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EXHIBIT 99.1
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Brokat Completes Acquisition of Blaze Software
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ADSs to begin trading on Nasdaq National Market next week
Stuttgart, Germany and San Jose, California, September 29, 2000. Brokat AG
(Frankfurt Neuer Markt: BRJ), a leading provider of software platforms for e-
business solutions, today announced that it has completed its acquisition of
Blaze Software, Inc. (Nasdaq: BLZE) in a stock transaction valued at
approximately $579.4 million.
Under the terms of the agreement, Brokat has acquired 100 percent of the
outstanding shares of Blaze through the issuance of 5,424,000 Brokat shares in
the form of American Depositary Shares (ADS). Each Brokat ADS corresponds to 0.5
Brokat underlying ordinary shares. Starting on October 2, 2000, Brokat ADS will
be traded on the Nasdaq National Market under the symbol, "BROA".
Effective immediately, Tom Kelly, previously chief executive officer of
Blaze, has been appointed the chairman of the board of directors of Brokat AG's
U.S. subsidiaries. Gary Shroyer, previously Blaze's chief financial officer, has
been named president of the U.S. companies. The company anticipates that the
integration of its U.S. subsidiaries will be completed before the first quarter
of 2001. Brokat AG chief executive officer Stefan Rover has relocated to the
company's North American headquarters in San Jose to lead this effort, which
currently includes integration of Blaze Software, Inc. and GemStone Systems Inc.
As previously announced, Brokat closed on its acquisition of GemStone in August
2000. Giving effect to Brokat`s acquisition of Blaze and GemStone on a pro
formal basis, in the six months ended June 30, 2000, Brokat had revenue of
DM 134.3 ($65.8) million, an operating loss of DM 237.7 ($116.6) million, and a
net loss from continuing operations of DM 256.4 ($125.7) million (dollars based
on an exchange rate of $1 = DM2.039).
As a result of these recent acquisitions, Brokat is well positioned in
three U.S. locations with three complementary technologies supporting its core
e-services platform including customer relationship management (CRM) in San
Jose, California, Java-based application servers in Portland, Oregon and
financial applications in Atlanta, Georgia.
"The fact that we quickly completed the acquisitions of GemStone and Blaze
illustrates what a good match this is for all of us," stated Stefan Rover. "With
the combined know-how of the three companies our position for continued
expansion in both the United States and worldwide has been considerably
strengthened."
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BROKAT FINALIZES ACQUISITION OF BLAZE
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Product Integration Advances Quickly
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Brokat announced the acquisition of Blaze and Gemstone in June, and
considerable progress has already been made toward integrating the three
companies' products. Blaze Software markets the Blaze Advisor Solutions
Suite(TM) for bringing personalization and individualized interactions to e-
business applications through the use of business rules. The Blaze Advisor(TM)
software has been integrated with the GemStone/J(TM) Application Server and with
Twister(TM), the e-services platform from Brokat. Twister has been also been
expanded to include features used in Customer Relationship Management. Customers
of all three companies can immediately take advantage of the new product
integration by making use of application examples and available programming
"cookbooks" to speed their installation and implementation process.
Brokat is a leading provider of e-business software solutions worldwide.
The company is also a leader in the field of Internet banking. Brokat's key
product is the modular e-services platform Twister. This cross-industry software
application integrates existing IT systems and applications in companies while
securely linking them with electronic channels such as the Internet and mobile
communications. Twister offers many features for Customer Relationship
Management and Enterprise Application Integration. Among the more than 2000
companies already using Twister solutions are Allianz, Axa, Deutsche Bank 24,
ABN Amro, Cable & Wireless, Charter One, Consors, DBS-Bank Singapore, debitel,
Schweizer Post, SE-Banken and Toronto Dominion Bank. Brokat was founded in 1994
and has over 1200 employees in 16 countries. During the 1999 calendar year the
company achieved DM 94 million in sales. Brokat AG is headquartered in
Stuttgart, Germany with North American headquarters in San Jose, California.
Information on Brokat and its products can be found on the Internet under
www.brokat.com.
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Media and Financial Analyst Contacts: Industry Analyst Contact:
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Reiner Jung Ed Trissel Scott Goldberg
Company Spokesman Managing Director Vice President
Brokat AG Hill & Knowlton Edelman
Industriestr. 3 466 Lexington Avenue 200 East Randolph Drive
70565 Stuttgart New York, NY 10017 Chicago, IL 60601
T: 0711/ 78 844-311 T: 212-885-0517 T: 312-297-7414
F: 0711/ 78 844-772 F: 212-885-0570 F: 312-240-2906
E: [email protected] E: [email protected] E: [email protected]
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