AmberPoint’s Vice President of Federal Business Operations to Present at USSTRATCOM C2 Technology Summit

John Emerson to Discuss SOA Runtime Governance of NetCentric Systems

Oakland, CA, October 24, 2006 -- AmberPoint, the industry’s leading provider of SOA runtime governance software, is pleased to announce that its Vice President of Federal Business Operations, John Emerson, will give a presentation entitled "Approaches for Runtime Governance of NetCentric Systems" at the upcoming United States Strategic Command (USSTRATCOM) Command and Control (C2) Technology Summit, held October 25-26, 2006 in Bellevue, Nebraska. The focus for the Fall 2006 Summit is Modernizing Command and Control (C2) Data Interoperability through Service Oriented Architectures/Web services.

What:
In his presentation Mr. Emerson will review approaches and solutions to successful runtime governance of services-based NetCentric systems at federal agencies. The discussion will draw upon AmberPoint’s implementations at several government agencies and will highlight the importance of runtime governance throughout the SOA lifecycle -- development, testing and production and the need for automatic end-to-end visibility. He will also discuss the vital role of policies in creating highly adaptive, loosely coupled systems.

With more than 100 customers, including 15 federal agencies, AmberPoint has extensive enterprise and distributed software experience. AmberPoint’s industry-leading SOA runtime governance system simplifies real-time visibility and control at each stage of the SOA lifecycle—from development and QA through production use. AmberPoint utilizes a policy-based approach to governance in order to manage the health and well-being of SOA applications.

Who:
John Emerson, AmberPoint’s Vice President of Federal Business Operations

When:
Wednesday, October 25, 2006 at 1:30 p.m. CT; and
Thursday, October 26 at 10:45 a.m. CT

Where:
NG Mission Systems
3200 Samson Way
Bellevue, NE
http://www.ngtechnotes.com/images/NGmap.ppt

About AmberPoint
AmberPoint is the industry’s leading provider of SOA runtime governance solutions. More than 100 customers, including Best Buy, H&R Block, MedicAlert Foundation, 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, or visit www.amberpoint.com for a complimentary developer's edition of AmberPoint software.

Press Contacts:

Bob Dever
AmberPoint, Inc.
510.433.6553
bdever(at)amberpoint.com

Kim Abreu
Atomic Public Relations
415.402.0230
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