Active Endpoints Launches 'BPEL Essentials(TM),' the First Online BPEL Training Program

Active Endpoints, Inc. (http://www.active-endpoints.com), a leading independent provider of
services-oriented integration solutions, today announced the launch of a new education services program called 'BPEL Essentials,' a comprehensive four-day introduction to the BPEL (business process execution language) standard. Taught by expert instructors from ActiveBPEL.org, Active Endpoints' open source subsidiary, 'BPEL Essentials' features an online, instructor-led format designed to fit tight budgets and busy schedules.

"BPEL is gathering momentum within end user, software vendor and systems integrator organizations, resulting in a commensurate demand for high-quality, cost effective BPEL education," said Frank Ryan, Vice President of Technical Services for Active Endpoints. "The goal of 'BPEL Essentials' is to provide integration professionals with a substantive and flexible learning experience that helps them develop the skills needed to implement BPEL-based
applications."

'BPEL Essentials' is delivered over four consecutive days during a scheduled class week. Online lectures are delivered during the first class segment of each day, after which students are given several hours to complete lab assignments. Online lab reviews are conducted during the second class segment of the day. Classes are limited in size, ensuring a quality learning
experience for each student. To support a rich, accelerated learning experience, all classes are taught using ActiveWebflow(TM) Professional, Active Endpoints' market leading visual BPEL authoring environment. Students receive a full license to ActiveWebflow Professional as part of their 'BPEL Essentials' course materials, a $995US value. Topics covered in the 'BPEL
Essentials' course include:

Day 1 - Introduction to BPEL concepts and fundamental constructs
Day 2 - Conditional, concurrent and iterative processing
Day 3 - Fault handling, process scopes and compensation
Day 4 - Event handling, message correlation and review

A complete description of the 'BPEL Essentials' course, upcoming class schedules, prerequisites, and technical requirements is available at http://www.activebpel.org/training.

Pricing and Enrollment
Enrollment is currently open for the BPEL Essentials classes scheduled for April -- July 2005. For a limited time, students can purchase BPEL Essentials for $1,495US, a 25% discount from the course list price of $1,995US. Training coordinators and project managers can purchase blocks of seats for employees to use as time permits, or arrange a customized education program, by contacting Active Endpoints' Sales at +1.203.929.9400 or
sales@active-endpoints.com.

About Active Endpoints, Inc.
As a leading independent provider of services-oriented integration software for both commercial and open source applications, Active Endpoints delivers a comprehensive suite of business and systems integration products. Unlike first-generation EAI, EDI and B2B integration companies, Active Endpoints' solutions are fundamentally designed for use in services-oriented applications, particularly those based on Web services. Active Endpoints'
customers achieve rapid, quantifiable ROI by linking business processes, enterprise and legacy applications, databases, Web services, and human workflows both within and across enterprises. Through this seamless integration, customers can reduce costs, develop new revenue opportunities, strengthen relationships with customers and partners, substantially increase supply chain efficiencies, and streamline internal business processes. Active
Endpoints distributes its ActiveBPEL(TM) engine under open source licensing terms through the Company's subsidiary, ActiveBPEL, LLC. For more information, please see http://www.active-endpoints.com and http://www.activebpel.org.

About ActiveBPEL, LLC
ActiveBPEL, LLC is an open source software organization that licenses and distributes the ActiveBPEL(TM) engine technology. The ActiveBPEL engine is a robust runtime environment that is capable of executing process definitions created to the BPEL standard. The ActiveBPEL engine technology is developed and maintained by Active Endpoints, which also uses the same technology in some of its commercial products. Active Endpoints created the ActiveBPEL open source project to foster community interest, education and development around the BPEL standard.

ActiveWebflow is a trademark of Active Endpoints, Inc. BPEL Essentials
and ActiveBPEL are trademarks of ActiveBPEL, LLC. All other company and product names are the property of their respective owners.