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AmberPoint Selected by CNA for SOA Management

AmberPoint to Manage Web Services for Leading Business Insurer

Oakland, California, January 31, 2005 -- AmberPoint, the leading provider of service-oriented architecture (SOA) management solutions, announced today that CNA, a leading provider of property and casualty insurance, has selected AmberPoint Service Level Manager and Exception Manager to manage its service-oriented IT systems.

“With this win, we add another customer to our strong base of financial services clients,” said AmberPoint CEO John Hubinger. “We’ve got a great deal of experience at helping large financial services companies gain the full benefits of enterprise-class Web services systems and are glad for this opportunity to apply our industry-leading SOA management expertise.”

AmberPoint’s Service Level Manager provides predictability, visibility and control for Web services in production environments. With Service Level Manager, organizations can view complete service level metrics for each Web service they build or deploy. Operations can anticipate failures, identify trends and respond to issues. And business managers can see how their customers are served. Service Level Manager enables organizations to close the loop as they set and manage service level objectives, prioritize quality of service and allocate resources by business priority.

Exception Manager diagnoses and resolves operational and business exceptions in Web services systems—from simple data entry errors to complex business faults, such as orders lost in processing. Using AmberPoint Exception Manager, enterprises can react more quickly to operational and business contingencies, minimize inefficiencies and reduce the costs of maintaining their Web services environments.

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 CNA
CNA is the country’s seventh largest commercial insurance writer and the 14th largest property and casualty company. CNA’s insurance products include standard commercial lines, specialty lines, surety, marine and other property and casualty coverages. CNA's services include risk management, information services, underwriting, risk control and claims administration. For more information, please visit CNA at www.cna.com. CNA is a registered service mark, trade name and domain name of CNA Financial Corporation.

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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Bob Dever
AmberPoint, Inc.
510.433.6553
bdever@amberpoint.com

Kim Abreu
Atomic Public Relations
415.402.0230
kim@atomicpr.com