AmberPoint to Provide Comprehensive Service Management Capabilities for BEA AquaLogic

SOA Management Leader Announces Support for BEA Service Infrastructure Initiative

Oakland, California, June 9, 2005 -- AmberPoint, the industry-leading provider of service oriented architecture (SOA) management software, today announced its support for the Service Infrastructure product strategy from BEA Systems, Inc.. BEA’s Service Infrastructure includes a family of products that are designed to help companies to quickly assemble composite applications and processes in heterogeneous environments and to administrate the SOA lifecycle. AmberPoint delivers comprehensive management solutions that are designed to help organizations transform their SOA pilots into reliable, production deployments.

“Our partnership with AmberPoint has resulted in many large-scale, production-class SOA-based systems,” said Mark Carges, CTO at BEA. “From our joint deployments, we’ve seen how potent a combination BEA and AmberPoint can be for companies looking to gain more business value from SOA. By integrating their solutions with our AquaLogic product family, AmberPoint brings enterprise-class SOA management capabilities to the BEA Services Infrastructure initiative.”

AmberPoint provides the management layer that is critical to realizing the return on investments in distributed, heterogeneous service-oriented systems. The company’s solutions provide comprehensive management capabilities without requiring any changes to the services themselves. AmberPoint was the first SOA management vendor with solutions that run natively in both .NET and Java, enabling its software products to more fully leverage the advantages of both prevailing SOA platforms.

Advanced Management Capabilities
AmberPoint provides comprehensive management of services made available by major components of BEA’s technology, including AquaLogic Data Services Platform and AquaLogic Service Bus. AmberPoint’s management solutions deliver essential capabilities for organizations that are moving their SOA-based systems from pilot to production, including:

• Service Level Management: AmberPoint provides comprehensive performance and availability management capabilities based on visibility into fine-grained business data. Its solutions define and manage service level agreements (SLAs) by granular criteria relevant to actual business practices, including customer segments, hours of operation, QoS status or user-defined business context. Upon detecting potential SLA violations, AmberPoint can enable automated corrective actions based on business policies.



• Exception Management: Due to their distributed nature, SOA-based systems are prone to operational errors and unplanned business events. AmberPoint tracks SOA transactions to detect, diagnose and resolve every variety of exception—from simple data entry errors and faults to complex business conditions, such as orders lost in processing.



• Extensive Dashboards and Reporting Capabilities: AmberPoint features completely customizable dashboards with highly targeted views that enable users to more precisely pinpoint trouble areas across their SOA environments. Its advanced reporting capabilities enable IT teams and business managers to drill down into operations and business details, identify service trends over time and review service levels by business criteria.

Customer Success
Numerous organizations and government agencies are achieving success with SOA through the combination of AmberPoint and BEA solutions. Customers of both companies include Best Buy, British Telecommunications Plc, the United States Department of Defense, H&R Block, Motorola and Samsung.

“From our many customers that have taken their SOA systems into production, we’ve seen the need arise for an open infrastructure that can help them streamline the way they compose and integrate their growing roster of services,” said John Hubinger, AmberPoint CEO. “The new Services Infrastructure product family from BEA is designed to help meet this need by providing a virtual assembly line for composing, configuring and reusing their services.”

About AmberPoint
AmberPoint is the industry’s leading provider of SOA visibility, management and security solutions. Notable customers including British Telecommunications, H&R Block and Motorola have chosen AmberPoint for its comprehensive capabilities, its non-invasive approach and its native support for Java and .NET. For more information, contact AmberPoint at 510.663.6300 or info@amberpoint.com.

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AmberPoint, Inc.
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