AmberPoint Announces Banner Year for Its SOA Runtime Governance Software.Company Grew Customer Roster, Completed Work With Partners to Extend Market and Advance Product in 2006 OAKLAND, Calif. -- AmberPoint today announced that the company had a record year in revenue, customer acquisition, customer deployments, partnerships, product development and industry honors in 2006. In the past year, AmberPoint added a significant number of new customers, completed market-impacting agreements with other leaders in the SOA (1) (Start Of Authority) The first record in a DNS zone file. See DNS records. (2) (Service Oriented Architecture) The modularization of business functions for greater flexibility and reusability. industry and introduced groundbreaking new capabilities for its SOA runtime governance software. Growing Roster of Marquee Customers AmberPoint's market traction continued to grow in 2006 with the addition of new customers across a variety of industries and geographies, including: * Insurance/Healthcare: Aflac, Ancillary Care Management, BlueCross BlueShield, CIGNA CIGNA CG (Connecticut General Life Insurance Company) INA (Insurance Company of North America) , and Federated Connected and treated as one. See federated database and federated directories. Mutual Insurance in the United States United States, officially United States of America, republic (2005 est. pop. 295,734,000), 3,539,227 sq mi (9,166,598 sq km), North America. The United States is the world's third largest country in population and the fourth largest country in area. ; Mondial Mondial can refer to:
* Financial Services: Global financial services leaders Lehman Brothers, Moody's, the tax services division of H&R Block and the National Bank of Kuwait The National Bank of Kuwait first opened in Kuwait in 1952 to become the first national bank in the Gulf Region. NBK was founded by Khaled Zaid Al-Khaled. NBK is currently the largest financial institution in Kuwait and one of the leading banks in the middle east with branches in * Technology: Front-running technology companies including Microsoft, TIBCO TIBCO The Information Bus Company , and Information Builders in the United States; Korean technology pioneer ITPlus; and Keane Australia Micropayment An electronic commerce transaction of very low value. It may refer to charging just a few cents or even a fraction of a cent for a transaction such as an information lookup. It may also refer to aggregating several small-value purchases and charging a credit card at the end of the day or * Communications: United States communications giant Comcast; telecommunications leaders Bell Canada and Telefonica Spain * Government: The National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency Noun 1. National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency - a combat support agency that provides geographic intelligence in support of national security NGA of the United States government; Defense industry vendors Northrop Grumman and Raytheon; the Driving Standards Agency The Driving Standards Agency (DSA) is an executive agency of the UK Department for Transport (DfT) and is part of the Safety, Service Delivery and Logistics (SSDL) group. This group is the result of the re-structuring of the Driver, Vehicle and Operator (DVO) group. of Great Britain; and the Ministerio de Economia y Hacienda (the Ministry of Economy and Finance) in Spain * Media: Italy's premiere yellow pages service SEAT and Swiss media conglomerate PubliGroupe * Energy: Japanese energy company Osaka Gas * Other: MIT MIT - Massachusetts Institute of Technology Lincoln Laboratory; Chilean carrier Lan Airlines In addition to these named customers, AmberPoint signed many additional new customers across industries and completed significant follow-on business each quarter. "We put our stamp on 2006, a year in which we saw this market coming into its own," said John Hubinger, AmberPoint CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. . "More and more companies are now approaching their IT goals with an SOA mindset mind·set or mind-set n. 1. A fixed mental attitude or disposition that predetermines a person's responses to and interpretations of situations. 2. An inclination or a habit. and understanding that they need runtime governance early on in order to achieve those goals. Due in large part to our close work with industry and platform partners, we've been able to close the majority of new business opportunities in the runtime governance space. Time and again, we've beaten the competition for revenue opportunities. Our 2006 was a record year in licensing revenue, market traction and industry recognition." New Partnerships and Global Distribution AmberPoint continued to work closely with the industry's premier technology companies in 2006, strengthening its partnerships with leading SOA platform vendors, technology providers, systems integrators and resellers. * A cooperative development agreement with SAP resulted in integration between AmberPoint's leading SOA management solutions and SAP NetWeaver * A licensing agreement with TIBCO brought AmberPoint's policy-based governance to TIBCO ActiveMatrix * AmberPoint expanded its support for BEA BEA - Basic programming Environment for interactive-graphical Applications, from Siemens-Nixdorf. AquaLogic and Weblogic * The company grew its partnership with Microsoft, enhancing its integrations with Microsoft Operations Manager (MOM) and Microsoft BizTalk Server Microsoft BizTalk Server, often referred to as simply "BizTalk", is a business process management (BPM) server. Through the use of "adapters" which are tailored to communicate with different software systems used in a large enterprise, it enables companies to automate and integrate and reaping the benefits of global distribution of its software with Microsoft Visual Studio Microsoft Visual Studio is Microsoft's flagship software development product for computer programmers. It centers on an integrated development environment which lets programmers create standalone applications, web sites, web applications, and web services that run on any platforms 2005 * AmberPoint integrated its solutions with Systinet, IONA, Software AG, iWay, F5 and Reactivity AmberPoint also increased its global reach through distribution partnerships around the globe. Furthermore, it appointed Willie Kirkpatrick as AmberPoint's vice president of EMEA (Europe, Middle East, Africa) Refers to that region of the world. For example, one might see products packaged differently for the UK, EMEA and Asia Pacific markets. to expand the company's executive presence in Europe. AmberPoint software is now available in 8 languages and used in 66 countries spanning 6 continents. Product Leadership In October, AmberPoint introduced the first agentless SOA runtime governance solution, a game-changing product for the industry. With this solution, AmberPoint decoupled the enforcement of SOA runtime governance policies from the execution of those policies, allowing policy execution to be delegated to existing SOA infrastructure such as XML appliances, enterprise service buses, application servers and operating systems. In August, the company significantly upgraded the breadth and depth of management capabilities in its industry-leading SOA Management System, including two industry firsts: The Service Scorecard and "first-mile" visibility and policy enforcement. Service Scorecards display vital data that allow developers to choose services based on their behavior and help architects to understand service characteristics relative to system performance. "First-mile" visibility and policy enforcement allow the system to automatically enforce policies on the client side and automatically adapt to system changes. Customer Deployments As a result of its growing customer base, AmberPoint deployed its software at a record number of customer sites in 2006, an indication of increasing corporate reliance on SOA-based information systems. In 2006, AmberPoint's Customer Experience Group assisted in more customer deployments using AmberPoint's runtime governance software than the previous three years combined. "Our track record for successful deployments is one of the reasons we continue to win such a high percentage of the opportunities in this market," said Gordon Loudon, vice president of Customer Experience at AmberPoint. "Our feedback from these engagements helps set the roadmap for AmberPoint product innovations, keeping us at the vanguard of the SOA market." Industry Accolades AmberPoint's market-leading solutions, company execution, and innovative customers were recognized by the industry in 2006. Accolades included: * IT Week Top 100 vendor * InfoWorld 100 Award for the second year in a row (this time honoring Motorola's use of AmberPoint) * Network World Enterprise All-Star Award for the second year in a row (this time honoring MedicAlert's use of AmberPoint) * Technology Manager's Forum Best Practice Award (honoring Motorola and AmberPoint and highlighting the use of AmberPoint as a best practice for the industry). Independent research firms also praised AmberPoint's solutions this past year * The company was named a leader in the Forrester Wave Report on SOA and Web Services Management (Q1, 2006) * AmberPoint was deemed "one of the most respected names in the SOA marketplace" by industry research firm Enterprise Management Associates * AmberPoint products were rated "ideal for heterogeneous SOA environments" by a Butler Group audit. About AmberPoint AmberPoint is the industry's leading provider of SOA runtime governance solutions. More than 100 customers 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, or visit www.amberpoint.com for a complimentary developer's edition of AmberPoint software. |
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