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AmberPoint Customer, H&R Block Financial Advisors, to Present at Burton Group Catalyst Conference

Scott Thompson, Senior SOA Architect at H&R Block Financial Advisors, to Review SOA Implementation and Management Infrastructure

San Diego, CA, July 13, 2005 -- AmberPoint, the industry’s leading provider of SOA management software, announced today that H&R Block Financial Advisors Senior SOA Architect, Scott Thompson, will present a customer point-of-view on implementing a services-based system, including his success with AmberPoint’s service level management and exception handling capabilities.

The presentation will take place today at the Burton Group Catalyst Conference in San Diego, CA.

What:
H&R Block Financial Advisor’s Customer Acquisition System (CAS) application routes business-critical leads from the company’s tax services organization to more than 250 financial advisor offices across the country. CAS processes up to 3,000,000 messages per day at the peak of the tax season. The company has deployed AmberPoint to perform comprehensive service-level management and exception handling across the system.

In this presentation, Mr. Thompson will discuss his company’s implementation of SOA management for CAS. He will also review the benefits his company has achieved from implementing their SOA system, the challenges they overcame and how they plan to extend their SOA system to greater business benefits in the future. Additionally, Mr. Thompson will discuss what to look for in SOA management systems, and the requirements for exception management in a robust, high-transaction-volume system.

Who:
Scott Thompson, Senior SOA Architect, H&R Block Financial Advisors

When:
Wednesday, July 13, 2005
2:10 pm PDT

Where:
Burton Group Catalyst Conference
Applications Platform Track # AD1S08

Manchester Grand Hyatt San Diego
One Market Place
San Diego, CA 92101
Register at: https://register.burtongroup.com/CatalystNA2005/

About AmberPoint
AmberPoint is the industry’s leading provider of SOA visibility, management and security solutions. Customers such as British Telecommunications, H&R Block, Motorola and the U.S. Department of Defense 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.

Press Contacts:

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

Kim Abreu
Atomic Public Relations
415.402.0230
kim@atomicpr.com