Intel, i2 Alliance Focuses on Powerful B2B Solutions

DALLAS--Feb. 26, 2001 -- i2 Technologies, Inc. (Nasdaq:ITWO) and Intel Corporation today announced a worldwide e-business alliance to accelerate deployment of i2's e-marketplace and supply chain management applications powered by Intel-based servers.

The agreement covers joint sales and marketing programs, i2 product roadmap alignment, on-site Intel engineering technical services and support, and "how-to" guides for fast and easy solution installation and optimization. The alliance includes the Intel® Xeon™ and Intel® Itanium™ processor families and spans all of i2's product lines, including its industry leading TradeMatrix™ suite of applications for large corporations and Pronto™ products for small to medium-sized businesses. i2's unique business-to-business (B2B) solution incorporates a complete supply chain model, marketplace-to-marketplace support and rich content management capabilities.

"Intel is the preeminent building block supplier for the Internet, communications, computing and services in the digital age," said Darryll Dewan, i2 group vice president. "The combination of i2's powerful TradeMatrix Solutions, coupled with Intel-based servers, empowers the end user to handle many operations while simultaneously managing the extended value chain. As companies come to rely more heavily on business processes done in real time, the need for next-generation computing power will continue to grow. The i2-Intel alliance is a logical choice for a company's success."

"i2 is a leader in the increasingly important e-marketplace and supply chain e-business areas, and establishing a structured alliance that spans development to deployment will help accelerate delivery of high-performing solutions at lower costs," said Deborah Conrad, vice president and general manager of Intel's Business Marketing and Alliance Group. "We are experiencing strong momentum for our Xeon processor family and are readying the Itanium processor for production systems. Bringing the design and performance characteristics of Intel-based servers to i2's applications will better enable corporations to plan in real-time, resulting in lower inventory and increased throughput in factories."

i2's products are deployed in the mid-tier application, as well as back-end database servers within the e-business data center computing infrastructure. Intel will house its own engineers onsite with i2 staff to further develop and optimize i2's family of products on Intel® Architecture. The solutions will focus on the Windows(a) operating system initially, but will also include Unix operating systems in the future.

The alliance reflects Intel's broad solution enabling efforts, which include a variety of developer-to-end user solution services, e-business alliances, investments, channel programs and e-business standards initiatives.

About i2
i2 is creating real value for its global e-business customers through its i2 TradeMatrix solutions, content and marketplace platform. i2 TradeMatrix allows businesses to create both private and public marketplaces, while improving the efficiencies of all participants. i2 provides a wide variety of collaborative e-business services for both the early stages and next generation of e-business adoption, with each service supported by decision optimization, transaction management and content management solutions. Founded in 1988, i2's mission is to deliver $75 billion in value to its customers by 2005. i2 is headquartered in Dallas, has more than 5,600 employees and maintains offices worldwide. Visit i2's Web site at http://www.i2.com.

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