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Company Recognized for Innovative Supply Chain Management Application SUNNYVALE, Calif., Oct. 16 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Vitria Technology, Inc. (NASDAQ:VITR), a provider of SOA integration solutions, today announced that one of its customers, MasterBrand Cabinets, Inc., has won Network World's 2006 Enterprise All-Star Award for its innovative supply chain management application. MasterBrand was able to dramatically speed order fulfillment, provide exception handling and enable visibility across the supply chain, earning the company an Enterprise All-Star Award. For the full Network World article, please see http://www.networkworld.com/allstar/2006/. "We are so pleased MasterBrand has been named one of this year's Enterprise All-Star Award winners," stated Eric Boduch, vice president of marketing for Vitria. "Not only does this award further validate the power of Vitria's business process applications, it illustrates that our customers are forward-looking companies making investments in technologies that can transform, automate and streamline their business processes to drive competitive advantage, forge market leadership and create exceptional levels of customer satisfaction." As MasterBrand rapidly grew through acquisitions, its IT department was tasked with integrating supply chain management systems from six different companies without replacing any of existing legacy systems. In order to effectively tie these systems together, MasterBrand needed to first gain visibility into the various disparate order management, fulfillment, ERP and supply chain systems, which included multiple applications running on several different platforms. After researching several solutions, including packaged ERP applications, MasterBrand turned to Vitria's technology, which not only provided end-to-end process visibility but also helped to dramatically reduce operating costs and improve responsiveness to unplanned customer issues, which ultimately led to increased customer loyalty. Vitria's business process applications are a new breed of service-oriented, packaged applications that automate and simplify the management of critical, complex business processes such as transaction management, order management and exception management. Recognized for pioneering enterprise application integration (EAI) and business process management (BPM), Vitria sees BPAs as the next step in the evolution of process and technology integration. Each BPA combines Vitria's award-winning integration infrastructure with process frameworks, industry-specific content, and high-performance best-practices. Vitria's industry-specific solutions include manufacturing and supply chain, healthcare and telecommunications. About Network World's 2006 Enterprise All-Star Award The Network World Enterprise All-Star Award program recognizes exceptional use of network technology to further enterprise business objectives. For the 2006 award -- the second annual -- Network World editors selected 40 enterprise IT organizations representing the best, most innovative application of network technologies in eight categories, such as Network Management, Security and Wireless. These award-winning network IT projects are profiled in Network World's special edition Signature Series Enterprise All-Star Issue published September 25, 2006. About Network World Network World, Inc., the Leader in Network Knowledge, empowers Network IT Executives through education, information and community. Network World, an IDG company, is the leading provider of news, analysis, reviews, events and education on information technology. Network World publishes the leading newsweekly, Network World, hosts the most active online community (http://www.networkworld.com/), and produces educational seminars and events worldwide. Network World's portfolio of strategic marketing programs provides marketing and agency professionals with the tools to generate high-quality leads, optimize marketing campaigns, and create new revenue opportunities. About Vitria Vitria Technology, Inc. (NASDAQ:VITR), a provider of business process integration products and solutions, combines technology leadership with industry expertise in healthcare and insurance, telecommunications, manufacturing and financial services to dramatically improve strategic business processes across systems, people and trading partners. These solutions are built on the award-winning BusinessWare(R) Enterprise Business Process Management suite. With offices around the world, Vitria's customer base includes blue chip companies such as AT&T, Bell Canada, BellSouth, Blue Cross Blue Shield Association, BP, BT, DaimlerChrysler Leasing, Generali, Nissan, Reynolds & Reynolds, RBC Financial Group, Sprint, U.S. Department of Defense and Veterans Health Administration. For more information call +1-408-212-2700, email , or visit http://www.vitria.com/ . NOTE: Vitria and BusinessWare are registered trademarks of Vitria Technology, Inc. All other names may be trademarks of the companies with which they are associated. DATASOURCE: Vitria Technology, Inc. CONTACT: Angelique Faul of Kulesa Public Relations, +1-513-233-2994, or , for Vitria Technology, Inc. Web site: http://www.vitria.com/

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