected from a field of 1,300 competitors to win "Best Portal Web Site" in the Web Marketing Association`s WebAwards. The public can visit the KnowledgePlex portal and 25 other Plumtree-powered extranet portals at www.plumtree.com/extranets.
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"The affordable housing and community development field tends to be fragmented because the contributors -? local or regional governments, neighborhood groups, activists, nonprofits and developers ?- are isolated from one another regionally and functionally," said Peter Beard, Fannie Mae Foundation Senior Vice President of Knowledge Access and Technology Strategy. "Plumtree`s Enterprise Web technologies -- an integrated portal, collaboration tools and search -- enabled us to create an interactive workspace for sharing research, experience and opinions and collaborating on important housing issues. The KnowledgePlex portal is transforming how information is shared in our field, and it is ultimately making us more effective at revitalizing America`s communities."

What`s in the KnowledgePlex extranet portal?

The Fannie Mae Foundation partnered with national organizations as well as community-based nonprofits to incorporate a broad range of resources into the portal. The KnowledgePlex portal provides easy access to these resources by:

-- Aggregating and indexing articles, case studies, reports, journals and
over 300 news sources in a searchable knowledge base;
-- Hosting collaboration groups where users discuss and share documents on
a wide variety of topics such as urban development or low-income and
rural housing;
-- Providing a daily e-mail digest of housing news articles; and
-- Enabling users to personalize their experience by choosing content,
discussions and user communities most relevant to them.


Plumtree Chosen for Collaboration Capabilities and Web Services Architecture

To create an interactive extranet portal that would allow dozens of organizations to collaborate and search a centralized digital library, the Fannie Mae Foundation needed a solution that offered knowledge management and collaboration services through a unified user experience. The Fannie Mae Foundation selected Plumtree because Plumtree`s Enterprise Web technologies provided a portal platform and tightly integrated collaboration and search services, and because Plumtree`s Web-based administration allowed the Fannie Mae Foundation to distribute portal management among all KnowledgePlex partners. The Fannie Mae Foundation also chose Plumtree based on its leadership in the portal market.

KnowledgePlex Portal Partners:

The Fannie Mae Foundation brought together 25 of the most influential local, regional, and national organizations in the affordable housing and community development fields to build and grow the KnowledgePlex portal. The following organizations are contributing partners of the KnowledgePlex portal:

American Planning Association
The Brookings Institution Center on Urban and Metropolitan Policy
California Community Economic Development Association
Development Training Institute
Center for Policy Alternatives
The Enterprise Foundation
Fannie Mae Foundation
Funders` Network for Smart Growth and Livable Communities
Habitat for Humanity International
Housing Assistance Council
Innovation Network, Inc.
Joint Center for Housing Studies, Harvard University
Local Initiatives Support Corporation
McAuley Institute
The National Civic League
National Conference of Black Mayors
National Congress for Community Economic Development
National Council of State Housing Agencies
National Housing Conference
National Low Income Housing Coalition
National Neighborhood Coalition
Neighborhood Funders Group
Neighborhood Reinvestment Corporation
The U.S. Conference of Mayors
Urban Land Institute
About Plumtree Software

Plumtree Software is the Enterprise Web technology 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, foundation services such as collaboration, content management and search for building new Web applications, and a portal platform 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, maximizing customers` return on their existing investments. With offices in more than a dozen countries, Plumtree has over 450 customers, including Boeing, Ford Motor Company, Procter & Gamble and the U.S. Navy.

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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NetJets Deploys Plumtree Enterprise Web Suite: Corporate Portal, Content Server, Collaboration Server and Search Server
Wednesday March 12, 1:32 pm ET
IntraNetJets Portal Creates Open Platform for Developing New Web Applications at Low Cost


SAN FRANCISCO, March 12 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Enterprise Web technology leader Plumtree Software (Nasdaq: PLUM - News) today announced that NetJets, the pioneer and worldwide leader in fractional aircraft ownership is deploying the Plumtree Corporate Portal, Content Server, Collaboration Server and Search Server as the platform for its Enterprise Web strategy, driving operational efficiency. Previously, NetJets had a static intranet, several homegrown applications, and a massive paper trail for managing processes including plane maintenance records, staffing schedules, unique airport procedures and customer preferences. NetJets` portal, IntraNetJets, Web enables and automates processes across the business, speeding delivery of content and services, allowing for better compliance with regulations and ultimately improving customer service through collaboration.
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"We had great demand for automating common business processes and making our homegrown programs easier to use, so we chose an open solution that provided comprehensive, well-integrated functionality. With Plumtree`s Content Server and Collaboration Server, the portal becomes a dynamic, company-wide working environment, and deploying these technologies together gives us a development platform for creating and delivering new applications in the future. Each group, from Marketing to Meteorology, is empowered to create and publish content in a community, interact with data locked in many different backend systems and collaborate with colleagues scattered across the world," said Rob Carr, project manager. "For us, the need for the portal is like the need for electrical lighting, it`s not a matter of simple ROI on the software, it`s a necessary part of doing business."

What`s in IntraNetJets: Aircraft Tracking, Client Support Collaboration Groups

NetJets standardized on technologies from Plumtree for collaboration, content management and search that are delivered through the Plumtree Corporate Portal. These technologies allow business users to collaborate on projects through group calendars, task lists, threaded discussions, and shared documents, to create new Web content that can be published to the portal in a controlled, consistent way, and to search an index of corporate content stored in a variety of repositories. Ultimately, NetJets plans to re-use these foundation services in new Web applications delivered by the portal and in a future extranet portal for customers and partners.

NetJets also uses the Plumtree Portlet Suite for Microsoft Exchange to integrate e-mail and calendars into the portal as well portlets from Screaming Media for news, weather and stock updates. NetJets has developed portlets for integrating Microsoft Project, Visio business diagramming, Great Plains financial software and legacy applications. By bringing together all of these pieces, IntraNetJets is improving productivity across the organization:

Executives can monitor through an executive dashboard operational data like the number of planes that are broken or late and the number of crew members registered for training. Consolidating all this operational data saves executives` time and resources, freeing them to focus on strategic goals.
Client support teams worldwide can use Collaboration Server features including task lists, threaded discussions and document sharing to support highly detailed customer needs and ensure that each of NetJets` supporting vendors meet customers` unique requirements.
Flight planning groups can view real-time positioning of the entire airplane fleet, crew status, previous, current, and next flights through portlets built by NetJets. Because NetJets assures any client a plane within four hours, these services are mission-critical for making sure that planes are correctly dispersed and ready for operation at a moment`s notice.
HR managers use Content Server to create and publish new job postings and announcements within NetJets.
Management can collaborate on budgets and other cross-organizational projects through Collaboration Server, where proposal documents are developed, debated and scheduled. This virtual teamwork is critical, as NetJets provides 24-hour service around the world.
A mandatory community with news, company events and executive messages decreases the use of company-wide emails. Content Server templates help ensure that all news posted on this community adheres to corporate branding guidelines.
NetJets is planning to extend the portal to mobile devices as well as to partners and customers in the future and hopes to provide online invoicing, scheduling, and enhanced collaboration with clients` personalized support teams.

Plumtree Chosen for Unified Platform with Broad Integration

Finding a portal solution with an open architecture was critical in NetJets` selection process as NetJets has a heterogeneous IT environment, with programs in Visual Basic, ASP.NET as well as Java, and data stored in Oracle and SQL Server databases. NetJets also chose Plumtree for its ability to provide a single, consistent experience while providing scale-tested integration for a large number of disparate systems. NetJets wanted a development platform with unified portal, content management and collaboration features that was quick and easy to deploy and would not require significant and ongoing consulting services. Additionally, NetJets chose Plumtree based on Plumtree`s market leadership and its strong customer references.

About Plumtree Software

Plumtree Software is the Enterprise Web technology 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, foundation services such as collaboration, content management and search for building new Web applications, and a portal platform 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, maximizing customers` return on their existing investments. With offices in more than a dozen countries, Plumtree has over 450 customers, including Boeing, Ford Motor Company, Procter & Gamble and the U.S. Navy.

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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Plumtree Content Server Gains Traction With Over 34 Customers and 230,000 Users
Wednesday March 12, 1:33 pm ET
Content Server 4.1 Offers Enhanced Usability


SAN FRANCISCO, March 12 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Enterprise Web technology leader Plumtree Software (Nasdaq: PLUM - News) today announced that more than 34 customers have licensed Content Server for over 230,000 users since its release in Q4 of 2002. Content Server is a key product in Plumtree`s Enterprise Web suite, which also includes the Plumtree Corporate Portal, Plumtree Collaboration Server, Plumtree Search Server and Plumtree Single Sign-On Server, powered by Oblix. Content Server empowers portal users across an organization to create, edit and publish content in a controlled, consistent way to portal, intranet and extranet sites.
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Plumtree will be demonstrating Content Server during a Web seminar on March 13, with registration at www.plumtree.com.

Customers Publish Quality Content Across the Organization

Since Content Server`s release in November 2002, more than 34 customers worldwide have licensed the product for over 230,000 users, including five customers that licensed Content Server for more than 15,000 users each. Customers including Airbus, Citizens Property Insurance Corporation, the Hungarian Ministry of Defense, the Ministry of Education in Luxembourg, NetJets, Quantum Corporation, Starcomm Media Group and the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) are using Content Server to add rich content to their portal deployments.

Content maintainers for the Ministry of Education, Luxembourg`s mySchool portal use Content Server to publish newsletters and e-magazines to the portal directory where teachers, students and people interested in education can read or subscribe to the news. Publishing newsletters with Content Server replaces a labor-intensive process of creating the content in Microsoft Word, converting Word documents to Adobe files, which were then uploaded to the portal manually. The Ministry is currently using Content Server in its production portal, and plans to make published content available to the public this quarter.

"Content Server adds significant value to our existing mySchool! portal environment, filling mySchool! with rich content and helping us avoid an empty portal," said Daniel Weiler, project manager for mySchool!. "Now, the content in our portal has a more polished and consistent look, and the templates make it quite easy for non-technical users to publish new content to the portal."

At Citizens Property Insurance, business units such as Underwriting and Agent Management plan to use Content Server templates to easily publish forms, statutory requirements and other resources to the Plumtree-powered portal. Content Server should help Citizens Property Insurance Corporation transition Web publishing from a single Web master to users in its business units who manage the information published on the site.

The USGS plans to use Content Server to involve the public to help make information on its National Biological Information Infrastructure (NBII) portal more useful. The Plumtree-powered NBII portal, named My.NBII.Gov, provides a single point of access to a wealth of biodiversity data, and a destination for dynamic collaboration and project management between NBII staff, partners, and contractors. Plumtree Content Server will provide a form- based process for users to submit feedback on environmental best practices documents that the USGS publishes to the portal, saving time and improving the quality of the content in the portal.

Version 4.1 Streamlines Publishing and Searching

Plumtree also announced today the general availability of version 4.1 of Content Server. Content Server 4.1 is designed to enhance usability and adds several key new features, including:

Index management: Customers can easily manage index pages, which are automatically updated when new content is published;
Related item publishing: Content Server 4.1 enables bulk publishing of related content;
Search exclusion: Users can exclude from searches various content items and properties, such as graphics, to obtain more targeted results;
Extended platform support: Content Server 4.1 now runs on both IBM WebSphere and BEA WebLogic, offering customers the flexibility to leverage their existing infrastructure; and
Spanish language support: In addition to French, German and Italian, Plumtree Content Server 4.1 supports Spanish-speaking users.
About Plumtree Software

Plumtree Software is the Enterprise Web technology 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, foundation services such as collaboration, content management and search for building new Web applications, and a portal platform 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, maximizing customers` return on their existing investments. With offices in more than a dozen countries, Plumtree has over 450 customers, including Boeing, Ford Motor Company, Procter & Gamble and the U.S. Navy.

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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Inxight Announces Licensing Agreement With Plumtree to Internationalize Plumtree Corporate Portal Search
Wednesday April 2, 1:01 pm ET
Inxight`s Advanced Linguistic Features to Expand Plumtree`s Multilingual Search Capabilities


SUNNYVALE, Calif., April 2 /PRNewswire/ -- Inxight Software, Inc., the leading provider of software solutions for effectively using unstructured data, today announced a new alliance with Enterprise Web technology leader Plumtree Software (Nasdaq: PLUM - News). Through the agreement, Plumtree has licensed Inxight`s industry-leading language processing technology, Inxight LinguistX Platform, to expand the multilingual search capabilities in Plumtree Search Server. Plumtree Search Server queries and indexes content throughout the Enterprise Web, including project documents stored by Plumtree Collaboration Server, Web pages managed by Plumtree Content Server, and content indexed from file systems, Web sites and document databases into the portal`s document directory. With the added multilingual functionality from Inxight, Plumtree Search Server will provide more extensive search returns for international customers, helping them find the information they need in the portal more quickly and easily.
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The Plumtree Corporate Portal brings together content, applications and services from incompatible platforms into a secure workspace for employees, partners and customers. Plumtree Search Server indexes content in the portal`s document directory and is tightly integrated with the other technologies of the Enterprise Web, freeing administrators from having to separately secure and manage multiple search indexes. Inxight`s technology will add advanced linguistic features for identifying core search terms in multiple languages within Plumtree Search Server, allowing international customers to conduct more accurate information searches in the portal.

"Plumtree Search Server indexes documents in 23 European and Asian languages, but we needed advanced stemming and tokenization features to fine tune our search capabilities," said Phil Soffer, director of product management at Plumtree. "As a result, users searching in their native languages will get results that reflect the particulars of their language. Inxight`s technology is key to enabling these capabilities."

"We are happy to help Plumtree better serve its global customer base," said David Spenhoff, Inxight`s vice president of marketing. "Our unrivaled multilingual search capabilities enable users to easily find the information that they need to do their jobs more effectively. This translates into a sizeable competitive advantage as companies are able to quickly improve productivity across the organization, and thus realize significant cost reductions."

Inxight`s LinguistX Platform offers the fastest, most accurate suite of multilingual language processing services available, which are critical to search and text mining applications. Languages supported by Inxight LinguistX Platform include: Chinese (Simplified and Traditional), Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, French, Finnish, German, Greek, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Norwegian (Bokmal and Nynorsk), Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Romanian, Spanish, Swedish and Turkish. Hebrew, Thai and other global languages are currently in development.

About Inxight

Inxight is the leading provider of enterprise software applications for understanding and effectively using unstructured information. Inxight is the only company that provides a complete, scalable enterprise solution to organize, analyze and deliver information in all major languages. Customers include Ariba, Computer Associates, Factiva, Hewlett Packard, Inktomi, Intel, Internal Revenue Service, LexisNexis, Lotus, Oracle, Reuters, SAP, SAS, Thomson, Tivoli and Xerox. The company has offices throughout the United States and Europe. For more information, visit www.inxight.com or call 408-738-6299 (in the U.S.) or [phone] (in Europe).

NOTE: Inxight is a registered trademark and Inxight LinguistX Platform is a registered trademark of Inxight Software, Inc. All other corporate names or trademarks stated herein are the property of their respective companies.




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Plumtree Software Announces First Quarter 2003 Operating Results
THURSDAY, APRIL 10, 2003 4:10 PM
- PR Newswire
SAN FRANCISCO, Apr 10, 2003 /PRNewswire-FirstCall via COMTEX/ -- Enterprise Web technology leader Plumtree Software, Inc. (PLUM) today announced results for its first quarter ended March 31, 2003. Revenue for the first quarter 2003 was $17.2 million, compared to $19.5 million in the previous quarter and $23.2 million for the comparable quarter last year. Net income for the first quarter 2003 calculated in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles (GAAP) was $529,000, or $0.02 per share, compared to $1.9 million, or $0.06 per share in Q4, and $157,000 or $0.01 per share for the comparable quarter last year. Pro forma net income for the first quarter 2003 was approximately $1.1 million or $0.04 per share, compared to pro forma net income of $2.3 million or $0.08 per share in Q4 and $1.4 million or $0.05 for the comparable quarter last year. Pro forma net income for the quarter excludes charges for amortization of deferred stock-based compensation, amortization of acquired technology, and assumes an effective tax rate of 30%.


As of March 31, 2003, Plumtree`s cash, cash equivalents, and short-term investments totaled approximately $66.7 million, up from $65.3 million in the previous quarter. Plumtree has no long-term debt.

CEO Comments

"In a difficult economy, Plumtree has continued to generate profits and acquire new customers," said Plumtree CEO John Kunze. "We have also continued to replace large installations of competing products. No other vendor has been able to demonstrate within its portal business the financial discipline, customer satisfaction and openness to different types of software infrastructure that we have. These are the long-term assets that will help us lead our market."


First Quarter Highlights
First quarter 2003 highlights include:


-- Customers: new customers such as the Salvation Army and the Tennessee Valley Authority licensed Plumtree`s complete suite of portal, content management, collaboration and search technologies. Plumtree customer Alcoa began its portal deployment, which will eventually reach over 50,000 employees worldwide, and customer SPL Worldgroup completed its portal deployment, which reaches users in six countries, including the U.S., the U.K., France, Australia, Israel and the Philippines.

-- Return on investment: industry analysts at Delphi Group published a survey of 500 organizations that found that Plumtree customers enjoyed the greatest return on investment in the portal industry and that Plumtree had the highest share of actual portal deployments.

-- Total cost of ownership: Plumtree completed a survey of its own customers indicating that 94% of respondents would buy Plumtree`s solution again, and that three-quarters of customers deploy a production portal in less than six months. Whereas analyst research indicates that the typical Web application costs four to twelve times the original license cost, Plumtree survey respondents on average spent less on deployment services than on the original software license.

-- Vision: Industry analysts at Gartner listed Plumtree in the leader quadrant in a new Magic Quadrant for portals based on vision and ability to execute. Gartner also developed a second Magic Quadrant for a new category of software known as the Smart Enterprise Suite. While Gartner did not list any vendors in the leader quadrant in the nascent market, Plumtree was listed in the visionary quadrant.

-- Applications: Plumtree completed the first phase of a new "No Empty Portals!" initiative to share best practices for building applications in the portal, with fourteen customers speaking in nine cities to a total of more than 600 attendees. Plumtree also launched a series of "No Empty Portals!" online workshops, with seven customer-delivered Web seminars. The goal of the initiative is to establish Plumtree customers as the leaders in building new, composite applications based on a foundation of portal, integration, collaboration, content management and search technologies.

Financial Outlook

Plumtree Software projects second quarter 2003 net revenue to be between $17.2 million and $18.0 million. On a pro forma basis, the company expects second quarter 2003 net income to be between ($0.01) and $0.00 per share. Pro forma net earnings per share in our outlook exclude charges for amortization of deferred stock-based compensation estimated to be $485,000, amortization of acquired technology of approximately $395,000, and assumes an effective tax rate of 30%. Giving effect to these assumptions, second quarter GAAP net income is expected to between ($0.04) and $(0.03) per share.

Conference Call

Interested parties can hear Plumtree`s first quarter 2003 financial results conference call on Thursday, April 10, 2003 at 2:00 p.m. (PDT) via live Webcast by visiting www.plumtree.com/ir, or can listen to a teleconference by calling 888-455-3614 for U.S. participants and 630-395-0026 for participants outside of the U.S. The passcode for the teleconference is PLUMTREE. A recording of the conference call will be available beginning April 10, 2003 at 5:00 p.m. (PDT). The Webcast replay of the call will be available at www.plumtree.com/ir until Friday, May 9, 2003 at 5:00 p.m. (PDT). An audio replay of the call will also be available until Thursday, April 17, 2003, at 5:00 (PDT). The dial-in number for the audio replay is 800-873-2142 for U.S. callers and 402-220-4758 for callers outside of the U.S.

About Plumtree Software

Plumtree Software is the Enterprise Web technology 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, foundation services such as collaboration, content management and search for building new Web applications, and a portal platform 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, maximizing customers` return on their existing investments. With offices in more than a dozen countries, Plumtree has over 480 customers, including Boeing, Ford Motor Company, Procter & Gamble and the U.S. Navy.

Safe Harbor Statement and Caution

This press release contains forward-looking statements within the meaning of the Federal Securities laws. These forward-looking statements include, but are not limited to statements regarding the financial outlook for the second quarter of 2003, customer demand for, satisfaction with, return on investment and total cost of ownership associated with our products; our ability to maintain our position in the market; our Enterprise Web and other marketing strategies including our "No Empty Portals!" campaign, as well as our financial discipline and general financial performance expectations. Investors are cautioned that all forward-looking statements involve risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ, perhaps materially, from those anticipated or suggested by such forward looking statements. These risks and uncertainties include, without limitation risks associated with our limited operating history, a general downturn in economic conditions, adverse changes in IT spending trends, failure to expand our customer base, the length and complexity of Plumtree`s sales cycle, the market acceptance of our new products, major version releases and Enterprise Web architecture and marketing strategy, the ability of our customers to deploy successfully and their willingness to act as references, changes in the needs and priorities of customers and potential customers, reduced market acceptance of our products and services, the impact of increased competition, failure to manage technological change, dependence on product enhancements, our ability to maintain and increase the size and productivity of our direct sales force and expand into and within global markets, our ability to manage costs, our ability to provide a return on investment to our customers, the impact of geopolitical conflicts and events, and those risk factors contained in the Company`s Annual Report filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission ("SEC") on Form 10-K and all subsequent SEC filings. Copies of filings made with the SEC are available through the SEC`s electronic data gathering analysis retrieval system (EDGAR) at www.sec.gov. We undertake no obligation following the date of this release to update or revise our forward-looking statements or to update the reasons actual results could differ materially from those anticipated in forward-looking statements. We caution you not to place undue reliance upon any such forward-looking statements, which speak only as of the date such statements are made. We cannot guarantee any future operating results, activity, performance or achievement.

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

The Magic Quadrants are copyrighted March 2003 by Gartner, Inc. and are reused with permission, which permission should not be deemed to be an endorsement of any company or product depicted in the quadrant. The Magic Quadrants are Gartner, Inc.`s opinion and is an analytical representation of a marketplace at and for a specific time period. They measure vendors against Gartner defined criteria for a marketplace. The positioning of vendors within a Magic Quadrant is based on the complex interplay of many factors. Gartner does not advise enterprises to select only those firms in the "Leaders" quadrant. In some situations, firms in the Visionary, Challenger, or Niche Player quadrants may be the right matches for an enterprise`s requirements. Well-informed vendor selection decisions should rely on more than a Magic Quadrant. Gartner research is intended to be one of many information sources including other published information and direct analyst interaction. Gartner, Inc. expressly disclaims all warranties, express or implied, of fitness of this research for a particular purpose.

Condensed Consolidated Statements of Operations and Condensed Consolidated

Balance Sheet

Plumtree`s management believes that a presentation of operating costs and expenses excluding stock based compensation, amortization of acquired technology and assuming a fixed effective tax rate provides a meaningful basis for evaluating our underlying cost and expense levels. Presentation of pro forma net income and earnings per share information provides greater comparability of Plumtree`s financial results against historical results, as well as those of other enterprise software companies and financial models of securities analysts. A reconciliation of pro forma results to GAAP results is provided in the financial tables below.




PLUMTREE SOFTWARE, INC.
PRO FORMA* CONDENSED CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF OPERATIONS
(in thousands, except per share amounts)
(Unaudited)

Pro Forma
Three Months Ended
March 31,
2003 2002

Revenue:
Licenses $8,451 $16,055
Services and maintenance 8,718 7,121
Total revenue 17,169 23,176
Cost of revenue:
Licenses 377 1,672
Services and maintenance 2,186 3,316
Total cost of revenue 2,563 4,988
Gross margin 14,606 18,188
Operating expenses:
Research and development 4,749 4,583
Sales and marketing 6,928 9,267
General and administrative 1,623 2,226
Total operating expenses 13,300 16,076
Income from operations 1,306 2,112
Interest and other income (expense), net 326 (102)
Income before income taxes 1,632 2,010
Provision for income taxes ** 490 603
Net income $1,142 $1,407
Net income per share:
Basic $0.04 $0.19
Diluted $0.04 $0.05
Shares used to compute net income per share:
Basic 29,668 7,254
Diluted 32,490 29,465


* Pro Forma Statements of Operations exclude $591 and $1,277 of amortization of stock-based compensation and $394 and $415, of amortization of acquired technology, respectively.

** Assumes an annualized effective tax rate of 30%.


PLUMTREE SOFTWARE, INC.
CONDENSED CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF OPERATIONS
(in thousands, except per share amounts)
(Unaudited)

Three Months Ended
March 31,
2003 2002

Revenue:
Licenses $8,451 $16,055
Services and maintenance 8,718 7,121
Total revenue 17,169 23,176
Cost of revenue:
Licenses 771 2,087
Services and maintenance 2,186 3,316
Amortization of stock-based compensation 102 278
Total cost of revenue 3,059 5,681
Gross margin 14,110 17,495
Operating expenses:
Research and development 4,749 4,583
Sales and marketing 6,928 9,267
General and administrative 1,623 2,226
Amortization of stock-based compensation 489 999
Total operating expenses 13,789 17,075
Income from operations 321 420
Interest and other income (expense), net 326 (102)
Income before income taxes 647 318
Provision for income taxes 118 161
Net income $529 $157
Net income per share:
Basic $0.02 $0.02
Diluted $0.02 $0.01
Shares used to compute net income per share:
Basic 29,668 7,254
Diluted 32,490 29,465


PLUMTREE SOFTWARE, INC.
CONDENSED CONSOLIDATED BALANCE SHEETS
(in thousands)

As of As of
March 31, Dec. 31,
2003 2002
(Unaudited)

ASSETS
Current assets:
Cash, cash equivalents and
short-term investments $66,717 $65,322
Accounts receivables, net of allowances 12,017 16,619
Other current assets 2,650 2,160
Total current assets 81,384 84,101

Property and equipment, net 2,550 2,698

Other long-term assets 3,439 3,923

$87,373 $90,722

LIABILITIES AND STOCKHOLDERS` EQUITY
Current liabilities:
Accounts payable $1,050 $1,630
Accrued and other current liabilities 10,785 14,747
Deferred revenues 17,622 18,539
Total current liabilities 29,457 34,916

Long-term liabilities 458 454

Total Liabilities 29,915 35,370

Total Stockholders` Equity 57,458 55,352


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Plumtree liefert branchenweit erste Tools für die Entwicklung von .NET und Java kompatiblen Web Services
Mit dem Enterprise Web Development Kit können Entwickler Anwendungen aus Komponenten von unterschiedlichen Plattformen erstellen



San Francisco (Calif., USA), 29. April 2003—Plumtree Software Inc. (Nasdaq: PLUM), führender Enterprise Web Anbieter, stellte heute das Plumtree Enterprise Web Development Kit (EDK) vor. Diese umfassende Palette von Entwicklungstools dient der Erstellung von personalisierten interaktiven Anwendungen mit der Enterprise Web Suite auf der Basis von Web Services, die auf unterschiedlichen Plattformen laufen. Das EDK basiert auf den neuen Web Services Programmierschnittstellen, welche die Enterprise Web Suite für Integrationskomponenten und das Portal selbst bereitstellt. Es enthält beispielhaft Programmiercode und Dokumentationen für Java- und .NET-Entwicklungsumgebungen sowie Software, die viele der Inkompatibilitäten zwischen Web Services überbrückt, die eine hundertprozentige Interoperabilität verhindern.

Im Rahmen einer anderen Presseveröffentlichung kündigt Plumtree heute seine Enterprise Web Suite an. Diese basiert auf neuen Versionen aller wichtigen Plumtree-Produkte: Plumtree Corporate Portal 5.0, Plumtree Search, Plumtree Collaboration Server 3.0 und Plumtree Content Server 5.0. Mit der Enterprise Web Suite haben Kunden die Möglichkeit, eine große Anzahl unterschiedlicher Web-Applikationen und Arbeitsbereiche, so genannte Workspaces, zu erstellen und diese in einer einzigen Umgebung zu verwalten.

Damit diese Anwendungen kombiniert werden können, koordiniert das Portal eine Vielzahl von Web Services, die auf standardmäßigen Anwendungsservern laufen und dem Import von Anwendern, der Erstellung von Anwenderprofilen, der Indizierung von Content und einer zusammengefassten Suche dienen. Dank des EDK müssen sich Entwickler bei der Implementierung von Web Services nicht mehr mit plattformspezifischen Unterschieden befassen. Das EDK stellt sicher, dass sämtliche Services miteinander kompatibel sind, unabhängig davon, in welcher Entwicklungsumgebung sie erstellt wurden.

„Theoretisch sind Web Services miteinander kompatibel. Aber in der Praxis sind Programmierer, die in Java und in Microsoft .NET erstellte Web Services zusammen zum Laufen bringen möchten, oft entsetzt aufgrund der Probleme, die die unterschiedlichen Kodierschemata und Möglichkeiten zur Datenserialisierung mit sich bringen“, erklärt der Vice President of Engineering von Plumtree, John Hogan. „Plumtree engagiert sich in hohem Maße für die Standardisierung. Bei der Entwicklung des EDK haben wir uns an Empfehlungen von Standardisierungsgremien wie der WS-I gehalten. Mit dem EDK bleiben Java- und .NET-Entwickler von der Unregelmäßigkeit und Komplexität von Web Services verschont. Sie können in den ihnen vertrauten Umgebungen arbeiten und Web Services auf ihre gewohnte Weise erstellen. Durch unsere Unterstützung müssen sich die Entwickler nicht um die Kompatibilität der Web Services kümmern. Stattdessen können sie sich nun intensiver mit der Geschäftslogik der betreffenden Anwendung befassen.”

Neue Services integrieren Informationen aus Anwenderprofilen
Plumtrees Kunde Netjets hat die Enterprise Web Suite getestet und implementiert sie nun als Plattform für die Erstellung neuer Anwendungen. Mit dem Plumtree Corporate Portal 4.5 erstellte NetJets ein Portlet, das den Status sämtlicher Flugzeuge verfolgt, sowie ein Portlet zur Überwachung der Bestimmungen für die Crew, das die Einsatzplanung vereinfacht. Mit der Enterprise Web Suite gelingt es NetJets, reichhaltigere Anwendungen mit individuellem Branding zu erstellen, die neue Services mit Informationen aus Anwenderprofilen kombinieren.

„Mit der Enterprise Web Suite stehen uns eine Vielzahl neuer Entwicklungsressourcen zur Verfügung, mit deren Hilfe wir unsere Vision vorantreiben können, im Portal kombinierte und hochgradig personalisierte Anwendungen zusammenzustellen“, so Rob Carr, Projektmanager bei NetJets. „Das Enterprise Web Developer Kit gibt uns die Möglichkeit, Anwendungen zu entwickeln, die eine große Palette von Services integrieren. Gleichzeitig bleibt unserem Team viel von der Komplexität dieser Entwicklungsaufgabe erspart. In Kombination mit der neuen Flexibilität, die das Portal in der Version 5.0 in Bezug auf die individuelle Anpassung von Applikationen an unsere Anwender bietet, werden diese Entwicklungsressourcen Einfluss darauf haben, wie NetJets das Portal für seine Geschäftstätigkeit nutzt, von der Flugplanung und Einsatzplänen für die Crew bis hin zur effizienteren Wartung unserer Flugzeuge.“

EDK erspart Entwicklern die Komplexität von Web Services
Mit dem EDK bleibt Entwicklern die Komplexität von Web Services erspart. Trotz der beachtlichen Fortschritte, die in Bezug auf die Web Services-Technologie erzielt wurden, sind Entwickler bei der Erstellung von Anwendungen mit Hilfe von Web Services weiterhin mit mehreren großen Herausforderungen konfrontiert:

Da es sich bei SOAP und WSDL noch um relativ junge Technologien handelt, sind Entwickler bei der Implementierung von Web Services weiterhin auf der Protokollebene zu Entscheidungen gezwungen. Dies führt dazu, dass zwischen den Implementierungen von WSDL und SOAP erhebliche Unterschiede bestehen. Außerdem gibt es eine schlechte Kompatibilität zwischen Java- und .NET SOAP-Toolkits.
Entwickler, die von jeher mit herkömmlichen objektorientierten Programmierverfahren arbeiten, müssen innerhalb kurzer Zeit viel Arbeit investieren, um sich mit der Web Services-Technologie vertraut zu machen.
Programmierschnittstellen, die nicht speziell für den Einsatz mit SOAP und HTTP konzipiert sind, schneiden bei einer tatsächlichen Implementierung in der Regel eher schlecht ab.
Das Plumtree EDK wurde konzipiert, um genau diese Herausforderungen zu bewältigen und die Kompatibilität von Java- und .NET-Implementierungen sicherzustellen. Mit dem EDK bleibt Entwicklern die Komplexität von SOAP erspart. Es verfügt über gut dokumentierte objektorientierte Programmierschnittstellen für Java- und .NET-Umgebungen. Dank der Java- und .NET-APIs können Programmierer mit den ihnen vertrauten Tools arbeiten, ohne in der komplexen Materie der Web Services stecken zu bleiben. Sobald sich der Entwickler einmal für die .NET- oder Java-API entschieden und mit der Entwicklung der neuen Portal-Anwendung begonnen hat, arbeitet er im EDK auf einer Abstraktionsebene, die die Kommunikation zwischen Anwendung und Portal übernimmt. Http-Anfragen werden minimiert, um eine ausreichende Performance sicherzustellen. Das Ergebnis: Entwickler können schnell neue Portal-Services schaffen, ohne sich mit der Komplexität von Web Services befassen zu müssen.

Mit dem EDK können Kunden kontextorientierte Anwendungen und Inhalte an jeden Nutzer ihres Portals ausliefern
Das EDK unterstützt eine Vielzahl von Web Services für die Integration, die über die Funktionalität einfacher Portlets hinausgehen. Bisher wurde durch Entwicklungstools von Portal-Anbietern die Erstellung von Portlets vereinfacht, die Anwendungs-Services in Anwenderseiten integrieren. Um aber wirklich leistungsstarke Anwendungen und Arbeitsräume innerhalb des Portals zu schaffen, müssen Entwickler oftmals eine viel größere Bandbreite an Services erstellen. Dazu gehören die Integration von Suchläufen, Sicherheitsfunktionen, Content und Anwenderinformationen. Für die Entwicklung dieser wesentlichen Portal-Services stellt das EDK eine neue Toolsuite bereit:

Profil-Services importieren Informationen zu Anwendern aus jedem beliebigen System und erstellen auf diese Weise ein universelles Anwenderprofil. Dies vereinfacht die Personalisierung auf hohem Niveau sowie die Lokalisierung von Experten.
Authentifizierungsdienste synchronisieren verschiedene Anwenderverzeichnisse und authentifizieren die Nutzer. So können Unternehmen problemlos aus verschiedenen Anwenderverzeichnissen Kunden, Geschäftspartner und Mitarbeiter in das Portal integrieren.
Crawler-Services identifizieren neuen Content von anderen Repositories, der im Wissensverzeichnis des Portals indiziert wird.
Suchdienste fassen Suchläufe von anderen Suchmaschinen zusammen und kombinieren die Ergebnisse mit denen der intelligenten Suchfunktion von Plumtree.
Portlets integrieren Anwendungs-Services in personalisierten und in Community-Portalseiten.
Um sicherzustellen, dass Unternehmen ihren Kunden, Geschäftspartnern und Mitarbeitern in hohem Maße personalisierte Anwendungen und Inhalte anbieten können, führt die Enterprise Web Suite ein universales Anwenderprofilsystem ein. Dies ermöglicht den Import von Anwenderdaten aus praktisch jedem beliebigen System. Durch diese Kombination von Portal-Services mit Daten aus Anwenderprofilen lassen sich Anwendungen in höherem Maße personalisieren als bisher.

Werden beispielsweise Daten aus einem Anwenderprofil mit aus Siebel importierten Informationen kombiniert, dann kann eine über das Portal bereit gestellte Sales-Anwendung die regionalen Umsatzzahlen für jeden Vertreter auf der Basis der individuellen Kundeninformationen aktualisieren.

Eine über das Portal bereit gestellte Anwendung zur Kundenunterstützung kann jedem Kunden auf der Basis seines Profils in einer Kundendatenbank individuell zugeschnittenen Content anbieten sowie Suchläufe, deren Ergebnisse sich ausschließlich auf die von diesem Kunden erworbenen Produkte beziehen.

„Kunden, die eine Vielzahl von Anwendungen in unterschiedlichen Infrastrukturen erstellen, sind auf Tools angewiesen, die die Kompatibilität von Komponenten unterstützen, die auf unterschiedlichen Anwendungsservern laufen und in unterschiedlichen Sprachen kodiert sind“, erläutert der CEO von Plumtree, John Kunze. „Mit dem Enterprise Web Development Kit können Entwickler auf einfache Weise Web Services erstellen, deren Funktionalität weit über die einfacher Portlets hinausgeht. Mit diesen Web Services lassen sich Anwendungen erstellen, die auf Komponenten von unterschiedlichen Systemen basieren und dennoch zusammen funktionieren. So kommt der Anwender in den Genuss einer personalisierten und in hohem Maße interaktiven Anwendung.”

Plumtree Software
Plumtree Software Inc. ist der führende Anbieter im Bereich Enterprise Web. Die Vision von Plumtree ist es, eine umfassende, unternehmensweite Web-Umgebung für Mitarbeiter, Kunden und Partner zu schaffen, durch die diese unabhängig von Systemen interagieren und zusammenzuarbeiten können. Die Enterprise Web Lösung von Plumtree besteht aus Integrationsprodukten, um Ressourcen von traditionellen Systemen im Web zusammenzuführen, aus Basisdiensten wie Zusammenarbeit, Content Management und Suche, mit denen neue Web-Applikationen erstellt werden, und aus einer Portal-Plattform, mit der diese Webapplikationen für eine breite Zielgruppe nutzbar werden. Durch die Unabhängigkeit von Plumtree und die Web-Services Architektur können konkurrierende Plattformen und Systeme einbezogen werden. Dadurch steigern die Kunden von Plumtree den ROI für bereits getätigte Investitionen. Plumtree hat Büros in mehr als einem Dutzend Ländern und mehr als 400 Kunden, wie beispielsweise Boeing, Ford Motor Company, Procter & Gamble and die U.S. Navy. Weitere Informationen über Plumtree Software finden Sie im Internet unter www.plumtree.com.

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Plumtree bringt branchenweit erste Enterprise Web Suite auf den Markt – neue Produktversionen für Portale, intelligente Suche, Collaboration und Content Management
Die neue Suite ermöglicht Unternehmen, eine Vielzahl unterschiedlicher Web-Applikationen zu entwickeln, zu verwalten und bereitzustellen



San Franzisko (Kalif.), 28. April 2003—Plumtree Software Inc. (Nasdaq: PLUM), führender Enterprise Web Anbieter, stellte heute die Plumtree Enterprise Web Suite vor. Damit bietet das Unternehmen branchenweit die erste Gesamtlösung an, mit der sich Web-Applikationen auf unterschiedlichen Plattformen erstellen und in einer einzigen Umgebung verwalten lassen.

Die Enterprise Web Suite basiert auf neuen Versionen der wichtigsten Produkte von Plumtree: Plumtree Corporate Portal 5.0, Plumtree Search, Plumtree Collaboration Server 3.0 und Plumtree Content Server 5.0. Zudem umfasst die Suite mit dem Plumtree Enterprise Web Development Kit (EDK) ein neues Produkt, um auf der Basis von Web Services, die auf unterschiedlichen Plattformen laufen, neue Anwendungen zu entwickeln.

„Oft dauert es Jahre, Standardanwendungen an die Anforderungen eines Unternehmens anzupassen”, erklärt John Kunze, CEO von Plumtree. „Heute legen agile Unternehmen jedoch Wert darauf, ihre eigenen Anwendungen zu entwickeln. Denn so können sie den Anforderungen verschiedener Zielgruppen besser gerecht werden - und das schneller und kostengünstiger als bisher. Plumtrees Enterprise Web Suite ist die erste Infrastruktur, die diesen Bedarf deckt. Denn sie unterstützt Unternehmen dabei, Anwendungen auf verschiedenen Applikationsservern und in verschiedenen Sprachen zu entwickeln.”

„Unsere neue Suite kombiniert Ressourcen aus herkömmlichen Anwendungen und Applikationsservern mit neuen Services für Content Management, Collaboration oder intelligente Suche“, so John Kunze weiter. „So steht für die Anwendungsentwicklung eine umfangreiche Palette an Ressourcen aus dem gesamten Unternehmen zur Verfügung. Die neue Enterprise Web Suite bringt diese Anwendungen mit ihren jeweils eigenen Funktionen und Sicherheitsanforderungen zusammen und verwaltet sie. Sämtliche Ressourcen, die in diesen Applikationen Verwendung finden, werden in einem unternehmensweiten Verzeichnis zentral organisiert. Jede Komponente dieser Lösung wurde so entwickelt, dass sie mit allen anderen zusammenarbeiten kann.”

„Bei Gartner haben wir festgestellt, dass Unternehmen die Portal-Technologie häufig um weitere Technologien ergänzen, die man unter der Bezeichnung „Portal-Ökosystem“ kennt. Diese werden heute in den so genannten „Smart Enterprise Suites“ – also integrierten Lösungen wie die von Plumtree – gleich mitgeliefert“, so Gene Phifer, Vice President der Gartner Group. „Die Implementierung eines Portals allein bringt einem Unternehmen weder einen Nutzen noch den gewünschten ROI. Implementiert das Unternehmen jedoch eine Suite mit integrierten Basistechnologien, so zeigt sich, dass für unterschiedliche Geschäftssparten und Prozesse eine Vielzahl von Anwendungen und Arbeitsräumen (Workspaces) erstellt wird. Werden diese Anwendungen den Mitarbeitern dann über ein Portal zur Verfügung gestellt, ist ein hoher RoI erreichbar.”

Framework zur Verwaltung zahlreicher Anwendungen
Plumtrees Enterprise Web Suite dient als unternehmensweites Framework für die Erstellung, die Verwaltung und den Einsatz einer Vielzahl von Anwendungen. Zu den wichtigsten neuen Funktionen der Portallösung zählen:

Application Spaces: Das Portal verfügt über ein Verwaltungs- und Sicherheitssystem, mit dem sich Anwendungen in separaten Domänen verwalten lassen. Jede dieser Domäne hat dabei ihre eigene Zielgruppe und Gruppe von Administratoren. Einzelne Komponenten der Anwendung lassen sich separat absichern. Es können aber auch die für den gesamten Application Spaces geltenden Sicherheitsanforderungen übernommen werden. Darüber hinaus können Anwendungen in unterschiedlichen Application Spaces Ressourcen gemeinsam nutzen. Dadurch entfällt die aufwändige Migration von Ressourcen auf einzelne Seiten des Portals. Dank der neuen Application Spaces kann somit jede Anwendung separat verwaltet und abgesichert werden, ohne dass auf Größendegressionen verzichtet werden muss.

Community Services: Die neue Enterprise Web Suite bietet umfassende Services für Portal-Communities – das wichtigste Medium für die Bereitstellung von Anwendungen. Jede einzelne Community kann als separate Seite mit eigenem Branding und Layout fungieren. Sie umfasst eine Knowledge Base, eine Suchfunktion auf Community-Ebene sowie einer sichere Hierarchie von Sub-Communities. Letztere ermöglicht Unternehmen, Communities innerhalb von Communities einzurichten.

Anwendungsvorlagen: Vorlagen für Communities, Portal-Seiten und Portlets geben dem Geschäftsanwender die Möglichkeit, ohne Programmierkenntnisse Anwendungskomponenten zu erstellen. Unternehmen sind so in der Lage, personalisierte Dienste in einem Maße anzubieten, welches früher aus Kostengründen nicht möglich war. So lässt sich beispielsweise für jeden einzelnen Kunden, Lieferanten oder jedes Projekt eine eigene Support-Anwendung erstellen. Darüber hinaus kontrollieren Vorlagen das Branding und die Funktionen der Anwendung sowie den Inhalt eines Workspaces zu Projektbeginn. Dabei kann für jede Anwendung eine eigene Benutzeroberfläche definiert werden oder einheitlich im Corporate Design des Unternehmens oder des Geschäftsbereichs erscheinen. Die Vorlagen beinhalten Services vom Content Server und vom Collaboration Server, so dass die Erstellung von Anwendungen mit umfangreichem Content für die Zusammenarbeit im Team erleichtert wird.

Personalisierung: Eine verbesserte Personalisierungsfunktion legt fest, auf welche Anwendungen der einzelne Anwender zugreifen kann, wie er zwischen einzelnen Anwendungen navigieren kann und in welchem Branding die Startseite erscheint. Zudem werden im Wissensverzeichnis des Enterprise Web die für den jeweiligen Anwender wichtigsten Themen hervorgehoben. Somit erleben Anwender aus verschiedenen Geschäftsbereichen das Enterprise Web jeweils anders, und zwar basierend auf den Anwendungen, die für ihre Tätigkeit relevant sind.
„Dank der neuen Application Spaces in der Enterprise Web Suite von Plumtree kann Halliburton selektiv bestimmen, welche Ressourcen von den Kunden- und den Mitarbeiterportalen gemeinsam genutzt werden. Die Sicherheitsverwaltung wurde dabei wesentlich verbessert“, so Brandon Lackey, zuständig für das Portal-Programm bei Halliburton. „Hinzu kommt, dass die neuen Personalisierungsfunktionen uns in die Lage versetzen, Workspaces zu schaffen, die so personalisiert sind, dass jeder Kunde von Halliburton das Gefühl hat, der einzige Kunde zu sein. Auf diese Weise ist es uns möglich, durch eine Art ‚wohlwollende Umgarnung’ die Bindung der Kunden an unser Unternehmen zu verbessern. Was das für den RoI bedeutet, versteht sich von selbst." Die Anwendungen, die Halliburton auf der Basis der Plumtree-Technologien für seine 66 wichtigsten Kunden im Bereich Kundendienst erstellt hat, haben Umsätze in Höhe von mehr als $150 Millionen generiert.

Integrierte Basisdienste für die Erstellung von Anwendungen
Die Enterprise Web Suite kombiniert erstmals die Produkte für Portal, Integration, Collaboration, Content Management und intelligente Suche in einer einzigen Lösung. Diese neue Kombination bietet unter anderem folgende Vorteile:

Anwender können Applikationen erstellen und dabei auf Services des Corporate Portal, des Collaboration Servers, des Content Servers und der Plumtree Search zurückgreifen.

Der Content Server bestimmt das Branding der einzelnen Anwendungen.

Projekte, Dokumente und Anwender der Komponenten Collaboration, Content Management und Portal lassen sich untereinander verknüpfen, so dass ein Anwender problemlos zwischen verwandten Ressourcen navigieren kann.

Content Server und Collaboration Server greifen auf gemeinsame Workflows zu und speichern Dokumente in einem gemeinsamen Repository.

Die intelligente Suchfunktion erstreckt sich über Projekte, Inhalte, Applikationen, Anwender und Services.

Informationen zu den Interessen, dem Fachwissen und den Aktivitäten eines Anwenders werden aus den Komponenten Portal, Collaboration, Content Management und Integration in ein Anwenderprofil übernommen.

Umfassende Sicherheitsfunktionen erkennen Anwenderrechte über die Komponenten Portal, Collaboration, Content Management und Integration hinaus.

Bei der Migration von Objekten für Collaboration, Content Management, Portal und intelligente Suche können sämtliche Elemente einer Anwendung in einem Schritt zwischen Entwicklungs- und Produktivumgebung umgelagert werden.
Die einzelnen Technologien sind auf hohem Niveau integriert. Unternehmen müssen damit zur Erstellung von Anwendungen nicht mehr wie bisher verschiedene Web-Technologien separat einsetzen und integrieren – eine Aufgabe, die sich als äußerst kostspielig und zeitraubend erweisen kann.

Knowledge Directory, Suchfunktion und Anwenderprofile –Ressourcen organisieren und eine unkontrollierte Portalausbreitung vermeiden
Die neue Enterprise Web Suite von Plumtree verfügt über ein Wissensverzeichnis (Knowledge Directory). Es gewährleistet, dass alle bei der Anwendungserstellung verwendeten Ressourcen problemlos gefunden und wieder verwendet werden können. Eine neue universelle Suchfunktion ermöglicht Anwendern die Suche innerhalb von Collaboration-Projekten, Verwaltungsobjekten, Anwenderprofilen sowie allen Inhalten, die im Enterprise Web erstellt wurden.

Wissensverzeichnis, universale Suchfunktion
Wie frühere Versionen der Plumtree Lösung verfügt die Enterprise Web Suite über mehrere Web Service-Agenten, die Dokumenten-Datenbanken, Dateisysteme, Groupware-Systeme und Webseiten nach Dokumenten durchforsten, die dann im Wissensverzeichnis indiziert und kategorisiert werden. Das neue Wissensverzeichnis im Corporate Portal 5.0 umfasst zudem Projektdokumente und Web-Inhalte, die direkt über den Collaboration Server und Content Server veröffentlicht wurden. Zu jedem Thema im Wissensverzeichnis werden damit zusammenhängende Applikationen, Projekte und Web Services angezeigt. Auch Anwender, die als Experten für das betreffende Thema gelten, werden hier ausgegeben. Dadurch können Anwender an einem einzigen Ort schnell sämtliche Ressourcen im Enterprise Web finden, die mit dem Thema in Zusammenhang stehen.

Sämtliche Suchläufe in der Enterprise Web Suite basieren auf der intelligenten Suchfunktion von Plumtree. Erstmals haben Anwender damit die Möglichkeit, andere Anwender, Applikationen, Projekte, Services und Inhalte in einem einzigen Suchlauf zu finden. Dabei lassen sich Suchergebnisse nach Relevanz, Standort, Datum der letzten Änderung, Objekttyp oder anderen Metadaten ausgeben.

Anwenderprofile
Die neue Enterprise Web Suite sammelt durch Überwachung der Interessen, Attribute und Spezialgebiete eines jeden Anwenders Informationen, auf deren Basis ein sicheres Stammprofil angelegt wird. Ein neuer für die Profilerstellung zuständiger Web Service importiert Anwenderdaten aus praktisch jedem System, einschließlich LAPD-Repositories, HR-Systemen, Kunden-Datenbanken oder Mainframes. Auf diese Weise existiert für jeden Anwender eine dynamische Profilseite. Diese enthält eine Vielzahl von Informationen über den betreffenden Anwender, die entweder von einem Mainframe oder von PeopleSoft importiert wurden, die vom Portal oder vom Content Server aufgespürt wurden oder vom Anwender selbst eingegeben wurden. Das Portal gibt Elemente des Anwenderprofils an Portlets und Applikationen weiter, die dann den Interessen der jeweiligen Anwender entsprechend personalisiert werden können. So könnte beispielsweise eine Sales-Anwendung erkennen, aus welcher Region ein Anwender stammt und welches Produkt er anbietet. Diese Informationen würden dann an Systeme weitergeleitet, die der Verfolgung von potentiellen Interessenten dienen oder den Mitbewerb analysieren wie auch zu anderen Systemen, die ihre Services der Applikation zur Verfügung stellen. Außerdem können Anwender gemeinsam genutzte Elemente aus Profilen anderer Anwender in die Suche einbeziehen, um so unternehmensweit Experten ausfindig zu machen.

EDK unterstützt die Entwicklung von Web Services
Für die gesamte Enterprise Web Suite hat Plumtree ein Development-Toolkit auf den Markt gebracht. Mit diesem Enterprise Web Development Kit (EDK) können einzelne Anwendungskomponenten plattformübergreifend kommunizieren, was ein höheres Maß an Personalisierung und Interaktion innerhalb der Anwendungen zur Folge hat.

Die Enterprise Web Suite verfügt über eine Web Services-Programmierschnittstelle für die Erstellung von Applikationen sowie ein umfassendes Set von Web Services für die Lokalisierung von Content, die Zusammenfassung von Suchläufen, den Import von Anwendern sowie für die Erstellung von Anwenderprofilen. Mit dem Enterprise Web Development Kit lassen sich diese Web Services in herkömmlichen Entwicklungsumgebungen dokumentieren und einsetzen.

Neue Funktionen erleichtern die Portal-Implementierung auf globaler Ebene
Die Enterprise Web Suite bietet eine Reihe neuer Tools, mit deren Hilfe sich die Implementierung eines Portals beschleunigen lässt. So haben Kunden beispielsweise die Möglichkeit, Entwicklungsaufgaben zu verteilen. Dank der neuen Tools für die Objektmigration lässt sich jetzt die Umlagerung von Portal-Objekten wie Communities, Portlets oder Crawler von der Test- in die Produktivumgebung automatisieren. Anschließend kann man den Weg dieser Objekte von einer Umgebung in eine andere verfolgen.

Die Enterprise Web Suite bietet darüber hinaus internationalen Support. Die Benutzeroberfläche gibt es in neun Sprachen, unter anderem auch in brasilianischem Portugiesisch. Die Such- und Indexfunktionen unterstützen 23 Sprachen, darunter Tschechisch, Norwegisch, Dänisch, Griechisch, Polnisch, Türkisch, Schwedisch und Ungarisch. Die neue Version unterstützt zudem die Lokalisierung von Portalobjekten, indem Namen einzelner Objekte in unterschiedlichen Sprachen angegeben werden können. Weiterhin unterstützt die Suite mit neuen Funktionen zur Replikation von Portalen Unternehmen bei der Implementierung von Portalen auf internationaler Ebene. An Standorten mit geringer Bandbreite können Unternehmen nun regionale Server und Datenbanken identifizieren und Back-End-Updates getrennt synchronisieren.

Verfügbarkeit
Die Enterprise Web Suite ist jetzt als Beta-Version verfügbar. Die allgemeine Verfügbarkeit ist noch für dieses Quartal vorgesehen.

Plumtree Software
Plumtree Software Inc. ist der führende Anbieter im Bereich Enterprise Web. Die Vision von Plumtree ist es, eine umfassende, unternehmensweite Web-Umgebung für Mitarbeiter, Kunden und Partner zu schaffen, durch die diese unabhängig von Systemen interagieren und zusammenzuarbeiten können. Die Enterprise Web Lösung von Plumtree besteht aus Integrationsprodukten, um Ressourcen von traditionellen Systemen im Web zusammenzuführen, aus Basisdiensten wie Zusammenarbeit, Content Management und Suche, mit denen neue Web-Applikationen erstellt werden, und aus einer Portal-Plattform, mit der diese Webapplikationen für eine breite Zielgruppe nutzbar werden. Durch die Unabhängigkeit von Plumtree und die Web-Services Architektur können konkurrierende Plattformen und Systeme einbezogen werden. Dadurch steigern die Kunden von Plumtree den ROI für bereits getätigte Investitionen. Plumtree hat Büros in mehr als einem Dutzend Ländern und mehr als 400 Kunden, wie beispielsweise Boeing, Ford Motor Company, Procter & Gamble and die U.S. Navy. Weitere Informationen über Plumtree Software finden Sie im Internet unter www.plumtree.com.

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April 16, 2003
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DCI ANNOUNCES THE WINNERS OF THE THIRD ANNUAL PORTAL EXCELLENCE AWARDS AT THE ENTERPRISE PORTALS AND WEB SERVICES CONFERENCE IN SAN FRANCISCO

San Francisco – April 16, 2003 – The winners of the Third Annual Portal Excellence Awards were announced today at DCI`s Enterprise Portals and Web Services Conference being held in San Francisco.

The awards were presented in three categories: Best Internal Portal, Best e-Business Portal and a special Content Integration Award. Colin White, Conference Chair, of Intelligent Business Strategies, and Ron Powell, Editorial Director and Publisher of DM Review Magazine announced the winners.

Appian Corporation and the U.S. Army`s Army Knowledge Online were given the award in the Best Internal Portal category. Plumtree Software with Halliburton was presented the award for the Best e-Business Portal. In the Content Integration category, the award went to Accenture and the City of New York`s NYC.gov site.

Other finalists (Solution Provider and Customer) for the Best Internal Portal category were divine, inc. and Foster Wheeler Inc.; and TIBCO Software Inc. and Inside.TIBCO. The other finalists (Solution Provider and Customer) for the Best e-Business Portal were Accenture and the City of New York and Cubic Compass Software with Hewlett-Packard and Telecom Italia.

DCI and DM Review Magazine sponsored the awards. Submissions for the 2004 Portal Excellence Awards will be accepted in the first quarter of 2004. For more information, visit www.dci.com/events/portals.

DCI`s Enterprise Portals and Web Services Conference is next being held in Boston, June 17–19, 2003 and will include sessions detailing the techniques used, and lessons learned, by the Award finalists.

PRESS REGISTRATION NOW OPEN
Qualified press representatives are invited and encouraged to attend our Boston event. Press may apply for credentials at www.dci.com/pr/press.

ABOUT DCI
DCI is the largest U.S.-based producer of information technology conferences, trade shows, and expositions, and a leading worldwide provider of high technology education. The company conducts the highest profile technology shows for users and professional developers of information technology. DCI has attracted more than a million IT and business professionals in the last decade. For more information, visit the DCI Web site at www.dci.com or call 978-470-3880.

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A Delphi survey of 500 buyers identifies Plumtree as the market leader and ROI leader.

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Großunternehmen investieren massiv in Portale

Erfolg und Misserfolg liegen nah beieinander
Portale sind en vogue. Ob für die Pflege von Kundenbeziehungen oder für die eigenen Mitarbeiter, nach einer aktuellen Umfrage planen 45 Prozent der Top-500-Unternehmen mit Firmensitz in Deutschland noch in diesem Jahr ein Portalprojekt. Doch die Komplexität solcher Projekte, besonders in Hinsicht auf das Zusammenspiel mit anderen Unternehmensanwendungen, wird häufig unterschätzt. Hinzu kommt, dass die Softwareprodukte für die Entwicklung von Portalen nur zum Teil für die Integration geeignet sind.

Immerhin ist Sinn und Zweck der Portalprojekte den Beteiligten in der Regel klar. Die vom Marktforschungsinstitut IDC im Auftrag von Unilog Integrata durchgeführte Untersuchung bringt zu Tage, dass sich rund 60 Prozent der Befragten bei der Einrichtung eines Portals Kostenersparnisse erhoffen – wenn das primäre Ziel der Übung erreicht wird und das Portal von möglichst vielen Kunden beziehungsweise Mitarbeitern genutzt wird. Jedes dritte Portalprojekt ist Bestandteil einer umfassenden Customer-Relationship-Strategie.

Kosten sparen - leicht gemacht?

Diese Angaben lassen darauf schließen, dass sowohl die internen, als auch externen Portale eine Vielzahl von Backend-Anwendungen und -Systemen integrieren sollen. Umso erstaunlicher scheint es, dass sich die Projektleiter zwar um das Management des Projekts sorgen, kaum jedoch um die technischen Grundlagen. Nur 23 Prozent sehen etwa im heterogenen Computerpark eine der wichtigsten Herausforderungen. Security nennen immerhin noch 36 Prozent.

Schon im Vorfeld der Befragung tauchte das Problem auf, dass Portale aus Sicht der Anwender kaum eindeutig zu definieren sind. Hinzu kommt, dass mittlerweile nahezu jeder Softwarehersteller sein Produkt eine `Portal-Software` nennt. Bei der IDC-Befragung stellte sich für die Projektleiter in Anwenderunternehmen die Frage nach einer klaren Definition aber schlichtweg nicht. Ein Portal ist für sie etwas, das unabhängig von der Fachnomenklatur eine Aufgabe lösen muss.

Unterbewertet: Technische Probleme

Allerdings ist hier Vorsicht geboten: Die Wahl der richtigen Technik setzt ein profundes Wissen darüber voraus, ob sie zum Anwender und seinen Zielen passt, und sie kann so den Projekterfolg erheblich beeinflussen. Wie die Unilog-Studie herausfand, laufen 32 Prozent aller Portalprojekte aus dem Ruder. In diesen Fällen verlängerte sich die Laufzeit um mehr als sechs Monate oder mindestens um die Hälfte des geplanten Zeitaufwands.

Für Bernhard Carli, Principal Consultant bei der Münchner BMW-Tochter Softlab, hängt der Projekterfolg neben der richtigen Portalstrategie jedoch wesentlich mit der Wahl geeigneter Technik zusammen. Dafür unterscheidet der Berater zunächst nach Richtungen, aus denen die Portal-Anbieter kommen: Content-Management, Enterprise Application Integration (EAI), Enterprise Resource Planning und Intranet.

Mitgelieferte und daher sofort nutzbare Portalkomponenten, die zur Anbindung von Systemen für das Enterprise Ressource Planning (ERP), für Groupware und Customer Relationship und Dokumenten-Management dienen, heißen gemeinhin Portlets. Die Aufgabe für Anwenderunternehmen besteht darin zu prüfen, wie viele davon benötigt werden, und ob das Portal-Produkt über Geeignetes verfügt.

Ein Defizit gibt es noch bei der Standardisierung von Portlets. IBM und Sun beispielsweise stehen hinter dem Java Specification Request (JSR) 168. Hierbei geht es um die Definition eines Portlet-Standards für die J2EE-Plattform. An einem anderen Ansatz, genannt Web-Services for Remote Portlets (WSRP), arbeitet das Standardisierungsgremium Oasis. Dieser wäre prinzipiell für jede Plattform geeignet. Deshalb bekunden alle wichtigen Portalhersteller die Absicht, diesen Standard zu unterstützen, doch nur wenige Anbieter wie Plumtree tun dies bereits.

Präferenzen der Portalanbieter

Bei den Anbietern von Portal-Software fallen die Vorlieben unterschiedlich aus. Große Web-Content-Management-Hersteller wie Vignette oder Interwoven haben sich von Haus aus Skalierbarkeit auf die Fahnen geschrieben. Allerdings haben hier bisher wichtige Themen wie Portlets und Integration mit Backend-Applikationen eine untergeordnete Rolle gespielt.

Vertreter aus dem Umfeld sogenannter `Pure Portal Plays` wie Epicentric und Plumtree, die sich seit jeher auf die Entwicklung von Portal-Lösungen konzentriert haben, sind zumeist durch einen großen Funktionsumfang gekennzeichnet, zum Beispiel bei der Personalisierung und Integration mit anderen Unternehmensanwendungen.

Bea und Tibco sind dagegen Vertreter aus der EAI-Welt und bringen deshalb viele Schnittstellen zu anderen Systemen mit. Dabei handelt es sich in der Regel um flexible Baukastensysteme, die Entwicklungsaufwand mit sich bringen. Das führt unter Umständen zu längeren Projektlaufzeiten.

Die SAP AG dürfte mit seinem Enterprise Portal der wichtigste ERP-Anbieter sein, der eine Portal-Lösung offeriert. Doch auch Peoplesoft und Oracle können mit Angeboten aufwarten. Kennzeichnend für diesen Ansatz ist eine möglichst nahtlose Integration mit den ERP-Systemen des jeweiligen Herstellers.

Unterschiede in der Grundausstattung

Softlab-Berater Carli hat einen Kriterienkatalog für die Produktbewertung zusammengestellt: Stabilität und Performance, Sicherheit, Administrierbarkeit, Verfügbarkeit von Portlets sowie Content-Management und Suchfunktionen sind einige der wesentlichen Faktoren aus der Liste.

Selbstverständlich für ein Portal sind integrierte Suchmaschinen. Doch einige Suchmaschinen taugen in der Standardkonfiguration für den Einsatz in Portalen nicht. Sie liefern oft irrelevante Suchergebnisse oder verletzen die Sicherheitsbestimmungen. Zwar können die meisten Suchmaschinen die Zugriffsrechte eines Benutzers berücksichtigen, doch nicht alle. Zum Beispiel verhindern generische Nutzer-IDs das Wiederfinden von indizierten Spezifika.

Andere Portal-Anbieter verfügen über kein eigenes Content-Management System: In Websphere von IBM beispielsweise oder in die Bea-Produktereihe lassen sich Systeme wie die von Intervowen integrieren. Auch Anbieter von Systemen für Enterprise Application Integration (EAI) wie Tibco, die zum Beispiel in Bezug auf Workflow Vorteile bieten, sind hier schwach auf der Brust. Anwender, die sich hier bedienen, müssen auf einschlägige Produkte für das Content-Management zurückgreifen.

Im Widerspruch: Performance und Personalisierung

Die Performance der Tools hängt neben leistungsfähiger Hardware aber im Wesentlichen von der Architektur ab. Die Anwender müssen etwa entscheiden, wie der Content organisiert sein soll. Sollen Inhalte besonders schnell präsent sein, setzen die meisten Unternehmen darauf, fertige Seiten im HTML-Format im Voraus zu erstellen. Die statischen Informationen werden dann periodisch von eigens dafür vorgesehenen Servern abgeholt. Diese Variante geht jedoch zu Lasten der Individualität.

Die Alternative besteht im dynamischen Generieren. Diese Flexibilität kostet zusätzliche Rechenleistung und ein Mehr an Hardware, ist aber notwendig für Portale, deren Inhalte eine hohe Aktualisierungsfrequenz haben. Dazu gehören die meisten Verlage und Zeitungen, die Content online anbieten.

Neben der Personalisierung von Inhalten können aber vor allem die in ein Portal integrierten Portlets einen schnellen Seitenaufbau verhindern. Die Hersteller müssen ihre Softwarearchitektur auf diese mitgelieferten oder zusätzlichen Schnittstellen anpassen. So können beispielsweise ältere Plumtree-Versionen Portlets nur sequentiell abarbeiten. In neueren Versionen sorgt dagegen eine parallele Verarbeitung auf verteilten Servern für deutlich mehr Geschwindigkeit.

Zur Überprüfung der Skalierbarkeit gehört laut Carli die Unterstützung von Lastverteilungsmechanismen und Server-Farmen. Die Anwendungssoftware muss in der Lage sein, eine Session auch bei einem Server-Wechsel aufrecht zu halten, so dass die Informationen auf verschiedenen Rechnern liegen können. Ebenso wichtig ist es, durch Clustering der Applikations- und Datenbank-Server eine bessere Verfügbarkeit und Performance bereitstellen zu können.

Konzeptfrage: Rolle oder Benutzergruppe

Ein Portal soll den Anwendern möglichst die Informationen und Applikationen zur Verfügung stellen, die sie individuell benötigen – nicht mehr und nicht weniger. Ein Großunternehmen zum Beispiel definiert meist Rollenkonzepte für die Personalisierung und die Sicherheit. Ein einzelner Benutzer nimmt dabei in der Regel verschiedene Rollen ein. Kleinere und mittelständische Unternehmen gehen zumeist umgekehrt vor. Hier sind Benutzer zu Gruppen zusammengefasst, die mit spezifischen Rechten versehen werden.

Diesen verschiedenen Ansätzen tragen auch die Portalanbieter Rechnung. So verfügt das Enterprise Portal der SAP bereits über 200 Rollen für den Zugriff auf Mysap-Applikationen. Das Microsoft-Produkt Sharepoint dagegen kommt mit nur wenigen definierten Rollen daher. Es lassen sich auch keine weiteren Rollen einrichten. Vergleichbare Funktionen müssen über Gruppen abgebildet werden.

Ein wichtiges Thema ist auch die Integration von Single-Sign-On-Systemen. Idealerweise bringt ein Portal-Produkt eine entsprechende Komponente mit. Unabhängig davon sollte zumindest die Unterstützung des Marktführerprodukts Siteminder von Netegrity gegeben sein. IBM beispielsweise verfügt mit Tivoli über eine eigene Produktfamilie. Übrigens schlägt diese Software, wenn sie zugekauft werden muss, unter Umständen noch einmal erheblich zu Buche.

Außerdem sollten Portalprodukte sowohl die Authentifizierung gegenüber Verzeichnisdiensten verschiedener Hersteller mittels LDAP-Protokoll unterstützen als auch gegenüber einer NT-Domaine. Üblicherweise bieten Portalanbieter diese Authentifizierungsmöglichkeiten an.

Für den Systemadministrator interessant ist die Frage nach einfacher Verwaltung. Portal-Technik ist jedoch noch ein frisches Thema. Daher gleichen manche Produkte einem Flickenteppich, stellt Carli fest. IBM hat teilweise noch mit der Integration von Lotus, Tivoli und Websphere zu kämpfen. SAP dagegen bietet ein eher homogenes Bild – die Top-Tier-Produkte, die die Walldorfer gekauft hatten, gelten als “sehr gut integriert”.



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16.04.2003
Plumtree genau beobachten
Der Aktionär

Die Experten vom Anlegermagazin "Der Aktionär" raten die Aktie von Plumtree (ISIN US72940Q1040/ WKN 580563) genau zu beobachten.

Im ersten Quartal habe der Softwarespezialist einen Gewinn von zwei Cent je Anteilsschein erwirtschaften können. Damit seien die Analystenprognosen getroffen worden. Der Ausblick auf das aktuelle Quartal sei hingegen enttäuschend ausgefallen. Demnach erwarte die Gesellschaft nun ein Ergebnis zwischen null und minus einem Cent je Aktie.

Das Kursziel für die Plumtree-Aktie sähen die Börsenkenner bei 5 Euro. Das KGV 03 betrage 17 und die Marktkapitalisierung belaufe sich auf 99,6 Mio. Euro.

Demnach sollten investierte Anleger die Plumtree-Aktie genau beobachten, so die Experten von "Der Aktionär". Ein Stoppkurs werde bei 2,70 Euro empfohlen.

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Plumtree Announces Availability of Plumtree Portlet Framework for PeopleSoft
Monday May 12, 2:07 pm ET
First Horizontal Portal to Integrate PeopleSoft Resources Alongside Enterprise Applications, Content and Collaboration Services


SAN FRANCISCO, May 12 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Enterprise Web leader Plumtree Software (Nasdaq: PLUM - News) today announced the general availability of the Plumtree Portlet Framework for PeopleSoft, which allows portal managers to create portlets for displaying, searching and updating data from any PeopleSoft 8 system. The Framework, designed and developed with guidance from more than 20 customers that use both Plumtree and PeopleSoft, can integrate virtually any PeopleSoft service into the Plumtree Corporate Portal without coding. As a result, customers can create applications within a Plumtree portal based on services from PeopleSoft as well as services from other systems, including the search, content management and collaboration capabilities offered as part of the Plumtree Enterprise Web Suite.
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The PeopleSoft Framework is part of a Plumtree anti-sprawl strategy that relies on the portal interfaces of SAP R/3 and PeopleSoft to incorporate user experiences from these systems into the broader experience of the Plumtree Corporate Portal. Plumtree is the first horizontal portal vendor to provide dynamic integration to PeopleSoft systems.

"It`s important to think beyond just Web-enabling PeopleSoft to understand how a portal can assemble components from many systems to deliver many different Web applications," said Plumtree CEO John Kunze. "Using Plumtree and PeopleSoft together, customers can, for example, build rich employee service centers with online forms and announcements, threaded conversations, and a knowledge-base of policies and procedures. This employee service application can be embedded in an enterprise-wide portal that also features applications for different business units, such as sales & marketing or research & development, and different audiences, such as customers and partners."

The Portlet Framework for PeopleSoft provides a graphical environment for creating new Plumtree portlets against any standard or custom PeopleSoft Component Interface (CI). Plumtree also offers frameworks for building portlets for SAP R/3 and Siebel. These portlets can be embedded within portal applications that combine resources from many existing systems, as well as new services for collaboration, content management and search that systems such as PeopleSoft may lack.

Plumtree developed the PeopleSoft Framework to support the strategies of customers such as Cinergy, which deployed a collaborative portal for 7,300 employees. Prior to this release of the Framework, Cinergy customized its Plumtree portal to incorporate PeopleSoft HRMS data. Cinergy first deployed the Plumtree portal to Web-enable common HR processes, and soon expanded the deployment to deliver other applications. A Treasury Community, for example, was created to share investor information, monthly treasury statistics, cash forecasts and credit ratings to internal Cinergy clients, reducing inbound calls to the Treasury department.

"Cinergy saw a need to Web-enable our HR processes, and employee HR self-service was an obvious way to get real value from the portal quickly," said Ginny Segbers, supervisor of new media at Cinergy. "Integrating PeopleSoft resources through a horizontal portal like Plumtree`s has proven valuable, saving employees time by allowing them to interact with multiple systems from one common environment. As our portal deployment progresses, we are building other rich applications for lines of business throughout the organization."

Using a simple, step-by-step graphical user interface, PeopleSoft experts can dynamically create an unlimited number of PeopleSoft portlets based on components in any PeopleSoft 8 system, including HRMS, CRM and Financials. Each portlet created with the PeopleSoft Framework empowers business people to display, search and update PeopleSoft for information such as paycheck information, sales and customer data, order information, and financial data, which can be embedded in new portal applications, as well as in personalized portal pages. Integrating this data with resources from other systems, such as e-mail, calendar and key performance indicators, as well as content from across the enterprise, allows customers to build rich applications than span applications and platforms, and realize greater value from all their resources.

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, foundation services such as collaboration, content management and search for building new Web applications, and a portal platform 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, maximizing customers` return on their existing investments. With offices in more than a dozen countries, Plumtree has over 480 customers, including Boeing, Ford Motor Company, Procter & Gamble and the U.S. Navy.

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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Mazda Deploys Plumtree Corporate Portal to Support 700 Dealerships In North America
Wednesday May 14, 2:28 pm ET
Mazda Expects Portal Dashboard Application to Yield 100% ROI in First Six Months


SAN FRANCISCO, May 14 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Enterprise Web technology leader Plumtree Software (Nasdaq: PLUM - News) announced today that Mazda North America has deployed the Plumtree Corporate Portal for sales and customer service field managers overseeing Mazda`s 700 North American dealerships. Mazda field managers are responsible for visiting each dealership in their territory at least four times a year to review performance and improve sales. The portal integrates into a dashboard application information and resources from diverse repositories including IBM DB2 mainframes and Microsoft Exchange, as well as Microsoft Excel financial reports, empowering managers to easily compare performance metrics of dealerships, identify growth opportunities and target areas for improvement. Using the Plumtree portal, regional managers can analyze consolidated data on both sales and customer support performance 24 hours a day and can track near real-time sales figures for all dealerships nation-wide. This dealer analysis application has decreased the time it takes to prepare for dealership visits and reviews by over 50%.
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"Before the portal we had no easy way to review all of the business indicators for both sales and service," said Jim DiMarzio, CIO of Mazda North America. "With these indicators centralized and Web enabled through the portal, our field managers can see vital information in context, can prepare better and faster for dealership visits, and we believe, are having more productive visits. Based on the savings we are already experiencing, we expect 100% ROI from the portal deployment in the first six months alone."

What`s in Mazda`s Portal?

To build the dealership application in the portal, Mazda integrated several systems into the portal. To integrate content from Excel financial reports alongside managers` e-mails, calendars and contact information from Exchange, Mazda is using the Plumtree Portal Framework for Microsoft Excel and Plumtree Portlet Suite for Microsoft Exchange. Mazda is also using Crawler Web Services to index information from business and industry news sources relevant to the field managers. The searchable document directory in Mazda`s portal indexes resources including order, parts and customer retention reports, announcements from corporate headquarters, training manuals, and marketing collateral that were previously not accessible to field managers on the road.

Before the portal, Mazda`s field managers spent up to three days collecting performance data from mainframe reports, spreadsheets, and third party analyses to prepare for a single dealership visit. Managers would print hundreds of pages of sales, support and customer care figures to analyze the dealer`s performance and to compare it to the performance of other dealerships. After sorting through the paperwork and trying to determine current success and growth targets, the manager would haul the data to the dealership for the formal meeting.

Mazda deployed the Plumtree Corporate Portal to provide managers with easy access to the data they need for dealership reviews. Managers can also drill down into the detailed reports that feed the dashboard application. Through this dealer analysis application, managers view performance on the national, regional and local level for measurements including:

Quarterly, monthly and weekly sales;
Sales and services standard indexes;
Rolling 12 month customer care ratings;
Field expense summaries;
Facility requirements;
Goodwill after warranty;
Parts inventory comparisons; and
Recall reminder reports.
The portal has increased field managers` productivity and reduced printing and shipping costs. Mazda also believes that the portal has improved the quality of the manager visits to dealerships by providing a clearer analysis from which to start discussions between the dealerships and the field managers.

Plumtree Chosen for Open Architecture and Out-of-the-Box Functionality

Mazda chose Plumtree for its mature portal product with strong out-of-the- box functionality to integrate applications and manage content. These features allowed Mazda to plan, build and deploy the portal solution in under six months. Additionally, Mazda needed to integrate a wide range of systems running on various platforms, and to support programmers that write in both Java and ASP, which was supported by the Plumtree Corporate Portal`s Web Services Architecture. The public can read more about Plumtree`s Web Services Architecture at http://www.plumtree.com/products/platform/architecture.asp

About Plumtree Software

Plumtree Software is the Enterprise Web technology 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, foundation services such as collaboration, content management and search for building new Web applications, and a portal platform 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, maximizing customers` return on their existing investments. With offices in more than a dozen countries, Plumtree has over 480 customers, including Boeing, Ford Motor Company, Procter & Gamble and the U.S. Navy.

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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HandySoft and Plumtree Announce Solution to Automate Sarbanes-Oxley Compliance
Wednesday May 28, 1:15 pm ET
Best-of-Breed Solution Provides Process Improvement, Collaboration And Real-Time Reporting, Accelerating Auditing Process


VIENNA, Va. and SAN FRANCISCO, May 28 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- HandySoft Corporation, the leader in business process management (BPM) solutions, and Enterprise Web leader Plumtree Software today announced the Sarbanes-Oxley Accelerator, a solution that helps publicly traded companies comply with the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002. This solution combines best-of-breed technologies to accelerate the Sarbanes-Oxley auditing process, simplifying the auditing of internal controls and the preparation of financial reports.
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The Sarbanes-Oxley Act is the cornerstone of federal regulators` financial accounting reform and attempts to protect investors by holding executives of public companies directly accountable for any misrepresentation of a company`s financial information. According to AMR Research`s May 2003 report CIOs: There is a Sarbanes-Oxley Project in Your Future - Do you know what it is?, "61 percent of companies expect business process change will be required [to comply with Sarbanes-Oxley legislation]." Many public companies are using technology to automate the enforcement of financial rules and processes to comply with the Sarbanes-Oxley Act. This compliance effort is also an opportunity for companies to reap wider business benefits as their business and financial processes are evaluated, improved, automated and strictly enforced.

Both companies will conduct a series of Web seminars including product demonstrations. For more information on how to register visit: http://www.plumtree.com/sarbanes-oxley, or http://www.handysoft.com/solutions/sarbanes-oxley/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow ugc noopener">http://www.handysoft.com/solutions/sarbanes-oxley/

"With the SEC`s unanimous vote yesterday detailing new Sarbanes-Oxley requirements, it`s imperative that companies start addressing these complex reforms now, using the timeline extension to insure that the audit process is comprehensive, timely, and accurate," said Stuart Claggett, chief operating officer of HandySoft. "To address these challenges we are continuing to develop rapidly deployable, process-based solutions that reduce time-to-compliance, improve audit quality, and provide public companies with the flexibility to deal with future regulations and the management of on-going financial process improvement."

"Most enterprises should take a step further than `just complying` with Sarbanes-Oxley," said Debra Logan, analyst with Gartner Research. "If you must keep certain records for the purposes of Sarbanes-Oxley, don`t stop there. Most enterprises have huge content management problems, uncontrolled explosions of e-mail, and lack of policy and procedure around many document-based processes. Take advantage of this forced opportunity to roll out document and records management software and procedures to gain business efficiency as well, rather than just using it to reduce the risk of noncompliance."

To design the processes within the Sarbanes-Oxley Accelerator, and to validate auditing and internal control reporting requirements mandated in the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, HandySoft consulted leading auditors including Ernst & Young. The Sarbanes-Oxley Accelerator will help customers establish the requisite internal controls and reporting procedures, while providing a platform for collaborating with auditors and board members, and for building best practices around the collection and reporting of financial data.

The Sarbanes-Oxley Accelerator combines business process management from HandySoft`s award winning BizFlow platform with collaboration, search, and a personalized portal experience from Plumtree`s Enterprise Web Suite. The solution gives each member of the extended accounting team a personalized view of the compliance process based on his or her responsibilities:

-- Account teams can collect and document financial evidence, submit
account information into a defined workflow through electronic forms,
collaborate on documentation, and receive assigned tasks;
-- Internal and external auditors can monitor compliance and drill down
into supporting evidence, and can review reports, policies and
procedures to identify any gaps with regulation;
-- Controllers can manage the planning, testing, and reviewing of internal
controls, identify and resolve issues in process or documentation,
review and approve documentation, and assign tasks; and
-- Executives, boards of directors and audit committees can access the
breadth of information needed to attest to the effectiveness of
internal financial controls, review the audit status reports or a
timeline of tasks in real-time, and drill-down into supporting details.


"The Sarbanes-Oxley Accelerator is a major milestone in our `No Empty Portals` campaign to build partnerships and bring to market applications that deliver value for every line-of-business," said Plumtree CFO Eric Borrmann. "As businesses face new challenges such as Sarbanes-Oxley compliance, Plumtree customers can assemble solutions quickly based on a set of shared services for portal, collaboration, content management and search."

The Sarbanes-Oxley Accelerator is expected to be available in June from both companies, offered as a stand-alone solution or as an add-on to existing HandySoft or Plumtree products. The public can learn more about the offerings at www.plumtree.com or www.handysoft.com.

About Plumtree

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, foundation services such as collaboration, content management and search for building new Web applications, and a portal platform 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, maximizing customers` return on their existing investments. With offices in more than a dozen countries, Plumtree has over 480 customers, including Boeing, Ford Motor Company, Procter & Gamble and the U.S. Navy.

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.

About HandySoft Corporation

HandySoft 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®, 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 platform itself. With offices in the U.S. and the Pacific Rim, HandySoft has software installations at over 380 sites worldwide. For more information about HandySoft or BizFlow, please call 1-800-753-9343 or visit http://www.handysoft.com .

HandySoft, the HandySoft logo, BizFlow, and BizFlow Accelerator Suites are trademarks of HandySoft Corporation. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners.




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Plumtree Software Announces Third Quarter 2003 Operating Results
Monday October 13, 6:15 am ET
Revenue Grows to $18.5 million, Exceeding Analyst Estimates; Earnings Per Share Grow to ($0.01) GAAP; $0.02 Pro Forma
HOLLYWOOD, Fla., Plumtree Odyssey User Conference, Oct. 13



/PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Enterprise Web leader Plumtree Software
(Nasdaq: PLUM - News) today announced results for its third quarter ended September
30, 2003. Revenue for the third quarter of 2003 was $18.5 million, compared to
$17.0 million in revenue for the second quarter of 2003 and $17.7 million in
revenue for the comparable quarter last year. Net loss for the third quarter
of 2003 calculated in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles
(GAAP) was $373,000, or $0.01 per share, compared to a net loss of $1.1
million, or $0.04 per share, for the second quarter of 2003, and a net loss of
$889,000, or $0.03 per share, for the comparable quarter last year. Pro forma
net income for the third quarter of 2003 was approximately $603,000 or $0.02
per share, compared to pro forma net loss of $107,000, or $0.00 per share for
the second quarter of 2003 and pro forma net income of $562,000, or $0.02 per
share, for the comparable quarter last year. Pro forma net income for the
third quarter of 2003 excludes charges related to restructuring, charges for
amortization of deferred stock-based compensation and amortization of acquired
technology, and assumes an effective tax rate of 30% on net income, if any. A
reconciliation of these pro forma results to GAAP is included in the included
financial tables.
As of September 30, 2003, Plumtree`s cash, cash equivalents and short-term investments totaled approximately $67.3 million, up from $67.0 million in the previous quarter. Plumtree has no long-term debt.

CEO Comments

"We are pleased to have posted a notable sequential increase in our top and bottom line performance in a season that is typically challenging for the industry," said Plumtree President and CEO John Kunze. "Our solid execution not only exceeded analysts` expectations but also strengthened the balance sheet with more cash and an increase in deferred revenue."

"We attribute much of our success in the quarter to the release of the Plumtree Enterprise Suite. Designed to support not only one simple portal experience, but a volume and variety of Web applications, this release has transformed our customer value proposition. Together with a new, solutions- oriented sales approach and the publication of new comparative ROI data, this release has helped us to be more effective at delivering compelling applications to our customers," Kunze said.

Third Quarter Highlights

Third quarter 2003 highlights include:
-- Customers: Plumtree added 34 new customers in the quarter including
the U.S. Department of the Interior, the American Cancer Society, the
San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency, Kenneth Cole Productions
and the Bermuda Government. Several of Plumtree`s largest new customers
are deploying the UNIX version of its software. Hamilton Sundstrand
reported $5.6 million of savings per year due to productivity gains
realized by its Plumtree-powered Enterprise Web deployment, and was
named the 2003 RealWare Portal Application Development Merit Award
Winner.

-- Deployment Momentum: Plumtree this quarter announced significant
customer deployment momentum, after reaching a milestone of over 40
customers with Enterprise Web deployments of 10,000 users or more. The
City of Calgary has deployed Plumtree to over one million residents,
Ford Motor Company has deployed Plumtree to over 250,00 employees
worldwide, and United Technologies Corporation has deployed Plumtree to
100,000 employees, partners and customers across six subsidiaries.
Plumtree also completed its first large-scale customer upgrades to the
5.0 version of its Enterprise Web software; customers including
Halliburton and Quantum will share their upgrade experience with other
customers this week at Plumtree Odyssey 2003.

-- ROI Validation: In August, Nucleus Research conducted an independent
survey of Plumtree, IBM and SAP portal customers and found that
Plumtree customers lead IBM and SAP customers in portal ROI. Nucleus`
survey showed that 85% of Plumtree`s surveyed customers reported a
positive return on investment and found that Plumtree customers had
greater ROI than IBM and SAP customers in all six measured areas:
increased productivity, reduced head count, cost avoidance, reduced
customer support costs, increased revenues and reduced IT costs. This
result confirmed a similar finding from a January 2003 Delphi Group of
500 portal customers, from which Plumtree also emerged as the ROI
leader.


Product Development: Plumtree was the first company to ship products supporting the new WSRP and JSR 168 portlet Web Services standards. Unlike the application server vendors competing in the market, Plumtree`s support for portlet standards allows customers to use portlets on a wide range of J2EE- standard application servers.

Financial Outlook

Plumtree Software currently anticipates fourth quarter 2003 revenue to be between $18.5 million and $19.3 million. On a pro forma basis, the company projects fourth quarter 2003 net income to be between $0.00 and $0.02 per share. Pro forma net earnings per share in our fourth quarter outlook excludes charges for amortization of deferred stock-based compensation estimated to be $350,000 and amortization of acquired technology of approximately $395,000, and assumes an effective tax rate of 30% to net income, if any. Giving effect to these exclusions, fourth quarter GAAP net income is currently expected to be between ($0.02) and $0.00 per share.

Conference Call

Interested parties can hear the conference call concerning Plumtree`s financial results for the third quarter of 2003 on Monday, October 13, 2003 at 7:00 a.m. (EDT) via live Webcast by visiting www.plumtree.com/ir, or alternatively, they may listen to a teleconference by calling 888-395-6878 for U.S. participants and 773-756-4602 for participants outside of the U.S. The passcode for the teleconference is PLUMTREE. The Webcast replay of the call will be available at www.plumtree.com/ir from the conclusion of the initial Webcast until the release of Plumtree`s fourth quarter 2003 financial results. An audio replay of the call will also be available until the release of Plumtree`s fourth quarter financial results. The dial-in number for the audio replay is 888-568-0916 for U.S. callers and 402-998-1588 for callers outside of the U.S.

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 platform 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 to maximize customers` return on their existing technology investments. With offices in more than a dozen countries, Plumtree has licensed over 550 customers, including Boeing, Ford Motor Company, Procter & Gamble and the U.S. Navy.

Safe Harbor Statement and Caution

This press release contains forward-looking statements within the meaning of the Federal Securities laws. These forward-looking statements include, but are not limited to statements regarding our current financial outlook for the fourth quarter of 2003; customer demand for, satisfaction with, and return on investment and other benefits associated with our Enterprise Web Suite and other products; our ability to maintain our reputation and position in the market; our customers` ability to derive and measure ROI from our products; the pace and success of our customer`s deployments; as well as our cost management, financial discipline and general sales financial performance expectations. Investors are cautioned that all forward-looking statements involve risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ, perhaps materially, from those anticipated or suggested by such forward looking statements. These risks and uncertainties include, without limitation, risks associated with our limited operating history, a persisting general economic downturn, adverse conditions in worldwide IT spending trends, failure to expand our customer base, the impact of increasing competition, the length and complexity of Plumtree`s sales cycle, market acceptance of our new products, the success of major version releases, the success of our Enterprise Web suite and line of business application marketing strategies, the ability of our customers to deploy our products successfully and their willingness to act as references, changes in the needs and priorities of existing and potential customers, reduced market acceptance of our products and services, failure to manage technological change, our ability to maintain and increase the size and productivity of our direct sales force and to expand into and within global markets, our ability to attract and retain channel and line of business application partners, our ability to manage costs, our ability to provide a return on investment to our customers, the impact of geopolitical conflicts and events, and those other risks and uncertainties contained in the Company`s Annual Report filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission ("SEC") on Form 10-K, its most recent 10-Q and all subsequent SEC filings. Copies of filings made with the SEC are available through the SEC`s electronic data gathering analysis retrieval system (EDGAR) at www.sec.gov. We undertake no obligation following the date of this release to update or revise our forward-looking statements or to update the reasons actual results could differ materially from those anticipated in forward-looking statements. We caution you not to place undue reliance upon any such forward-looking statements, which speak only as of the date such statements are made. Past performance is not indicative of future results. We cannot guarantee any future operating results, activity, performance or achievement.

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

Each of the survey results noted in this release contain only one evaluation of a technology market, representing marketplace characteristics at a given time and are subject to change without notice. Nucleus and Delphi Group`s permission to reproduce their findings should not be deemed to be an endorsement of Plumtree or any company or product. These surveys are only two of many information sources available and decision-makers should not rely solely on these evaluations. Industry surveys are not an indication of future results. We caution you not to place undue reliance upon any survey or analyst report.

Condensed Consolidated Statements of Operations and Condensed Consolidated Balance Sheet

Plumtree`s management believes that a presentation of operating costs and expenses excluding restructuring charges incurred in the quarter, stock based compensation and amortization of acquired technology, and assuming a fixed effective tax rate, provides a meaningful basis for evaluating our underlying cost and expense levels. Presentation of pro forma net income and earnings per share information provides greater comparability of Plumtree`s financial results against historical results as well as those of other enterprise software companies and financial models of securities analysts. A reconciliation of pro forma results to GAAP results is provided in the financial tables below.

PLUMTREE SOFTWARE, INC.
PRO FORMA* CONDENSED CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF OPERATIONS
(in thousands, except per share amounts)

/--------------- Pro Forma ---------------/
Three Months Nine Months
Ended Ended
September 30, September 30,
2003 2002 2003 2002

Revenue:

Licenses $9,064 $8,531 $25,206 $38,409
Services and
maintenance 9,416 9,147 27,474 25,030
Total revenue 18,480 17,678 52,680 63,439

Cost of revenue:

Licenses 259 151 887 2,803
Services and
maintenance 2,903 3,102 7,893 9,769
Total cost of
revenue 3,162 3,253 8,780 12,572

Gross margin 15,318 14,425 43,900 50,867

Operating expenses:

Research and
development 5,293 4,619 15,384 13,686
Sales and marketing 8,136 7,556 22,469 25,501
General and
administrative 1,660 1,689 4,830 6,336
Total operating
expenses 15,089 13,864 42,683 45,523

Pro forma income from
operations 229 561 1,217 5,344

Interest and other
income, net 633 242 1,171 444

Pro forma income
before income taxes 862 803 2,388 5,788

Pro forma income
taxes ** 259 241 717 1,736

Pro forma net income $603 $562 $1,671 $4,052

Pro forma net income
per share:
Basic $0.02 $0.02 $0.05 $0.24

Diluted $0.02 $0.02 $0.05 $0.13

Shares used to compute
net income per share:
Basic 30,962 28,962 30,452 16,658

Diluted 33,338 30,689 32,940 30,091

* Pro forma statements of operations exclude $129, $887, $1,031 and $3,280
of amortization of stock based compensation, respectively and $394,
$394, $1,183 and $1,203, of amortization of acquired technology,
respectively. In addition, the Pro Forma Statement of Operations for
the three months and the nine months ended September 30, 2003 excludes
$475 of restructuring costs.

** Assumes an annualized effective tax rate of 30% on net income, if any.


PLUMTREE SOFTWARE, INC.
CONDENSED CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF OPERATIONS
(in thousands, except per share amounts)

Three Months Nine Months
Ended Ended
September 30, September 30,
2003 2002 2003 2002

Revenue:

Licenses $9,064 $8,531 $25,206 $38,409
Services and
maintenance 9,416 9,147 27,474 25,030
Total revenue 18,480 17,678 52,680 63,439

Cost of revenue:

Licenses 259 151 887 2,803
Services and
maintenance 2,903 3,102 7,893 9,769
Amortization of
stock-based
compensation
& acquired technology 416 575 1,361 1,852
Total cost of
revenue 3,578 3,828 10,141 14,424

Gross margin 14,902 13,850 42,539 49,015

Operating expenses:

Research and
development 5,293 4,619 15,384 13,686
Sales and marketing 8,136 7,556 22,469 25,501
General and
administrative 1,660 1,689 4,830 6,336
Restructuring charges 475 -- 475 --
Amortization of
stock-based
compensation 107 706 853 2,631
Total operating
expenses 15,671 14,570 44,011 48,154

Income (loss) from
operations (769) (720) (1,472) 861

Interest and other
income, net 633 242 1,170 444

Income (loss) before
income taxes (136) (478) (302) 1,305

Provision for
income taxes 237 411 613 768

Net income (loss) $(373) $(889) $(915) $537

Net income (loss) per
share:
Basic $(0.01) $(0.03) $(0.03) $0.03

Diluted $(0.01) $(0.03) $(0.03) $0.02

Shares used to compute
net income (loss) per
share:
Basic 30,962 28,962 30,452 16,658

Diluted 30,962 28,962 30,452 30,091


PLUMTREE SOFTWARE, INC.
CONDENSED CONSOLIDATED BALANCE SHEETS
(in thousands)
As of As of
September 30, December 31,
2003 2002
(Unaudited)

ASSETS
Current assets:
Cash, cash equivalents and
short-term investments $67,307 $65,322
Accounts receivables, net of allowances 15,879 16,619
Other current assets 2,871 2,160
Total current assets 86,057 84,101

Property and equipment, net 2,040 2,698

Other long-term assets 2,425 3,923

$90,522 $90,722

LIABILITIES AND STOCKHOLDERS` EQUITY
Current liabilities:
Accounts payable $1,084 $1,630
Accrued and other current liabilities 12,385 14,747
Deferred revenues 18,871 18,539
Total current liabilities 32,340 34,916

Long-term liabilities 462 454

Total Liabilities 32,802 35,370

Total Stockholders` Equity 57,720 55,352

$90,522 $90,722




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