AmberPoint Expands Growing Customer Base with Addition of British American Tobacco, Fujitsu and Thrasys

Industry-Leading Companies Select AmberPoint for Web Services Management

Oakland, California, January 13, 2003 -- AmberPoint, Inc., the leading provider of Web services management solutions, today announced that British American Tobacco, Fujitsu and Thrasys have selected AmberPoint Management Foundation™ to meet their requirements for deploying reliable, enterprise-class Web services. AmberPoint continues to add marquee customers to its growing customer base as it answers the industry’s rising need for solutions that manage, monitor and secure Web services-based systems.

Web services management is essential to any enterprise Web services architecture. AmberPoint provides a comprehensive, distributed solution that overcomes the technical challenges of deploying and maintaining complex Web services environments. It also enables organizations to reap the full business benefits of the flexible, standards-based application architecture. AmberPoint Management Foundation integrates seamlessly into heterogeneous Web services systems, providing rich management capabilities across the complete environment without requiring additional coding to the Web services themselves.

Leading international tobacco company British American Tobacco has adopted Web services as a key component of its integration architecture. The company identified Web services management as a fundamental building block for the successful implementation of its integration strategy.

"We were impressed by AmberPoint's ability to leverage the real-time content of our XML message stream and the business insight it provides," said Kevin Poulter, application technology manager at British American Tobacco. "AmberPoint has a clear vision for the management requirements of business-critical Web services-based systems."

AmberPoint provides critical management capabilities for Fujitsu’s application integration projects. “AmberPoint provides management functions that are core to our customers’ Web services implementations," said Mark Unak, chief architect at Fujitsu. "AmberPoint addresses challenges such as security and performance management and also provides the visibility and control needed to deploy business-centric Web services. AmberPoint is a critical part of our offering."

Thrasys, Inc., a supplier of XML/Web services-enabled enterprise applications, selected AmberPoint for its non-invasive approach to managing Web services. "As enterprises incorporate Web services into their IT infrastructures, they face the issue of how to manage them," said Ramesh Balakrishnan, president and CEO of Thrasys. "AmberPoint integrates seamlessly into any Web services environment, quickly providing the management and monitoring capabilities necessary to ensure the new systems meet requirements for enterprise-level security and reliability."

“These customer wins are testament to the strength of our product and validate the market potential for Web services management,” said John Hubinger, AmberPoint CEO. “As a growing number of companies are taking their Web services into production, the need for our management capabilities is rising significantly. Our non-invasive solutions bring great value to all varieties of Web services environments, on both Java and .NET platforms, enabling us to form strong industry partnerships and giving us a great deal of traction with companies that are serious about Web services.”

Also among AmberPoint’s growing customer roster are leading North American energy company TransCanada, insurance giant MetLife, global IT solutions provider InSync Information Systems and a department of the U.S. Government.

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