GoldenGate Software and ACI Worldwide Form Sales, Marketing and Co-Development Alliance to Provide Data Synchronization for BASE24-es

GoldenGate will be sold with ACI's new BASE24-es to provide disaster recovery for banking and retail customers.

San Francisco, Calif. - May 17, 2004 - GoldenGate Software, Inc. (www.goldengate.com), a leader in data synchronization, and its partner ACI Worldwide, a business unit of Transaction System Architects (Nasdaq: TSAI) and a leading international provider of enterprise payment solutions, today announced that ACI will sell, distribute and support GoldenGate's flagship product with ACI's BASE24-es™ open systems software. Customers will use GoldenGate software in conjunction with BASE24-es for disaster recovery, allowing them to instantly failover to a replicated site that allows business operations to continue without interruption in the event of an outage or disaster. ACI will market the GoldenGate software as their contingency solution for BASE24-es.

BASE24-es leverages open systems environments together with a unique "enterprise services" architecture to provide a flexible payment solution to acquire, authenticate, route, switch, and authorize financial transactions across multiple channels. GoldenGate's flexibility, unparalleled speed, volume and support for diverse database and platform environments make it the perfect complement to BASE24-es. The combined solution is expected to be available in Q4 2005.

"We are delighted to be able to provide our new BASE24-es customers with the GoldenGate solution," said Mark Vipond, president, ACI Worldwide. "Our sister company Insession Technologies has enjoyed working with GoldenGate for many years, and we are looking forward to a successful partnership as well. GoldenGate understands the banking and retail industries, and we are confident in their ability to meet our customers' needs now and into the future."

"ACI's new BASE24-es has already generated momentum, and we are looking forward to helping their new customers leverage GoldenGate for their disaster recovery needs," commented Rick Ainsworth, vice president, international and business development at GoldenGate. "Our solution is optimized for each target environment, ensuring that customers receive the same high level of functionality and performance they expect from their BASE24-es application, regardless of their platform choice." News of the alliance agreement comes at the same time GoldenGate announced the extension of its channel partnership with Insession Technologies and a new solution, D24, that supports ACI's BASE24 Release 6.0 on the HP NonStop platform. The solution was jointly developed by GoldenGate, ACI and Insession Technologies. D24 offers dual site synchronization for high availability and load balancing on the HP NonStop platform. D24 will be demonstrated during the EMEA BASE24 User Group Conference, May 18-21 in Barcelona, Spain.

About ACI Worldwide
Every second of every day, consumers are initiating electronic payment transactions — getting cash at ATMs, using debit and credit cards to make purchases in stores and on the Internet, banking by phone and PC, and paying bills online. Over 40 billion times a year, ACI software is used to process these transactions, powering the world's online payment systems. ACI was founded in 1975 and pioneered the development of applications and networking software for online transaction processing. Today more than 500 customers in 74 countries use ACI supplied software.

About GoldenGate

GoldenGate is a leader in Transactional Data Management. Hundreds of businesses worldwide use the GoldenGate platform to manage critical initiatives such as business availability, data integration, business visibility and compliance. By providing the key technology for capturing, transforming and moving transactional data wherever it is needed, GoldenGate helps organizations mitigate risk, respond faster to customer needs, reduce costs and implement real-time operations. Designed to work with today's heterogeneous systems, the GoldenGate platform captures and delivers changes in transactional data at sub-second speeds in high volumes across any environment, including Oracle, DB2, HP NonStop SQL/MP and SQL/MX, Sybase, Microsoft SQL Server, MySQL and Teradata. A private company, GoldenGate has completed thousands of installations in 35 countries, working with numerous Fortune 500 companies. Customers include: Bank of America, Bank One, Visa, Merrill Lynch & Co., Sabre Holdings, Comcast and Dell. GoldenGate broadens its global market reach through key partnerships with ISV's, database providers and systems integrators, including ACI Worldwide, IDX Systems Corporation, Insession Technologies, HP and DST Innovis. For more information, please visit the company's web site at www.goldengate.com or call (415) 777-0200

Contact:
Robin Bulanti
Kulesa Public Relations/ for GoldenGate
robin@kulesapr.com
(650) 340-1986

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