AmberPoint Named Finalist in Fifth Annual eWEEK Excellence Awards Program

SOA Management Leader Honored by Leading IT Industry Publication

Oakland, California, March 29, 2005 -- AmberPoint, the leading provider of SOA management software, announced today that eWEEK, a Ziff Davis Media publication and one of the IT industry’s leading enterprise magazines, has named AmberPoint a finalist in eWEEK’s fifth Annual Excellence Awards program. Winners will be honored at a special ceremony on April 26 in Boston, Mass. Analysis of the winning products and services will also be published in a special report in the April 11th edition of eWEEK and at www.eweek.com.

“We are honored to receive this high level of recognition from eWEEK,” said John Hubinger, AmberPoint CEO. “Our engineering team is committed to developing enterprise solutions that ease the integration of their SOAs and this recognition validates their hard work.”

The eWEEK Excellence Awards program provides enterprise professionals with a comprehensive benchmark for assessing a wide range of technology products and services. Evaluating the entries is a panel of experts including eWEEK Labs analysts and eWEEK Corporate Partners – senior enterprise IT professionals who act as reader representatives.

"We’ve seen a lot of impressive entries in the five years that we’ve been conducting the Excellence Awards program, but this year’s entries really illustrate the tremendous effort the industry is making to respond to the demands of enterprise IT professionals, said Eric Lundquist, Editor-in-Chief, eWEEK. “The Excellence Awards judges saw an impressive maturity and sophistication in the entries in critical areas."

eWEEK is the essential technology information source for builders of enterprise infrastructure. eWEEK helps its readers successfully evaluate, deploy and leverage new technology solutions for competitive advantage. The publication delivers breaking news, technology evaluations, and strategic analysis on the technologies, platforms and trends that affect enterprise-wide computing.

Products and services were awarded in the following categories:

• Analytics & Reporting


• Application Development


• Business Integration Systems


• Business Relationship Management


• Desktop & Mobile Hardware


• E-Business Foundations


• E-Mail Management & Security


• Enterprise Collaboration


• Enterprise Storage Hardware


• Enterprise Storage Software


• IT Quality Assurance Tools


• Productivity Applications


• Server Hardware


• Networking & Management Tools


• Networking Infrastructure


• Systems & Application Management


• Authentication & User Management


• Network Data-stream Protection


• Vulnerability Assessment & Remediation

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.

About eWEEK
eWEEK, “the enterprise newsweekly,” is the essential technology information source for builders of enterprise infrastructure. eWEEK enables readers to successfully evaluate, deploy and leverage new technology solutions for competitive advantage. The publication delivers to its readers breaking news, technology evaluations, and strategic analysis on the technologies, platforms, and trends that impact enterprise-wide computing. eWEEK reaches 400,100 enterprise technology buyers who are evaluating and purchasing technology solutions for their company. eWEEK delivers news, analysis and technology reviews in print weekly and on a daily basis on the Web.

Press Contacts:

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

Kim Abreu
Atomic Public Relations
415.402.0230
kim@atomicpr.com