Sagent Announces Availability Of Advanced E-commerceAnalysis Application for Commerce One.

Business Editors

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 29, 2000

Strategic alliance to deliver end-to-end Web

analytic application for measuring e-commerce

performance and reducing supply chain costs

Sagent Technology, Inc. (Nasdaq: SGNT),

a leading provider of Real-time e-Business Intelligence, announced today the immediate availability of the Commerce One (Nasdaq: CMRC) BuySite(TM) Business Intelligence Kit version 1.0. This application leverages Sagent's proven analytic application platform to offer advanced data analysis capabilities to users of Commerce One BuySite(TM), the leading e-procurement application.

Through its analytic application for e-commerce, Sagent Solution organizes, tracks and analyzes e-commerce transaction information captured through Commerce One BuySite(TM), which automates the entire supply chain from requisition through order and payment for business-to-business transactions. Sagent Solution then delivers this data to key buyers via the Web, enabling them to make better business decisions for global e-commerce trading.

The BuySite(TM) Business Intelligence Kit will allow buyers to track key metrics, such as enterprise spending habits for specific commodities, sales activity with each supplier, on-contract vs. off-contract spending, and total purchasing patterns of their e-commerce initiatives.

"We chose Sagent because we needed a scalable, secure solution that could effectively manage the high volume of data derived from the Commerce One solution and turn it into valuable information for the buyer," said Chuck Donchess, executive vice president and chief strategy officer, Commerce One. "We believe that the Sagent Solution was an ideal choice for offering Web-enabled reporting to multiple buyers around the globe through a single-source, analytic application for our e-procurement system."

Sagent delivers an open, scalable solution that addresses the complete life cycle for e-business intelligence, including development, production and ongoing management of a company's information assets. The Sagent Solution allows businesses to collect and analyze customer and operational data from existing systems and to incorporate the most current geographic, business-to-business and demographic information from third-party content providers in real time. This information is then made available over the Web via a secure connection to create precise one-to-one marketing campaigns, identify profitable sales opportunities, and improve operational efficiencies.

"Sagent is excited to deliver to Commerce One an analytic application that enables e-commerce buyers to better evaluate the performance of their supply chain," said Ken Gardner, president and CEO, Sagent Technology. "Shipping this application is a significant milestone in extending the breadth of Sagent's e-business analytic application offerings. We are very pleased to have met our previously announced product delivery objectives."

Availability

The Commerce One BuySite(TM) Business Intelligence Kit 1.0 is available immediately.

About Sagent Technology

Sagent Technology (Nasdaq: SGNT) powers more than 1,100 customer-driven organizations around the world and across such diverse industries as e-commerce, financial services, insurance, healthcare and telecommunications. Sagent enables such market leaders as GE Capital, Sony Online Entertainment, MapQuest.com, Outpost.com, Ticketmaster, Kemper National Insurance, Royal & SunAlliance, United Healthcare, Siemens, BP Amoco, British Telecom and AT&T to win, retain and grow customers. Sagent retains strategic relationships with ADP, Advent, Commerce One, Compaq, EDS, HAHT Software, IBM, Interpath, Microsoft and Siebel. Sagent is headquartered in Mountain View, California, and can be reached at http://www.sagent.com.

Sagent is a registered trademark of Sagent Technology Inc. Commerce One, Many Markets. One Source, Global Trading Web, BuySite, MarketSite, Global Trading Platform, Common Business Library, XML Development Kit, XML Commerce Connector, MarketView and SupplyOrder are either trademarks or registered trademarks of Commerce One, Inc. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners.

The foregoing paragraphs include forward-looking statements within the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended. Such statements involve risks and uncertainties. For such statements, each company claims the protection of the safe harbor for forward-looking statements under the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Factors that could cause actual results to differ from those contained in the forward-looking statements include, among others, the ability of the parties to attract and retain a broad range of purchasers, suppliers and trading partners, the parties' ability to successfully deliver a joint solution to customers, the anticipation of the growth of certain market segments, the positioning of the parties' products in those segments, the competitive environment in the software industry, dependence on other products, changes to operating systems and product strategy by vendors of operating systems, and the importance of new products. For a discussion of these and other risk factors that could affect the parties' businesses, see "Risk Factors" in each party's filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission, including its annual report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 1999, and its quarterly report on Form 10-Q for the quarter ended March 31, 2000

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