Drummond Certified Program Completes AS2 Certification for First Quarter 2008

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Tue May 20, 2008 8:00am EDT

22 Products Complete Certification
AUSTIN, Texas--(Business Wire)--
Today, Drummond Group Inc. (DGI), the global leader in B2B
software certification, announced the availability of 22 newly
certified AS2 products from 16 software companies which have completed
the Drummond Certified(TM) AS2-1Q08 Interoperability test.

   Software products from the following companies successfully passed
the 2008 first quarter interoperability testing of the AS2
specification: Axway, Boomi, Cleo Communications, Data Applications
Company Limited, EDS, EXTOL International, Inc., GXS Inc., IBM,
Inovis, /n Software Inc., nuBridges, Inc., SEEBURGER AG, Sterling
Commerce, TIBCO Software Inc., and Transentric.

   AS2 is one of the most widely recognized messaging standards for
B2B e-commerce with thousands of implementations around the globe. It
enables businesses to easily establish trading partner relationships
to exchange business data (like EDI, XML, Documents, PDF's, Text
Files, etc.) securely and reliably, thereby delivering cost savings
and providing flexibility and control for backend to backend data
integration.

   "There continues to be growth and adoption of AS2 in different
industries and countries. Interoperability certification continues to
be an important part of the adoption of the AS2 standard and to these
leading edge companies that provide software," says Rik Drummond, CEO
and CTO of Drummond Group Inc.

   Major supply chains in retail, financial services, healthcare,
pharmaceutical, consumer product goods, automotive and petroleum
industries rely on the Drummond Certified program to provide a wide
selection of compliant and interoperable AS2 products at different
entry point prices to meet the requirements of small to large
organizations.

   For specific AS2-1Q08 certification results, certified industry
profiles, final report and registration information for upcoming
tests, please visit:
http://www.drummondgroup.com/html-v2/as2-companies.html.

   For more information about AS2, see:
http://www.drummondgroup.com/html-v2/standards.html.

   Drummond Group Inc.

   Drummond Group Inc. (DGI), a global leader in B2B software testing
and certification, works with software vendors, industry associations,
supply chains and the standards community by conducting
interoperability and conformance testing on open standards, publishing
related strategic research and developing vertical industry
strategies. Founded in 1999, DGI has tested hundreds of international
software products used in vertical industries such as automotive,
consumer product goods, financial services, government, petroleum,
pharmaceutical and retail. For more information, please visit
www.drummondgroup.com or email: info@drummondgroup.com.

Drummond Group Inc.
Beth Morrow, 512-335-5606
beth@drummondgroup.com

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