“Our customers are among the industry’s most innovative Web services users,” said Gordon Loudon, vice president of AmberPoint’s Customer Experience Group. “We’re enthusiastic about the board’s potential to further advance their individual Web services initiatives and the industry as a whole. By giving customers a voice in the direction of our products, we’ll be able to better anticipate their requirements and align our product direction to support them.”
“By creating a community among its customer and partner base, AmberPoint is enabling organizations like Motorola to consult with other early adopters of Web services on project successes, pitfalls and lessons learned,” said Toby Redshaw, corporate vice president, IT Strategy Architecture and eBusiness at Motorola. “AmberPoint is also able to interact with its customers, track their progress and gather feedback for the future development of AmberPoint solutions.”
“AmberPoint is putting its industry leadership to good use,” said Roy Singham, president of ThoughtWorks, a leading global systems integrator. “We haven’t seen another Web services management vendor assemble such an impressive list of participants from such prominent companies. The AmberPoint Customer Advisory Board is a valuable opportunity for companies at the forefront of the Web services movement to improve the ways they’re working with this new technology.”
AmberPoint’s Customer Advisory Board meets regularly to help its participants maximize the value of their Web services implementations and solve critical management issues. Topics from the first meeting, held earlier this year with the participation of additional members, included security, change management, guaranteeing service levels and vertical market solutions. To ensure that the meetings are interactive, Customer Advisory Board members regularly present on research topics based on their experiences in developing and deploying Web services.
“There’s still much to be learned about Web services,” said Art Smith, technical advisor to the board and former vice president and CIO at TransCanada. “With its Customer Advisory Board, AmberPoint is connecting leading organizations with peers who are facing many of the same issues in their use of Web services. The ability to exchange ideas and learn from the experiences of others is highly valuable as these companies evolve their Web services to increasingly complex projects.”
Customer Advisory Board
The AmberPoint Customer Advisory Board includes IT executives from a number of leading companies in the United States and abroad, including:
AmberPoint is the leading provider of Web services management software. AmberPoint leads the industry in the number of software licenses, paid customers, customers in production and referenceable customers.
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