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TenFold ANNOUNCES WEB SERVICES STRATEGY

TenFold Corp, provider of the EnterpriseTenFold platform for building and implementing enterprise applications, reported progress on its initiative to enable Web Services development and integration in enterprise applications and provided a perspective on the Web Services strategy for its flagship product, EnterpriseTenFold.

Web Services are modular programs that let heterogeneous, distributed applications exchange information over the Internet or a network using common data formats and communication protocols. Microsoft and IBM are strong proponents of Web Services and are backing their endorsement with hundreds of millions of marketing dollars to establish Web Services as a new industry standard.

"Our principal customers are market-leading businesses using EnterpriseTenFold to build strategically important enterprise applications like global securities lending and policy management. These customers have repeatedly reminded us that the industrial strength that EnterpriseTenFold brings to enterprise application development, deployment and maintenance is their most important consideration," said Alexei Chadovich, TenFold's senior vice president of development. "We've been disciplined in using only proven technologies with real business value. However, with Web Services not only gaining mind share, but also beginning to demonstrate some specific business value, we decided to invest the effort to provide full Web Services support in our products."

Two major initiatives form TenFold's strategy around Web Services. First, EnterpriseTenFold is making it easy for an applications developer to present any part of a TenFold-powered application as a Web Service, making it easy and fast to build high-quality and powerful Web Services. Second, EnterpriseTenFold is making it easy to use any available Web Service in any TenFold-powered application. Thus, as Web Services become available, a TenFold-powered application can use them to quickly and easily add new features or capabilities.

"Our customers want to build high-quality, powerful applications quickly," said Jeffrey L. Walker, TenFold's founder and CTO. "With the steps we're taking, our customers will be able to access the benefits of the significant advances that Microsoft, IBM, and others are making in Web Services and get the best of both worlds -- EnterpriseTenFold Speed, Quality and Power as well as maturing Web Services."

TenFold has been demonstrating both aspects of its Web Service Strategy to selected customers and interested parties in advance of releasing these technologies.