AmberPoint Extends Market Leadership into 2008 with Dozens of New Enterprise Customers.SOA Governance Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) governance is a concept used for activities related to exercising control over services in a SOA. SOA governance can be seen as an overlay on IT governance, but its focus is more organizational, since services are closely related to business activities. Leader Completes a Record Quarter for Customer Traction OAKLAND, Calif. -- AmberPoint today announced the recent addition of dozens of new customers from around the world, further broadening its leadership in the service oriented architecture (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. ) governance market. AmberPoint's latest customers include global leaders in insurance, telecommunications, financial services, information technology, healthcare and government agencies. The company's recent achievements round out a successful year of product innovations, industry alliances and accolades from industry analysts and trade journals. In the last quarter of 2007, AmberPoint grew its installed base substantially, raising the company's industry-leading roster of enterprise customers to more than 200. New users span a number of industries, including: * Financial Services: ING Bank, Rand Merchant Bank, Bank Negara Malaysia Bank Negara Malaysia or BNM is the Malaysian central bank. Its headquarters is located in Kuala Lumpur, the capital of Malaysia, and was established on January 26, 1959 (as the Central Bank of Malaya or Bank Negara Tanah Melayu , UBS UBS Union Bank of Switzerland UBS United Bible Societies UBS United Blood Services UBS United Buying Service UBS Used Bookstore UBS University Business Services UBS Universal Building Society (UK) UBS Ulaanbaatar Broadcasting System Financial Services, and National Wealth Management * Communications: Leading wireless service providers T-Mobile and Crickett Communications, Nokia Siemens, teleconferencing/webconference provider Intercall, and Portugal Telecom's Sonaecom Services Comunicacoes * Government: U.S. Department of Defense, U.S. Intelligence agencies, Israel's Tel Aviv Municipality, and Principado de Asturias in Spain * Healthcare and Insurance: Cincinnati Children's Hospital, Bristol-Meyers Squibb, and Axis Specialty U.S. Services * Technology: Qualcomm, PriceWaterhouseCoopers, Argentina's Grupo IT, France's Auchan International Technology, and European IT consulting firms Altran Technologies and Sogeti * Other: Commercial and residential building products giant Armstrong World Industries Armstrong World Industries, Inc. is an international designer and manufacturer of floors, ceilings and cabinets. Based in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, Armstrong operates 39 plants in 10 countries and has approximately 13,000 employees worldwide. and travel leader Carlson Wagonlit In addition to these named companies, AmberPoint signed many other new customers across industries and completed significant follow-on business for the quarter. AmberPoint's record quarter of direct sales to corporate customers and government agencies was bolstered by partner-driven sales of its SOA runtime governance software. AmberPoint has OEM (Original Equipment Manufacturer) The rebranding of equipment and selling it. The term initially referred to the company that made the products (the "original" manufacturer), but eventually became widely used to refer to the organization that buys the products and , distribution, reseller and development agreements in place with BEA BEA - Basic programming Environment for interactive-graphical Applications, from Siemens-Nixdorf. , iWay, IONA, Microsoft, SAP, Software AG, TIBCO TIBCO The Information Bus Company and other leading software companies. "We ended calendar year 2007 with our strongest quarter ever," said 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. John Hubinger. "Companies around the world are moving toward SOA-based systems and are realizing that runtime SOA governance is essential to these efforts. We also saw a substantial upturn in the size of initial deals, as more of our new customers implement critical SOA initiatives and opt for enterprise licenses of AmberPoint. It's gratifying grat·i·fy tr.v. grat·i·fied, grat·i·fy·ing, grat·i·fies 1. To please or satisfy: His achievement gratified his father. See Synonyms at please. 2. to see such significant growth in our market and it's promising to see so much activity across industries and geographies and through our strategic partnerships. As the clear leader in this market, we look forward to continuing our success in 2008." About AmberPoint AmberPoint is the runtime SOA governance of choice for commercial organizations, federal agencies and software vendors alike. Utilizing a policy-based approach to manage the health and well-being of SOA applications, AmberPoint's industry-leading software brings real-time visibility and control to services and applications at each stage of the SOA lifecycle. 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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