Cardiff Software Joins BEA Star Partner Program to Enhance Business Process Automation Solutions; Cardiff Develops LiquidOffice v2.1 to run on BEA WebLogic

Companies utilizing the BEA WebLogic Enterprise Platform can now leverage Cardiff's powerful eForm management solution to significantly reduce costs by streamlining form-driven processes

San Diego, CA - 2002-11-25 - Cardiff Software Inc., a leading global provider of business process-automation solutions, today announced that it has joined the Star Partner Program of BEA Systems Inc. (Nasdaq: BEAS), the world's leading application infrastructure software company, as a One Star member. In addition, Cardiff has developed its LiquidOffice™ eForm management solution to run on BEA WebLogic®, providing large enterprises with a BEA-Ready™ solution for creating, deploying and automatically managing the routing, tracking and approval processes for electronic forms.

Leveraging LiquidOffice's eForm technology, businesses operating in form-driven environments can significantly reduce the costs associated with the manual processing and routing of forms. LiquidOffice offers businesses a rapid return on investment through increased employee productivity, reduced operational costs and the elimination of costly data errors. Designed for medium and large sized enterprises, LiquidOffice is optimized for enterprise connectivity and can easily scale to meet organizational requirements.

"This partnership extends LiquidOffice's proven eForm management technology to the thousands of BEA customers around the world using the BEA WebLogic Enterprise Platform," said Russ Gould, director of product management for Cardiff. "The ability to run on BEA WebLogic, further establishes LiquidOffice as a premier enterprise level application that can be easily integrated into an organization's existing technology infrastructure."

As a member of the BEA Star Partner program, Cardiff will receive an array of benefits in marketing, sales, training, education, and technical development. BEA Star members are systems integrators, independent software vendors and application service providers building e-business solutions on the BEA WebLogic Enterprise Platform™ to help make their customers Internet-ready and future-proof.

About Cardiff Software Inc.
Put Information to Work - Cardiff Software (www.cardiff.com) is a leading provider of document and form-driven business process automation solutions for Global 2000 organizations. The Cardiff family of integrated software products empowers organizations to automate existing business processes using technology to capture, process and respond to strategic business information, thereby improving employee productivity, customer service and profitability. In business since 1991, Cardiff has a global distribution network reaching every continent and more than 20,000 customers worldwide spanning every industry.

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