AmberPoint Express Ships With Microsoft Visual Studio 2005; Internationalized Web Services Developer's Software Will Help More Than 300,000 Visual Studio 2005 Developers Worldwide Prepare Web Services for Production.OAKLAND, Calif. -- AmberPoint, the leading provider of service-oriented architecture See SOA. (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. ) runtime governance software, today announced that the developer's edition of its management software for the Microsoft .NET See .NET. Framework 2.0 is available today in the box 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 and via downloads from the Microsoft MSDN (MicroSoft Developer Network) A subscription service from Microsoft for software developers. It includes technical documentation and news, patches and fixes for existing products and beta copies of upcoming releases. website. AmberPoint Express is the most widely distributed Adj. 1. widely distributed - growing or occurring in many parts of the world; "a cosmopolitan herb"; "cosmopolitan in distribution" cosmopolitan bionomics, environmental science, ecology - the branch of biology concerned with the relations between organisms software of its kind -- already in use by corporate and government accounts in 63 countries across six continents Six Continents is a large retail PLC in UK which split into Six Continents Retail known as Mitchells and Butlers plc. The hotels and soft drinks business of Six Continents PLC is now known as InterContinental Hotels Group PLC. . As part of this international release, AmberPoint Express has been localized and translated into eight new languages. AmberPoint Express is now available in English, French, German, Spanish, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Simplified Chinese and Traditional Chinese. AmberPoint has support centers and partner support centers in all regions in which the localized products are distributed. "AmberPoint Express is a good complement to Visual Studio 2005," said S. Somasegar, corporate vice president of the Developer Division at Microsoft Corp. "The visibility and insight into Web services (1) Loosely, any online service delivered over the Web. Such usage appears in articles from non-technical sources, but not in IT-oriented publications, because definition #2 below describes the correct use of the term. performance that AmberPoint Express provides allow Visual Studio 2005 developers to easily diagnose diagnose /di·ag·nose/ (di´ag-nos) to identify or recognize a disease. di·ag·nose v. 1. To distinguish or identify a disease by diagnosis. 2. and fine-tune their Web services for enterprise use." AmberPoint Express has introduced many customers to AmberPoint's full suite of enterprise-class SOA runtime governance software. Developers from companies such as H&R Block, Hawaii Medical Services Association and MedicAlert began testing their initial Web services with AmberPoint Express and later upgraded to enterprise editions of AmberPoint. "We were impressed with the amount of functionality AmberPoint delivered right out of the box," said Scott Thompson
Scott Thompson (born June 12, 1959) is a Canadian television comedian, best known for his time as a member of the comedy troupe Kids in the Hall. , Head of Application Development at H&R Block Financial Advisors. "It automatically discovered my Web services and provided rich information on performance without requiring any coding of management functionality to the Web services themselves. Our experience with AmberPoint Express helped us select AmberPoint to manage our entire SOA-based system." AmberPoint Express provides real-time insight into the performance of Web services to aid developers in readying their applications for deployment. The combination of Microsoft's leading Web services development tools and the monitoring and management capabilities in AmberPoint Express enables developers to quickly and cost-effectively build, validate and deploy Web services that are ready for business-critical use. Tightly integrated with Visual Studio 2005, AmberPoint Express provides visibility into the performance and behavior of Web services in test environments, enabling fine-tuning before deployment. The software improves the speed, efficiency and cost-effectiveness of preparing Web services for production in a .NET Framework-based environment. The software has been awarded the Editor's Choice award by Web Services Journal. AmberPoint Express is also available in versions for Java. "AmberPoint Express is already the most widely distributed SOA management software on the planet," said John Hubinger, 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. "With SOA adoption growing rapidly, we're excited that legions more Visual Studio 2005 developers will now have access to the capabilities they require to take their SOAs into production." About AmberPoint AmberPoint is the industry 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 the Microsoft .NET environment. 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. The names of actual products and companies herein may be trademarks of their respective owners. |
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