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1 Regional Offices SCOTLAND NORTH Douglas House The Barns Avondale Campus Stretton Road Pochard Way Stretton Strathclyde Business Park Warrington Bellshill, ML4 3HB Cheshire, WA4 4NP Telephone: Telephone: Fax: Fax: trading electronically with all your business partners NORTH SOUTH MIDLANDS Beauchief Hall Sunrise Parkway Beauchief Linford Wood Sheffield, S8 7BA Milton Keynes, MK14 6LJ Telephone: Telephone: Fax: Fax: SOUTH Maypole House Maypole Road East Grinstead West Sussex, RH19 1HU Telephone: Fax: UNITED STATES OF AMERICA Via Systems Inc. Via Systems Inc. 660 Southpointe Court, Suite , 7th Avenue Colorado Springs, CO 80906, U.S.A. Suite 1R, Brooklyn Telephone: (719) New York U.S.A. Fax: (719) Telephone: (718) Fax: (718) XML Highway the Low Cost, A2A Global Business Document & Data Exchange Service GROUP HEADQUARTERS Beauchief Hall, Beauchief, Sheffield S8 7BA Telephone: Fax: Sales enquiries: QUANTUM VS Next Generation Software TM

2 In meeting today s trading partner demands, whether they be customer or supplier, secure global electronic business document exchange between organisations of whatever size through seamless system integration, A2A, is now the must-have demand. trading electronically with all your business partners Welcome to the Quantum VS XML Highway In today s challenging economic environment, those businesses that are the leanest, fittest, fastest, most wellconnected and customer focused, are winners. Organisations have invested in best-of-breed application software solutions, enjoy key business partnerships and employ talented people. The need is to harness these disparate resources to produce optimum business processes through which value added and improved customer service are created. Integrating IT solutions improves business process efficiency, reduces operating costs and speeds business responsiveness. Quantum VS, the XML Highway is designed to eliminate technology and communication barriers, Application-to- Application (A2A). Refining electronic business document and data exchange processes improves business agility and strengthens trading partner relationships. Under increasing pressure to reduce costs by trading electronically with all partners, businesses are being challenged to leverage existing IT systems without disruption, making core business processes available to customers and suppliers over the Internet. When business documents are exchanged electronically the resulting cost savings often translate into more favourable buying terms. Quantum VS XML Highway is a secure managed service providing seamless back-office integration enabling organisations of all sizes to electronically exchange and archive business documents cost effectively. Deal with an unlimited number of trading partners, processing an unlimited number of business documents for a low annual fee. Quantum VS XML Highway Benefits Secure electronic document & data exchange with all trading partners of all sizes. Drives down document production & partner processing costs, optimising business document exchange processes. Reduce operating costs eliminating expensive manual data entry, stationery and postage. Greater business agility, quickly integrating new partners. Easy systems integration following mergers or acquisitions. Implementation of the XML International Standard. Six + years document archiving meeting statutory requirements.

3 The commercial availability of the Internet links the global market place speeding all business processes. XML (Extensible Markup Language) is the International Standard enabling technology for business document and data exchange. the XML technology shockwave XML has proven to be an incredible, effective and easy way to get data back and forth between trading partners over the Internet. James Utzschneider Director of business frameworks, Microsoft Freeing information from the shackles of proprietary EDI data format messages and the Value Added Network (VAN) provider, the XML Highway enables secure global document exchange in an open environment, Application-to-Application (A2A), delivering a fast, low cost capability to all businesses of any size. Worldwide agreement on the underlying XML Standard creates huge opportunities for all enterprises to simplify and integrate existing IT environments without disruption to existing business systems. The focus is on leveraging further automation, inside and outside, to extract maximum cost savings from existing IT investment. Key Drivers for XML Highway Adopted by Governments worldwide. Uses the Internet as the low cost, fast and universally available transportation layer. Guarantees security and accuracy of document data content. Simplifies the exchange and transformation of electronic documents across boundaries.

4 Revolutionising the mechanism through which disparate applications talk to each other, Quantum VS XML Highway provides a secure managed service, enabling global electronic document exchange between trading partners of all sizes, including Government organisations. Manufacturers Delivery Service GPRS Large/Medium/Small Organisations UK Government Distributors the Customers Warehouses Order Acknowledgements exchange of Invoices Sales Orders Purchase Orders Product Information Price Updates Proofs of Delivery Back-office system TM QUANTUMVS XML Highway The Quantum VS XML Highway managed service enables businesses to securely exchange documents including Orders, Order Acknowledgements, Invoices, Price Updates, Product Information, etc. business documents with all your business partners The UK Government has adopted XML as its standard for document and data exchange. Key policies of the e-gif (e- Government Interoperability Framework) are the adoption of Internet and Web standards, with the emphasis on the use of XML for data integration and developing and providing XML Schemas for Government processes. Furthermore, XML is the standard for Governments worldwide Source: UK Online Annual Report 2002 Employing the XML international technology standard to facilitate secure transmission, validation, transformation and delivery of business documents - including EDI messages, Quantum VS XML Highway is transforming the way in which organisations operate their business processes, reducing operating costs and making it easy to connect with any trading partner, A2A, worldwide. Trading partners using EDI technology for document exchange protect their existing investment but eliminate volume related VAN costs. Quantum VS XML Highway - Key Service Benefits Reduce Operating Costs Eliminate expensive manual data entry, stationery and postage costs, realising the Quantum VS XML Highway implementation ROI in a matter of weeks. Agile Trading Relationships Set-up an unlimited number of trading relationships & exchange an unlimited volume of business documents. Transformation of Business Document Data Securely send and receive business documents, transforming the data content into any message format and file format, suitable for you and your trading partner. Simplicity of Operation Leverage existing IT investment without any disruption to existing business systems. Archiving & Retrieval Archive all electronic documents for six + years, meeting statutory requirements, and render any archived document. Technology Transparency Exchange business documents electronically with all trading partners, irrespective of the technology they use. If the business document can be printed then it can be electronically transmitted!

5 Join the fast growing XML electronic document exchange community, simply and without disruption to existing business systems and make immediate cost savings. Manage the growth in your electronic trading community bringing in all your business partners, easily. connecting to the open 51% of UK businesses are now online buying electronically. UK Online Annual Report 2002 environment Open Environment Benefits Rapid deployment & rollout. Secure communications. Easy administration. Supports heterogenous configurations with multiple operating systems. Document tracking controls. Automated reports & audit trails. Fast ROI. 24 x 7 operation. Meets statutory requirements. Dynamically administer your electronic trading relationships, including your EDI-INT traffic, through the easy-to-use browser based Administration Client interface. The Quantum VS XML Highway solution delivers the performance, scalability, reliability and security necessary to manage your global electronic trading community.

6 Leverage your existing IT investment by integrating your back-office system with the Quantum VS XML Highway business document exchange engine, simply and without disruption, for a fast ROI. seamless back-office integration Integration Benefits AS2 security and reliability. Complete document auditability. Autorun features. Six + years document archiving. Find and render any document. Powerful database reporting. Preserve EDI investment. Eliminate volume related VAN costs. Bring all your trading partners into your electronic document exchange coommunity - easily. The Quantum VS XML Highway Integration Client provides an easy-to-use Windows TM toolset automating your business document transmission and receipt securely and seamlessly with your back-office system. As a Quantum VS XML Highway community user, the Quantum Integration Client software is a free distributable for all your trading partners, eliminating trading partner resistance. Research has identified that 95% of information keyed into a computer system is generated by another computer system. BASDA 5th May, 2001