AmberPoint Announces a Banner Year of Customer Growth across Industries and Geographies in 2004.OAKLAND, Calif. -- 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. Management Vendor Extends Its Industry Leadership Worldwide with Growing Roster of Marquee Customers and Partners AmberPoint, the leading provider of service-oriented architecture (SOA) management solutions, announced today significant growth in customer traction for calendar year 2004. Having signed more than thirty new customers during the year, AmberPoint has increased its market share leadership and has extended its reach into a number of industries, including financial services, telecommunications, government, manufacturing, healthcare, retail and energy. AmberPoint has also extended its reach worldwide, having sold its software solutions in ten countries spanning three 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"). AmberPoint's customers span a variety of industries. A sample of customers and industries includes: --Government -- Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA 1. (body) DISA - Defense Information Systems Agency. 2. (standard) DISA - Data Interchange Standards Association. ), National Security Agency (NSA NSA abbr. National Security Agency Noun 1. NSA - the United States cryptologic organization that coordinates and directs highly specialized activities to protect United States information systems and to produce foreign ), Northrop Grumman, US Transportation Command --Telecommunications -- Motorola, British Telecommunications Plc, Orange, Bouyges Telecom, Cegetel, France Telecom, Alcatel and Telecom Italia --Financial Services -- Reuters , Northern Trust, H&R Block, CNA (Certified NetWare Administrator) See Novell certification. , CitiGroup and MetLife --Manufacturing -- Samsung, Motorola, TPG TPG Texas Pacific Group TPG Tapping TPG Transports Publics Genevois (Geneva, Switzerland public transportation) TPG Test Pattern Generator TPG TNT Post Group TPG Trésorier Payeur Général and Fujitsu --Healthcare -- Kaiser Permanente, Blue Cross Blue Shield Blue Shield A US not-for-profit health care insurer that is a reimbursement intermediary for physicians. Cf Blue Cross. of Hawaii, MedicAlert --Retail -- Cole National, Best Buy --Energy/Utilities -- TransCanada, Electricite du France, Gaz de France Gaz de France (GDF) is a French company which produces, transports and sells natural gas around the world and especially in France which is its main market, but also Belgium, the United Kingdom, Germany and other European countries. 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. "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." AmberPoint also expanded its global reach through close industry alliances. The company established a worldwide reseller agreement with IBM (International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY, www.ibm.com) The world's largest computer company. IBM's product lines include the S/390 mainframes (zSeries), AS/400 midrange business systems (iSeries), RS/6000 workstations and servers (pSeries), Intel-based servers (xSeries) . Microsoft began shipping AmberPoint 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 elevated its partnership with BEA BEA - Basic programming Environment for interactive-graphical Applications, from Siemens-Nixdorf. , 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 SrA abbr. senior airman , 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 IBM Global Services is the world's largest business and technology services provider. It is the fastest growing part of IBM, with over 190,000 professionals serving customers in more than 160 countries. . "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 (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. 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, or visit the company website at www.amberpoint.com for a complimentary developer's edition of AmberPoint software. |
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