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Covigo Extends Reach of BEA WebLogic Portal Applications to Mobile and Occasionally Connected Users MENLO PARK, Calif.----June 17, 2003-- Portal Enhancement Suite Enables Offline and Wireless Access to Critical BEA Portlets, Including Business Applications, Executive Dashboards and Documents Covigo, Inc., a leading provider of software for developing and deploying mobile, web and portal applications, today announced the immediate availability of Covigo Portal Enhancement Suite for BEA WebLogic Portal Server. The Covigo solution provides traveling executives, field service technicians and sales personnel, who are outside of network coverage or working remotely, with offline and wireless access to BEA portal applications and data on their laptops and PDAs. "Mobile users are 70% more productive when they have access to applications in an offline mode," said Cheryl Traverse, president and CEO of Covigo. "Covigo's transactional offline and synchronization technologies provide an easy and fast way for developers to provide offline capabilities." Covigo Eliminates Downtime for Mobile Workers Covigo Portal Enhancement Suite for BEA WebLogic Portal Server addresses the challenge of making mobile workers more productive. It effectively eliminates on-the-road downtime by providing guaranteed offline and wireless access to popular BEA portlets such as business applications, executive dashboards and documents. Using Covigo, mobile users can perform complex transactions offline and then sync the stored information once they are back online. Rapid, Low-Cost Deployment Developers can rapidly convert existing BEA WebLogic Portal Server applications and data for use by connected and occasionally connected workers. Using Covigo, BEA WebLogic portal applications only have to be built once for deployment across all laptop and PDA types. That means companies can inexpensively single-author a BEA application to run on more than 800 different mobile devices in just days. Available Immediately Covigo Portal Enhancement Suite for BEA WebLogic Portal Server is available immediately. For pricing information, call Covigo today at 650/462-4100 in North America and +44.(0).20.8334.8055 in Western Europe. About Covigo Covigo's award-winning software enables enterprises and operators to develop and deploy mobile, web and portal applications with faster time-to-market and 50% lower cost. Covigo customers in North America and Europe include software vendors and integrators such as Software AG and CMG Wireless Data Solutions and organizations such as the State of Texas, T-Mobile, and CricInfo. The company is backed by Levensohn Venture Partners, Nokia Venture Partners and Norwest Venture Partners and is headquartered in Menlo Park, Calif., with European operations in Germany and the United Kingdom. To learn more about Covigo's solutions, visit www.covigo.com.