AmberPoint Customer, H&R Block Financial Advisors, to Discuss the ROI of SOA in Upcoming Webcast

Scott Thompson, Head of Application Development, to Present on Business-Driving SOA Applications

Oakland, California, February 6, 2006 -- AmberPoint, the industry’s leading provider of SOA management software, is pleased to announce that H&R Block Financial Advisors’ Head of Application Development, Scott Thompson, will discuss how best to get a return on investment from a Service Oriented Architecture in a webcast hosted by eBizQ and sponsored by the SOA Leaders Council. The presentation will include Scott's experience developing and implementing H&R Block's services-based system and the key role that runtime governance played in the system’s success. H&R Block uses AmberPoint to manage its services-based Customer Acquisition System.

What:
In the latest of the SOA Leaders Council’s Case Study Webcast series, Mr. Thompson will discuss how H&R Block Financial Advisor's Customer Acquisition System (CAS) handles business-critical leads using Microsoft .NET-built Web services and AmberPoint’s service-level management and exception handling capabilities. He will also review the benefits his company has achieved from implementing their SOA system, the challenges they overcame and how they plan to extend their SOA system to greater business benefits in the future. Additionally, Mr. Thompson will discuss what to look for in SOA management systems and the requirements for exception management in a robust, high-transaction-volume system.

H&R Block Financial Advisors' CAS application routes business-critical leads from the company’s tax services organization to more than 250 financial advisor offices across the country. CAS processes up to 3,000,000 messages per day at the peak of the tax season. The company has deployed AmberPoint to perform comprehensive service-level management and exception handling across the system.

Who:
Scott Thompson, Head of Application Development, H&R Block Financial Advisors

When:
Wednesday, February 8, 2006
12:00 pm ET

Where:
eBizQ Webcast
Register here.

About AmberPoint
AmberPoint is the industry’s leading provider of SOA visibility, management and security solutions. Customers such as British Telecommunications, H&R Block, Motorola and the U.S. Department of Defense have chosen AmberPoint for its comprehensive capabilities, its non-invasive approach and its native support for Java and .NET. For more information, contact AmberPoint at 510.663.6300 or info@amberpoint.com.

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