The company also completed significant follow-on business with existing customers, and grew the distribution of its complimentary developer’s edition software, AmberPoint Express, to more than 2,500 users. AmberPoint Express is now in use in sixty-one countries spanning six continents.
In related news, AmberPoint announced today the addition of several marquee new customers (see “AmberPoint Extends Market Leadership with Addition of New Customers and Partners”).
Customers Across Industries
AmberPoint’s customers span a variety of industries. A sample of customers and industries includes:
“AmberPoint is leading the pack in the SOA management market,” said Toby Redshaw corporate vice president of IT Strategy, Architecture and eBusiness, Motorola. “We conducted a thorough evaluation of the companies in this space and found that the choice was obvious. What sets AmberPoint apart is its clear vision for enterprise needs and the engineering talent to make that vision a reality.”
Partnerships Around the Globe
AmberPoint also expanded its global reach through close industry alliances. The company established a worldwide reseller agreement with IBM. Microsoft began shipping AmberPoint software with Microsoft Visual Studio 2005. AmberPoint elevated its partnership with BEA, raising its status to Premier Partner in the BEA Partner Program. Additionally, the company has established regional partnerships with leading systems integrators and technology vendors around the globe, including Merlin, BAE Systems, Titan, SRA, Northrop Grumman, Samsung, Dreamsoft, Reply S.P.A, Relational Options, Smart421 and ThoughtWorks.
“We've experienced a dramatic uptick in the number of customers looking to deploy enterprise-wide Service Oriented Architecture,” said Michael Liebow, vice president, Web Services, IBM Global Services. “AmberPoint joining the IBM SOA Management Practice last year is already benefiting customers needing a complete SOA solution.”
“SOA adoption is rapidly growing from early projects and pilots to full-blown implementations,” said John Hubinger, president and CEO of AmberPoint. “As a result, we are seeing more and more existing customers move into large production implementations and new customer traction across a variety of industries and geographies. 2004 was a banner year for AmberPoint. We secured an up round of funding, launched a new suite of software and added more than thirty new customer accounts. We expect to more than double our customer traction and revenues in 2005.”
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.
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