AmberPoint Extends Its Market Leadership with the Signing of Prominent New Customers.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers OAKLAND Oakland, city (1990 pop. 372,242), seat of Alameda co., W Calif., on the eastern side of San Francisco Bay; inc. 1852. Together with San Francisco and San Jose, the city comprises the fourth largest metropolitan area in the United States. , Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--July 9, 2003 British Telecommunications Communicating information, including data, text, pictures, voice and video over long distance. See communications. , Microsoft (Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA, www.microsoft.com) The most successful and influential software company. Microsoft's software and Intel's hardware pioneered the PC and revolutionized the computer industry. , Bouygues Bouygues (Euronext: EN) is a French industrial group listed on Euronext Paris. It is a blue chip in the CAC 40 stock market index, founded in 1952 by Francis Bouygues (educated at the École Centrale Paris, 1946) and since 1989 led by his son Martin Bouygues. Telecom, AgentWare and Reuters Reuters British cooperative news agency. Founded in 1851 by Paul Julius Reuter, it was initially concerned with commercial news but began to serve a growing newspaper clientele after the London Morning Advertiser subscribed in 1858. among Recent Customers of Industry-Leading 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. Management Vendor AmberPoint, Inc., announced today the addition of new customers for its pioneering management solutions. Recently signed marquee customers that have turned to AmberPoint for comprehensive Web services management include British Telecommunications Plc (BT), Microsoft, Bouygues Telecom, AgentWare and Reuters. AmberPoint continues to add large organizations to its growing customer base, extending the company's position as the dominant vendor in the Web services management market. In related news, the company also announced today that BT has selected AmberPoint to bring enterprise-grade management capabilities to the services it offers customers (see related release, "British Telecommunications Plc Calls on AmberPoint for Web Services Management"). The addition of these new customers furthers AmberPoint's Web services management market-share leadership. Focusing its development, support and sales efforts exclusively on Web services management software products, AmberPoint has increased its already significant industry lead in the number of software licenses In computing, software that is copyrighted and licensed under a software license is done under a variety of licensing schemes. For end-users there are proprietary licenses and there are free software licenses, and there are proprietary Within these schemes are further classifications. , paid customers, customers in production and referenceable customers. "Having had Web services in production for quite some, we've got a good understanding of the management requirements that come with Web services systems," said Peter Gandy, head of Web services for BT Global Services, BT's business services and solutions division. "We evaluated various approaches to managing Web services and selected AmberPoint as an integral part of our Web services offering. AmberPoint provides comprehensive management capabilities that help organizations to make the most of distributed, heterogeneous Not the same. Contrast with homogeneous. heterogeneous - Composed of unrelated parts, different in kind. Often used in the context of distributed systems that may be running different operating systems or network protocols (a heterogeneous network). Web services systems." An emerging leader in the travel business, AgentWare is using AmberPoint's recently released Service Level Manager to manage and monitor the host of new Web services-based applications that it is rolling out to its customer base of travel agents and travel technology companies. "AmberPoint Service Level Manager enables us to set and manage appropriate service levels across our entire Web services system," said Ivan Bekkers, president and COO (Cell Of Origin) See mobile positioning. of AgentWare. "With the capabilities provided by AmberPoint, we are able to map IT resources to the business value they provide, anticipate service problems early and mitigate mit·i·gate v. To moderate in force or intensity. mit  i·ga tion n. issues immediately. It gives us visibility into how we publish and consume Web services and tunes our systems for maximum business benefit." In addition to adding new customers to its industry-leading customer portfolio, AmberPoint also completed follow-on sales to existing customers, including a large agency of the U.S. government, a leading telecommunications corporation and an international consumer products company. "Organizations that are serious about Web services are uncovering a number of management challenges that they must overcome before taking those new systems into production," 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. "Our momentum in the industry grows steadily as we continue to release products that meet the rising demand for Web services management. This latest round of customer wins further validates the market need for Web services management and our ability to meet those requirements." AmberPoint solutions offer a uniquely non-invasive Non-invasive A procedure that does not penetrate the body. Mentioned in: Multiple-Gated Acquisition Scan non-invasive 1. not penetrating the skin, e.g. a non-invasive test. 2. approach for managing distributed, heterogeneous Web services systems. AmberPoint integrates into any Web services environment, quickly delivering comprehensive management, monitoring and security capabilities without requiring additional coding to the Web services themselves. AmberPoint is the only software vendor with management 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, Inc., the leading provider of Web services management software, offers the most comprehensive solutions for making Web services production-ready, business-ready and easily manageable. With its modular, architecture-independent design, AmberPoint radically simplifies the management and evolution of business solutions built on Web services. AmberPoint's Customer Experience Group delivers services to ensure successful deployment and use of all AmberPoint software. Founded in 2001, AmberPoint is privately held with venture backing from Crosslink Capital, Norwest Venture Partners and Sutter Hill Ventures. AmberPoint corporate headquarters are located in Oakland, California “Oakland” redirects here. For other uses, see Oakland (disambiguation). Oakland (IPA: /ˈoʊklənd/), founded in 1852, is the eighth-largest city in the U.S. . For more information, contact AmberPoint at 510-663-6300 or info@amberpoint.com, or visit the company website at www.amberpoint.com. |
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