AmberPoint Signs Significant New Customers and Partners Including Motorola, Northern Trust, Cegetel, H&R Block Financial Advisors and Accenture

Leading Provider of Management Solutions for Service-Oriented Environments Continues to Expand Market Share

Oakland, California, August 24, 2004 -- AmberPoint, Inc. today announced that it has continued to extend its market leadership with the addition of prominent new customers and partners for its industry-leading management software for service-oriented architectures (SOA). Industry leaders that have recently selected AmberPoint’s management solutions include H&R Block Financial Advisors, Northern Trust, Motorola, Cegetel and Accenture. In addition to these named customers in the telecommunications and financial services markets, AmberPoint signed other prominent companies across a variety of industries, completed significant follow-on business with existing customers and continued to grow the broad distribution of its complimentary developer’s edition software, AmberPoint Express.

AmberPoint is consistently chosen over competitors for the breadth of its management capabilities, its non-invasive approach to managing service-oriented systems, and its native support for both .NET and Java platforms. With these new customers, AmberPoint continues to expand its lead in the SOA management market with the highest revenues from software licenses, most paid customers, and most customers in production.

“We conducted a rigorous evaluation of service-oriented management solutions before choosing AmberPoint for its breadth of product and cross-platform capabilities,” said Gavin Galich, vice president and senior technical architect, Northern Trust. “As we continue to migrate our systems to a service-oriented architecture, we’re relying more and more on the comprehensive, enterprise-wide management capabilities and endpoint security provided by AmberPoint’s leading software solutions.”

“Our evaluation process for management solutions was extremely rigorous, and AmberPoint came through with flying colors,” said Toby Redshaw, corporate vice president of IT Strategy Architecture and eBusiness, Motorola. “Management is critical for maintaining our service-oriented architecture. After an extensive review, it was clear that AmberPoint was the best in class, with the technology, the vision and the expertise to meet our growing enterprise-wide management requirements.”

“Quarter after quarter, the market has validated our technology by choosing our solutions,” said John Hubinger, president and CEO of AmberPoint. “The success of our products in the market not only validates our vision and technology, but also points to the growth of service-oriented architectures and Web services.”

With its uniquely non-invasive approach that quickly integrates into a service-oriented environment, AmberPoint provides the management layer that is critical for realizing the return on investment from distributed, heterogeneous service-oriented systems. AmberPoint’s solutions provide comprehensive management and security capabilities without requiring any changes to the services themselves. AmberPoint was the first Web services management vendor with solutions that run natively in both .NET and Java, enabling its software products to fully leverage the advantages of both prevailing Web services platforms.

About AmberPoint
AmberPoint is the leading provider of management software for service-oriented architectures (SOA). With its modular, distributed architecture, AmberPoint radically simplifies the management and evolution of service-based business solutions. For more information, contact AmberPoint at 510.663.6300 or info@amberpoint.com, or visit the company website at www.amberpoint.com for a complimentary developer’s edition of AmberPoint software.

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