DMR Consulting Selects Vitria Technology for Its V-Chain Project to Streamline Ford Spain's Overall Supply Chain Management

Vitria:BusinessWare to enable real-time collaboration between Ford and its suppliers for time and cost savings

MADRID, Spain, March 8 -- Vitria , a leading provider of business process integration solutions, today announced that DMR Consulting has selected the Vitria:BusinessWare(TM) platform for its V-Chain project, initiated to streamline operations between Ford's plant in Almussafes, Spain and its suppliers and logistics operator. The V-Chain project is being applied to Ford's supply chain with the participation of DMR Consulting, the Universidad Politecnica de Valencia and Ford's top-level European suppliers.

Vitria is key to DMR's plan to improve Ford Spain's overall supply chain management and will be instrumental in facilitating the flow of information across the production process, from the industrial park to the production line. Specifically, Vitria:BusinessWare will manage the business interactions between Ford and its suppliers, allowing information, as well as any changes or errors in the production line, to be transmitted to all parties in real- time.

"Vitria:BusinessWare has been an important element of our solution portfolio during the pilot phase of the V-Chain project," said Roque Alonso, manager of material and logistic planning at Ford's plant in Almussafes, Spain. "I am optimistic that Vitria:BusinessWare is the solution that will help us to solve our challenges and optimize the flow of information between us and our suppliers."

"Ford Spain's V-Chain project with DMR Consulting is representative of Vitria's continued strategy of developing vertical solutions for the manufacturing industry," said Guy Bouchon, managing director, Vitria Spain and Portugal. "The Vitria:BusinessWare implementation provides the foundation for business process management to support Ford's mission-critical system with high availability and scalability requirements and the capacity to integrate hundreds of new suppliers."

About Vitria:BusinessWare

Vitria:BusinessWare(TM) is a business process integration platform that orchestrates interactions across a company's existing applications, data, people and partners to continuously improve one or more strategic business processes. Vitria:BusinessWare gives companies complete control and visibility of their business operations across their extended enterprise, enabling them to improve the efficiency of their business operations, reduce time to market for new products and services, develop closer relationships with their partners and customers, and rapidly respond to changing business conditions. The proven Vitria:BusinessWare solution was the industry's first platform for business process-centric integration and is widely recognized as the most flexible and powerful solution available, adopted by hundreds of customers and partners in a broad range of industries.

About Ford Spain

Ford Spain was set up in 1976, as a result of Henry Ford II's resolution to manufacture a small-sized car in Europe in a completely new plant. Since then, Ford Spain, and specifically the plant located in Almussafes, has grown and achieved quality and productivity levels that make it hold a leading position among European manufacturing plants.

2002 was a year of big challenges and motivations for the Valencia-based plant. To the decision to reintroduce the making of the Ford Fiesta, add the establishment of the third vehicle production shift, the opening of a new Duratech engines plant and being the first plant to manufacture a Mazda model in Europe. This model joins the three that are currently assembled in Almussafes, granting the plant the "flex" category. Ford Motor Company celebrated its 100th anniversary during 2003. For more information, please visit http://www.ford.es/.

About DMR Consulting

DMR Consulting is a leading international provider of management consulting and information technology services that offers global business solutions to its customers for all the elements of the organisations' value chain, from business strategy to system deployment. The firm, which is integrated in the Fujitsu group, spans the following sectors: telecommunications, media, financial institutions and insurers, industry and distribution, energy and state administrations.

DMR Consulting's operations in Spain began in 1996 with the opening of the Madrid office. The company currently has offices in Barcelona, Seville, Lisbon, Milan, Rome, Frankfurt, Vienna, Santiago de Chile, Buenos Aires, Mexico City, Sao Paulo and Rio de Janeiro, a turnover of euro 130 million and a staff of over 2,000 professionals. For more information, please visit http://www.dmrconsulting.es/.

About Vitria

Vitria, a leading provider of award-winning business process integration products and solutions, combines technology leadership with industry expertise in healthcare and insurance, financial services, telecommunications and manufacturing to dramatically improve strategic business processes across systems, people and trading partners. With 23 offices around the world, Vitria's customer base includes blue chip companies such as AT&T, Bell Canada, Bell South, The Blue Cross Blue Shield Association, BP, BT, DaimlerChrysler Bank, Ford, Generali, Nissan, The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company, PacifiCare Health Systems, Reynolds & Reynolds, Royal Bank of Canada, Schneider Logistics, Sprint, Trane, and the U.S. Departments of Defense and Veterans Affairs. For more information call +1-408-212-2700, email info@vitria.com or visit www.vitria.com.

Vitria and BusinessWare are trademarks or registered trademarks of Vitria Technology, Inc. All other product and company names mentioned are the property of their respective owners and are mentioned for identification purposes only.

Cautionary Note Regarding Forward-looking Statements: This press release includes forward-looking statements, including statements relating to new products, goals and future business opportunities that are subject to risks, uncertainties and other factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from those referred to in the forward-looking statements. Such factors include, but are not limited to: failure to meet financial and product expectations of analysts and investors: risk related to market acceptance of Vitria's products and alliance partners' products; deployment delays or errors associated with these and other products of Vitria and partners; hardware platform incompatibilities; the need to maintain and enhance certain business relationships with system integrators and other parties; the ability to manage growth; activities by Vitria and others regarding protection of proprietary information; release of competitive products and other actions by competitors; risks associated with possible delisting from the stock market on which Vitria's securities are listed; and economic conditions in domestic and foreign markets. These and other risks related to Vitria are detailed in Vitria's Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended Dec. 31, 2002, filed with the SEC on March 31, 2003. Vitria does not undertake an obligation to update forward-looking statements.