REDWOOD CITY, Calif. – Sep. 6, 2000 - BroadVision, a leader in personalized e-business applications, announced that UMC, a world-leading semiconductor foundry, selected the BroadVision One-To-One Enterprise and BroadVision Enterprise Relationship Management (ERM) applications to provide a B2E (business-to-employee) solution for integration into its corporate intranet. UMC is the one of the earliest adopters of BroadVision's ERM application.

UMC's initial implementation of BroadVision's industry-leading, e-commerce application suite will be focused on providing robust B2E (business-to-employee) capabilities, including mainstream publishing, personalized display of all sources of content, and collaboration. BroadVision creates "anchor sites" for employees that need to incorporate the World Wide Web with a company intranet via configurable home pages, project collaboration and Web-based lead management.

"As a leading semiconductor foundry with customers worldwide, it is critical that we maintain world-class knowledge management and collaborative communication throughout our organization," said Robert Chin, UMC's director of IT. "BroadVision's flexible foundation allows us to offer personalized services to our employees while streamlining our internal knowledge management process."

"UMC and BroadVision share a commitment to developing the most advanced process technology while providing unmatched service," said Brett Ho, vice president and general manager of BroadVision's Asia-Pacific region. "We're delighted that UMC has taken the lead as an early adopter of our ERM applications."

BroadVision (Nasdaq: BVSN, Neuer Markt: BDN) develops and delivers an integrated suite of packaged applications for conducting e-commerce interactions and transactions. Global enterprises and government entities use these applications to sell, buy and exchange information over the web and on wireless devices. The BroadVision e-commerce application suite enables a corporation to become more competitive and profitable by establishing and sustaining high-yield relationships with customers, suppliers and employees. BroadVision services professionals, supported by over 100 partner organizations worldwide, transform these applications into business value for our customers through consulting, education, and support services in more than 34 countries.

BroadVision—founded in 1993, public since 1996, profitable since 1998—has over 1,000 customers. IDC ranks BroadVision as the world's leading provider of e-commerce software applications (International Data Corp., E-Commerce Software Applications Market Forecast and Analysis, 2000-2004). BroadVision is headquartered in Redwood City, California and can be reached at 650.261.5100 or info@broadvision.com.

BroadVision is a registered trademark of BroadVision, Inc. in the United States and other countries. BroadVision One-To-One is a trademark of BroadVision, Inc. in the United States and other countries.